A North Carolina Democrat running in a high-profile race to be the state’s attorney general hugged a convicted sex offender after receiving an LGBTQ award in 2022, according to video footage obtained by The Daily Wire.
Footage of the December 13, 2022 Carolinas LGBT+ Chamber of Commerce event shows Rep. Jeff Jackson (D-NC) praising the work of LGBTQ activists on stage before embracing Chad Turner, a registered sex offender and CEO of the Charlotte LGBT Chamber of Commerce. Turner, who has not responded to multiple requests for comment from The Daily Wire, was charged with three cases of lewd acts on minors under the age of 16.
“You are an enormously influential, and positive force for this city, for the people who live here, I’m so grateful for you,” Jackson told the assembled crowd, after the chamber awarded him the “Advancing Equity Award.”
After Jackson left the stage,…
