NC Tea Party candidate scrubs conspiracy website, then plagiarizes his positions on issues

A Republican Senate candidate from North Carolina appears to have plagiarized the “on the issues” section of his campaign site from Republican Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, and his “issue” posts on Facebook are near-direct copies of articles by scholars from the conservative think-tank the Cato Institute.

Dr. Greg Brannon, an obstetrician and former Tea Party activist, ran a conspiracy website that recently disappeared which argued, for example, that United States property taxes were akin to the Holocaust and the Russian gulags, and that massacre in Aurora, Colorado was a “false flag” operation designed to give psychiatrists the ability to drug and imprison Americans against their will.

Now, according to Buzzfeed, he is cribbing language from, among other sources, the website of Rep. Amash of Michigan. Although he is running to represent the people of North Carolina, he plagiarizes passages that refer specifically to the state of Michigan.

Buzzfeed contacted Brannon to ask him about this serial plagiarism, but Brannon’s spokespeople did not return the call.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/17/nc-tea-party-candidate-scrubs-conspiracy-website-then-plagiarizes-his-positions-on-issues/