Taffy Howard, Challenger for Congress seems to be busy finding her own truth this morning. As she’s posted a video where she claims she “crushed” Dusty Johnson in signature collection.
So, Taffy claims that they’ve “turned in more than 4200 petitions, with more than 150 volunteers across the state. We handily beat Dusty on Signatures, now we’re going to handily beat him on election day.”
Unfortunately for Taffy, as my mother would have said, she’s full of beans. Because here are the figures from the Secretary of State:
Despite Taffy’s claims, according to the Secretary of State, her team collected and submitted 3478 signatures, and based on her validity sample, the Secretary of State estimated she had 2866 valid signatures.
What did the SOS have to say about her opponent, Dusty Johnson’s petitions? Did Taffy actually “crush him” as she claims?
Well, no. Not at all. Because Dusty actually turned in 3582 signatures to Taffy’s 3478. For Taffy, who appears to be arithmetically challenged, that would be more than she turned in, according to the official record.
What’s more, Dusty is credited with a higher validity rate, 85.78% to Taffy’s 82.43%.
Taffy turned in far less than she claimed, certainly didn’t “crush” her opponent, and at least at first blush, in her campaign she seems to have an issue with following the 9th commandment as handed down to Moses. (Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor).
Considering both of them have far more than needed, it’s more than a silly debate for Taffy to try to claim false momentum on. Once you turn in, you’re done, and it’s time to get to the business of campaigning.
Now if she can only show that her donations weren’t trending on a downward path.
Maybe Taffy should do a forensic audit of her count.
If she’s lying about something so simple like this, what else would she/did she lie about? No to Taffy.
Get a life, Pat…and feel free to count every single one of our signatures at the SoS’ office. All 4200+! We had the SoS’ office certify the signatures we had up to last Monday, and we were told we could keep turning in signatures…so we have…and are now over 4200. And again, feel free to count them or cease and desist from the slander.
I’ll have to check that out next time I get to Pierre.
Now, explain all those votes you missed.
Pat, Im reminded of the instance that something very similar happened to me with an elected official and I was told to get a life when I called an Aberdeen City Councilor out for lies. Ms. Howard, if this is how you respond to constituents who question your statements, you do not deserve to represent me or anyone for that matter. Im going to believe the SOS, who by law has to report the truth over a candidate running for office who doesn’t have to tell the truth. Would love to see the slander charge hold up in court.
The spirialing end to your campaign continues….
Lol, spoken like someone whose law degree came from Law and Order.
The best ground game in politics is about to walk on this challengers hopes. Dusty and his team haven’t even started campaigning yet and she’s already drowning.
Dusty is a good campaigner. That doesn’t make him a good representative.
Dusty has passed or implemented 15 bills in his time in Congress. How many years since Taffy passed a bill?
Whenever a candidate brags about all their signatures early in a campaign, I take it as a warning sign that they have nothing else to brag about. People will sign anything and this is certainly proof of that. You want to impress me, show me how much money you’ve raised.
Now we have the candidate actually on this blog herself snipping at the blog author. Not a good plan. She’s arguing about how many signatures she has or doesn’t have. When’s that primary again? Time for this candidate to be done.
Not impressed with her in the main entrance of the Barnet Center arena at Boys State B tourney handing out propaganda for her campaign against Dusty for “reasons I dont have the time to get into with you about his national agenda”. What the heck? I was actually taken back. This wasn’t outside the republican booth at the state fair. It was the state B’s.
As my wife and I politely took our seats, we both wondered what the heck that was all about. No substance. Just a random appeal to beat Dusty.
20% tops? As we would say in the Army this will be a NO GO!
Ron Wieczorek had to get at least 2775 valid signatures in 2018. Hardly a bragging point for Taffy to get to 2800…
It’s possible that they turned in more, but the SOS stopped counting when they made their initial filing.
I’m told they specifically say don’t actually accept further statewide petitions towards the total anymore after they’re filed as a result of having to draw the random sample. There was a change in ARSD that might allude to that, but I’d have to dig in further to confirm.
I am glad to see her on this site today. I have wanted to ask Taffy a question for quite a while now. See below:
“A free people must have fair and transparent elections to continue self-governance.” Taffy Howard
“I just want to find 11,780 votes…” Donald Trump to Georgia SOS
Now THAT is real fraud. If you could “find” the time for a comment, I would appreciate it, Taffy?