A neighbor of the house, Tammy Talley, told The New Yorker she was friends with Mark and Debbie Meadows, and that Debbie and their two adult children had visited. Talley did not mention Mark staying at the house.
One of the authors of North Carolina’s voter-challenge statute is Gerry Cohen, who tells The New Yorker that voter registration must be legally a “place of abode” where the registrant has spent at least one night and where the person intends to live indefinitely. If Meadows didn’t stay in the house for at least one night, then he committed fraud. Another way to prove residency is a driver’s license, cable bill, W-2, or car registration listing the address.
So, why would Meadows claim to be living in a mobile home in the middle of nowhere North Carolina? Perhaps because he was considering a run for the Senate seat opening when Republican Richard Burr vacates later this year. Meadows did not ultimately run for the seat.
Meadows isn’t new to obfuscating the truth. In 2016, when he was Rep. Meadows, he sold a 134-acre property in Dinosaur, Colorado for $200,000. The problem was, he was required by law to file for the sale, and he failed to do so.
The property was sold to a nonprofit that intended to use it to prove their cockamamie concept of creationism.
Most recently, Meadows took a job with Conservative Partnership Institute, a nonprofit founded by the former South Carolina senator—and former president of the Heritage Foundation—Jim DeMint. In July 2021, a few months after taking the job and just weeks after the formation of the House Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol, Donald Trump's "Save America" PAC donated a whopping $1 million to the institute.
A few months later, Mark and Debbie Meadows purchased a $1.6-million-dollar lakefront estate in Sunset, South Carolina. According to The New Yorker, the Meadows’ voter registration remains linked to the Scaly Mountain mobile home.
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