Rich McDaniel, former primary states regional director for the Hillary Clinton campaign and now former national organizing director for the Warren campaign, has been fired after a two week investigation by outside counsel into allegations of inappropriate conduct.
From Politico:
“Over the past two weeks, senior campaign leadership received multiple complaints regarding inappropriate behavior by Rich McDaniel,” campaign spokesperson Kristen Orthman said in a statement after an inquiry from POLITICO Friday morning. “Over the same time period, the campaign retained outside counsel to conduct an investigation. Based on the results of the investigation, the campaign determined that his reported conduct was inconsistent with its values and that he could not be a part of the campaign moving forward.”
There are no details here about the allegations, except that they are apparently NOT related to sexual assault. The investigation was conducted by attorney Kate Kimpel through the firm KK Advising.
With a lack of details, this dairy is a bit sparse at the moment, but wanted to create a place for discussion in case anyone finds further details. As you’ll find in the article, McDaniel gave a statement that, for his part, expressed no particular ill will for the campaign or his fellow staffers.
So I am just left wondering — what happened here? It seems like reasonable steps were followed, again given the very limited information given here.