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To those who know Cotham and her family, her move was even more surprising: Cotham doesn’t just hail from a heavily Democratic district, she has deep, personal ties to the Democratic Party. Her mother, Pat, has served five terms as a Democrat on the Mecklenburg County Commission, her father was the chair of the Mecklenburg County Democrats, and Cotham was married for many years to a former North Carolina Democratic State Party Chairman, Jerry Meek, with whom she shares two sons.
“It doesn’t make any kind of sense,” Jane Whitley, chair of the Mecklenburg County Democratic Party, tells. Whitely put out a joint statement with the chair of the state party on Tuesday calling Cotham’s decision to switch “deceit of the highest order… a betrayal of the people in NC House District 112 with repercussions not only for the people of her district, but for the entire state of North Carolina.
, Republican staff in the legislature were openly boasting that there was at least one Democrat — and as many as three — who were considering switching party affiliation. If that’s true, it may mean that Cotham, who campaigned as a Democrat in a heavily Democratic district, misled her constituents.
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