Yesterday we said resign. This morning at 5 a.m., posted to Facebook while Western North Carolina was still asleep, Chuck Edwards quit his re-election campaign.
He says it was prayer and reflection. Sure it was. The House Ethics Committee dropped its report Monday finding substantial evidence that he made repeated unwanted advances toward two young female staffers, and recommended the full House censure him. That is one step short of expulsion. By Tuesday, per CNN, his own party’s leadership was working the phones to shove him out. By Wednesday he was gone. That is not prayer. That is math.
I have spent this week inside the document production his own office handed the Ethics Committee. Nearly a thousand pages of his texts. His words, not mine. We published them yesterday, and if you missed that piece, go read it, because the man told on himself better than we ever could.
He offered, in writing, to skip House votes to decorate a staffer’s Christmas tree. He cancelled a constituent tele-t…
