The race for the District 24 state Senate seat is taking a lap through the courts as Guilford County Democrat J.D. Wooten sues Alamance County Republican Amy Galey over what he calls false accusations in campaign ads.

Fraud allegations that Wooten used a Veterans Administration-secured loan to buy an investment property made in Galey campaign materials this summer were false and distorted, according to the suit Wooten filed Sept. 14 in Guilford County, and include “demonstrably false, misleading, scurrilous, and defamatory statements” about his loan application when buying a house in 2019.