NC House Speaker Tim Moore Has Hired an Avowed White Supremacist as His New Policy Advisor

 

Carlton Huffman, on Linked In

Carlton Huffman proudly lists a new job on his Linked In page. As of this month he's "Policy Advisor" to the Office of the Speaker of the NC House. He's also self-described as a "Patriot Conservative."

Carlton Huffman has a pretty colorful white history, most famous for us for when he was a staffer for House member Jonathan Jordan in 2011 and was forced to resign his staff position for the following activity....

An unsigned "poison pen" letter with nasty racist overtones was surreptitiously placed on the desks of NC Senate members on the day in March 2011 when the new Republican majority were to vote on an otherwise non-controversial act to symbolically pardon Gov. William Woods Holden for his 1870 impeachment. Holden was a Republican who called out the militia to put down Ku Klux Klan thuggery. He was impeached by a Democratic General Assembly as a n****er-lover, the first governor ever removed from office in the United States. The act introduced in 2011 to pardon him, albeit symbolically, would have been doing the right thing for a Reconstruction Republican who was unfairly and maliciously driven from office by backward, racist Democrats.

But the unsigned letter attacking Holden's biography appeared on Senate members' desks, quoting an un-reconstructed pro-slavery UNC history professor from almost a century ago, who accused Gov. Holden of "corruption." Spooked, the Republican leadership in the Senate immediately suspended action on the bill.

NC Senate rules forbid unsigned pieces of paper that advocate for or against legislative action. WRAL reporter Laura Leslie was the first to identify Carlton Huffman as the author, and he soon resigned from his staff position. 

Huffman batted around in other political jobs in North Carolina and Wisconsin after that, doing field work for Phil Berger and others (according to Linked In). Most recently, he was a regional field director for the Herschel Walker for Senate Campaign, sort of proving that Walker was always mainly a tool for white supremacy.

Because Carlton Huffman is pretty dedicated to the cause of making sure that white people are uber Alles. I received via email this partial list of Huffman's recent activities yesterday:

Huffman has been a regular correspondent and featured guest on The Political Cesspool Radio Program that proudly proclaims this about its principles: “What we are: Pro-Christian (God), Pro-White (Family), Pro-South (Republic).” The program’s host, James Edwards, has been widely panned as a dangerous white supremacist including by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Huffman has had leadership positions in both the North Carolina Council of Conservative Citizens and the national Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). The CCC was the radicalizing organization cited by Dylann Roof in his manifesto found after his 2015 massacre of nine Black parishioners at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. In fact, the CCC released a statement after the fact that stated Roof had “legitimate grievances” against Black people.

Huffman, who went by the pseudonym The Unreconstructed Southern and posted under the username dixie1984 (the year of his birth, and linked with his personal email here), was the main individual posting for the NC CCC chapter and also claimed to have spent time writing for the national CCC page.

The topics covered on the NC CCC blog are wide ranging, but never deviate from being white supremacist in nature with regular claims that we must be “preserving European-American culture of the United States.” Huffman espouses anti-school racial integration beliefs, opposition to the Voting Rights Act, fear mongers that Barack Obama will bring about a “vicious anti-white campaign of terror,” regularly attacks the LGBTQIA+ community, regularly refers to minorities in derogatory terms, and seeks to stop the dilution of the language and culture of European-Americans by immigrants and minorities. He further calls for the infiltration of the Republican Party by white supremacists in order to further and more effectively push the message of white supremacy.

BREAKING UPDATE

Well, day-um! Just as I posted the item above, I saw the news that Huffman has resigned. 

Landmarks in Political Cynicism

Go sit in the corner, Jack Betts.

Aide to Jonathan Jordan Did It

An unsigned "poison pen" letter with nasty racist overtones was surreptitiously placed on the desks of NC Senate members on the day they were to vote on an otherwise non-controversial act to symbolically pardon Gov. William Woods Holden for his 1870 impeachment.

Holden was a Republican who called out the militia to put down Ku Klux Klan thuggery. He was impeached by a Democratic General Assembly as a n****er-lover, the first governor ever removed from office in the United States.

The act this year to pardon him, albeit symbolically, would have been a line-drive hit for the new Republican majority in the General Assembly, finally doing the right thing for one of their own party who was unfairly and maliciously driven from office by backward, racist Democrats.

Then the unsigned letter appeared on Senate members desks quoting an un-reconstructed pro-slavery UNC history professor, from almost a century ago, who accused Gov. Holden of "corruption." Spooked, the Republican leadership in the Senate immediately suspended action on the bill.

NC Senate rules forbid unsigned pieces of paper that advocate for or against legislative action. Mysteriously, the several thousand cameras in the Senate chamber weren't working the morning the letters were distributed. No one in the Senate claimed responsibility.

Apparently, it was WRAL's Laura Leslie that got the scoop, tweeting yesterday afternoon that the culprit was a 27-year-old legislative assistant to NC House member Jonathan Jordan, one Carlton Huffman, who is now unemployed at the General Assembly. Rep. Jordan, for his part, is playing Sergeant Schultz: "I know nuth-think!"

The Progressive Pulse's Sarah Ovaska got hold of Mr. Huffman and interviewed him. According to Huffman, his only concern was "corruption." White racial superiority? Never crossed his mind.

During 2009 Carlton Huffman had a blog page on ConservativeNC, where he paraded his hard-right cred for that particular crowd (sample: "This is no time to listen to Colin Powell and the voices of moderation in our party"). He's been featured as a guest blogger on Katy's Conservative Corner, where Katy offered this bio of him:

Originally from Granite Falls, North Carolina, Carlton Huffman is a conservative activist who recently relocated to Raleigh from the Northern Virginia area. He’s happy be back in the land of Jesse Helms. He graduated from Campbell University where he studied Government and History.

He's also a former assistant to Pat Buchanan. He wrote on a slavery revisionism site for Confederate History Month that the Old South (Massa on the plantation, blacks in their subservient place) was the closest to a "second Eden" that Americans had ever come.

While Jonathan Jordan was not saying why Huffman was no longer in his employ, he did volunteer that Huffman was "an excellent legislative assistant." Right! It's not every employee on the House side of the General Assembly who'll take the initiative to cross over to the Senate side to pass out anonymously materials meant to slime a 19th-century opponent of the Ku Klux Klan.