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TexasTowelie

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Wed Oct 24, 2018, 01:34 AM Oct 2018

Congressman's ad falsely accuses candidate of getting $30 million in tax money

Republican U.S. Rep. Ted Budd is accusing his Democratic opponent Kathy Manning of benefiting from a development in Greensboro.

Budd represents North Carolina’s 13th Congressional District, which covers much of the Greensboro-High Point area as well as the mostly rural area south of Winston-Salem and north of Charlotte. Manning is an attorney, and Budd has criticized her for donating more than $500,000 to the Democratic Party and its candidates.

A recent Budd ad, though vague on details, accuses Manning of profiting off a government project.

“A parking deck that nobody needed, benefiting a luxury hotel and Kathy Manning,” a narrator says in the ad. “$30 million of your tax dollars plus $2.3 million a year to Kathy Manning and her husband, filling the Manning’s swanky hotel and their own French castle.”

Read more: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/article220458570.html

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