Tammy Covil campaign pays for website bashing opponent Holly Grange

WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) — The race for NC House District 20 is heating up, but perhaps not in the way you might expect. A simple internet search for Holly Grange will turn up a website created by (Tammy) Covil for NC House.

The page links Grange with Benghazi and compares Grange to Hillary Clinton, although the two are from different political parties. Hollygrange.com claims emails have surfaced showing Grange and her company Osprey Global Solutions used long time Clinton confidante, Sidney Blumenthal, to push Hillary to go to war with Libya. It says they encouraged the overthrow of the Libyan government so that Grange and her company would profit from contracts with a new Libyan government.

Today we sat down with Holly Grange who said the voters deserve better than for candidates to attack each other.

“I’m trying to run a fairly clean campaign. I’m trying to be very positive, talk about the issues. This is my first foray into politics, so I don’t understand it frankly. I just don’t understand. It’s a distraction from what we need to be talking about,” Grange said.

She adds they should be talking about bringing businesses to the area, improving infrastructure, and education. She said that the information on the website is false and said Blumenthal is not connected with her company.

This is not the first time Covil has called out her opponent. Back in November controversial emails of a similar nature were sent from Covil’s school district email account.

We tried to reach out to Tammy Covil for comment on the website, but she has not returned our phone calls.