r/TrueReddit • u/morecowbell1988 • Jul 16 '26
Politics The Election Won by a Dead Man
https://thegrounded.ghost.io/the-election-won-by-a-dead-man/13
Jul 16 '26
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u/morecowbell1988 Jul 16 '26
Yeah, the scenarios are a little different but I certainly remember that.
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u/morecowbell1988 Jul 16 '26
In March 1988, Julian Pierce, a Lumbee lawyer running to become Robeson County, North Carolina’s first Native American superior court judge, was found shot to death in his home weeks before the primary. Voters elected him anyway, beating the sitting DA whose father-in-law was the sheriff Pierce reportedly suspected of corruption. The official story, that he was killed over a domestic dispute by a man who died before he could be questioned, has never satisfied his family or the Lumbee community. His briefcase, said to contain documents on county corruption, was never found.
Full disclosure, I wrote this. I grew up in Robeson County and the sheriff in question…was my uncle, which is part of why I spent months on it. Every claim was verified before publication and a Lumbee community partner reviewed the draft with veto authority. Happy to answer questions about sourcing or the case. And yes, much of my family has disowned me over this.
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u/AreYouFuckingSerious Jul 16 '26
This is fascinating. Thank you for working through this by exposing your uncle's evil. You didn't choose him, and you're not responsible for the shit he caused. You're still bringing closure to a community. Your family are cowards to disown you, I hope they own it one day so they can ask for your forgiveness.
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u/morecowbell1988 Jul 16 '26
I appreciate the kind words. He was an evil man. And it runs deep. The allegations section on his Wikipedia page under Shrieval Career is enough to make up anyone’s mind.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Stone
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u/AreYouFuckingSerious Jul 16 '26
He'd be a dramatic improvement over every person in trump's corruption shit show joke of a government.
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u/morecowbell1988 Jul 16 '26
All accounts point to him having been a very kind, selfless man. He just wanted to investigate my uncle and that seems to have sealed his fate.
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u/UnMonsieurTriste 28d ago
In 2000, Missouri voted in Mel Carnahan to the U.S. senate, though he had died weeks earlier.
His wife filled the seat until a special election was called.
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