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'He’s got to pay': Chaos as Republican caught pantless in town hall refuses to resign
(www.rawstory.com)
Maybe he just that computer virus...
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The incident involving Mooresville Mayor Chris Carney and has outraged — and also amused — people in the town nicknamed Race City USA after its long history with NASCAR.
"The episode occurred in 2024 but is now bubbling up on multiple fronts," The Journal reported. "Three former town employees are suing Mooresville officials, alleging retaliation for their efforts to preserve the footage or investigate. Town commissioners passed a no-confidence vote this month urging Carney to quit. And a judge last week ordered the town to release video of the incident, a move the town forestalled by appealing Wednesday."
I couldn't find the video footage. Can someone link it?
the town nicknamed Race City USA
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after its long history with NASCAR.
😮💨
Still pretty racist, I’ve been there plenty of times
Well there was the noose thing in the black guy’s garage that time.
NASCAR not Race City isn’t the relief, but I might have missed the sarcasm too.
I had the same first thought
Dude needed a pit crew
Sounds like it hasn't been released yet on account of that appeal by the town.
Tonight on ...
Prophetic.
yeah. but mostly USA
I mean, I can think of a half a dozen other unimaginable horrors unrelated to the US happening right now, and I don't even try to look these things up.
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Top tier excuse here
"He has publicly apologized for what he called an innocent visit to town hall, spurred by a bad reaction he had to alcohol and medication that eventually made him vomit. He has told people he took off his pants to clean them," according to The Journal.
Unlucky he didn't just teleport to a Waffle House instead
I’m a little curious how he managed to get vomit on his pants and not his suit coat or shirt.
Also it was the middle of the day. What was he doing with alcohol… and how come he didn’t know his medication reacted with alcohol?
I think the secret clues are in what he's not saying. First, he never said it was a prescribed medicine. My bet, since we already know he was day drinking, is that it was a recreational substance.
Second, he never actually says he got vomit on his pants. He just says that the mix "eventually" made him vomit. It's likely that he was so messed up from his booze and pharmaceutical cocktail that he shit himself and he's leaving that part out.
That or he just ditched his pants to rub one out, which is where I'd put my money.
He ditched his pants to fuck a journalist
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Ohhh, okay, he was just drunk and high, well okay then
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Honesty this could win the FIFA Bastion of Integrity Medal all things considered.
I honestly don't understand why these people can't just wait til they get home, behind closed doors, to do their pervy shit.
What is the appeal of doing this in a public place? It can't be that thrilling that it's worth ruining your whole life over.
Bruh some people get their best thrills by doing risky sex.
Oh I know.
I just don't understand THIS level of risk.
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"It never goes away," Dingler said. "It's distracting."
If it doesn't go away after 4 hours, consult your physician.
Another Republican gets another mulligan. Must be America.
They’re in Marnie’s house. The pants will be returned publicly and embarrassingly.
grange display, soup, or wearing them yourself?
I never liked putting them in the soup, cause the soup was the best way to get everyone maxed quickly.
But the shame dialogue is so good. And are the townspeople really worth engaging with in any capacity?
I have the Jorts and Jean mod, and so yeah. Yeah they are worth chatting to. And not being friends with everyone would make Jorts sad.
The who?
Yikes, it's never the people you want to see pantsless, is it?
How is this shapeless adipose abomination in any position to interfere sexually with anyone?
Usual suspects
Lmao 😂 was he with a woman or a man? Or does he just treat town hall as his home when nobody’s looking,
With a woman, according to the first sentence of the article.
So let's just assume his excuse is false and he was actually there having sex with the journalist. Let's be honest, he almost certainly was. If you lose respect for the guy over the act or the lying to excuse it and don't want to vote for him to represent you, I get that. If you're his wife and want a divorce, absolutely. If you're his child or family and embarrassed by his behavior and don't want to be around him, fine.
Short of that, like... who gives a shit? "He's got to pay" "It's an insult to the city." Really? Because he had casual sex with another consenting adult that isn't his subordinate? Because he did that in a (closed) government building? Why does that matter? Why does that need to be punished? Why does he need to lose his career over it? Of all of the less than righteous things someone in a leadership position could do with their power, the thing I care the absolute least about is consenting adult sex in a government building after hours. Hell I'm not even an adventurous person and I've had sex parked in a dark parking lot and in a closed store. Should I "have to pay" for those dalliances, and lose my career over it?
Reading the article, I think it's because the dude tried to use his mayoral power to delete the video. There's two lawsuits about it. That's probably why people still give a shit.
Also it's a small town, not much going on there
Ah I didn't see that part. That does move beyond lying to cover up embarrassing sexual event to destruction of public property.
I'm sure also people see it as paying money to help organize benefits for their area, and then when they asked what happened with their money they see dude getting shit faced drunk without pants on and using the excuse he vomited on himself off their money, in the building they paid to build... They think resigning is the respectable thing to do. Government jobs are supposed to be civil servants, not night clubs.
Well that's a stupid take too. I do my job and my employer pays me. That money is now mine. What I do with that money within the bonds of the law is no one's fucking business. That goes for elected officials too. I don't care if the an official spends every spare dime of his money getting drunk on nights and weekends if he's still competently doing his job. Idk if he is competently doing his job, but I don't think this necessarily indicates that he's not either. And if getting drunk once is enough to indicate someone shouldn't hold office, that's bad news for nearly every American politician.
If the line is drawn at the door of any goverment building especially one that's isn't currently open and doing business, that's strange too. They're not hollowed ground or holy sites. They're administrative buildings. People working there are people. They piss and shit in those buildings. They microwave fish. They spread their shitty fucking colds. If the very idea that someone may have had consenting sex in one of the rooms disturbs you, I would suggest you not go into any building ever. Someone has almost certainly been fucking there at some point.
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Yes, if I had sex at my workplace and got caught literally in public with my pants down, I'd expect (and deserve) to be fired. Come on. It is such a low bar to clear. Society has basic expectations
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I don't think Mr. Potato Head ever wore pants.
Sacha Baron Cohen been allowed back in the US has he?
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