American Greatness has the update:
More Trouble For Josh Mandel:
Fundraising Staff Quits Over “Toxic Environment”
Created By Staffer Mandel Is Dating
As the Republican senate primary in
Ohio heats up, there’s more trouble for candidate Josh Mandel. Several women
working on his campaign fundraising team have quit citing a “toxic environment”
created by the fundraising director Rachel Wilson. Campaign manager, Scott
Guthrie, says that the Mandel and Wilson have been dating since August, 2020.
Mandel is still fielding awkward
questions arising from a messy divorce last year. The divorce was settled some
time in 2020 (Mandel
had the record sealed by the court) so it’s unclear if Mandel was dating Wilson
while he was still married to his former wife, Ilana Shafran Mandel. Either
way, women on his finance staff say that working for his girlfriend was
untenable.
. . .
The report concludes:
Mandel’s base of support has been
with social conservatives especially in northeast Ohio around Cleveland. Many
have already had enough and have aligned with other candidates. The combination
of a rolling series of personal problems – many believe that the problems that
led to his divorce were behind him dropping out of the senate race in 2018 –
and fundraising staff leaving en masse only complicate matters for Mandel in a
competitive race.
Full report is here.
This blog has previously posted on Mr. Mandel and candidates Jane Timken and Mike Gibbons, here, here, and here.
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