North Carolina’s 6th Congressional District Republican candidate, Army special forces veteran Christian Castelli, claims the Democratic incumbent, Rep. Kathy Manning, is making false statements about him, and he’s just filed a cease-and-desist letter to make it stop.
The day before his legal team at Adams and Winfree sent the later, Castelli told Carolina Journal, “I’ve got a whole team of people looking at our options, but everything from reaching out to the campaign and asking them in a gentlemanly fashion to knock it off, to putting them on official notice with a cease-and-desist.”
Castelli apparently chose the latter option and announced the move the on Twitter:
In the Oct. 27 interview with CJ, Castelli said the first major lie Manning and her campaign continue to tell is that he doesn’t live in the district. He says his longtime home had been in the district when he began running, but then he was redistricted out after the state Supreme Court had the districts redrawn. After this, he told his supporters that he would move across the line to the new district if he won the primary, a promise which he said he kept.
He said the Constitution only requires a candidate to live in the state and to be 25 years old, so he would have fully qualified even if he hadn’t moved.
“Well I’m 52 and have been a resident of North Carolina for 24 years, most of that time serving my country at Fort Bragg, which is why I lived in Moore County. And so I said during the primary that if I won...
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