Policy Watch broadsided Duane Hall, claiming he’d sexually harassed women; in a flash, Democrats from Roy Cooper on down demanded Hall resign from the legislature.

Hall slipped, said he’d only kissed one woman who didn’t want to be kissed, then, a day later, said Policy Watch slammed him because he (a 50-year-old man) had once dated then broke up with the daughter of the head of the Justice Center which owns Policy Watch.

The howl redoubled. More stories. More tweets. Duane Hall, desperate to escape, instead, had dug the hole deeper.