Mysterious Website Probes Shannon Royer's Past

Things are getting interesting in Chester County's 156th State House race.  Shannon Royer is running against Barbara McIlvaine Smith and persistent questions about Royer's fitness for office keep popping up.  They keep popping up on a mysterious anonymous website.  It seems Mr. Royer was involved in an auto accident in December 1994 with his then-fiance Allison Bell.  The website claims the circumstances of the accident were covered up for political reasons and Royer was complicit.

The people behind the website are remaining anonymous but claim to be Republicans opposed to this man.  Their inside knowledge of the Chester County GOP seems to make me believe that claim.  It's unusual to air dirty political laundry in public this way so they must fervently believe Royer is unfit for public office.  They claim he's another Thomas Druce in-the-making.

Here's an excerpt:

But failure to maintain a driver’s license and insurance on his car are the least of Royer’s problems. What has him and the West Chester Police Department frothing is the allegation that his fiancee, Allison Bell, was actually the driver and that police allowed them to switch because Bell, a candidate for Chester County prothonotary, was drunk.

Do we want to send somebody that is "character challenged" - regardless of his party affiliation - to Harrisburg to be our representative in the PA House?

The website deals with the questions surrounding the incident in detail.  They raise many questions about how the GOP has run Chester County for decades and covered up this affair.  Basically there are only two possible explanations for what happened that night in 1994:

Shannon Royer had an accident while driving with a suspended drivers license and no insurance...OR

Shannon Royer was a passenger in a car driven by drunk candidate Allison Bell and lied to the police to protect her during her run for Prothonotary.

Either way RoyerWatch.org is correct:  he isn't fit to represent the 156th in Harrisburg.

Barbara McIlvaine Smith is.

Comments

[M.L. Bell]

Ok. Let us see if the party
of the left can stand some truth. The young man that blew through a stop sign and broadsided the vehicle was never tested for blood alcohol. The young man that could have killed the couple was at fault. Photos of the seat belt injury to the chest of the female in the vehicle hit broadside was part of the investigation. The operator of the website slandering this couple and the entire family is the candidate rejected by the party as being a jobless individual that made a poor impression on everyone. Apparently he is still unemployed and living on the internet. His
name is O'Brien and he is a Democrats dream come true. He is willing to spew lies and trash someone because he lost his only prospect at a job.

[John Morgan]

My reading of the material at the website includes several allegations that police did a major coverup of the accident and most everything related to that event. That they also failed to test the other driver isn't germane to the arguments raised.
If Royer said he was driving when he wasn't that's fraud. If he said he was driving when his license was suspended and he had no insurance that's negligence. Either way he was highly irresponsible. Those are major points made on the website.
Why don't you stick to the facts the website cites instead of making personal attacks at who you think is behind it. You offer no proof whatsoever other than gossip and innuendo.

[ML Bell]

I saw the file John. I saw the vehicle and read the reports. Rumor and innuendo seem to be the Democrat get out the vote mantra. I know the facts.
The accident was caused by a driver blowing through a stop sign and broadsiding another vehicle. What part of that fact do you not understand? The website has many things that are lies. They are rumor. Thank God more than a few people downloaded that crap for future use.

[John Morgan]

Part of the allegations are that the police covered up the incident in their files, so saying you saw the file doesn't convince me of much.
Are you, perchance, related to Allison Bell?
Perhaps all this would have been avoided if the mystery surrounding the incident hadn't been created by the police.
I'm not disputing whether some asshole ran a stop sign. The issues involved here are whether Bell was driving drunk or whether Royer was driving on a suspended license. The other driver isn't pertinent to these issues.
What part of that don't you understand? I notice you haven't addressed these matters which are the issue at hand.