# More NC Elections Shenanigans **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 17, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256 "2018-06-17T13:28:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/241 "2019-02-26T20:45:51Z")
What Harris et al. did is already against the law. Why make new laws when simply enforcing the ones on the books already should be good enough? Which proposed voter ID law would have prevented this from occurring? Impressive how McTurtle finally pokes his head out of his shell long enough to remind anyone with firing neurons how much of a partisan toad he really is. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/242 "2019-02-26T20:48:17Z")
or it’s like he is saying “We only robbed that bank because the Democrats put money in it and did not have enough guards!” ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/243 "2019-02-26T21:33:12Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > or it’s like he is saying “We only robbed that bank because the Democrats put money in it and did not have enough guards!” It’s worth reading the article I pulled that quote from. The author’s analogy is, “We’ve been saying for years that houses are getting robbed, so you should have to show your birth certificate when you buy a crowbar. Now someone has used a master key to unlock a bunch of houses and rob them, and suddenly you see that we’re right!” The author left out the fact that his party hired the master-key thief in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/244 "2019-02-27T02:00:03Z")
Mark Harris, citing reasons of health, has announced that he isn’t running in the do-over election. Instead, he is endorsing Union County commissioner and Boss Hogg cosplayer [Stony Rushing](http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/mark-harris-wont-run-in-nc-09-backs-stony-rushing.html) in the GOP primary. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/245 "2019-02-27T08:32:39Z")
Stony Rushing? C’mon, you’re making that up! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/246 "2019-02-27T10:21:00Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Stony Rushing? C’mon, you’re making that up! Both the name and the deliberate Boss Hogg dress-up are real. Jesus, what is wrong with Republicans these days. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/247 "2019-02-27T17:07:05Z")
Fraud ringleader was arrested and charged with felonies > **[McCrae Dowless, central figure in 9th District election probe, indicted](https://www.wral.com/central-figure-in-9th-district-election-probe-indicted/18222776/)** > > 9th Congressional District political operative McCrae Dowless has been charged with crimes linked to his absentee ballot work in 2016 and 2018 primary ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/248 "2019-02-27T19:01:04Z")
> [@Steve\_MB](#): > > Mark Harris, citing reasons of health, has announced that he isn’t running in the do-over election. Instead, he is endorsing Union County commissioner and Boss Hogg cosplayer [Stony Rushing](http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/mark-harris-wont-run-in-nc-09-backs-stony-rushing.html) in the GOP primary. And here I thought you were kidding about the “Boss Hogg cosplayer” business. :eek: Muthah of Gawd. “Oooh, them Dukes! Them Dukes!” :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/249 "2019-02-27T20:24:48Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > And here I thought you were kidding about the “Boss Hogg cosplayer” business. > > :eek: > Muthah of Gawd. > > “Oooh, them Dukes! Them Dukes!” > :rolleyes: I know, right? Like, this guy can’t possibly be a serious candidate, right? He’s got to be satire of Republicans. Nobody would literally dress up as the bumbling asshole bad guy from a racist 1970s comedy, **as part of his political campaign**. That’s like running for office dressed as the Joker, only dumber, because again, Boss Hogg was an idiot. Not only is this guy running, **he has the endorsement of the previous Republican candidate for the district**. Remember, that previous guy was the guy who hired a convicted felon to run an illegal election-fraud operation. There’s no goddamn way this guy can win, is what I would have said in 2016. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/250 "2019-03-01T00:04:04Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > “Oooh, them Dukes! Them Dukes!” > > :rolleyes: The news article linked by **Bijou drains** just above your post was co-written by a guy named Dukes… Coïncidence. I think not! ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2019, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/251 "2019-03-01T00:39:59Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > The news article linked by **Bijou drains** just above your post was co-written by a guy named Dukes… > > Coïncidence. I think not! My first clue should have been the rabbit who asked me the time so he could set his pocketwatch correctly. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/252 "2019-03-04T20:58:11Z")
[New primary on May 14th, new general election on September 10th](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/04/dates-north-carolina-election-redo-1233148). ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/253 "2019-03-05T01:19:37Z")
It seems that underneath the Boss Hogg getup is a man firmly committed to the principles of openness and transparency, as evidenced by [this public pledge](https://www.facebook.com/stony.rushing/posts/10213597170632444): > [@Stony Rushing](#): > > Had a very nice reporter from Washington ask me about my sexual history today. I made a deal with him and I will make it to others in the media. > I will give an exclusive interview about my sexual history from loss of virginity to today to the reporter who can get Dan McCready to answer these three questions; > Dan McCready, will you vote for partial birth abortion including killing the child outside the womb? > Dan McCready, will you vote for the Green New Deal? > Dan McCready, when were you told that organizations campaigning for you were tipped off by the NCSBE about the Bladen County Election Investigation? It is unclear whether the questions about Stony’s sexual history were related to [this story](https://popular.info/p/the-secret-life-of-stony-rushing): > [@](#): > > On December 7, 2015, Rushing submitted a hand-written complaint to the Union County District Court on behalf of his tween daughter. The filing was quite serious: “COMPLAINT FOR NO-CONTACT ORDER FOR STALKING OR NON-CONSENSUAL SEXUAL CONDUCT.” The complaint targeted a woman named Tracy Wesolek, who was active in local Republican politics… > In the deposition, Rushing, who is married, admitted to having an affair with Wesolek and – shortly before filing the lawsuit on behalf of his daughter – professing his love for Wesolek… ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/254 "2019-03-05T09:59:03Z")
I genuinely don’t want to know about that guy’s sexual history. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/255 "2019-03-05T13:20:05Z")
Or about anyone who has shared it with him. Why is this the only race being re-run? Aren’t all the other outcomes on the ballot in this district equally bogus? ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/256 "2019-03-05T13:38:21Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Or about anyone who has shared it with him. > > Why is this the only race being re-run? Aren’t all the other outcomes on the ballot in this district equally bogus? I assume that none of the other outcomes were close enough to be possibly flipped by the GOP fraud, but that’s just an educated guess not based on any specific research. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/257 "2019-03-05T13:41:44Z")
The Republican Voter ID Laws thread, and its discussion of the primacy of the importance of voter confidence, became very quiet when this story came out, didn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/258 "2019-03-05T15:14:44Z")
That’s probably more because of **Bricker** ’s absence-- He was one of the driving forces of that thread. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2019, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/259 "2019-03-05T23:45:01Z")
His dead-horse-beating arm must’ve worn out. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2019, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256/260 "2019-03-06T11:27:28Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > That’s probably more because of **Bricker** ’s absence-- He was one of the driving forces of that thread. > [@The\_Tooth](#): > > His dead-horse-beating arm must’ve worn out. He may well have IRL reasons for dropping out of sight, but his arguments in that particular thread kept getting undermined by the actions and statements of Republicans themselves, and he was struggling to defend the indefensible. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256.md?page=12) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-nc-elections-shenanigans/816256.md?page=14)