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brooklynite

(94,737 posts)
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 10:29 AM Sep 2019

"The Most Immoral, Unethical Thing I've Ever Seen In My 15 Years Of Politics"

Buzzfeed

Wayne Messam is best known, if you’ve heard of him at all, as the other mayor running for president — in his case, not quite as successfully as South Bend, Indiana’s mayor, Pete Buttigieg.

The mayor of Miramar, Florida, has not found much of an audience or appeared in any debates. He has raised a mere $93,812 and a small campaign staff. And now, according to internal campaign documents and interviews with eight former Messam campaign staffers and contractors, his campaign appears to be in near-total disarray.

The documents and staffers, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect future employment prospects, depicted a no-hope campaign that nonetheless was embroiled in bitter disputes over money and control — a “D-list version of The Sopranos,” in one description. In particular, staffers claim that Wayne and his wife, Angela Messam, have refused to pay them for their work. All of the staff members and vendors that BuzzFeed News spoke with said they were never fully compensated for their work on the campaign and, in some cases, weren’t paid at all for expenses they’d fronted from their own bank accounts, including business cards for the campaign and flights, hotel rooms, and security costs for a trip to the Middle East. In some instances, staffers were told by the Messams that the couple believed them to be “volunteering” for the campaign, despite emails from senior staff to the Messams telling them about start dates for employees, and what staffers say were verbal agreements and offer letters from the campaign for their positions.

“This is the most immoral, unethical thing I’ve ever seen in my 15 years of politics,” CeCe Grant, the former chief operations director for Messam’s campaign, told BuzzFeed News in an interview.


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"The Most Immoral, Unethical Thing I've Ever Seen In My 15 Years Of Politics" (Original Post) brooklynite Sep 2019 OP
Definitely not ready for prime time. Never was. calimary Sep 2019 #1
I wondered if his campaign might not be more than a grifting scam... guess we know. hlthe2b Sep 2019 #2
We know that someone read SCVDem Sep 2019 #3
A: Too big, too well connected, to jail. crazytown Sep 2019 #4
 

calimary

(81,500 posts)
1. Definitely not ready for prime time. Never was.
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 10:30 AM
Sep 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

hlthe2b

(102,376 posts)
2. I wondered if his campaign might not be more than a grifting scam... guess we know.
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 10:34 AM
Sep 2019
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

SCVDem

(5,103 posts)
3. We know that someone read
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 11:44 AM
Sep 2019

The art of the deal.

A con mans cookbook!

Why are more shoplifters behind bars than crooked politicians?

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

crazytown

(7,277 posts)
4. A: Too big, too well connected, to jail.
Fri Sep 6, 2019, 12:25 PM
Sep 2019
When you’ve got a government that works for the rich and it’s not working nearly as well for anyone else, that’s corruption, and we need to call it out plain and simple. Elizabeth Warren
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