State Republican Party Chairwoman Linda Daves says Rep. Cary Allred should resign his seat in the state legislature.
Daves just released a statement calling for Allred, a Burlington Republican, to step down following the release Wednesday of a report in which several of Allred's legislative colleagues said they were revolted by his actions during a Monday night House session three weeks ago.
The report included the accounts of several Republican legislators who said they smelled alcohol on Allred's breath and saw him give an inappropriately long hug to a teenage page from his district. Several lawmakers said the 17-year-old girl seemed embarrassed by what one member called a "gruesome bear hug."
"Conducting oneself in an honorable and ethical manner while acting as a public servant should be a mandate for both political parties," Daves said in the statement.
Daves also took issue with a quote attributed to Allred by one of his Republican colleagues. "I am 62 years old, and I'm worth $2 million. People ought to show me respect," Allred was quoted in the report as telling colleagues who confronted him that night.
"Being 62 years old and worth $2 million does not entitle one to hold elected office as a Republican," Daves said. "The Republican Party is not a party of entitlement."
Allred has said he is considering leaving the Republican Party to become "unaffliated."
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Daves makes right call
In sharp contrast to all the Democrats in Raleigh running interference for the Easleys stonewalling and blocking every attempt to determine how travel records could just "disappear" into thin air, Linda Daves has made a noble and honorable attempt to expunge an embarrassment of a legislator from her own party.
Bev Perdue, Marc Basnight and Joe Hackney should take note.