Rep. Michele Bachmann’s former New Hampshire staffers issued a statement Monday that accused her top campaign aides of being “rude, unprofessional, dishonest, and at times cruel.”
In the wake of last week’s news that the entire New Hampshire staff had quit en masse, former New Hampshire campaign manager Jeff Chidester confirmed in an e-mail Monday that the statement was sent on behalf of five staffers. The statement notes that the staffers harbored no ill will toward Bachmann, R-Minn., but said she was “sequestered behind a wall of pretense, guarded by political operatives consumed by their own egos.”
Bachmann’s national campaign on Monday said the statement should be ignored because it was issued by someone never formally employed by the campaign, Karen Testerman, who ran for governor in New Hampshire last year. Testerman said she was asked by the national campaign last Thursday to get ready to file papers with the secretary of state for Bachmann to appear on the New Hampshire ballot.
