THE CASH STUFF FOR NOVEMBER 24, 2025

                                                             CBP AGENT MAKING ARREST

RAIDS BY FEDERAL AGENTS

TRAMATIZE CHARLOTTE,

RALEIGH AND DURHAM

By Cash Michaels

Contributing writer

In his Nov. 21st letter to U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Gov. Josh Stein asked how long masked federal agents with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) were scheduled to stay in North Carolina, continuing their immigration raids.

Stein also asked how many people have been arrested during the course of those raids in Charlotte, Raleigh, Cary and Durham last week? Where have those arrested in those raids been taken? And what policies are in place to protect children in areas where children are, like playgrounds and schools?

Reportedly, approximately 370 people were arrested by CBP in just Charlotte alone since Saturday, Nov. 15th.  The names of only eleven, however, have been released. Gov. Stein requested a complete list of those either arrested or detained, along with details pertaining to each one.

The governor has been among the many Democratic North Carolina elect officials highly critical of the CBP raids.

Republican House Speaker Destin Hall, however, has been the exact opposite.

In an interview with The Raleigh News & Observer, Speaker Hall lauded CBP and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who have come to North Carolina to carry out the mandate of Pres. Donald Trump, saying voters knew what they would be getting when they elected Trump to office in 2024.

“We welcome federal law enforcement officials willing to come here and help us in this state enforce the law,” Hall told the N&O.

Speaker Hall also criticized those NC sheriffs who were elected in recent years who have refused to work with ICE and CBP agents in detaining illegal immigrants suspected of federal crimes. Hall said that it is because of those sheriffs’ refusal to comply with state law, the ICE/CBP agents are now forced to come back to North Carolina to capture alleged “violent criminals” and law breakers in the country illegally.

“It looks like they’re doing a pretty good job at it right now. And so, we don’t have much to ask, other than to come back,” Speaker Hall added, also criticizing Democratic officials like Gov. Stein who have urged citizens to video CBP officers as they made arrests so that there is evidence of their actions and conduct.

Indeed, since their unannounced raids in Charlotte on Nov. 15th, the news of CBP arrests sent chills throughout North Carolina as businesses closed, students did not report to school, and people whose immigration status could be called into question stayed off the streets. Construction sites were abandoned because the CBP raids. Churches were vacant. Thousands of demonstrators from Charlotte, Raleigh, Cary and Durham took to the streets in their respective cities to protest as CBP agents raided there, spreading fear and confusion.

Based on whatever details were being released by the U.S. Dept. of   Homeland Security, only a fraction of the hundreds of suspected “violent criminals” arrested actually had criminal records. And yet, there were reports of masked federal agents, driving up to people in the street, or to vehicles. Or businesses, grabbing people despite demands for those officers to show legal warrants.

In Durham by the end of the week after several people were detained there, hundreds of high school students gathered in downtown, holding signs and chanting for federal officers to leave their city. For the week, it is estimated that at least 30% of Durham Public School students stayed home from classes. 

In Raleigh, hundreds of protestors hit the streets and marched to the state Capitol amid reports of businesses closing and employees not reporting to work. Thousands of students also reportedly stayed home, Wake Public School System official confirmed.

In Cary, Mayor Harold Weinbrecht, Jr. sent out a statement to citizens saying, “This is a sad and difficult time in Cary, where more than a quarter of our citizens are from other countries and have chosen to bring their talents, ideas, and hard work to make this community the amazing place it is today.”

“Over the last 24 hours, I have gotten reports of federal agents moving throughout Cary — at homes, schools, hospitals, restaurants, and construction sites. Their activities were neither coordinated with nor conducted by the Cary Police Department…”

And in Charlotte, demonstrators protested in the parking lot of a Home Depot store, reacting to word that the retail chain was allowing ICE/CBP agents to arrest people there.

“They’re inhumane,” protestor Ami-Luise Badger told The NY Times of the masked federal officers.

The issue has proven to be divisive.

In the black community, there are many to feel that Hispanic immigrants are unwanted competitors for jobs, opportunities, and housing. They point to the fact that during the 2024 presidential election, a significant percentage supported the reelection of Trump, agreeing with his harsh border policies to keep other latinos out of the country.

But other black community leaders, like Jovita Lee, program director for the NC Black Alliance, counters that what is happening to Hispanic immigrants should be of concern to the African-American community.

