North Carolina House candidate Charles Taylor is suing the Sandhills Citizens Alliance over campaign mailers. He alleges the political group made false claims about his involvement with a purported gambling operation in Lee County.
A North Carolina House candidate is suing a political group, accusing it of spreading false claims about his involvement with a purported gambling business in Lee County.
Stanford City Councilman Charles Taylor, a Republican running for the House District 51 seat, filed the lawsuit this week against Sandhills Citizens Alliance.
Taylor alleges that the group distributed political mailers to voters purporting that he “owns an illegal gambling operation” and that he is running a casino.
The alliance runs a website that makes similar claims, plus allegations that he has benefitted from hundreds of thousands of dollars in “dark money from groups that want to expand gambling in the state.”
In the lawsuit, Taylor acknowledges owning the Sanford property where the business operates but says he is only the landlord and has no involvement in the business or its day-to-day operations. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Lee County Superior Court, alleges the alliance knowingly misrepresented information from news reports it cited in the mailers.
“When he purchased it, the property was already occupied by a tenant operating its own business under a rental arrangement,” lawyers for Taylor said in the lawsuit. “Taylor continued that preexisting landlord-tenant...
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