Career Politician Charles Taylor Gets Ahead. You Get Left Behind.

Cartoon of Charles Taylor speeding A cartoon of Charles Taylor wedged into a small red convertible with a gold slot machine riding in the open trunk, speeding past a speed limit 55 sign and tossing tickets over his shoulder. Each ticket names something from his record: 20 years in politics, former lobbyist, bought and paid for by special interests, data center donations, nearly $400,000 in gambling dark money, 15 traffic tickets, and passing a stopped school bus. SPEED LIMIT 55 TICKET20 yearsin politics TICKETFormerlobbyist TICKETBought and paidfor by specialinterests TICKETData centerdonations TICKETNearly $400,000in gamblingdark money TICKET15 traffictickets TICKETPassing a stoppedschool bus JACKPOT777TAYLOR-MADEfor special interests

Breaking News Charles Taylor Is Running for State House. His Building Is Running 22 Illegal Slot Machines —just a half mile from a middle school

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Charles Taylor owns a building running 22 illegal slot machines, just a half mile from a Lee County middle school.1

A reporter for The Assembly walked right in and counted them: Las Vegas-style slot games. Feed in cash, and the staff pays you out. The sign out front has a gun on it.

In North Carolina, only tribal casinos can run machines like these. Anywhere else, operating five or more is a felony. Taylor’s building has 22.

The law doesn’t stop at whoever runs them. It is illegal to allow them to be operated. Taylor is the landlord, and he still hasn’t said what he knew.

While our kids are in the classroom, illegal gambling is happening just down the road.

Sources The Assembly, 10/11/26; The Rant, 10/12/26; N.C. General Statutes 14-306.1A and 14-309; Lee County deed records.

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The law said disclose it. Taylor hid it. Now he faces a state ethics complaint.2

Candidates have to tell the state what property they own. Taylor left off the gambling building. He left off two houses he has owned since 2013. And the complaint says he left off two companies he set up last December.

His excuse? The sale closed on December 31. The form covers December 31. And the houses he has owned for 13 years? He called that “technical issues.”

Knowingly hiding property on that form is a crime in North Carolina. Now Charles Taylor wants to go to Raleigh to write our laws.

Sources The Rant, 10/12/26; The Assembly, 10/11/26; N.C. State Ethics Commission; Greene County deed records; N.C. General Statutes 138A-24 and 138A-26.

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Taylor’s backed by nearly $400,000 in dark money from groups that want to expand gambling in the state.3

The Assembly reports that a political group “entirely funded by sports-gambling interests” spent heavily to help Taylor win his primary.

Sources N.C. State Board of Elections; The Assembly, 8/14/26.

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Charles Taylor began his career as a lobbyist and then spent 20 years in politics.4

He says so himself. Taylor lists “lobbyist” among his past jobs, and he has held a seat on the Sanford City Council since 2007.

Sources The Rant, 2/9/26.

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Taylor’s backed by thousands in campaign donations from the data center industry, which stands to make millions off building more data centers in our community.5

The man who runs the company behind a huge data center planned in Chatham County gave Taylor $6,800, the most the law allows.

When the county put a pause on new data centers, the company sued.

Sources N.C. State Board of Elections; Business NC, 4/27/26; News & Observer, 4/27/26.

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Taylor’s racked up 15 tickets, including one for passing a stopped school bus.6

Court records from across North Carolina show it:

  • 1 for failing to stop for a stopped school bus
  • 1 for reckless driving
  • 7 for speeding
  • 4 for not wearing a seatbelt
  • 2 for expired or missing registration

See the school bus case · See all the court records

Sources N.C. court records.

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Nearly half of Taylor's campaign contributions come from developers and real estate interests.7

His own campaign reports show about $31,000 of the $65,000 he raised through June came from real estate and development donors.

Sources N.C. State Board of Elections.

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Taylor paid his property taxes late ten years in a row.8

County records show Taylor was late on a property tax bill every year from 2015 through 2024. Eighteen times, the county had to garnish his pay or his bank account to collect.

The first year he paid on time was 2025, months before he filed to run for the House.

Sources Lee County tax records for his warehouse, lot and boats; Lee County Tax Administration.

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