Article on Parmley's resignation
Two questions: How much was the settlement and why wasn't it reported on campaign finance reports?
The executive director of the N.C. Democratic Party resigned Sunday as calls for his ouster mounted amid questions regarding a secret agreement to pay a former staffer to keep quiet about sexual harassment allegations.
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reading the comments is...
...depressing. Looks like the Charlotte Observer has just as many mouth breathers as the N&O clogging their blog.
Katy Munger,
Progress North Carolina Action
www.progressncaction.org
Lead, follow or get out of the way....
Source of funds at NCDP
Funds could have come from a Directors and Officers Liability insurance policy, I suppose. Or it might have come from some kind of legal defense fund, but now I am strictly speculating.
Any of you elected Party Officials got an answer for us?
Martha Brock
Soul searching
Based on my observations, it doesn't appear that "party officials" have made a substantive comment or post at BlueNC since Jerry Meek left office. And it's entirely understandable. We hold the Democratic Party to a higher standard than the most official representatives do.
Pretty sad commentary all around when you have a party that won't even engage in conversations with their most active progressives. Somebody somewhere needs to do some serious soul searching.
Rep. Bill Faison issues statement re NC Democratic Party
Yeah. The party officials have been given a chance to talk directly to party activists and don't take advantage of the opportunity. Maybe we need "change" all the way up and down in the party's leadership.
I certainly get tired of trolling the media sites to find out what our candidates and leaders have to say.
Nonetheless, Bill Faison weighed in on the controversy in the NCDP.
"As best I can tell from what has been published, there are three people involved in this scandal. A man who has made accusation of same gender sexual harassment, who has been paid, signed a non-disclosure agreement, and resigned. Another employee, the State Executive Director, who has been accused and has now resigned. The third and final person involved is the elected Party Chair who, as best I can tell, entered into the settlement without consultation or approval of the Executive Council for either settlement or the funding of the settlement.
Martha Brock
Not that he doesn't have the right to speak out,
but Bill lost a hotly-contested and somewhat ugly campaign for Chair against David Parker a little over a year ago. Even in the absence of malice, Parker leaving in a cloud could be viewed as an ex-post-facto vindication of Faison's Party Chair bid.
Sometimes "no comment" is the virtuous thing to say.
I have to disagree on this one
While their competitive history is important, perhaps more so is that Faison and Ethridge did not immediately comment this weekend, giving an advantage in the Governor's race to Walter Dalton. At least in some Democratic voters' minds.
Faison could have qualified his remarks to say he was speaking as a candidate, I guess. But I cannot find fault with what he said in his statement to the media. Can you?
BTW, I, myself, am not a Faison for Governor supporter. Just passing along the info from the web for those who might be interested.
Martha Brock
"As best I can tell"...
1st thing: The young man complained, was fired, and then received a settlement. Faison's sequence of events appears to differ from what's been reported, unless I've missed something. Wouldn't be the first time.
2nd thing: It's a good bet at least a few members of the EC were involved in the settlement decision, so Faison's statement should have read "the entire Executive Council" or something along those lines. That might be nit-picky, but if you're going to call for somebody's resignation, you need to pick your nits before you do it.
Like I said, Faison has the right to speak (of course), I'm just not sure he should have.
Just wanted to add...
Here lately I've been leaning toward voting for Bill Faison, since he appears to be the only Guber candidate who has the cojones to stand up to the motherfrackers who want to poke holes in our future.
That said, I'm also easily turned off by opportunistic behavior. Make of that what you will.
You can thank Mayor Randy Voller for that
He schooled Faison on fracking -- tried with the other candidates as well but with far less success. Faison rightly jumped on this hot issue to distinguish himself.
As a constituent of Faison, I have only this to say: his running for governor finally gives me a candidate I really want to vote for -- in District 50, that is: Valerie Foushee.
Resistance is Fertile
Has Faison or any other candidate called for Parker to resign?
I don't recall reading or hearing that. I did read in the N&O that county convention delegates called for his resignation along with Parmley. The quote I used in previous post does not quote Faison as calling for a resignation.
Martha Brock
Until he clarifies what
"immediate positive action" he expects Parker to take, I'm going to assume Faison is referring to a resignation.
If that's not what he means, then I'll put him on my list of nominees for 2012's "Most Ambiguous Political Statement" Award.
Breaking : 5 on Council of State call for Parker's resignation
from www.wral.com Breaking News:
Five Democratic members of the Council of State are demanding that N.C. Democratic Party Chairman David Parker step down in the wake of a sexual harassment scandal that forced party director Jay Parmley to resign Sunday.
Martha Brock