Comparing the masked ICE/CBP raids to the old slave patrols of the past when white men would hunt down runaway slaves from Southern plantations, Ms. Lee told NC Newsline, “This narrative around that it has nothing to do with us, I would disagree with,” Lee said. “The discriminatory practices and the racism that it is rooted in is very reminiscent of what we saw in our own history.” 

“Folks are being picked up or identified strictly based on appearance, color of skin, how they may look, how their accent may sound, and that is absolutely rooted in discrimination,” Lee said. 

Homeland Security officials say their operations in North Carolina are not over, and that their federal agents will be back.

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NC NAACP DEFENDS 

REDISTRICTING LAWSUITS 

AGAINST DISMISS MOTION

By Cash Michaels

Contributing writer

In the aftermath of an all-Republican appointed federal three-judge panel rejecting challenges to the 2023 state and congressional redistricting maps used last year, after hearing arguments over blocking that map for the 2026 midterm elections, the NC NAACP, among other plaintiffs, filed their response last Friday defending their two lawsuits against a motion to dismiss by Republican legislative leaders.

In order to give President Trump a better congressional advantage in the U.S. House, NC Republican legislative leaders redrew the First and Third congressional districts so the First - which Democratic Congressman Don Davis currently represents - would lean more Republican in the upcoming 2026 midterm elections. The NC NAACP, Common Cause NC and other plaintiffs immediately filed suit in federal court to stop that redistricting.

Republican legislative leaders, however, defended the map redistricting as protected partisan gerrymandering.

“Plaintiffs do not bring partisan gerrymandering claims,” NC NAACP attorneys wrote in an effort to leapfrog a 2019 U.S. Supreme Court ruling. “Plaintiffs allege that Defendants engaged in gratuitous, retaliatory redistricting to replace the legislature’s own 2023 Congressional Plan for no other reason than to burden voters (including Plaintiffs) for their protected speech, association, and petitioning conduct. By removing Plaintiffs from their congressional districts, Defendants created concrete harm that chills Plaintiffs’ associational and petitioning rights by disrupting their political association and advocacy and blocking final resolution of their pending challenge to Congressional District 1”

But lawyers for GOP legislative leaders retorted that they’ve done nothing wrong.

“Supreme Court precedent is clear ‘that partisan gerrymandering claims present political questions beyond the reach of the federal courts,’” the Republican motion to dismiss maintained.

Meanwhile that same federal three-judge panel dismissed most of the plaintiff claims challenging the 2023 state and congressional maps, saying in a 181-page court order that plaintiffs had failed to prove any of their claims in two federal lawsuits.

Those lawsuits charged that the 2023 legislative voting districts illegally weakened black voting strength in Northeastern North Carolina’s historic Black Belt counties.

“After considering all the evidence, we find that Plaintiffs have failed to prove that the North Carolina General Assembly drew state Senate or federal congressional districts with the discriminatory purpose of minimizing or canceling out the voting potential of black North Carolinians,” the federal ruled. “The racial data necessary to execute such a discriminatory purpose was not used in drafting the 2023 Senate or congressional plans. The circumstances surrounding the plans’ enactment and the resulting district configurations and composition are consistent with the General Assembly’s non-racial motivations, which included traditional districting criteria, North Carolina law, and partisan performance.”

“Having considered the entire record, judged the credibility of each witness, and weighed all the evidence, the Court finds that Plaintiffs have failed to prove any of their claims against Defendants regarding the 2023 redistricting,” the three-judge panel ruled.

The order means that the only plaintiffs’ argument left standing involves recent changes made to the First and Third Congressional districts to enable an extra Republican seat in Congress to give Pres. Trump an advantage in 2026.

There was no word at press time as to when the three-judge panel will rule on the First Congressional District redrawn map.

Filing for all candidates running for public office in 2026 begins on December 1st.

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CASH COMMENTARY FOR NOV. 20, 2025

                                                                CASH MICHAELS
 

  THE TELL-TALE HEART

                                                            By Cash Michaels

        When you were a kid, ever read or hear the story of “The Tell-Tale Heart?’

It’s about this man who commits a serious crime -  a murder - and hides the body. But when authorities get close to where he’s hidden the truth, he starts sweating and acting weird in front of everybody, fearful that they will uncover that evidence in front of his face.

