Viral El-Sayed heckler unmasked as son of GOP operative paid $250K to oppose him: report

The man who tried to ambush Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed with a question about the Muslim Brotherhood is the son of a longtime Republican operative whose firm was recently paid $250,000 to campaign against him. The Handbasket first identified the questioner as Thomas “Tommy” Teepell, and The Guardian followed up that reporting by…