Senior campaign staffers who worked for Michelle Bachmann in the 2012
race say that she's refused to pay them unless they sign an NDA
promising not to disclose any criminal and unethical activity they
witnessed on the campaign. Now it seems that some are fed up with
dickering with Bachmann for what they're owed, and are just going to the
feds with their tales of corruption and crime:
[Peter Waldron, a widely known evangelist enlisted by the Bachmann
campaign for outreach to Christian conservatives], formerly Bachmann's
national field coordinator, is accusing the campaign of improperly
dipping into money from MichelePAC to pay longtime fundraising
consultant Guy Short for presidential campaign work he performed in the
critical final weeks ahead of Iowa's caucuses last year.
Waldron also alleges that the campaign concealed payments to Iowa state
campaign chairman Kent Sorenson, a state senator who abruptly left the
Bachmann camp to join then-U.S. Rep. Ron Paul's insurgent campaign.
Under Iowa Senate rules, Waldron maintains, Sorenson could not perform
paid work for a presidential campaign.
...One of those involved in the payment dispute is Barbara Heki, who
sued the campaign last year over the use of a database listing the names
and e-mail addresses of thousands of Christian home-school families.
Although the campaign eventually agreed to pay $2,000 for the list, the
lawsuit continues, as does a separate criminal investigation.
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