Following up on mcjoan's diary from yesterday, the press secretary for Republican Cynthia Lummis has now left the campaign for calling up Gary Trauner's (D) news conference under a fake name, pretending to be a Trauner supporter.
The Lummis press secretary, Rachael Seidenschnur, is now gone. Adios. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Parts of the AP article after the fold.
Republican U.S. House candidate Cynthia Lummis said Wednesday that her press secretary was leaving her campaign after a report that the staffer called in to a rival's news conference and used a fake name to pose a question.
Lummis told The Associated Press that she did not ask Rachael Seidenschnur to call the news conference held Tuesday by Democratic opponent Gary Trauner and was not aware that Seidenschnur planned to do so.
Lummis said Wednesday that Seidenschnur had decided to leave the campaign.
"She is concerned that she doesn't want anything to reflect poorly on the campaign, and she has made the decision on her own volition to leave the campaign," Lummis said in a telephone interview.
And thus ends the Seidenschnur controversy.