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TexasTowelie

(112,168 posts)
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 11:24 AM Mar 2017

Ex-aide calls cops on GOP candidate in Georgia special election

Tea party activist Amy Kremer’s bid for a suburban Atlanta congressional seat is in turmoil after her campaign manager and the rest of the staff resigned Friday because he said she can’t afford to pay her bills. Another ex-staffer who was staying at her home said he called the police to help him get his valuables out after she changed the locks.

Jack Melton said she has only raised about $2,500 and couldn’t pay him and at least a half-dozen other staffers who fanned out to homes across the district, which stretches from east Cobb to north DeKalb, pushing her campaign message.

“It’s very disappointing. It broke my heart,” said Melton. “We were doing great work. But you can only treat people like that for so long.”

Kremer spokeswoman Kathryn Serkes said Melton took “unauthorized liberties and conducted business in ways that Amy was not comfortable with,” forcing his departure. She described changing the locks at her home as part of routine “appropriate security measures after parting ways.

Read more: http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2017/03/17/tea-party-candidates-staff-resigns-in-georgia-special-election/

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Ex-aide calls cops on GOP candidate in Georgia special election (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2017 OP
Rats, I was hoping this was the GOP candidate Ilsa Mar 2017 #1
I'm sorry that the news was disappointing. TexasTowelie Mar 2017 #2

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
1. Rats, I was hoping this was the GOP candidate
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 11:28 AM
Mar 2017

that is leading among republicans. He's the one that ran the ad disparaging Ossoff as Han Solo.

TexasTowelie

(112,168 posts)
2. I'm sorry that the news was disappointing.
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 08:20 PM
Mar 2017

There is still time for any dirt about the leading GOP candidate to emerge.

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