Did Roy Cooper Promote A Convicted Child Sex Offender

Short answer: Yes.

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"Chad Turner, a.k.a Chad Severance-Turner or a combination thereof, is the convicted sex offender Whatley's opponent, former Roy Cooper, was seen hanging out with at a 2018 LGBT Chamber gala hosted in Charlotte. Several other prominent Democrats were also at that Gala, such as Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles.

In 2015, Charlotte passed an ordinance making male and female bathrooms (public and private) open to whichever sex wanted to use them, meaning men could use a women's restroom or locker room area at will. That prompted House Bill 2 (HB2) in 2016, which restored the previous status quo.

At the time the Charlotte City Council took up and passed the ordinance, it was being shepherded along by Turner. Not long after, it was uncovered Turner was a registered sex offender.

Turner's crimes occurred in 1998 when he was a youth minister and music director at the church ministry at New Harvest Church of God in Gaffney, South Carolina. He was arrested on three counts of lewd acts with a minor under the age of 16 involving three separate young boys. One of the charges involved fondling a 14-year-old boy while he slept. Reports say Turner was 19 or 20 at the time.

Turner was convicted on one of the three counts in July 2000 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison - but he only served two before a judge ordered him paroled in August 2002. Upon release, Turner was required to register as a sex offender for at least 10 years and he is still on the registry.

The year HB2 unfolded, Cooper was attorney general with his eyes locked on the governor's mansion. Turner was president of the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce. The LGBT Chamber used to be called from Charlotte Business Guild in 2015. He resigned from the LGBT Chamber in early March 2016, but would return to the Chamber once things died down.

A Charlotte Observer article from Mar. 16, 2016, reported Cooper tacitly defending the Charlotte ordinance and attacking former Gov. Pat McCrory and the legislature, stating, "I think we need to be working on priorities that help North Carolina families and help public education. That's what we should be concentrating on, not this."

In other words, Cooper essentially punted on HB2 at first - that is until it became politically advantageous for his campaign for governor and it did. HB2 became his entire campaign strategy, which is something Breitbart asked me to write about back in August 2016.

Fun fact: The Charlotte Observer knew about Turner's past yet used him as their main LGBT quotation source for years without disclosing his criminal history.

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There's also the matter of Cecil Brockman, if we're really diving into this manufactured rabbit hole.

Former North Carolina State Representative Cecil Brockman (D) was indicted on child sex charges, including felony statutory sex offense with a child, indecent liberties with a child, and first-degree sexual exploitation with a minor. Roy Cooper threw Brockman a birthday bash in 2018.

• In 2019, Brockman thanked Cooper for "helping protect North Carolina's children" after Cooper signed an executive order that called for "additional action" to protect transgender minors.
• After he won his 2018 election, Brockman said he was "happy to stand with" Cooper.
• Amid Cooper's draconian COVID lockdowns, Brockman stood behind Cooper.