As voters prepare for tonight’s debate, we wanted to remind you just how toxic Scott Taylor is for Coastal Virginia.
- Scott Taylor’s 2018 re-election campaign was embroiled in the election fraud scandal. The campaign is said to have committed “out and out fraud” with “intent to defraud the Commonwealth” when collecting signatures to get an independent candidate, Shaun Brown, on the ballot to sway the election.
- To date three former staffers have been indicted. Two pleaded guilty.
- Special Prosecutor John Beamer expects to seek at least one more indictment and has cleared no one, including Taylor, of wrongdoing, according to reporting from the Virginia-Pilot: “John Beamer, the special prosecutor overseeing the case, said Tuesday that the two-year investigation isn’t over yet and that he expects to seek at least one more indictment. He said that no one has been cleared, including Taylor. The one-term Republican lost the 2018 race to Democrat Elaine Luria, but is challenging her again this year. [Taylor’s] ‘part of the campaign and the whole campaign is under investigation,’ Beamer said.
- Taylor voted for the ACA repeal bill that gutted protections for people with pre-existing conditions. That bill would have left 45,000 of his own constituents without health care coverage and undermined protections for the over 300,000 residents of VA-02 with preexisting conditions– half of the nonelderly population of the district. Taylor even claimed he was elected specifically to gut the Affordable Care Act and recently admitting that voting against protections for people with preexisting conditions was the “dumbest thing in the world.”
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