Wright and wrong, continued

Curtis Wright is sending email about Tom Fetzer again.

Wright, a Wilmington talk radio host, fired off a heated email to Dome several days ago complaining about a story on the settlement of a lawsuit Fetzer, now chairman of the N.C. Republican Party, filed against Wright and his employer, Sea Comm Inc.

The suit was over an email Wright sent to more than 90 Republican Party leaders last May, during the campaign for party chair, that included an anonymous letter alleging Fetzer is gay. Wright and Sea Comm settled the suit with an apology letter from Wright. Neither paid any money to Fetzer.

Wright complained in his most recent email that Fetzer violated the lawsuit settlement by making comments beyond a joint statement that the parties agreed on. 

I would suspect you would do a followup article and ask my attorney, Randall Roden, the facts of how Mr. Fetzer and his attorney violated the specific, negotiated terms of the Settlement Agreement and his feelings about the false statements released by Mr. Fetzer and reported by you.

Dome happily obliged and called Roden. Remember, he's Wright's lawyer. Here's what he wrote in an email:

I have talked to my client and reviewed the settlement documents and now understand that even though the parties did agree to release a joint statement (which Fetzer may have provided in the press release—I have not seen that), there was no limitation on what the parties could say in addition to the joint statement.

After hearing that statement read aloud, Wright insisted, well, that his own lawyer was wrong.

UPDATE: Roden emailed Dome today and took the blame for any misunderstanding. He said he told Wright that there was an agreement not to say anything beyond the joint statement. He criticized Fetzer as seeking money and political points.

"The lawsuit was filed in the first place for publicity to further Fetzer's political career," Roden wrote, "and he walked away from it with nothing when it no longer suited his purposes after he won the GOP chair."