North Carolina and GOP child predators
I can't vouch for just how accurate this report is. But even if part of this is true the NC GOP is a mess.
Fundraising at a Predator’s Picnic
How a convicted child sex offender ascended the ranks of the North Carolina GOP
A top financial kingmaker in the North Carolina Republican Party is a convicted child sex offender. To make matters worse, it seems as if many GOP leaders not only knew, but disregarded the conviction in favor of big money fundraising picnics.
In 1999, Harvey West, Jr., a twenty eight year old police officer, was arrested and charged with the statutory rape of two fourteen-year-olds and one sixteen-year-old. He pled to up to sixteen counts of taking indecent liberties with a child. In 2000, West began his six-year prison sentence, and upon his release, he spent ten years on the NC Sex Offender Registry.
West didn’t wait for his sex offender registration to expire before entering politics. The disgraced former police officer stepped into the GOP spotlight in August 2012, when, having risen through local Beaufort County circles, he was named an alternate delegate for the RNC in Tampa, Florida. But this momentum was short-lived. The News & Observer of Raleigh released a report on his sex registry status and an hour later, he resigned from his seat. In an interview with the Associated Press after the scandal, West acknowledged the charges by saying “there’s no way you can defend yourself... This is who I am, and this is what happened to me.”
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