On 10 Oct 2024, useapen <yourdime@outlook.com> posted some
news:XnsB207F1605D100BX@135.181.20.170:

> Much of the media focus as far as North Carolina races go has been on
> the presidential match-up between former President Donald Trump and
> Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as the gubernatorial race between
> Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) and state Attorney General Josh Stein (D).
>
> But another one has heated up in recent weeks thanks in part to a
> defamation lawsuit recently filed by the Republican candidate and a
> troubling 2022 video of the Democrat candidate that surfaced on social
> media this week.
>
> Because Stein is running for governor, the attorney general's office is
> up for grabs. Rep. Dan Bishop is the Republican nominee in that race,
> while Rep. Jeff Jackson is the Democrat nominee. Both previously served
> in the North Carolina state legislature, with Bishop having served in
> both the state house and Senate at various points, and Jackson serving
> in the state Senate.
>
> On Thursday, a clip of Jackson seen hugging a registered sex offender
> and local LGBTQ leader during a December 2022 event, where Jackson was
> given an award by a group the man in question reportedly had a
> leadership role in, was shared on the Twitter/X machine:
>
> Mary Margaret Olohan
> @MaryMargOlohan
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> NEW: We obtained a video showing Democrat @JeffJacksonNC, who is
> running to become NC's attorney general, hugging a convicted sex
> offender after receiving an LGBTQ award.
>
> Chad Turner is a registered sex offender, accused of fondling the
> genitals of boys while they slept.
>
> https://twitter.com/i/status/1844386609573351920
>
>
> Mary Margaret Olohan
> @MaryMargOlohan
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> Replying to @MaryMargOlohan
> Chad Eugene Sevearance-Turner has gone by a number of other names,
> including Chad Sevearance-Turner and Chad Eugene Sevealance. He
> formerly served as a youth music minister at New Harvest Church of God
> in Gaffney, South Carolina, where multiple young men accused him of
> inviting� Show more
>
> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GZiVjjwWEAcrDRb?format=png&name=360x360
>
> The Daily Wire's Mary Margaret Olohan shared more about the event
> involving Jackson, otherwise known as the "TikTok Congressman" for his
> large TikTok following, in a report filed earlier:
>
> Footage of the December 13, 2022 Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce
> event shows Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-NC) praising the work of LGBTQ
> activists on stage before embracing Chad Turner, a registered sex
> offender and CEO of the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce. Turner, who
> has not responded to multiple requests for comment from The Daily Wire,
> was charged with three cases of lewd acts on minors under the age of
> 16.
>
> �You are an enormously influential, and positive force for this city,
> for the people who live here, I�m so grateful for you,� Jackson told
> the assembled crowd, after the chamber awarded him the �Advancing
> Equity Award.�
>
> Turner became infamous in Charlotte back in 2016 for all the wrong
> reasons while at the helm of the Charlotte LGBT Chamber, after
> championing a controversial Dem-led Charlotte City Council ordinance
> that allowed men who identified as women and vice versa to use the
> restrooms/fitting rooms of their choice.
>
> Once his past as a registered, convicted sex offender was revealed, he
> purportedly stepped down from the Chamber:
>
> The head of the Charlotte LGBT Chamber stepped down after his sex
> offender past came to light.
>
> Chad Sevearance-Turner was once a youth minister who was found guilty
> of fondling a teenage boy in 1998.
> Turner moved to North Carolina and became an active member of the LGBT
> Chamber, fighting for equal rights.
>
> As Olohan noted, though, Turner's so-called resignation seemed to be
> more about smoke and mirrors:
>
> But Turner�s resignation appears to have been a media ploy at best, and
> an outright lie at worst. The Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce still
> lists him as its president and CEO, and his LinkedIn profile states
> that he served as the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce president from
> January 2013 to December 2020, and as its chief executive officer from
> December 2020 to present.
>
> Incidentally, that Charlotte ordinance Turner backed was the basis for
> HB2, otherwise known as the "bathroom bill," which Bishop co-sponsored
> during his time as a state representative and which Jackson fought
> against and demagogued on cable news networks.
>
> All of this begs the question of why Jackson would accept an award from
> a group that apparently has no issues with having a convicted sex
> offender serve in a leadership role. On that question, per the Daily
> Wire story, Jackson's office says he "did not know about an
> individual�s status" when he accepted the award. I find that really
> hard to believe considering the amount of media attention Turner got in
> this part of the state (which was also Jackson's part of the state) in
> 2016.
>
> The main focus right now among NC politicians and news outlets is the
> devastation from Hurricane Helene in western North Carolina. So it's
> not clear how much traction this story will get beyond conservative
> media, especially given the left-wing bent of most media outlets here.
>
> Regardless, Jackson's questionable judgment on issues like these (and
> the bathroom bill) is something voters should take into consideration
> before they head to the polls in November.
>
> https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2024/10/10/new-north-carolina-
> democrat-ag-nominee-seen-embracing-registered-sex-offender-during-
> lgbtq-event-n2180413

Leave it to a Democrat politician to find a child-molesting queer to
smooch up in public.