BS BULLETIN:
- Georgia House candidate Stephen Acorn says repeated disappearances of his campaign signs prompted him to hide Apple AirTags inside replacements — and the trackers led to the Columbus home of retired educator Richard Spencer Garrard and his wife, Rev. Dr. Cindy Cox Garrard.
- Police body-camera footage resurfacing this week shows officers confronting Richard Garrard at the home; four Acorn signs were ultimately recovered from the property’s garbage and returned.
- Cindy Garrard later said she removed the signs because she believed they had been improperly placed in the public right-of-way. She also acknowledged responsibility while saying her husband was not involved.
A Georgia political candidate who was tired of watching his campaign signs disappear decided to give the next batch a little technological insurance.
He hid AirTags inside them.
Meet Spencer Garrard, a retired professor at Columbus State University and his wife, a woke reverend.
Police were called after stolen campaign signs for Georgia House candidate Stephen Acorn traced back to their home via airtag.
Watch the full police bodycam footage of them… pic.twitter.com/JPaaRWD2Vi
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Stephen Acorn, an independent write-in candidate challenging Democratic state Rep. Debbie Buckner in Georgia House District 137, said signs had repeatedly vanished from locations around Columbus, including near Matthews Elementary School and County Line Road.
“I feel like I outsmarted the perpetrator,” Acorn told local outlet Now Georgia.
After placing trackers inside replacement signs, Acorn said he received alerts the following day showing two of them moving.
The trail eventually led to the home of Rev. Dr. Cindy Cox Garrard and her husband, Richard Spencer Garrard, a retired Columbus State University educator. Police were called to the residence.
And that’s where this story gets a bodycam video.
Footage newly circulating online shows officers questioning Richard Garrard at the house about the missing signs. Four Acorn signs were ultimately retrieved from the garbage and returned to the candidate.
Cindy Garrard later took responsibility for removing them.
“They is me, not my husband,” she wrote in response to a Facebook post from Acorn, according to Now Georgia. She also maintained that she never removed a sign from private property.
In a separate statement, Garrard said she believed the signs had been illegally positioned on the public right-of-way and removed them for that reason. She confirmed they had since been returned.
Acorn provided the local outlet with election records showing Cindy Garrard had contributed to Buckner, the Democratic incumbent Acorn is challenging.
Acorn ultimately indicated he was reluctant to pursue criminal charges, telling the outlet that his faith called for grace and that he would pray about the decision. He did, however, request the responding officer’s bodycam footage — which has now given the strange local campaign dispute a much bigger audience.
