I told you there would be a drip drip campaign.” That’s it,” he tweeted after the video was released. “Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny. ![]() “Your ass is on my face!”Ĭawthorn immediately hit back at what he said was a hit job from his political enemies designed to blackmail him. Then American Muckrakers, Wheeler’s PAC, which runs the anti-Cawthorn website Fire Madison, filed an ethics complaint against him, alleging he provided free housing to a staffer, with whom the group also suggested Cawthorn was in “a personal relationship…separate and apart from the professional relationship of employer and employee.” The PAC’s evidence for that suggestion included an old photo of them reclining on each other while shirtless in a pool purported Venmo payments between them from 2018 in which they wrote things like, “Nudes,” “For loving me daily and nightly,” and “Getting naked for me in Sweden” and a video in which the other man grabbed Cawthorn’s crouch as they laughed together in a car.įinally last week, the same group published the video to Fire Madison showing a naked Cawthorn dry humping a friend in bed and grunting. “I don't think that the left is necessarily involved, because why would they have to get involved when he's coming under attack from his own?” said a source familiar with the operations of Cawthorn’s office, who is also a friend of the Congress member.Ĭawthorn’s recent scandals intensified last month when Politico published photos showing him in a bar wearing women’s lingerie. There’s also speculation from Cawthorn’s camp that most of the attacks are actually coming from other Republicans seeking to destroy him. ![]() “The Democrats, for all their good intentions, aren't fighting.” “We have not been afraid to take the fight to Madison Cawthorn, who deserves it, for goodness’ sake,” Wheeler said. Even within the local LGBTQ community, some believe the salacious material is beneath them and plays into anti-gay stereotypes, while others feel that it rightly highlights the hypocrisy of politicians who fail to meet their own moral standards of decency.ĭavid Wheeler, a Democrat who ran unsuccessfully for the North Carolina State Senate in 2020 and is now leading the PAC focused on ousting Cawthorn that published the video, says they’re merely fighting fire with fire. ![]() Since Cawthorn outraged his fellow lawmakers in DC in March by asserting that he had been invited to cocaine-fueled orgies (a claim he later said, after being privately admonished by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, was exaggerated), there have been a series of humiliating leaks and allegations made against him.īut Democrats are divided on both the strategy and the ultimate impact of the attacks. “And if Democrats are the ones who are attacking him and using his sexual orientation - or worse, jokes about what might be a perceived sexual orientation - I don't really want them in my party, to be honest.” “The idea that anybody would gay-shame someone in order to try to embarrass him in that district and then call themselves a Democrat, I think is ridiculous,” Aiken said.
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