U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn cited for gun at airport -police
By Moira Warburton and David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. Consultant Madison Cawthorn has been cited by police for possessing a gun at an airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, the native police division stated, including to a string of controversies for the first-term lawmaker forward of a contested major election.
Cawthorn was “cooperative” with Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Division officers and the division “took possession of the firearm, which is regular process,” the division stated in an announcement posted on Twitter.
The U.S. Transportation Safety Administration confirmed that brokers had detected a firearm on the Charlotte Douglas Worldwide Airport in North Carolina on Tuesday morning, however declined to launch passenger particulars.
The information was first reported by WSOC-TV in Charlotte, citing nameless sources. Cawthorn’s workplace didn’t return a request for remark.
Cawthorn, who’s preventing to carry on to his North Carolina seat within the state’s Could 17 Republican major, had been stopped in February 2021 for trying to hold a gun by safety at an airport in Asheville, North Carolina, however has not confronted legal expenses for doing so. Nonetheless, he faces legal expenses for driving with a revoked license and has racked up a number of dashing tickets.
“Second time. No extra flying,” Sara Nelson, president of the Affiliation of Flight Attendants, a union representing 50,000 flight attendants at 17 airways, stated on Twitter in response to the information.
Although he has the endorsement of former President Donald Trump, Cawthorn angered many fellow Republicans after calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy a “thug.” He additionally claims to have witnessed cocaine use in Washington and to have been invited to intercourse events.
State Senator Chuck Edwards leads the sphere of seven candidates trying to unseat Cawthorn. Edwards has been endorsed by U.S. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina. If no candidate receives 30%, a runoff will happen on July 26. The seat, based mostly within the mountainous western a part of the state, is taken into account safely Republican.
(Reporting by Moira Warburton and David Shepardson in WashingtonEditing by Andy Sullivan, Leslie Adler and Matthew Lewis)