And the closer they get, the louder the guilty man "hears" the beating heart of his victim. Hears it to the point where he can’t stand it anymore, and confesses.

Kind of reminds me of Trump and the Epstein files.

        Now I'm not saying Trump has killed anybody, unless they were in a fishing boat near Venezuela lately. Good reason to stay on shore, and switch to chicken, in my opinion.

        Also, as of this writing, no conclusive evidence has been uncovered linking Donald John Trump, purported billionaire and currently the most corrupt president of the United States in history, to the heinous and fiendish child sex trafficking activities of now deceased billionaire buddy and convicted pedophile/sex offender, financier Jeffrey Epstein.

        And special note to pathetic right-wing talk show failure Megan Kelly - yes, Megyn, young girls ages 14 and 15 are still considered children in our society, no matter what your consistently ignorant mind and mouth have to say!

Trump and Epstein were close friends for a ten-year stretch of their lives, hung out together, and enjoyed many of the fruits of being wealthy playboys, which included being around beautiful young women and wannabe models. In fact, in 2002, Trump told New York Magazine that he had known Epstein for 15 years, and that he was a "terrific guy" who liked young, beautiful women as much as he did.

        Trump maintains that he never visited Epstein's island of sin like so many other rich and powerful men at the time, so he never took part in whatever debauchery went on there.

        Notice, however, that Trump never talks about hanging out at Epstein's Manhattan penthouse, from where the FBI later found lots and lots of videotapes, still pictures and documents detailing Epstein's rancid life. That evidence comprises the Epstein files that are suppose to be released now, material that was used to convict Epstein and eventually put him away in federal prison.

        Those are the same Epstein files Attorney Gen. Pam Bondi controls the release of, that Congress has now ordered her to release and make public.

        And they are the same Epstein files that Donald Trump is scared past his goldie locks everyone will see and come away shaking their heads over.

        But that does not mean, on its face, that Trump was involved in any illegal or nefarious activities that his pal Jeffrey was perpetrating.

And until there’s evidence to the contrary, then that’s just where that ball lays. We can’t prove it, so, based on circumstantial evidence, we can only assume, or suspect. But we can’t flat out say it.

So then, why in the ham sandwich is that same Donald John Trump now acting so guilty about something he has repeatedly labeled “a hoax” perpetrated by the Democrats and the media?

The Mad King of Corrupt-a-Lago is certainly acting guilty about something, especially since folks on both sides of the political aisle started demanding release of the Epstein files, and Congress gave us a taste last week by releasing 23,000 emails from the Epstein estate, many with Trump’s name featured prominently in them.

Maybe he’s acting guilty because he knows all it takes is some enterprising investigative reporter to actually find the evidence a lot of folks have already set the table for.

I mean, c’mon. Most of what Trump has gotten himself in big trouble for in the past has been sexual in nature.

For example, the Access Hollywood tapes, where we actually heard Trump shamelessly bragging about grabbing young women by their genitals. Gee, please correct me if I'm wrong, but that’s criminal behavior in most states. Apparently that was acceptable conduct in the circles Trump hung with back in the day.

He was successfully sued for sexually assaulting writer E. Jean Carroll (who, by the way, according to Wikipedia, “In 2020 and 2021, for The Atlantic,....wrote a series of articles that profiled several of the 25 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct), and was convicted of 34 felonies in New York for paying hush money to a porn star he had an affair with to protect his 2016 presidential campaign.

Again, behavior Trump has been found guilty of in various courts of law. Behavior he’s vigorously denied, but according to the courts, had no problem indulging in when he was younger. Now this clown has the utter gall to call his pal, Epstein, a "sick pervert" who he kicked out of Mar-a-Lago (for the record, Epstein said in an email that he was never a member).

        Talk about the pot calling the frying pan black!

And what I find quite interesting about Trump bragging about grabbing young women  by the genitals, or sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll, or screwing a porn star while his wife, Melania, was pregnant with his son, Barron, and paying people to cover it up, is that in all of these cases, plus the cases we don’t know about, Trump never gave a damn about the victims.

        Only what they could do to him one day.

So yes, I fully understand why he’s shaking in his shoes to be eventually proven to have had anything to do with the criminally perverted activities of his ace boon buddy Epstein when it came to the sexual exploitation/molestation of female children.

