DNC Milwaukee 2020 Host Committee Mess

Democrat corruption, chaos, and incompetence.

BREAKING: The chief of staff for the DNC 2020 host committee has been put on administrative leave and the committee's president has been told to stay away from the office and staff amid allegations of a toxic work environment: https://t.co/B9ZLty1Ueg via @journalsentinel

— Daniel Bice (@DanielBice) February 4, 2020

From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

The two top officials overseeing Milwaukee's host committee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention were sidelined Monday amid allegations of a toxic work culture.

In a letter to staff obtained by the Journal Sentinel, the board said it had retained an attorney to investigate "concerns about the work environment" for the Milwaukee 2020 Host Committee.

During the investigation, Liz Gilbert, president of the host committee, will not be in the office and "will not have direct contact with staff," the letter says. Adam Alonso, the chief of staff for the group, has been placed on administrative leave, pending the outcome of the probe.

Both will be paid as the investigation moves forward. The letter gives no timeline when Carmen N. Decot, a partner with Foley & Lardner, will finish her probe.

The abrupt move comes less than six months before the start of the Democratic National Convention. The host committee — the civic, nonpartisan arm of the convention — is responsible for raising $70 million to stage the July event at Fiserv Forum and recruit some 15,000 volunteers.

"We are committed to an inclusive, non-discriminatory, and supportive environment at the host committee and we will work to ensure that all employees live up to these ideals," the board said in its letter.

...In interviews with the Journal Sentinel over the weekend, two experienced political hands who have worked with the host committee described it as having a toxic culture rife with power struggles, backbiting and mismanagement.

They accused the top two officials, Gilbert and Alonso, of giving contracts to their friends in New Jersey, calling meetings and then failing to attend them and being more focused on accumulating power than promoting Milwaukee.

A New Jersey firm with strong ties to the New Jersey Democratic Party, for instance, developed the website for the host committee and manages its email platform. Both Gilbert and Alonso are top-ranking Democratic operatives in that state.

These assertions come at the same time that Alonso is being accused in his home state of New Jersey of shaking down campaign contributors for his personal consulting business.

This is hilarious.

Democrat corruption, chaos, and incompetence.

This story comes in the wake of the Democrats' Iowa Caucus debacle.

Democrat corruption, chaos, and incompetence.

Please, take my money and my freedom.

Manage my health care. Manage my life.

No.

Democrat corruption, chaos, and incompetence.