Heading into the 2022 mid-term elections, the N.C. Republican Party will have continuity and unity surrounding its leadership. The state GOP re-elected Watauga County native and current Gaston County resident Michael Whatley as chairman during the party’s annual state convention.
Whatley will oversee state party operations, including critical get-out-the-vote operations for 2022 election. He will be tasked with unifying the activist base of the party after a potentially contentious party primary for an open U.S. Senate seat.
Whatley was first elected state party chair in summer 2019. Under his leadership, the 2020 elections were largely successful for the GOP. Then-President Donald Trump won the state’s electoral votes for a second time. Thom Tills was re-elected to the U.S. Senate in a come-from-behind victory. Republicans won open Council of State races for lieutenant governor, labor commissioner, and superintendent of public instruction. Republicans also captured all the sta
Supporters of Sherry Lynn Womack gathered outside Lee County High School said she's being attacked by people calling for her to resign when all she did was exercise her First Amendment right.
Sherry-Lynn Womack finds herself in the proverbial hot water. Her crime? Womack went up to Washington, D.C., for the rally for Donald Trump on Jan. 6. The Lee County school board voted to open an investigation into her actions. She was just reelected to the very same board in November. Yet, Womack wasn’t near the Capitol building and didn’t engage in any violence. Her crime appears to be more akin to merely supporting Donald Trump, something over 74 million Americans did with ballots.
Womack was exercising her First Amendment rights in a peaceful manner. Several North Carolina media outlets are reporting that over 50 individuals demand she resign her position, saying she is culpable for the melee and chaos at the Capitol. Some, without any evidence of a crime, appear to be turning her into the state attorney general for prosecution.
Two school board members in the Sandhills are feeling the heat from community members upset with their direct or indirect connection to the Washington D.C. rally.
Sherry-Lynn Womack, a Lee County School Board member, who is starting her second term, is now having an investigation conducted over her involvement in last Wednesday s Trump rally.
Womack spoke to Eyewitness News on Zoom about her involvement, saying, I just posted, you know, we re okay . And I just put random photos of things that were out there. And then, that caused some controversy. All of a sudden, I m in D.C., I m a terrorist, I m taking over the capitol.