McCrory writes letter to ‘set record straight’ about run-in with cook

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Source: Charlotte Observer

In a letter running Sunday on the Observer’s opinion page, Republican Gov. Pat McCrory gave his version of a confrontation Feb. 16 with a cook at Reid’s Fine Foods, a gourmet food store and restaurant in Myers Park.

Drew Swope was fired after his run-in with the former Charlotte mayor. During the exchange, Swope said the governor yelled at him; a McCrory spokesman denied that the governor yelled and said the cook made an obscene gesture.

McCrory said he wanted to set the record straight on “the much-written about and discussed incident that occurred at one of my favorite Charlotte-area establishments.” The story attracted interest from many media outlets, including the U.S. edition of the British newspaper the Guardian, as well as MSNBC and an Atlanta TV station.

When he went to Reid’s with family members for lunch, McCrory wrote that “an employee said hello with one finger instead of five.”

Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2014/02/22/4716691/mccrory-writes-letter-to-set-record.html

[Uben]

1. So it pisses him off to get flipped off...

...too bad I haven't had the opportunity to show him he's no. 1.

[red dog 1]

4. "Swope has said he never gave McCrory the finger."

(Direct quote from the Observer article.)

So this douchebag Republican governor went to the owner of the place & lied

[marble falls]

2. He got a working stiff fired for nothing.

[laureloak]

3. I'm inclined to believe Swope's version.

And if Swope is truthful, McCrory is telling another bald-faced lie.

[red dog 1]

5. I'm inclined to believe the cook too.

Why do these teas baggers always seem to lie?

[rurallib]

6. it is almost they have to lie compulsively

no matter what.

[WhiteTara]

7. truth is often inconvenient. nt