North Carolina rep says Madison Cawthorn ghosted him, took constituent files

​A newly sworn-in North Carolina congressman is pleading with constituents to contact him after his predecessor, scandal-scarred Madison Cawthorn, failed to show over their case recordsdata when he vacated his workplace final November.​

GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards’ workplace despatched a letter telling voters in his rural western North Carolina district to achieve out if they’ve excellent or unfinished casework — and including he doesn’t know the place Cawthorn disappeared to.​

The letter stated Cawthorn, who ​deserted his Capitol Hill and district places of work two months earlier than his time period ended, “didn’t switch official constituent casework, which is customary observe for any legislative transition.”

​”​As a result of this lack of knowledge, Congressman Edwards and his workers don’t have any means of understanding which constituents had ongoing casework or different excellent federal points,” the Monday letter added. “Repeated makes an attempt to achieve Congressman Cawthorn and his workers have been revamped the previous month, however no response or motion was offered​.”

Edwards, who defeated Cawthorn within the Republican major final Could and went on to win the overall election in November, stated he prides himself on serving to individuals in his district, a service he highlighted throughout his marketing campaign. 

“I ask that anybody with any pending casework contact my workplace instantly. As well as, I hope members of the media will assist inform the general public of this request. I want to be sure that our veterans, the aged, the infirm and others who need assistance get the total advantage of the companies they’re entitled to​,” he stated in a press release. 

Cawthorn, 27, was elected in 2020, and his brief tenure in workplace was marked by varied scandals, together with his declare in March 2022 that Republican lawmakers invited him to orgies in Washington and snorted strains of cocaine in entrance of him. 

“The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington. I imply, being form of a younger man in Washington, the place the common age is most likely 60 or 70 — [you] have a look at all these individuals, lots of them that I’ve seemed as much as by way of my life, I’ve at all times paid consideration to politics,” ​Cawthorn stated on the “Warrior Poet Society Podcast.”

“Then unexpectedly you get invited: ‘We’re going to have a sexual get-together at one among our houses, you need to come.’ ‘What did you simply ask me to come back to?’ And you then notice they’re asking you to come back to an orgy,” he stated.

The interview didn’t sit properly with Home Republicans, together with then-Minority Chief Kevin McCarthy.

“I simply advised him he’s misplaced my belief, he’s gonna need to earn it again, and I laid out every little thing I discover is unbecoming,” McCarthy (R-Calif.) stated he advised Cawthorn after assembly with him.

“And, you’ll be able to’t simply say, ‘You may’t do that once more,’” McCarthy added. “I imply, he’s, he’s acquired lots of members very upset.”