{"id":954500,"date":"2021-11-02T16:28:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=954500"},"modified":"2021-11-02T16:28:58","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:28:58","slug":"virginia-democrat-caught-tampering-with-campaign-signs-before-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-democrat-caught-tampering-with-campaign-signs-before-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Democrat Caught Tampering with Campaign Signs Before Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-democrat-caught-tampering-with-campaign-signs-before-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=954500&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/campaign-signs-640x335-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A Virginia Democrat delegate was stopped by police hours before Election Day when a deputy saw a woman taking campaign signs then entering a car driven by the elected official.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/virginia-democrat-police-campaign-signs-election-day\">reported<\/a> on Tuesday:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"11\">\n<p>Delegate Chris Hurst was pulled over by police in Radford, Virginia, on Monday evening after a deputy with the Radford Sheriff\u2019s office saw a woman taking campaign signs that were on display outside the city recreation center and then getting into a car Hurst was driving, according to Radford Sheriff Mark Armentrout.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Officers found Hurst driving the car with a suspended license, and he reportedly received a \u201cdriving while suspended notification\u201d from a deputy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Armentrout directed the outlet to the Radford City Police Department regarding why the man\u2019s license was suspended. However, officials said the matter was handed over to the Virginia State Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cRadford City Police confirmed that there was damage made to several of the political signs,\u201d the Fox report said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RadfordCityPolice\/posts\/246822687479800\" data-width=\"640\" readability=\"24.814814814815\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/100064562115038\/posts\/246822687479800\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\" readability=\"9.2169312169312\">\n<p>Radford Vandalism Report:Radford, VA-On Monday, November 1, 2021 at approximately 9:24 p.m. the Radford City Police\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RadfordCityPolice\">Radford City Police Department<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/100064562115038\/posts\/246822687479800\/\">Tuesday, November 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">After being pulled over, a deputy asked the passenger, Emily Frentress, to give the signs back, and she complied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">\u201cHurst assumed the delegate office in 2018 and is currently running as an incumbent,\u201d the Fox report continued, adding, \u201cHe represents the 12th District of Virginia, which includes Radford and Giles County, as well as other areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His Republican opponent, Jason Ballard, said Tuesday the incident is&nbsp;\u201cyet another reason why he doesn\u2019t deserve another term as Delegate.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.060773480663\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This isn\u2019t how your representative should act. Vote today for new leadership in the House of Delegates!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EyPzcnjHop\">https:\/\/t.co\/EyPzcnjHop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Ballard (@JasonBallardVA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JasonBallardVA\/status\/1455541937092669441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>News of the incident came as America watches the Virginia gubernatorial elections on Tuesday, with former Democrat Gov. Terry McAuliffe running against Republican Glenn Youngkin.<\/p>\n<p>Youngkin ended his statewide tour in Loudoun County, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/02\/youngkin-makes-his-final-case-in-loudoun-county-victory-will-not-be-given-to-us-we-must-go-get-it\/\">delivering<\/a> a culminating campaign speech Monday to thousands of supporters in the blue Northern Virginia suburb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYoungkin\u2019s final stop on his \u2018Win with Glenn\u2019 bus tour was symbolic as Loudoun has taken center stage in the national issue of parents versus school boards, an issue that has powered Youngkin over the last several weeks of the campaign trail,\u201d Breitbart News reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Virginia Democrat delegate was stopped by police hours before Election Day when a deputy saw a woman taking campaign signs then entering a car driven by the elected official. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}