Matt Schlapp has been described as a cancer in a resignation letter from the organization treasurer behind CPAC, as stories of mismanagement of money and people emerge.
The Post reported in February that more than half of the organization’s staff had left since 2021. Beauprez said Schlapp had established a pattern of slandering people who were leaving, even when he was responsible for hiring and departing them. promotion. Several staff members were taken to therapy and medication in a stressed workplace with “major deficiencies” in management, Beauprez said.
An employee became so upset that she left a group dinner and was found by colleagues wandering aimlessly in the streets, according to the letter. Several people present during this incident confirmed the account to The Post.
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Beauprez’s letter also detailed several instances in which he alleged the organization failed to uphold its bylaws. Specifically, he said, the board’s executive committee approved Schlapp’s salary, but neither the committee nor the board ever saw a formal contract, as required by the bylaws. Schlapp, whose position as chairman is traditionally unpaid, began receiving annual compensation of $600,000 in mid-2022 as his lobbying income dwindled, according to public records and people familiar with finance. organisation.
If stories of financial mismanagement and the mistreatment of people sound familiar, they should. The Union of American Conservatives under Schlapp closely resembles the NRA under Wayne LaPierre.
It turns out that when the Tories talk about draining the swamp, what they really mean is lining their pockets with donor money.. Schlapp is facing a battery lawsuit for his alleged sexual assault of a Herschel Walker campaign staffer where he touched him sexually in an unwanted way.
Trumpism is corruption, and the ACU better get rid of Schlapp or face eventual extinction.
Jason is the editor. He is also a member of the White House press pool and a congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in political science. His graduate studies focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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