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NC GOP Escalates Attacks On Chairman

Hasan Harnett Credit: NCGOP

Political infighting between the North Carolina Republican Party and its chairman has escalated. The party is now circulating petitions calling for the ouster of Hasan Harnett.

The NC GOP has released a statement accusing Harnett of “apparent unethical and potentially illegal behavior.”

The party is accusing Harnett of planning to crash the State Convention website, and replace it with a new site featuring an unapproved fundraising system.

They also say he used his official NC GOP email account to create alternative options for convention ticket sales. The Central Committee ordered the closure of that account.

Last month, the committee passed a resolution of no confidence in Harnett, the party's first black chairman.

The Charlotte Observer reports the organization will hold a special meeting April 30th to remove Harnett, one week before the party's state convention in Greensboro.

Harnett has denied the accusations, calling the information “old and stale.”

 

 

 

Neal Charnoff joined 88.5 WFDD as Morning Edition host in 2014. Raised in the Catskill region of upstate New York, he graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983. Armed with a liberal arts degree, Neal was fully equipped to be a waiter. So he prolonged his arrested development bouncing around New York and L.A. until discovering that people enjoyed listening to his voice on the radio. After a few years doing overnight shifts at a local rock station, Neal spent most of his career at Vermont Public Radio. He began as host of a nightly jazz program, where he was proud to interview many of his idols, including Dave Brubeck and Sonny Rollins. Neal graduated to the news department, where he was the local host for NPR's All Things Considered for 14 years. In addition to news interviews and features, he originated and produced the Weekly Conversation On The Arts, as well as VPR Backstage, which profiled theater productions around the state. He contributed several stories to NPR, including coverage of a devastating ice storm. Neal now sees the value of that liberal arts degree, and approaches life with the knowledge that all subjects and all art forms are connected to each other. Neal and his wife Judy are enjoying exploring North Carolina and points south. They would both be happy to never experience a Vermont winter again.

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