Jeffrey Clark announced last Thursday that he has rescinded his offer to withdraw his candidacy from the fifth-district congressional election, in which he is running as an independent.
After the press reported Clark’s extensive history of personal debt, the Tea Party member announced Aug. 30 that if the individual responsible for disclosing and compiling his personal financial data would step forward and take responsibility within two days, he would remove his candidacy.
Once the 48-hour deadline had passed, Clark withdrew this offer. He said the Tom Perriello campaign had told him it did not have any attachment to the compilation of the information. He has not yet, however, received a specific denial of the allegations from the Robert Hurt campaign.
Hurt Campaign spokesperson Amanda Henneberg said the Republican challenger will not “give credence to Clark’s speculations and attacks,” calling Clark’s actions a “politically motivated sideshow” designed to detract attention from the authentic issues of the election.
Clark said he feels the information — including his filing for bankruptcy in 1993 and his history of personal debt extending into the late 1980s — was released with malicious intent. Nevertheless, Isaac Wood, communications director for the Center for Politics and a former Cavalier Daily opinion columnist, said revelations such as this are commonplace.
“This is not a new thing in politics,” Wood said, noting that almost all congressional campaigns do “opposition research” with the intent to spread information such as past financial issues to the public.
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