DEMOCRATS’ LAST-MINUTE HOAX FALLS APART: BLOOMBERG LAW RAN A BASELESS LAWSUIT STORY WITH 20 MINUTES’ NOTICE
On the eve of Election Day, Bloomberg Law published a story on a lawsuit filed October 30 by 12 canvassers who claim they were mistreated while working on the race. Lawler for Congress never hired, employed, or paid any of the plaintiffs. They worked for subcontractors of America PAC, an outside super PAC that federal law bars the campaign from coordinating with.
Bloomberg Law asked the campaign for comment at 1:04 PM today and published roughly 20 minutes later, before the campaign could respond. The campaign answered at 1:24 PM and again at 1:43 PM, asking to speak with the reporter and an editor, and heard nothing back for more than an hour. The campaign has not been served with the 53-page complaint. Every dollar Lawler for Congress has spent is public in its FEC filings, and none of it went to these plaintiffs.
The campaign has demanded a retraction and an apology. Bloomberg refused.
“Democrats spent a week shopping this hoax around, and Bloomberg Law was the only outlet willing to run it the day before the election,” said Lawler for Congress campaign manager Ciro Riccardi. “Twenty minutes to answer a 53-page lawsuit we had never seen, about people we never hired, is not journalism. A two-minute search of FEC records would have killed this story. Bloomberg Law’s complete unprofessionalism is disappointing. Cait Conley and her allies are desperate, and voters will see this for exactly what it is tomorrow.”
The story is under a pay wall but here is the link, https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/canvassers-sue-mike-lawler-for-unpaid-wages-discrimination