Munn and Cogdell disagree with that, saying they don’t want any PAC members helping McCready. Minnie Price, a 77-year-old member of the Bladen PAC - the PAC’s treasurer, in fact - speaks up and says that she is volunteering for McCready and making calls to ask people to vote for him. The night after the debate, Chace attends the monthly meeting of the Bladen Improvement PAC, at which Cogdell and Horace Munn, the head of the Improvement PAC, make their case for not working for McCready. McCready wouldn’t even have his picture taken with Michael Cogdell, a Bladen County commissioner who is a member of the PAC, Munn says.Ĭhace says that McCready seemed to be avoiding the PAC “like it was toxic.” McCready, a Democrat the PAC supported in the first election, was now “distancing himself from the group,” says Chace, describing how Munn sees it. In a televised debate, the Democratic candidate in that special election, Dan McCready, failed to defend the PAC when his Republican opponent, Dan Bishop, implicated the group in election wrongdoing.įurther, McCready tried to publicly distance himself from the PAC by not asking for their help to “get out the vote” in Bladen County. In the fourth episode, Chace looks at some of the fallout from the Bladen Improvement Association PAC having its name tossed around during the McCrae Dowless investigation and during the special election that followed. She interviewed Bladen citizens and looked into their allegations, finding no proof of wrongdoing. ▪ In Episode 2, Chace explored allegations from critics of the Improvement Association PAC who believe, essentially, that whatever Dowless did, the PAC was doing it first. ▪ In the first episode of “The Improvement Association” podcast reporter Zoe Chace gave listeners background on the Bladen County absentee voter fraud scandal of 2018, particularly in regard to the relationship between the Bladen County Improvement Association PAC, a Black Democratic voter advocacy group, and McCrae Dowless, who is facing criminal charges for his actions while working for NC Republican congressional candidate Mark Harris. This is not a transcript and is not meant to be a substitute for listening to the podcast episodes. In the series, reporter Zoe Chace uses a case in Bladen County, North Carolina, to examine the power of election fraud allegations.
#SERIAL PODCAST EPISODE 9 TRANSCRIPT SERIAL#
This is a recap of the fourth episode of the five-episode podcast series “The Improvement Association,” from Serial Productions.
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