To put it quite mildly, no one likes Madison Cawthorne. His GOP colleagues are furious with him for telling the world that they’ve invited him to cocaine-fueled orgies. His college classmates are disgusted by the sexual assault and harassment he allegedly inflicted on the women unfortunate enough to have encountered him. Now, a former staffer has come forward to express her own view of Cawthorne as “a bad guy,” “a habitual liar,” and has got “a lot of people fooled.”
#BREAKING: Leaked audio from a former caseworker & campaign aide who was fired by Rep. Madison Cawthorn reveals a formal complaint over labor law violations, among other things. #WNC #ncpol, #congress #election2022 #AVLnews #WNCnews https://t.co/SlnzN7G8Mj
— Cory Vaillancourt (@SMN_Cory) April 18, 2022
In a leaked recording made by an interviewer, a former campaign staffer for Cawthorne, Lisa Wiggins, says she is working to oust the Trump-endorsed candidate, a man with multiple claims of impropriety with women and a public supporter of Russia and Vladimir Putin during his campaign of genocide against the Ukrainian people. Wiggins says that some of Cawthorne’s actions during her time working for him included refusing to allow her to take legal FMLA leave when her uncle passed away and her husband had a heart attack, that he has closed so many of his offices that his constituents have no way to speak to him, and that his office has “more liquor bottles than water bottles.”
According to North Carolina’s  Smoky Mountain News:
‘As far as the candidate himself, I mean, he’s just a bad person. He’s a habitual liar and he’s going to say and do anything he can to your face but behind your back he’s completely opposite…The ultimate goal of course is to get him out,. I’m working harder here than I did for his campaign two years ago, and I mean, I worked really hard two years ago.’
Twitter had a lot to say about the leaked recording and Cawthorne himself, with most saying the revelations in Wiggins’ recording are unsurprising considering the actions of Cawthorne since he took office. Read some of their comments below:
