is foot was heavy enough to get him clocked at nearly 20 mph over the speed limit. Heavy enough to generate 14 traffic cases across two states. And heavy enough, apparently, that when courts told him to show up and answer for it, he just... didn't.
Michael Whatley has made law and order a centerpiece of his U.S. Senate campaign, opening the general election flanked by police officers and promising to "put dangerous criminals behind bars," while dinging former Gov. Roy Cooper for pandemic-era prisoner releases.
But a review of public court records shows the former Republican National Committee Chairman repeatedly failed to appear in court for traffic cases, and in 2015, two orders for his arrest were issued as a result.
Those "orders for arrest" are what most people call bench warrants. Bench warrants are generally not an asset a candidate wants to carry into a tight Senate race.
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