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TOM KLUDT FEBRUARY 18, 2014, 8:24 AM EST
A Charlotte grocery store worker is out of a job after he insulted North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) to his face. The Charlotte Observer reported on a confrontation Sunday between McCrory and Drew Swope, a 45-year-old cook at a gourmet food store.
After realizing he was speaking with the governor, whom he disagrees with politically, Swope said he told McCrory, Thanks for nothing, and walked away. Swope said the governor was upset at his comment and began yelling at him. He said McCrory said he was a customer and shouldnt be treated that way. He said the governor and his security team complained to the food store owner, who then fired him.
Acknowledging that he "did speak out of turn, Swope doesn't begrudge the store owner for firing him. But he does find it "shocking" that McCrory had me excluded from the workplace because I upset his feelings.
A spokesman for McCrory told the Observer that the governor never raised his voice and that the fired worker actually made an obscene gesture, an accusation that Swope denied. The spokesman also said Swope has said things about physically harming the governor as well, citing a Facebook group for a planned protest where participants discussed burning an effigy of McCrory.
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louis-t
(23,309 posts)McCrory could have stood his ground and shot the guy!1!!1!
Morning Dew
(6,539 posts)That's crazy.
lpbk2713
(42,770 posts)Every encounter with the public has to be the most favorable they can make it.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)karmaqueen
(714 posts)This makes me sick, every day I find more reasons to dislike this man. NC needs help fighting the horrible people who have bought our state... If everyone who said something bad about Obama was fired there would be no talk radio or Faux news
3catwoman3
(24,083 posts)...easily wounded as McCrory, he wouldn't have made it thru his first presidential campaign.
Let's hear it for No Drama Obama (this is NOT sarcasm -I admire his even-temperedness more than I can say).
steve2470
(37,457 posts)in 1996. Politics is a rough and nasty business. I also admire PBO for his emotional poise and even temperament.
former9thward
(32,111 posts)Pretty sure anyone can make it through a campaign when they have no opponent.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)On November 5, Obama was won the race for the 13th Senate district, with 82 percent of the vote; perennial unsuccessful Harold Washington Party candidate David Whitehead (13%) and first-time Republican Party candidate Rosette Caldwell Peyton (5%) also ran.[21]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Senate_career_of_Barack_Obama
former9thward
(32,111 posts)In that district it is over 95% Democratic and so the Democratic candidate automatically wins without campaigning.
Cha
(297,888 posts)atreides1
(16,100 posts)That clerk should consider himself fortunate, most peasants would have been jailed and punished...for what he did!!!
Unfortunately, it may be to late...the destruction of a democratic form of government in NC is almost complete, and the birth of a new aristocracy has taken place. The people have spoken and they want to be lorded over by their betters, at least that's what can be assumed from the fact that it was the voters who put McCrory and legislature into the hands of extremists!
So, those horrible people are probably your next door neighbors, if you live in NC. I don't think you'll get much help from them!
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)our Dem Governor Bev Perdue waited until the last minute to announce she wasn't going to run. The NC Dem party threw in a candidate at the last minute who had no name recognition and no funding. Also , the NC Dem party , who had been in control of the state for the last century was rocked by scandals.
As far as the legislature, Dems actually got more votes and should have gotten control of the Assembly but due to gerrymandering the Repubs got more seats. So, no the people of NC don't have a representative government.
3catwoman3
(24,083 posts)...lying jerk ("How many new laws would you enact about abortion None" Yeah, right). What a shame that the lovely state of NC is besmirched by the likes of this RWNJ.
Kingofalldems
(38,500 posts)mcar
(42,426 posts)Guess that's only good for people making anti gay slurs or threats to the president.
Lex
(34,108 posts)If this grocery clerk knew it and made it clear to McCrory then so be it.
blm
(113,122 posts).
LuvNewcastle
(16,862 posts)The owner should have backed up his employee, or at least just told him to go back to work. If that wasn't good enough for the governor, I would have told him to take his business elsewhere. Citizens should have the right to tell their governor how they feel, whether they're at work or not.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)Wonder what's up with McCrory popping off like that. More to come out about the Haw River disaster? What did McCrory know and when did he know it?
NYC Liberal
(20,138 posts)to be treated the way you and your party treat people."
gerogie2
(450 posts)The GOP will harass him and any company that hires him for the rest of his life.
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)very soon. You know why? Because Republican are shit stains on America's flag of honor. Got that, chief?
Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)that people know what a corrupt and selfish prick you are.
YOU ARE GOING DOWN! Deal with it, loser.
Hooray for the worker. I am sure someone will offer him a better job.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Gothmog
(145,751 posts)Given all of the damage that this idiot has done to his state, he should not be so sensitive
frylock
(34,825 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)tammywammy
(26,582 posts)It's not like he was attending a political rally outside the workplace that his employer disagreed with and fired him. If the employee was rude to the Governor while he was there as a customer, then he should have been fired.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)brooklynite
(94,852 posts)Not when he's at work, unless the management says otherwise.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)look into this!
brooklynite
(94,852 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)e.g.:
matunithor16 minutes ago
Swope says 'that's not exactly what happened. What I said was, 'thanks for nothing, dickhead', and the governor, who was surrounded by a bunch of really large, angry armed security guys, sort of recoiled, maybe in fear, I don't know, then went into some kind of defcon rage mode, all red faced, his spit flying everywhere, filling himself up like a giant puffer fish and screaming about how he was way important, and how dare I treat him so crudely, how he might not ever recover, just an on and on wail until my ears started to hurt. He kept repeating 'so cruel, so cruel' and clenching these remarkably tiny little fists. Then I got fired."
Izzie28 minutes ago
Something always bothered me when I would even see this man's face...finally it came to me
He looks too much like the warden in "Shawshank Redemption."
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c6Logic1 hour ago
Respect my authoritaay!!!!!!
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Jimolson2 hours ago
One thing we know for sure, another thin skinned Republican has increased unemployment in his state.
Now the story is about what a bullying, and possibly LYING, shitbird the governor is, how his staff is trying to fuck with the facebook page and behave in an intimidating fashion. If this guy who got fired has even HALF a personality, he could do five minutes on the DAILY SHOW and make a lotta hay! This was a no-win for the governor, and the fact that he dove in and started getting shirty just speaks volumes.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)raven mad
(4,940 posts)He didn't grovel and pull his forelock?
Laxman
(2,419 posts)compared to my governor. If he had any guts he would have challenged the cook to a fight! Here's how a "real man" behaves: