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[KS-2] GOP candidate Watkins told voters he owned a company he built from scratch. He didn’t.
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Sep 26, 2018 12:01pm |
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| Author | indsay Wise, Kevin G. Hall And Hunter Woodall |
| News Date | Wednesday, September 26, 2018 05:10:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Congressional candidate Steve Watkins inflated his role as a defense contractor in the Middle East by telling voters he owned a company he built from scratch.
He didn’t.
“I got out of the military, started a small business and grew it from three people to 470 people. So I know what it’s like to have to sweat it and work to make payroll, to not take any salary so you can make ends meet,” the Kansas Republican told a Miami County GOP 2nd District Candidate Forum in March.
But records and interviews with company officials show that company existed years before he was hired on as a consultant, a Kansas City Star investigation has found. And Versar’s chief executive officer at the time gives credit for building VIAP to another person. |
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