Bullet strikes family home of N.C. congressional candidate
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https://www.wbtv.com/2022/11/03/bullet-strikes-family-home-nc-congressional-candidate/?outputType=amp
HICKORY, N.C. (WBTV) – Democrat Jeff Jackson has pulled a campaign ad that focused on a house owned by his opponent, Pat Harrigan. The move comes weeks after police began investigating a bullet that was shot into a house owned by Harrigan’s parents. The Jackson campaign pulled the ad from WBTV late Thursday morning. The ad centered on a lake house owned by Harrigan in Catawba County and ends with a shot of Jackson standing in front of a house on a lake. The shooting happened in October, when Harrigan’s parents and children were in the house, a Harrigan spokesman confirmed. A spokeswoman for the Hickory Police Department confirmed they are investigating the shooting. https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2022/11/03/jeff-jackson-pulls-campaign-ad-as-police-investigate-shooting-into-opponents-family-home/ Jeff Jackson Pulls Campaign Ad As Police Investigate Shooting Into Opponent’s Family Home HICKORY, N.C. — Senator Jeff Jackson, the Democrat running for the NC-14 congressional seat, has pulled a political ad from WCCB-TV and other Charlotte TV stations that showed a house owned by his Republican opponent Pat Harrigan. The decision was in response to a Twitter post from Harrigan that accused Jackson’s campaign of threatening political violence. The children of the republican candidate are now in hiding. Someone shot into their home. |
Anonymous
| There is an ad of someone shooting a gun? Just why? Sounds awful. |
Anonymous
You seem confused. I heard it was a gay lover concerned about a pedophiles ring in the basement of the guys house. Apparently it is all proven on 4-8 lap tops that came out of Computer repair shop near Mar Largo. Seems like crime follows these republicans around. |
Anonymous
| Violence on either side is wrong. Because the GOP has ratcheted it up so high, we’re going to see more violence, especially when people are disenfranchised. The GOP could stop this by speaking to their base definitively, saying that elections are a right, and fair, and they will accept the results, and that the need to go home, and the violence is not the solution and will not be tolerated. |
Anonymous
| This is wrong. No one should feel threatened in their own home. Kudos to the Democratic candidate for pulling the ad, unlike GOP who would have ratcheted the heat up! |
Anonymous
Should have never been run in the first place. I hear that the race there has been so vicious that the R candidate has had to wear a bulletproof vest due to so many threats. |
Anonymous
The home and family that was threatened by gun violence and a shooting into their home were republican. Are you saying a republican had the home where his children and parents were living shot into by one of his own followers on purpose? |
Anonymous
Geez, the GOP is insufferable. You are literally reading suspicion into everything. YES I know that because I read the article. YES, it it wrong for any politician to be assaulted, threatened, or intimidated. YES the GOP has a bigger problem with tolerating violence, so the bigger burden lies with them. Look at how sensibly the Dem candidate responded. If at any point, he jokes about the GOP candidate’s house getting shot at, then please post and I will condemn that here. |
Anonymous
| And, no. I’m sure it was a Dem shooter. I’m not into denying facts. |
Anonymous
| It’s not a fact yet, but it is plausible. Though people are still adding about it on the Pelosi thread. |
Anonymous
Harrigan’s parents currently own and live in the home, but Craft said that Harrigan’s children were in the home when the incident occurred and the shot entered only a few feet from where the children were sleeping. Hickory Police Department (HPD) responded to the incident and noted the crime was perpetrated with a firearm. Kristen Hart, a spokeswoman for HPD, told CJ that the department does not have any arrests or updates related to the incident as of publication date. “No one was injured, but the officers investigating did find evidence of a bullet casing which is being looked into,” Hart said. The investigators tasked with overseeing the incident could not be reached for comment. According to Craft, the investigation is now being handled in a coordinated effort between local, state, and federal officials. 
Someone shot into the home of a republican candidate’s family, and his parents and children were sleeping inside. The democrat pulled an ad showing the home of the republican. Why would ads be run targeting the home of a candidate? |
Anonymous
Nowhere does it what there was guns shooting in the ad. |
Anonymous
They would have increased the violent rhetoric while making fun of the guy or suggest that this was perhaps this is a false flag operation. |
Anonymous
No it apparently had a photo of the guy’s house in it! |
Anonymous
I'm sure the ad included the footage of him/his house to prove some kind of point: that he is wealthy enough to own a lake house, taxes, etc. Obviously the GOP candidate had filmed this footage of himself because I can't imagine him sitting for his opponent's ad. Unless he surreptitiously filmed it, which would also be problematic. Without seeing the ad, it's hard to make a judgment call, but it was the right thing to do after making a bad judgment call. |