Scandal Sends Wisconsin Democrats Into Freakout Mode

“Sara Rodriguez had a prime opportunity this past Saturday to show voters gathered for a gubernatorial candidate forum in Wisconsin’s rural Northwoods that she was the person who could unite Democrats, thwart a democratic socialist insurgency and deliver the party unified control of state government for the first time in a generation,” Politico reports.

”Except the lieutenant governor didn’t show up. Her reserved table sat empty, save for a lone campaign sign. She blamed the last-minute cancellation on a family emergency. But a day later, Rodriguez revealed she had just fired her campaign manager for overcounting donations by hundreds of thousands of dollars over multiple months.”

”After a weeklong scramble to unsuccessfully contain the financial and political damage she dropped out of the race on Friday, declaring in a video that her money issues were an ‘ongoing distraction’ and that she didn’t want it to ‘become a cloud over an election that Democrats need to win.'”

NOTUS: Wisconsin governor candidate drops out after reporting financial “inaccuracies.”