IS TERRY POTTS A POT HEAD? LEAKED PHOTO HAS SANDY SHORES TALKING

The photo, taken from the yard outside a trailer window late Saturday evening by a passerby who asked not to be identified, shows a bald man in a dark suit and striped tie holding a lit joint. A glass bong, a bag of green buds, an open bag of chips and a pizza box sit on the coffee table in front of him. A cannabis plant can be seen growing under a lamp by the window.

"I was cutting through to the 24/7 and the blinds were wide open," the passerby told The Daily Assumption. "The smell hit me from the road. I looked in the window and there's Terry Potts, just grinning at the ceiling. I got my phone out as fast as I could. He looked right at the window at one point and I don't think he saw anything."

The image has since been shared several thousand times, with many residents pointing out that the candidate's name is, in fact, Potts.

Neighbors interviewed near the trailer on Sunday were largely unbothered. "Honestly, that's the most relaxed I've ever seen a politician," said longtime Sandy Shores resident Earl, who added that the smell had been coming from that end of the lot "all week." Another neighbor said she had seen a man in a suit carrying "a big glass thing" inside on Friday night but "figured it was for the campaign."

Potts, who is running on suspending the Jingoism Act and protecting what he calls the "reasonable expectation of privacy," has not addressed the photo publicly. Several residents told The Daily Assumption that his campaign slogan, "SA? Oh yes!", "makes a lot more sense now."

When reached for comment, a Potts campaign spokesperson said that "Terry does not use marijuana, that photo could be anyone, and a lot of men own that suit," before declining three follow-up questions and hanging up. The campaign did not say whose trailer it was or where Potts was on Saturday night.

The Daily Assumption has not independently verified the photo or when it was taken. The Daily Assumption will continue following this developing story.