Because Trump knows that Americans, especially MAGA, WILL NOT tolerate that bag of bricks if it’s ever proven. There’s no explaining THAT behavior. Not now, not in a million years.

And that’s why it doesn’t surprise me, or anyone else for that matter, that Trump would prefer to be on the other side of the world, than ever meet with Epstein’s victims - the children Epstein once sexually abused.

Mind you, when Trump ran for president last year, he was full of vim and vigor in front of his MAGA base about releasing the Epstein files. Hell, once he got into office, his Ice Barbie Attorney General Pam Bondi bragged on Fox News that she had the files “on my desk.” As president, Trump has always had the power to release ALL of the files. He released the MLK and JFK files, for instance, but not Epstein. 

When ten ton hints that there was incriminating stuff in those files about Trump was suspected, that comedy act hit a brick wall, didn’t it? And now, we’re in the midst of a coverup the likes of which  we haven’t seen since Watergate. This man even allowed use of the Situation Room in the White House to try to cajole several Republicans to take their names off of the House discharge petition sheet to force the vote.  Nice try, but no dice.

Sunday, realizing that he was going to lose and lose big, Trump switched strategies, changed his tune, and started pronouncing that he’s all for releasing the Epstein files. That told me, and everybody else on Planet Earth, he had something up his sleeve. After all, there is nothing he'd like better than for the media to forget about all of this, and pay more attention to the "great accomplishments" of his administration.

        Yeah, and I would like for Yogi and Boo-Boo to leave my damn picnic basket alone! In the real world, neither is going to happen any time soon!

Apparently, if the files are ever released, only the ones not included in the new Democrat-Epstein connection investigation will see the light of day. Boy, that gives Pam Bondi a wide berth to justify putting some convenient screws in the machinery.

         In fact, Bondi held a presser Wednesday after the bill's psssage saying, "There's information, new information, additional information...we will continue to follow the law to investigate any leads." 

           The stall is well underway, folks.

         So anything involving Bill Clinton, former Treasury Sec. Larry Summers and… oh wow, Donald Trump, could be held back because they’re part of an "active" investigation into Democrats.

People forget, way back in the 1990s as a prominent New York City business tycoon, Trump was a Democrat who hung out with the likes of Bill and Hillary, and gave money to them too. If you're going to investigate Democrats of the time, you have to investigate Trump.

        Assuming you're doing a real investigation!

The House had forced the issue with a near unanimous 427-1 discharge petition vote Tuesday to release the files featuring Republican “jail break” support, after Speaker Johnson did all he could to delay the inevitable. Republican senators followed suit that same day with a unanimous consent vote joined by Democrats in the Senate, sending the new law to Trump.

        He signed it into law Wednesday night, but as indicated, this may not be over yet.

My point here is that, just like now, when Trump was younger, he cared about no one but himself. He felt it was his right to do anything he wanted, to whomever he wanted, and was entitled to get away with it, whether it was not paying construction people who worked for him; or stiffing “suckers and losers” with scams like Trump steaks or the legendary Trump University; or as documented earlier, young women.

Trump knows how far he went with Epstein, and apparently is deathly afraid that his old buddy is going to reach up from the grave, and crush everything Trump has either fraudulently built or successfully stolen.

And he’s scared stiff.

        Published reports have Mark Epstein, Jeffrey's brother, saying in an interview that FBI Director Kash Patel is having the Epstein files scrubbed of any negative references to Trump at a facility in Virginia. Mark Epstein added that his late brother, who died reportedly by suicide in his jail cell awaiting another trial in 2019, definitely had "dirt" on Trump. 

        Wouldn't surprise me at all. Bondi and Patel worship the marbled ground Trump drags his gold-plated tail on, so protecting him at all costs is something I can see being a top agenda item for them.

But you know what? This shouldn’t be about Trump. It should be about the young victims of Jeffrey Epstein who were raped and abused by him and his billionaire friends from all over the world, now all grown-up. These are courageous heroes now, standing strong for years, finally successfully demanding that Congress secure justice for them. 

         None have implicated our coward of a president in any of their torture. And yet, they’re asking the same questions everyone else is.

"Why won’t you stand with us?" "Why would you use us just to get elected?" "What are you hiding?" "Show some leadership!""You have been a national embarrassment!"

