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Jan 16, 2023: Washington Post: Thom Tillis emerges as a bipartisan dealmaker as lawmakers fear dysfunction looms
Since winning reelection, Tillis has taken on a higher-profile role in the Senate in more ways than one. He personally helped raise money for a Republican challenger to former congressman Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), who lost his primary bid following a string of scandals and after insulting the state’s junior senator as a “RINO” (Republican in name only). It was a flexing of political muscle by Tillis that did not go unnoticed back in North Carolina. Dec 24, 2022: Citizen Times: Roll Call: Here's how WNC's members of Congress voted the week of Dec. 16-22
House Vote 1: PAY FOR U.S. ATHLETES: The House has passed the Equal Pay for Team USA Act (S. 2333), sponsored by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., to require equal compensation for male and female athletes officially representing the U.S. in the Olympics and other international amateur athletic contests. The vote, on Dec. 21, was 350 yeas to 59 nays. NAYS: Cawthorn R-NC (11th). House Vote 6: COLORADO RIVER WATER RIGHTS: The House has passed the Colorado River Indian Tribes Water Resiliency Act (S. 3308), sponsored by Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., to authorize tribes located along the Colorado River to exchange water storage rights to be used off their reservations. The vote, on Dec. 21, was 397 yeas to 12 nays. YEAS: Cawthorn R-NC (11th). House Vote 5: TRIBAL WATER RIGHTS: The House has passed a bill (S. 3168), sponsored by Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., to extend to 2025 a deadline for the Interior Department to make findings regarding water rights held by the White Mountain Apache Tribe. The vote, on Dec. 21, was 378 yeas to 33 nays. YEAS: Cawthorn R-NC (11th). House Vote 6: COLORADO RIVER WATER RIGHTS: The House has passed the Colorado River Indian Tribes Water Resiliency Act (S. 3308), sponsored by Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., to authorize tribes located along the Colorado River to exchange water storage rights to be used off their reservations. The vote, on Dec. 21, was 397 yeas to 12 nays. YEAS: Cawthorn R-NC (11th). House Vote 7: PRESIDENTIAL TAX RETURNS: The House has passed the Presidential Tax Filings and Audit Transparency Act (H.R. 9640), sponsored by Rep. Richard E. Neal, D-Mass., to require the Internal Revenue Service to rapidly audit income tax returns filed by the president and the president's spouse, and make a report on the audit publicly available. The vote, on Dec. 22, was 222 yeas to 201 nays. NAYS: Cawthorn R-NC (11th). House Vote 8: HERITAGE AREAS: The House has passed the National Heritage Area Act (S. 1942), sponsored by Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., to require the Interior Department to adopt a standard for designating and managing national heritage areas. The vote, on Dec. 22, was 326 yeas to 95 nays. NAYS: Cawthorn R-NC (11th). House Vote 9: LEARNING TRIBAL LANGUAGES: The House has passed the Native American Language Resource Center Act (S. 989), sponsored by Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, to authorize Education Department grants for developing resource centers for learning Native American languages. The vote, on Dec. 22, was 342 yeas to 71 nays. NAYS: Cawthorn R-NC (11th). House Vote 10: TRIBAL LANGUAGE RULES: The House has passed the Durbin Feeling Native American Languages Act (S. 1402), sponsored by Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, to require reviews of compliance with Native American language promotion requirements by federal government agencies. The vote, on Dec. 22, was 337 yeas to 79 nays. NAYS: Cawthorn R-NC (11th). House Vote 11: MILITARY EDUCATION PROGRAMS: The House has passed the Student Veteran Emergency Relief Act (H.R. 7939), sponsored by Rep. Mike Levin, D-Calif., to permanently authorize changes, first adopted in response to Covid, to Veterans Affairs Department programs that offer military veterans educational assistance benefits. The vote, on Dec. 22, was 380 yeas to 35 nays. YEAS: Cawthorn R-NC (11th). May 2, 2022: NPR: Rep. Madison Cawthorn is under mounting pressure from scandals ahead of midterms
Fresh accusations of ethics violations against North Carolina Republican Rep. Madison Cawthorn are testing the inflammatory congressman's reelection run, adding to a list of scandals that have put the once-rising far-right star at odds with some members of his own party. Apr 1, 2022: CNN: Who is Madison Cawthorn, the freshman congressman causing headline chaos for the GOP?
Rep. Madison Cawthorn – the freshman Republican representing North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District in the US House of Representatives – has in recent weeks become the center of chaos within the GOP. At 26 years old, the youngest member of Congress has sparked uproar in the Republican Party after claiming on a podcast that people in Washington have invited him to participate in orgies and used cocaine in front of him – the latest incident in a string of controversies surrounding Cawthorn that include calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “thug” and the Ukrainian government “incredibly evil.” |
Aug 1, 1995: David Madison Cawthorn was born in Asheville, North Carolina.
