A man who stands accused of killing his wife as she was battling cancer won the Republican for his district while sitting in jail and will appear on the November ballot if he is not convicted before then.
Andrew Wilhoite is charged with the March killing of his wife, Elizabeth “Nikki” Wilhoite, who had recently completed her final chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer and was looking to divorce him after catching being unfaithful to their marriage.
The couple got into a fight in late March, during which Andrew is accused of striking her in the head with a concrete flower pot, which killed her. He then is alleged to have placed her body in his car and dumped it in a nearby creek.
Andrew initially lied to police about his whereabouts at the time of her death, but later admitted that he indeed killed her. He has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond. If convicted, he could be facing life in prison or even the death penalty.
On Tuesday, he won a Republican primary for one of the Clinton Township Board seats, three of which are vacated. Wilhoite received 60 votes and two other Republicans each received over 100 votes for the two other seats. There are currently no Democratic candidates to run against him, but non-Republican candidates can still make the ballot.
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There’s got to be something missing from this story….
There were three vacancies on the board and only three candidates total. The instructions on the ballot were to vote for three. Of course he “won”. Nothing mindblowing about it.
why do we have to know this
Riverdale2 is right. For one thing, in which state is this particular “Clinton Township”? If it ain’t in a state with at least a minimal Jewish population, YWN should not care or publish the story. Lots of screwy things like this happen in small towns. According to Wikipedia, there are 8 states with more than one Clinton Township, 2 of which are in New Jersey, 5 in Pennsylvania, 8 in Indiana, which of course is World Jewish Headquarters.
Sadly the GOP has become a party of MAGA lunatics. Nothing matters besides loyalty to the dear leader.
1) who would vote for such a guy (60 votes!)
It’s not called winning if he got the fewest out of all three with 3 vacancies
It shows living in a democracy doesn’t help since no one knows anything about the candidates or even who their elected officials are.
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Clickbait. It doesn’t even say what state this is in. I wish I hadn’t been tempted to click on this. What an embarrassment.
“why do we have to know this??”
To understand that the the local Republican party had sufficient time to remove him from the primary ballot but chose not to, in case he was acquitted using the old “she deserved what she got” defense. We used to say “you cant believe this stuff”. but sadly, misogyny has become a norm on the far right.
So let me get this straight he got SIXTY (60) votes in a town that none of us have ever heard of for a small, local board seat in an election that seemingly only had 3 candidates and in which he came in last and this is supposed to be “mind-blowing”. It’s barely even a man bites dog story – he was all but guaranteed to win given that there were only three candidates and three vacancies.
He should get a fair trial and if convicted be properly punished (and lose his seat) and the rest of us can safely move on with our lives with our minds NOT blown.
P.S. @Gadalhadorah — you can’t remove someone from the primary ballot if they have lawfully met all the criteria to run. There are laws governing these things — it’s not solely an internal, party affair.
Sounds like the neo-nazi who “won” a Republican primary for a solidly Democrat congressional seat in Illinois, simply by being the only person who bothered filing. The Republicans had decided not to waste time, energy, and money contesting this seat, but legally there was a vacancy and this guy filed, so he automatically “won” it, and liars like Huju immediately started accusing the GOP of tolerating nazis. There was nothing the GOP could have done to stop him; if they’d known he was filing they could have had someone else file as well, but they had no way of knowing that.
In any case, what’s the big deal? If he’s acquitted he can serve, and if he’s not then there will be a vacancy.