Democratic state Senate candidate J.D. Wooten is being questioned about his connection to a convicted drug dealer, Aqib Khan Malik. | Adobe Stock
Democratic state Senate candidate J.D. Wooten is being questioned about his connection to a convicted drug dealer, Aqib Khan Malik. | Adobe Stock
Two Greensboro properties owned by a state Senate candidate were rented to a criminal.
Earlier in October, WXII reported that Democrat J.D. Wooten had a connection to a four-time convicted drug dealer, Aqib Khan Malik.
Malik was arrested for dealing drugs from a house Wooten owned on Wilson Street last June, the Carolina Journal reported. The following month, Malik moved to Wooten’s Lindell Road property just two miles away.
“J.D. Wooten doesn’t care about his neighbors, keeping our community safe, or supporting law enforcement,” Alamance County Commissioner Amy Galey said, the Carolina Journal reported. “If he did, why did he rent his two houses to the same drug dealer? J.D. owes the voters a full account about his relationship with Aqib Khan Malik and an explanation of why he rented him both of his homes.”
Galey, a Republican, and Wooten are both seeking the District 24 state Senate seat.
In response, Wooten attacked Galey and Triad television station WXII for the reports. He accused Galey of campaign law violations and defamation.
“Amy Galey is already being sued for defamation and violations of North Carolina election laws for her vicious lies attacking an Air Force veteran. Her new attack is just more from a campaign that is desperate to distract from her record.” Wooten campaign manager David Lamando said, the Carolina Journal reported. “Her latest defamatory lies dragging a private citizen into her gutter politics are a shameful, racist dog-whistle. Amy Galey’s despicable conduct reveals she is unfit for public office at any level, and the voters of this district and North Carolina deserve better.”
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