Opinion by Kathleen Parker: The sad, strange saga of Mark Meadows’s dream home
Records show a pattern of their house-selling and house-buying along an electoral timeline that ought to raise an eyebrow at least. In March 2020, the couple sold a house in Sapphire, N.C., for $370,000. That September, they claimed to have moved to Scaly Mountain to live in a 14-by-62-foot mobile home that sold for $105,000 in 2021. One can fairly wonder: Why? In previous years, they owned a 6,000-square-foot house in Jackson County, N.C.
late last year to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress and to refer him to the Justice Department for a possible criminal charge over his refusal to respond to questions about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.If Meadows never spent the night at his pretend home up a mountain in North Carolina, he might have done more to obstruct election integrity than to correct the slack in the system and the gaps in the laws.
Loss of confidence in our elections is no small thing. Both liberals and conservatives list election integrity in the top four or five issues of greatest concern, according to Jason Snead, executive director of the nonpartisan. When politicians abuse the very system they purport to protect — or otherwise benefit by claiming fraud where none exists — they deserve no leniency from the courts or the public.
Even if what Meadows is alleged to have done may seem minor in the scheme of things, such actions pose a real threat to election integrity and therefore democracy. Next time Meadows gets down on his knees, he might do best to pray. I gave up cigarettes long ago, but I’d gladly toast the former speaker with a merlot of his choice.
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