        These women will ALWAYS deserve our support and respect.

Whatever it is, it is keeping Trump up at night, trying to come up with ways to distract from us finding the truth. Trying to deflect critical attention elsewhere. Who knows, maybe the deep, dark secret about Trump in the Epstein files has nothing to do with sex, and everything to do with corruption, some illegal scam he can still be held accountable for that Epstein held over his head.

When a corrupt man gets this nervous, it’s like the story of the tell-tale heart.

Trump knows it’s just a matter of time before the world finds out why he's so nervous about the Epstein files. 

        And he won’t be able to talk his way out of this one when we do.

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THE CASH STUFF FOR NOV. 20,2025

                          CBP AGENTS RAIDED CHARLOTTE LAST SATURDAY

OUTRAGE OVER BORDER 

PATROL RAIDS IN

CHARLOTTE

By Cash Michaels

Contributing writer

Masked agents with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) descended upon Charlotte last Saturday, purportedly doing what President Trump has boasted their mission has been since federal authorities have conducted raids in other Democrat-run cities this year:

“…to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest mass deportation program in history.” 

Thus, according to published reports, federal Border Patrol agents were seen going to a shopping center, a church and other locations, chasing people down by foot, arresting people they suspected to be illegal immigrants in the country. The operation was dubbed “Charlotte’s Web.”

Members of an east Charlotte church cleaning the outside yard reportedly ran into the woods to escape CBP officers, who then proceeded to arrest one of their members in front of children.

In at least one case, CBP agents were videotaped breaking a  car window in an attempt to apprehend the occupant. At that shopping center, agents were seen dragging a woman out of a business as she struggled to get free.

Businesses there allowed their employees to slip out the back door so that they could elude masked CBP officers.

A published report about this raid stated that “Agents parked just outside a closed gate leading to the church parking lot and ran into the yard, said the pastor, who did not want to identify himself or his church. The agents asked no questions and showed no identification before taking one man away, whose wife and child were inside at the time, the pastor said.” 

           At least one-man had to insist that he as a US citizen as his truck window was smashed, while a woman also maintained that she was not in the country illegally as CBP officers handcuffed  her, and then her phone. There is also a report, and video, of CBP agents arresting a teenager working at a Super G Mart in Pineville and holding him on the ground.

Not only were there large protests in Charlotte, but also in Raleigh against the CBP raids.

Gov. Josh Stein said that the raids are stoking fear in citizens.“To the CBP: If you know that we have violent criminals in Charlotte who are undocumented, we want them out too,” Stein said. “But the actions of too many federal agents are doing the exact opposite in Charlotte.” 

“We’ve seen masked, heavily armed agents in paramilitary garb driving unmarked cars, targeting American citizens based on their skin color, racially profiling and picking up random people in parking lots and off of our sidewalks,” Stein said. “Going after landscapers simply decorating a Christmas tree in someone’s front yard. And entering churches and stores to grab people.”  “It’s stoking fear and dividing our community.” 

“Americans should be able to live without fear of violent criminal illegal aliens hurting them, their families, or their neighbors,” Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement. “We are surging DHS law enforcement to Charlotte to ensure Americans are safe and public safety threats are removed.”

None of the people of Hispanic heritage taken into custody are known to have broken any laws, local officials say. For the weekend, more than 140 people were arrested and taken into custody.

Charlotte officials expressed outrage at the actions of the CBP agents.

“I think they need to stay home!,” Rep. Alma Adams (D-NC-12), declared to reporters the day before the CBP raids began. “We don’t need that kind of disruption, and we don’t need them coming in here and antagonizing our citizens.” 

“I’ve heard from a lot of people who are concerned about this. When I look at what has happened in other cities, how people have been treated, abused even in physical ways, we don’t want that in Charlotte, we don’t need that in Charlotte….I’m opposed to it, I’m against it, and I just want our citizens to be safe.”

A joint statement from Charlotte Mayor Vy Lyles, Mecklenburg County Board of commissioners Chairman Mark Jerrell and Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education Chair Stephanie Sneed, also issued before the Saturday CBP raids, said in part, “The expected U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (commonly called “Border Patrol”) operations are causing unnecessary fear and uncertainty in our community as recent operations in other cities have resulted in people without criminal records being detained and violent protests being the result of unwarranted actions.

