Look, I got no dog in this fight and certainly do not know the facts of the matter but…
It strikes me as exceedingly counterproductive to combat email rumors with a full-blown legal assault, an act which demands that news outlets cover and report on the slander at question, thereby repeating and amplifying it many times over.
I do not understand why Tom Fetzer is suing Curtis Wright for forwarding the email in question, but not the author of the email. There is “anonymous” email and then there is the reality of email headers which forensic data recovery can pin-point. Are we to understand that Fetzer and/or his attorneys attempted this already and failed?
I do not understand this statement by Fetzer: “The fact that I am heterosexual is a matter of public record.” Not to be glib, but is there a license or certificate program that I am unaware of? How can there be a “public record” of private conduct for anyone, anywhere?
But more than anything this dust-up tells me that there is a sickness deep within the Republican Party in North Carolina that will not soon be healed. What was once a party of ideas is now a collection of special interests, boiling resentments, and stunning mediocrity.
Update: Filling in one blank, it seems the claims originated in an anonymous letter as opposed to an email, rendering my forensic approach moot. I think.