October 17, 2020: A group of Patrick Henry College alumni released a public letter accusing Cawthorn of "sexually predatory behavior" while he was a student there for a little more than one semester, as well as of vandalism and lying.
Jan 3, 2021: Cawthorn was sworn in as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from North Carolina's 11th district. Jan 6, 2021: Speaking at the Jan. 6 “March to Save America” protest in Washington, D.C., Cawthorn shouted, “Wow, this crowd has some fight in it!” He called the protesters “lions,” and repeatedly called his Congressional colleagues “cowards” who were hiding in their offices. “It’s on,” he told his followers on Twitter. 
Jan 6, 2021
Jan 6, 2021: Cawthorn to Charlie Kirk:“I believe that this was agitators strategically placed inside of this group — you can call them antifa, you can call them people paid by the Democratic machine — but to make the Trump campaign, the Trump movement, look bad. And to make this look like it was a violent outrage, when really the battle was being fought by people like myself and other great patriots who are standing up against the establishment and standing up against this tyranny that we see in our country.”
Cawthorn confirmed to the radio host, Charlie Kirk, that he carried loaded weapons into the House that day: “Me being in a wheelchair, I am able to carry multiple weapons at one time." January 22, 2021: The government watchdog group Campaign for Accountability asked the Office of Congressional Ethics to investigate Cawthorn's role in the January 6 Capitol riot. May 4, 2022: A video began circulating online that showed Cawthorn naked in bed, thrusting his genitals toward another man's face while moaning. Cawthorn said of the video, "Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny. We were acting foolish, and joking. That's it." May 17, 2022: Cawthorn conceded to Republican primary challenger Chuck Edwards. November 16, 2022: Joel Burgess of the Asheville Citizen-Times wrote Cawthorn had vacated and shut down his offices two months before the end of term. |
An opposition group that is actively campaigning against Rep. Madison Cawthorn has released a video clip appearing to show the North Carolina Republican naked in bed and, as Cawthorn described it, "being crass with a friend" and "acting foolish."
After the video appeared on social media, Cawthorn tweeted, "A new hit against me just dropped. Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny. We were acting foolish, and joking. That's it. I'm NOT backing down. I told you there would be a drip drip campaign. Blackmail won't win. We will." -CNN; 2.4.22
After the video appeared on social media, Cawthorn tweeted, "A new hit against me just dropped. Years ago, in this video, I was being crass with a friend, trying to be funny. We were acting foolish, and joking. That's it. I'm NOT backing down. I told you there would be a drip drip campaign. Blackmail won't win. We will." -CNN; 2.4.22
Jan 24, 2022; New York Times: Will Madison Cawthorn Be Brought Down by ‘Insurrection’?
Representative Madison Cawthorn has breezily dismissed a candidacy challenge filed by voters in his home state, North Carolina, seeking to bar him from re-election to the House of Representatives based on his role in the events of Jan. 6.
Representative Madison Cawthorn has breezily dismissed a candidacy challenge filed by voters in his home state, North Carolina, seeking to bar him from re-election to the House of Representatives based on his role in the events of Jan. 6.
Jan 11, 2022: Fact Checkers: Could the Challenge to Madison Cawthorn’s Qualifications Set a Precedent for the Removal of Insurrectionists From Congress?
As reported by AP and scores of other outlets, a group of North Carolina voters urged state officials Monday to disqualify U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn as a congressional candidate, citing his participation in a rally last January in Washington that questioned the presidential election outcome and preceded the Capitol riot.
As reported by AP and scores of other outlets, a group of North Carolina voters urged state officials Monday to disqualify U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn as a congressional candidate, citing his participation in a rally last January in Washington that questioned the presidential election outcome and preceded the Capitol riot.
Jan 4, 2022; New Yorker: Madison Cawthorn’s Insurrection
Representative Madison Cawthorn, the bombastic North Carolina Republican, doesn’t care that the state’s conservative establishment is uniting against him. As the youngest member of Congress, at twenty-six, and one of the most headline-grabbing, Cawthorn contends that weak Republican leaders are responsible for leaving the United States nearly thirty trillion dollars in debt. He told me, “That’s thanks to people who have been kind of ignorant and slow, not realizing that the Democratic Party is filled with socialists who are so organized, so vicious, and so strong that we have got to start fighting back.”
Representative Madison Cawthorn, the bombastic North Carolina Republican, doesn’t care that the state’s conservative establishment is uniting against him. As the youngest member of Congress, at twenty-six, and one of the most headline-grabbing, Cawthorn contends that weak Republican leaders are responsible for leaving the United States nearly thirty trillion dollars in debt. He told me, “That’s thanks to people who have been kind of ignorant and slow, not realizing that the Democratic Party is filled with socialists who are so organized, so vicious, and so strong that we have got to start fighting back.”