A Texas GOP candidate’s campaign team says he may be the victim of a broad, politically motivated conspiracy to slow down justice in service of a well-connected rival.
From there, the case has only gotten weirder. Chabot’s campaign is accusing his primary opponent, Frederick 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.
Frazier was reached via his personal cell phone on Friday but did not respond to the request for comment. The next day, when approached for comment at a GOP convention at Collin College in the nearby town of Wylie, he said he would not comment on the allegations. He did, however, have some allegations of his own.
It turns out that Frazier is right that this isn’t the first time Chabot has filed a police report for vandalism of his campaign assets. In 2010, while running for a city council seat in California, the tires of his campaign vehicle were slashed by an unknown suspect. In 2014, Chabot was running in a California congressional primary when his campaign signs were vandalized. Two years later, the suspect in that case was caught.
But that was almost four full months ago, and so far Chabot has gotten few answers. In early January, Chabot was told that the McKinney police department had stepped back from the case, which had instead been referred to state law enforcement to investigate. Specifically, Texas Ranger J. Rodney Odom was on 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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