This Bice - Neese runoff sure is a weird one. In one corner, you have a candidate hiding from her ethnic ancestry. In the other, you have a candidate lying about it!
Over the weekend, KFOR reported that Terry Neese has played up her Native American ancestry throughout her long career, despite the fact she's not technically a Native American.
KFOR's Peyton Yager has the details:
Republican politician Terry Neese has previously stated she has “deep roots in the Cherokee Nation,” but her campaign team admitted on Friday that Neese isn’t Cherokee Indian after KFOR set out to investigate [...]
The Cherokee Nation’s Communications Department provided KFOR the following statement:“We do not have any Cherokee Nation citizens by those names and DOB in our registration database.”