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affected the portion of Shealy's brain that influences the ability to communicate, read and write. Oscar
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Carolina electorate. He promised Hunt, who had a prior drug arrest, $ 900 to run for Congress and paid for his $ 2414 filing fee. Shealy paid for the fees with an unreported $ 5000 campaign contribution to his sister from Laidlaw Environmental Services.
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was expected to announce that he would be running against Ceips. Davis' house was being painted at the time. Ceips' chief of staff, Randy Bates, arrived at the house and spoke with Josias
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Davenport and explained that he was an illegal alien. Davis condemned the action, saying "I call on Ms. Ceips to fire Rod Shealy and Randy Bates, the two operatives who carried out this dirty trick."
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game. Student leaders at the university deemed the character derogatory and called for Shealy to stop publishing the newsletter, which contains slurs against Asian, black and
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