THIS IS THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE RUNNING AGAINST AYANNA PRESSLEY. 
MASSACHUSETTS WOULD BE ILL-SERVED WITH A COMBATIVE CANDIDATE SUCH AS THIS. 

HOW PATHETIC THAT THIS IS THE BEST THE MASS GOP CAN DO!

Dartmouth man says Republican Congressional candidate Rayla Campbell threatened him

By Tim Dunn

Posted Oct 19, 2020

NEW BEDFORD — Republican Congressional candidate Rayla Campbell is in more hot water this week after a police report was filed in Dartmouth by a Republican State Committee member alleging that she physically threatened him.

Running in the 7th Congressional District against incumbent Ayanna Pressley, Campbell has reportedly been asked to cease all activity and involvement with the Trump campaign by RNC National Committeeman from Massachusetts Ron Kaufman and Massachusetts for Trump 2020 Chairman Tom Hodgson, who also serves as Bristol County Sheriff.

Campbell made national headlines after she was involved in a physical altercation with two women following a pro-Trump rally in New Bedford on Oct. 12. A video recording showed Campbell actively engaging the two women after she claimed she was assaulted on social media.

Brock Cordeiro, Republican State Committeeman from the Second Bristol & Plymouth State Senate District, has filed a police report alleging that Campbell physically threatened him in a voicemail to MassGOP Vice-Chairman Tom Mountain. Cordeiro told the Standard-Times on Sunday that Campbell had been asked to step aside from any campaign activity.

“The national Trump campaign never recognized her in that position and she has been removed or has agreed to step back from any Trump campaign activity. Both the Sheriff and Ron Kaufman in their Trump Campaign capacities have spoke with her and it is clear that she should be separated from anything due to both her actions against me and at the New Bedford rally on Monday (Oct. 12),” Cordeiro, a Dartmouth resident, explained.

Cordeiro said Campbell began privately messaging him through Facebook on Oct. 18, demanding that he unblock her from the group he administers: Massachusetts For Trump 2020. The Facebook group serves as an online promotional and organizational tool for President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign in the Bay State.

“I had blocked her (from the group) several days prior to that because after being talked to twice by senior campaign leadership, she continued to post things of no relevance to the group. They were self-serving to her campaign or they were going off on tangents about the governor and masks and vaccines and the COVID polices. So, after rejecting dozens of her posts over many weeks or a month or so that the group has been up I blocked her,” Cordeiro explained, adding that Campbell became increasingly aggressive in her messages to him after he had denied her request to be unblocked.

“She didn’t seem to notice for a few days, until that Friday night when she started messaging me and she began to get a little more belligerent in her demands. I just made it clear that due to her actions and her attitude that she wasn’t going to be unblocked. She was getting worse and worse until I finally blocked her from following me,” he said.

Campbell didn’t stop there, according to Cordeiro, as he said she then called MassGOP Vice Chairman Tom Mountain, leaving him a voicemail where she physically threatened Cordeiro.

Campbell denied nearly all of Cordeiro’s allegations in a phone interview with The Standard-Times on Sunday, saying that she never made any threat toward Cordeiro, calling him a “misogynist pig.”

“I don’t know why he blocked me. I never got a full answer about that, considering he posts about himself all day long on the Trump page. He’s blocked many people that run our Back the Blue and Trump rallies without any inclination as to why,” she said.

“No, that is not accurate at all. I will not [confirm making threats in the voicemail],” Campbell adamantly said of the allegations, adding that she has not heard from Dartmouth Police regarding an investigation into the alleged threats.

The Standard-Times was provided a recording of the voicemail, which Mountain had played for Cordeiro, warning him that Campbell was “on the war path.”

“Hey Tom, it’s Rayla, we’ve got a big problem. Brock, who works with the sheriff, decided that it would be either funny or OK with him to block me from the Massachusetts for Trump 2020 page, which I need access to because I need to post, and also get all the event information. This needs to be fixed now because I will find out where this little mother***** lives and beat him a new a**hole,” Campbell can be heard saying in the voicemail.

Cordeiro cited the voicemail and the armed security that Campbell travels with for the reason he subsequently reported the incident to Dartmouth Police. Campbell said she travels with security because of multiple physical threats made against her on the campaign trail.

Just one day following Cordeiro’s police report, Campbell got involved in a physical altercation with two women in a parking lot following the Trump rally in New Bedford. Video of the incident shows Campbell exchanging blows with the two women, eventually bringing the brawl to the ground before bystanders broke it up.

Campbell also denied Cordeiro’s claim that RNC Committee leadership ordered her to cease any involvement with the campaign.

“I am still Black Voices for Trump [captain], so I don’t know where Brock is getting his information, considering I just did a Black Voices for Trump event in New Hampshire yesterday,” she said.

Cordeiro said that he was also informed of personal attacks Campbell made about him on a podcast with TurtleBoy Sports – a Massachusetts based blog covering the news and culture of the region – where she made fun of Cordeiro’s job working at the annual King Richard’s Faire and that he resides with his mother.

In the phone interview with The Standard-Times, Campbell went back to attacking Cordeiro for his employment with the Renaissance Faire held in Carver each year. She also went on to criticize his effectiveness as a Republican State Committee member.

“Doesn’t Brock work for King Richard’s Faire? And isn’t he a knight in King Richard’s Faire? I don’t know what his full-time job is but I do know that he’s a state committee member for the GOP and he should be trying to get Republicans elected instead of trying to sabotage them because his feelings are hurt because he’s misogynistic pig,” she said.

Hodgson has yet to respond to a request for comment by The Standard-Times. A report of the incident by Dartmouth Police is expected to be made available soon.