NEW: A Trump-endorsed Texas Republican is under investigation for stealing his rival's campaign signs
Frazier did not respond to a request for comment about the investigation, but his campaign manager, Craig Murphy, issued a statement on his behalf regarding the allegations referenced by the Texas Rangers. “It is denied,” Murphy said.
From there, the case has only gotten weirder. Chabot’s campaign is accusing Frazier of a plot to erase his signs, and has requested the police investigate. Asked about the accusations, Frazier seemed to suggest tothat Chabot is pulling a hoax of his own. Local prosecutors have been mysteriously tight-lipped, and any information about what the police found has been thus far impossible to come by.
“If you would do your homework, you should look at what happened years and years ago,” Frazier said, before asking that a recording device be switched off. When pressed, Frazier alluded to incidents related to Chabot’s prior campaigns when he was a candidate in California. There, he noted, Chabot’s campaign signs had also been vandalized, and Frazier seemed to suggest that Chabot’s allegations were a part of a pattern.
Chabot filed a report with the McKinney Police Department in early December. In an email to Grimes, the McKinney city manager, Chabot said he’d previously asked Walmart to turn over the security footage on the day when the city’s faux-ployee visited, but he was told that information could not be shared without a police report. In that email, Chabot also laid out what his camp sees as a key piece of evidence in the case.
A spokesperson with the Texas Rangers confirmed they had completed their investigation and handed over their findings to the Collin County DA. Whenasked the Collin County DA about the investigation, it said all questions should be addressed to Ramsay. Reached Friday, Ramsay declined to comment on the case and declined to say whether Frazier was a suspect. He said he couldn’t comment because he “had not looked at a single document.
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