The suit, Hitchcock vs. Democratic National Committee, was filed by the DNC's former LGBT outreach director Donald Hitchcock, charging discrimination, retaliation and pay inequity. Daughttry was one of many high-level DNC officials deposed in the suit, including Chairman Howard Dean.

Daughttry's situation is reminiscent of the case of Congressman Patrick McHenry (R-NC). As reported in the Fall of 2007 by PageOneQ, it was discovered that McHenry purchased a home in Washington D.C. with a man by the name of Scott G. Stewart, whose relation to McHenry is unknown. During the period in which McHenry and Stewart owned the Washington home, February 2001 to January of 2002, McHenry certified that he was an owner and occupant, a requirement to claim the District of Columbia's Homestead Tax Deduction; in this case, a $60,000 break on the taxable value of the home.

During this same period, specifically on November 6, 2001, McHenry was registered to vote, and did so, in Gaston County, North Carolina. Therefore, evidence suggests that McHenry either committed tax fraud in Washington D.C. or cast a fraudulent ballot in North Carolina.