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Thom Tillis (R-NC)

Thomas Roland Tillis (born August 30, 1960) is an American politician who is the junior United States Senator from North Carolina, serving since 2015.

He enrolled in an extension program, graduating from the University of Maryland University College in 1997, with a B.S. in technology management to meet job requirements. His client was Charlotte's NationsBank Corp, which in 1998 became Bank of America Corp.

NC House of Representatives 2007-2015

US Senate 2015-present

2014 Election: In Tillis's Republican primary bid, his candidacy had received endorsements from former Florida Governor Jeb Bush,[15] then-North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory,[16] and former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

During the campaign, Tillis paid $30,000 to Cambridge Analytica, a data analysis firm.

Immigration stance: Following President Trump's cancellation of President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ("DACA") executive order, Tillis announced his intention to propose legislation to allow illegal immigrants, who arrived before January 1, 2012 and are under the age of 16 ("Dreamers"), legal status and allow them to remain in the US for five years with a pathway to citizenship. The proposal would grant high school graduates without a serious criminal record conditional immigration status for a five-year period. During that time, if they earn a higher-education degree, serve in the military or stay employed, they could apply for permanent residency and, eventually, citizenship. About 2.5 million DREAMers would be eligible

Special Counsel stance: In April 2018, following the FBI raid on the hotel room and offices of Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, Tillis, together with Cory Booker, Chris Coons, and Lindsey Graham, introduced new legislation to "limit President Trump's ability to fire special counsel Robert Mueller". Termed the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, the legislation would allow any special counsel, in this case Mueller, receive an "expedited judicial review" in the 10 days following being dismissed to determine if said dismissal was suitable. If negative, the special counsel would be reinstated. At the same time, according to The Hill, the bill would "codify regulations" that a special counsel could only be fired by a senior Justice Department official, while having to provide reasons in writing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Tillis\

Cambridge Analytica Ltd (CA) was a British political consulting firm which combined data mining, data brokerage, and data analysis with strategic communication during the electoral processes.[5][6] It was started in 2013 as an offshoot of the SCL Group.[7] The company closed operations in 2018 in the course of the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, although related firms still exist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

I support Trump’s vision on border security. But I would vote against the emergency. Feb 25, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/25/i-support-trumps-vision-border-security-i-would-vote-against-emergency/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.12c8dfe4c505

Scandals:

Oct. 27: See the Center for Responsive Politics’ op-ed in the New York Times about how the case of Carolina Rising challenges the IRS and the FEC to enforce the law.

A social welfare group called Carolina Rising spent 97 percent of the money it raised in the 2014 midterm elections — nearly $5 million — running ads that helped Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) defeat the incumbent Democrat that cycle.

The group, formed by political operative Dallas Woodhouse in late March 2014, did virtually nothing else. Its first tax filing, obtained by the Center for Responsive Politics, shows that the organization raised nearly $4.9 million in its first year — $4.8 million of it from a single donor; nearly all of that went out the door to a prominent political media firm in Virginia for ads mentioning Tillis, while the rest was spent on payments to an LLC started by Woodhouse only months earlier.

Next-Level Sham

Despite raising millions of dollars in its first year, Carolina Rising hired no employees and had no volunteers, according to its tax form. It’s run by a known political operative, Dallas Woodhouse, who didn’t take a salary from the organization; instead, Carolina Rising paid $72,000 to Solutions NC, an LLC incorporated in North Carolina only weeks before Carolina Rising was founded. Woodhouse, according to Carolina Rising’s filing, is the sole owner of Solutions NC.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/10/political-nonprofit-spent-nearly-100-percent-of-funds-to-elect-tillis-in-14/

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What Tillis fails to mention in the campaign trail rags-to-riches story is that he bought a trailer park in early 2007 — an investment he hoped would increase in value while providing him rental income.

“The problem is that as Tillis was advocating a bill that would impact his property value, he should have disclosed his ownership,” said Bob Hall

Tillis closed on a $395,000 bid for the trailer park. For Julian, who would be elected Huntersville city commissioner later that year, it was a gain of more than 120 percent in six months.

He did, in fact, have real estate acumen. His wife Susan Tillis was and is a real estate agent

For towns like Huntersville, one way to absorb a rapidly expanding population was by folding county land into the city limits, a process called annexation. In North Carolina, the state legislature could approve a town’s request to annex county land, even if citizens objected. Once those properties became part of a town, homeowners stood to benefit from municipal services like police patrols and garbage collection. It also meant properties just inside the town’s old borders would increase in value, since they would be surrounded by newly annexed, higher-priced real estate.

As it happened, in the spring of 2007, one of the areas considered by the state legislature for annexation was the land abutting the trailer park that newly elected state representative Thom Tillis had just purchased.

ANNEXATION

It’s unclear when Tillis first learned of the annexation plan. Daniel Keylin, a spokesman for Tillis’ Senate campaign, said the annexation “process takes years to develop” — meaning that consideration predated his boss’s election to the state legislature

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/06/thom-tillis-real-estate-conflict_n_5929934.html

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