“We want people in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County to know we stand with all residents who simply want to go about their lives, contributing to our larger community. Each of our organizations have made commitments to the people we serve to protect their rights and dignity. We are committed to following the law and to protecting the rights of all people who call Charlotte and Mecklenburg County home.”

The joint statement also made clear that neither the Charlotte Police Dept. nor the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Dept. had anything to do with the CBP raids.

Anderson Clayton, chair of the NC Democratic Party, also weighed in with her outrage.

“Since being elected, Donald Trump has used federal law enforcement as political props for reality TV-style stunts. This has only caused unnecessary chaos and sown fear in our communities, and has done nothing to create trust with law enforcement.” 

“Everyone deserves to feel safe in their community, including the hundred thousand plus immigrants that live and work in Charlotte,” Clayton continued. “Our community, our state, and our nation are stronger for them. Now is not the time to give in to fear and division. Now is the time to build community, and the North Carolina Democratic Party stands with all its neighbors in Charlotte. 

Regarding the mass protest against CBP agents, NCDP Chair Clayton cautioned, “ I know there are a lot of people who are rightly pissed off about these intimidation tactics being brought to their home town. I urge everyone who is exercising their first amendment rights to remain peaceful and follow the law. We cannot allow ourselves to be provoked.”

Adrian Maldonado Jr., president of the NCDP Hispanic-American Caucus, also had words for his community.

“What we are witnessing is political tyranny at its core, it is no mistake Donald Trump chose the city that thousands of immigrants call home. Now is the time more than ever to stand with our immigrant neighbors. We are a nation of immigrants, and we must continue to work until every person in our state, regardless of their status, is safe.”  

The NC Republican Party defended CBP’s operation in Charlotte, saying that they were after “violent criminals.” 

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                                                               CECIL BROCKMAN

COUNCILWOMAN AMANDA COOK

DEMOCRATS CHOOSE BROCKMAN’S

HOUSE SEAT REPLACEMENT

By Cash Michaels

Contributing writer

The Guilford County Democratic Party wasted little time Nov. 15th selecting High Point City Councilwoman Amanda Cook to serve out the remaining time in former House District 60 Rep. Cecil Brockman’s term in the NC House.

Cook was already planning to challenge Brockman for his District 60 seat next year.

Councilwoman Cook currently serves in an at-large seat on the High Point City Council. She was the highest vote getter during a Saturday morning county executive committee meeting last weekend, beating out education administrator Angie McMichael, former Guilford County Democratic Party Chairman Joe Alston, and former Guilford County Commissioner Bruce Davis.

“I congratulate Amanda Cook on her win," said Kathy Kirkpatrick, chair of the Guilford County Democratic Party. "We had four excellent candidates, and I’m proud of all four who ran. I look forward to having a person in the seat who will vote for her Democratic values.”

“I congratulate Amanda Cook on her win," said Kathy Kirkpatrick, chair of the Guilford County Democratic Party. "We had four excellent candidates, and I’m proud of all four who ran. I look forward to having a person in the seat who will vote for her Democratic values.”

Councilwoman Cook will serve out the remainder of Brockman’s term until January 2027, and is expected to run for election in District 60 in 2026.

By state law, Gov. Josh Stein had seven days to approve of Cook’s nomination to the District 60 seat. At the time of this writing, he had not done so. If for some reason he does not, Cook can still serve out the remainder of Brockman’s term in office.

Brockman, 41, decided last month to relinquish his long held seat in order to focus on defending himself against serious statutory rape and indecent liberties with a minor charges, stemming from an alleged sexual relationship with a 15 year-old teenager last summer.

He has had his original $1.05 million bond reduce to $250,00, and while out on bond, was ordered to reside with his mother wearing an ankle bracelet. Brockman, who is also required to stay away from the alleged victim in the case, is due back in court in January.

Democratic Party leaders, including Gov. Josh Stein, NCDP Chair Anderson Clayton, and House Democratic Leader Robert Reives, among others, all demanded that Brockman, who had served six terms since 2015, resign his post so that his constituency could have unfettered representation in the NC General Assembly. 

Brockman stepped down just as Republican House Speaker Destin Hall choose a select bi-partisan committee to review the charges against him and decide whether to recommend removal from office.

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