VA-02: Scott Taylor Called Constituent In Effort To Bury First Allegation Of Signature Forgery

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Rep. Scott Taylor (R-VA), a well-known Republican congressman and former Navy SEAL, personally called a constituent who had accused his reelection campaign of forging voters’ signatures and pressured her to withdraw the accusation, four people with knowledge of the call described to TPM.

It was an unusually personal intervention from a congressman whose campaign staffers have since been accused of 59 signature forgeries and counting, according to a recent Virginian-Pilot report, including from the families of four dead voters whose signatures nonetheless appear on petition sheets collected by Taylor’s staffers.

Despite the congressman’s call on Aug. 3, Lindsey Terry, the technology chairwoman for the Virginia Beach Democratic Committee, knew before anyone else that something very fishy was going.

Eileen Eady, Terry’s friend and former neighbor, had left her Virginia Beach rental and to moved Las Vegas years ago. She even ran an unsuccessful campaign this year for Clark County School Board of Trustees.

“I know she moved,” Terry told TPM on the phone recently.

And yet, Eady’s purported signature and outdated Virginia address appeared on a petition sheet collected in June by a Taylor campaign staffer, Heather Guillot, to get an independent candidate, Shaun Brown, on the congressional ballot.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/rep-called-constituent-in-effort-to-bury-first-allegation-of-signature-forgery



ELAINE LURIA



https://elaineforcongress.com/

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1. So, Republicans and/or their staff members are cheating again?

Shocked, I am (not). That's how they do it.