Because there's some things even lab rats and Republicans won't put up with

Politics Daily on a North Carolina congressional district whose Republicans are terrified of who'll win their congressional primary:

But D'Annunzio, who faces a June 22 runoff with former sportscaster Harold Johnson, is fighting back. In response to N.C. GOP Chairman Tom Fetzer's judgment that [Tim] D'Annunzio was "unfit for public office at any level," the candidate this week called on Fetzer to resign. "Chairman Fetzer broke the Plan of Organization of the Republican Party by speaking against my candidacy," he said, as reported in The Charlotte Observer.

An earlier Observer story had relied on court documents from a contentious 1995 divorce and a subsequent child-custody filing that portrayed D'Annunzio as "a self-described religious zealot" who once called the U.S. government the Antichrist and told his ex-wife that he'd found the Ark of the Covenant. D'Annunzio countered that "the allegations are unsubstantiated and come from second-hand sources." (Several of his now-grown children work with him.)

D'Annunzio is also one of two Carolinas candidates who've held "machine gun socials" as campaign events.