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Former Raleigh mayor files libel suit, still not gay

by: Pam Spaulding

Thu Jun 04, 2009 at 06:00:00 AM EDT


Tom Fetzer followed through with his intention to slap a libel lawsuit on  Wilmington radio host Curtis Wright of WLTT-FM's "The Morning Beat." He charges that Wright distributed an anonymous letter that insinuates, among other things, that the former Raleigh mayor, a GOP consultant, is a homo.

When I first blogged about this hilarity, Fetzer took to the media to boldly declare his heterosexuality.

There are two things you need to know:

1)   I am not gay - never have been - never will be. There is absolutely no evidence whatsoever to support any of the scurrilous allegations made in the anonymous attack on me.

2)   I will spare no cost or hardship in defending my good name. I intend to vigorously pursue legal action against any and all who spread these lies. The fact that I'm 54 and single does not mean I have to put up with vicious rumors that I'm gay. The fact that I am heterosexual is a matter of public record. The News & Observer once even reported (erroneously) that I had eloped.

Of course after all this bluster, the lawsuit itself (PDF), doesn't even bring up the gay claim.
In his lawsuit, Fetzer accused Wright of concocting a smear campaign against Fetzer to thwart the former Raleigh mayor's attempt to gain the state GOP chairmanship. Wright, Fetzer claims in the lawsuit, has endorsed Kindley for the position.

Fetzer and his attorneys wrote that Wright spread rumors that "tend to charge Mr. Fetzer with a crime of offense involving moral turpitude, to charge Mr. Fetzer with dishonesty, to disgrace and degrade Mr. Fetzer, to hold Mr. Fetzer up to public ridicule and contempt, and to cause Mr. Fetzer to be avoided and shunned."

The lawsuit never specifies the potentially libelous statements, nor does it specifically say that Fetzer is reacting to accusations of being gay.

The reason he didn't is Fetzer's lawyers probably informed him that his lawsuit didn't have a prayer if he took that route -- in 1994 the N.C. Court of Appeals ruled that lobbing a false claim that someone is gay is not libelous in itself.

Besides, the high-energy, media-blasted denial only made Fetzer the laughingstock of the Triangle. Ian Palmquist of Equality NC: "We think it's ridiculous to consider an association of being gay to be derogatory. Mr. Fetzer's argument is out of step with where most North Carolinians are."

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The backstory to this has even more crazy to take in
I know most folks don't care, but this is all happening in the context of a campaign to become state GOP party chair.  The NC GOP convention is in mid June in Raleigh.

Two of the main candidates (Fetzer being one) have been throwing accusations of heterosexual marriage infidelity, homosexuality, porn use at work, etc. at each other.  It's been a circus.

It's gotten so crazy I sometimes wonder if one camp or another is actually trying to damage the party.  Or do they really think that any press is better than no press?

Anyway, back to regular programming...


it shows you the kind of "party of ideas" the NCGOP is
With that circus going on, it does nothing to dispel the impression that the Republican party in NC is in freefall, full of hypocrites, bigots and general southern fried wingnuttery.

[ Parent ]
I LOVE the Circus!
Especially of the Republican variety. So much more entertaining than Cirque du Soleil.

Can't wait for the clown car full of hustlers and boytoys to come on!


But...but...but...
But if someone says he's not gay, then he's not.  Isn't that the standard?  Like Larry Craig is not gay.  And Tom Cruise.  And Clay Aiken.  Oh, wait...

Cynic, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.  
-Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


Wow, DEJA VU!
Didn't Larry Craig say the exact same thing at his press conference in Boise.  hmmmmm

On advice of counsel
If there is a chance in hell the respondents might have direct evidence in support of their claim, drop this case now!

Fetzer's implication that being gay is equivalent to "moral turpitude" is offensive.


"a matter of public record"
Fetzer's heterosexuality is "a matter of public record"? What, are there sex tapes of him with women in the official state archives?

What a ridiculous statement. What a ridiculous thing all around.


Vicious, I tell you!
The fact that I'm 54 and single does not mean I have to put up with vicious rumors that I'm gay.

You just have to love when someone making a gay-related speech drops in the word "vicious."  Kind of shows where their head is at - i.e., approximately 1967.

"You know how bitchy fags can be." - Valley of the Dolls


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