| Laurie Buckhout’s lies have gotten so egregious that she’s now being called out by a North Carolina prosecutor.
In one of Buckhout’s latest ads, she attempts to distort Congressman Don Davis’ previous support for a civil rights bill into false claims that it would have allowed men to harass women in locker rooms.
Wake County’s District Attorney said that the bill would “have no effect on the sort of indecent exposure cases the ad mentioned.”
DCCC Spokesperson Madison Andrus:
“Lying Laurie Buckhout is getting desperate. For the second time in one week, she’s been called out for trying to deceive North Carolinians. If voters can’t believe what she says in her ads, they certainly can’t trust that she will actually fight for them in Congress.”
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Raleigh News & Observer: Fact check: Ad links Don Davis’ support of bill to unrelated indecent exposure case
- A Republican campaign ad in North Carolina’s competitive 1st District tries to connect Democratic U.S. Rep. Don Davis’ past support for an LGBTQ+ equality bill with an arrest for indecent exposure outside his district.
- But the bill in question never passed and, even if it did, would likely have no effect on the sort of indecent exposure cases the ad mentioned, a prosecutor said.
- “This is a deliberate distortion of a civil rights bill intended to create a false narrative,” Hannah Spengler, a spokesperson for Davis, said. “… We believe the entire ad is factually false, and a gross attempt to mislead voters.”
- The Congressional Leadership Fund did not comment for this story.
- After describing Davis’ support for the equality bill, Darcie asks, “And then what happened here in North Carolina?” The ad cuts to news footage from an April 2024 arrest at a Planet Fitness in Gastonia.
- The arrest in question occurred after Miller entered a women’s locker room.
- Lorrin Freeman, Wake County’s district attorney, told The N&O that prosecutors typically look for a suspect’s intent in indecent exposure cases. Whether or not someone was allowed to be inside the facility because of gender identity would likely be irrelevant, she said.
- “It sounds like he went in there with the specific intent (to harass),” she said. “So, I think it’s a stretch to connect the two.”
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