By Brandon Hall
(Email Him At WestMIPolitics@Gmail.com)
It becomes more apparent everyday that Dana Nessel is not mentally stable enough to be Michigan's Attorney General. The woman is nuts.
After multiple staffers accused her of running an "abusive" and "toxic" campaign where they were subjected to brutal verbal abuse, now a former fundraiser has come forward, revealing Nessel threatened her with a PPO just for contacting her a couple times!
Yikes.
That's why Nessel has already shuffled through 10 different campaign managers and spokesmen.
For the record, if she indeed did have a penis (she promotes the fact she evidently does not have one as a reason to vote for her) the media would be MUCH tougher on her erratic and unstable behavior! Imagine how her opponent, Speaker Tom Leonard, would be treated if he did these things?!
According to Kyle Melinn and MIRS:
"Democratic Attorney General nominee Dana NESSEL threatened one of her former fundraisers, who is now advocating for independent candidate Chris GRAVELINE, with a personal protection order (PPO) if she did not stop contacting her on her personal email and phone.
Maggie LOURDES, a Plymouth-based attorney, said she emailed Nessel twice to encourage her to debate Graveline before the Nov. 6 general election when she received a response Sunday morning reading, "I am kindly asking you to cease and desist contacting me via my personal email and phone. I no longer wish to have contact with you at this juncture.
". . . I am asking you not to send messages to my personal accounts at this point. I believe the intent is to harass, annoy and other such conduct prohibited by the stalking laws in Michigan.
"If any candidate for office wishes to convey a particular sentiment related to the AG race, a formal representative of that candidate can contact my campaign in their official capacity, but I am requesting that you no longer contact me directly.
"If you choose not to abide by my request, I will seek a Personal Protective Order in the Wayne County Circuit Court," Nessel wrote from her campaign email address.
Nessel campaign did not respond to a question from MIRS as to what spurred this response to Lourdes and if the former staffer's description was accurate.
Lourdes wrote on the Facebook page of Republican Attorney General nominee Tom LEONARD on Sunday that "Dangerous Dana" had blocked her from her campaign Twitter and Facebook page. She then noted the PPO threat.
"I am starting to think maybe this woman isn't fit to be Michigan's top cop," Lourdes wrote. "Seems a bit heavy handed and maybe even 'abusive, crazy, chaotic and toxic.'"
The reference is to last month's MIRS article about Nessel going through at least 20 campaign staffers during her campaign. The article quoted from four former staffers - two on the record - about the campaign's allegedly toxic environment (See "Nessel, 4th Campaign Manager Part Ways Amid 'Toxic' Work Environmental Claims," 9/14/18).
Lourdes was paid by the campaign $3,000 a month from January-April of earlier this year, according to campaign finance records. MIRS also found record of a Traverse City fundraiser for Nessel that Lourdes organized. Contacted today, Lourdes declined to talk about her time with the campaign.
She did tell MIRS she's never been involved with a campaign before the Nessel campaign and likely will not get involved again after the Graveline campaign is over. Lourdes said she's been an attorney for the last 20 years and an adjunct professor.
"This is a grossly disqualifying display of an abusive temperament," she wrote in an email to MIRS about the email she received Sunday."
". . . I am asking you not to send messages to my personal accounts at this point. I believe the intent is to harass, annoy and other such conduct prohibited by the stalking laws in Michigan.
"If any candidate for office wishes to convey a particular sentiment related to the AG race, a formal representative of that candidate can contact my campaign in their official capacity, but I am requesting that you no longer contact me directly.
"If you choose not to abide by my request, I will seek a Personal Protective Order in the Wayne County Circuit Court," Nessel wrote from her campaign email address.
Nessel campaign did not respond to a question from MIRS as to what spurred this response to Lourdes and if the former staffer's description was accurate.
Lourdes wrote on the Facebook page of Republican Attorney General nominee Tom LEONARD on Sunday that "Dangerous Dana" had blocked her from her campaign Twitter and Facebook page. She then noted the PPO threat.
"I am starting to think maybe this woman isn't fit to be Michigan's top cop," Lourdes wrote. "Seems a bit heavy handed and maybe even 'abusive, crazy, chaotic and toxic.'"
The reference is to last month's MIRS article about Nessel going through at least 20 campaign staffers during her campaign. The article quoted from four former staffers - two on the record - about the campaign's allegedly toxic environment (See "Nessel, 4th Campaign Manager Part Ways Amid 'Toxic' Work Environmental Claims," 9/14/18).
Lourdes was paid by the campaign $3,000 a month from January-April of earlier this year, according to campaign finance records. MIRS also found record of a Traverse City fundraiser for Nessel that Lourdes organized. Contacted today, Lourdes declined to talk about her time with the campaign.
She did tell MIRS she's never been involved with a campaign before the Nessel campaign and likely will not get involved again after the Graveline campaign is over. Lourdes said she's been an attorney for the last 20 years and an adjunct professor.
"This is a grossly disqualifying display of an abusive temperament," she wrote in an email to MIRS about the email she received Sunday."
Dangerous Dana UNHINGED: Nasty Nessel Can't Keep Campaign Staffers Because She Keeps Abusing Them!
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Brandon Hall is a lifelong political nerd from Grand Haven, and is the Managing Editor of West Michigan Politics.
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