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Why Did Mark Meadows Register to Vote at an Address Where He Did Not Reside?
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-did-mark-meadows-register-to-vote-at-an-address-where-he-did-not-resideBy Charles Bethea
March 6, 2022
Mark Meadows, who grew up in Florida, moved to North Carolina in the nineteen-eighties and opened Aunt Ds, a sandwich shop in Highlands. He later sold the restaurant and started a real-estate company with a line in vacation properties. (He showed a few to my parents, in the nineties.) He became active in local Republican politics, and, in 2012, ran for Congress and won, going on to represent North Carolinas Eleventh District until March, 2020, when he resigned the seat to become President Donald Trumps chief of staff. Earlier that month, he sold his twenty-two-hundred-square-foot home in Sapphire. He and his wife, Debbie, also had a condo in Virginia, near Washington, D.C. But, as the summer passed and the election neared, Meadows had not yet purchased a new residence in what had been his home state. On September 19th, about three weeks before North Carolinas voter-registration deadline for the general election, Meadows filed his paperwork. On a line that asked for his residential addresswhere you physically live, the form instructsMeadows wrote down the address of a fourteen-by-sixty-two-foot mobile home in Scaly Mountain. He listed his move-in date for this address as the following day, September 20th.
Meadows does not own this property and never has. It is not clear that he has ever spent a single night there. (He did not respond to a request for comment.) The previous owner, who asked that we not use her name, now lives in Florida. That was just a summer home, she told me, when I called her up the other day. She seemed surprised to learn that the residence was listed on the Meadowses forms. The property sits in the southern Appalachian mountains, at about four thousand feet, in the bend of a quiet road above a creek in Macon County. She and her husband bought it in 1985. Wed come up there for three to four months when my husband was living, she said. Her husband died several years ago, and the house sat mostly unused for some time afterward, she said, because she had nobody to go up there with anymore.
She only rented it out twice, she told me. The first renter, she said, was Debbie Meadows, who, according to the former owner, reserved the house for two months at some point within the past few yearsshe couldnt remember exactly whenbut only spent one or two nights there. The Meadowses kids had visited the place, too, she said. The former owner was in Florida at the time, but her neighbors, the Talleys, whom she described as friends of the Meadowses, debriefed her later. As for Mark Meadows, she said, He did not come. Hes never spent a night in there.
The former owner had put the mobile home on the market in the summer of 2020, but the Meadowses never expressed an interest in buying it, she said. The one other time she rented the place out, it was to someone who had: a retail manager at Lowes named Ken Abele, who bought the mobile home in August of the following year. Abele said that hed heard that the Meadows family stayed there in the fall of 2020, when they were in the area for a Trump rally, because nearby hotels were scarce. The realtor who facilitated his purchase, whom I was unable to reach before we went to press, told him this, he said, and the realtor had heard it from the Talleys. It struck him as odd. Ive made a lot of improvements, Abele said, of the mobile home. But when I got it, it was not the kind of place youd think the chief of staff of the President would be staying. I asked him what he made of Meadows listing the property as his place of residence on his voter-registration form. Thats weird that he would do that, he said. Really weird.
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Why Did Mark Meadows Register to Vote at an Address Where He Did Not Reside? (Original Post)
swag
Mar 2022
OP
Bastard!
samsingh
(17,571 posts)2. repugs break the law with no penalties
FoxNewsSucks
(10,378 posts)5. I don't know which I'm more sick of-
republicon scum, including MF45, flagrantly breaking laws with no consequences or Democrats telling us to "be patient, punishment is coming".
There is an overdue and intensely serious need for massive wide-scale punishments, soon.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)3. ABC
Always Be Cheating