Michelle Nunn, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Georgia, has claimed she wasn’t aware of two employment discrimination complaints lodged against an organization she was running.
But her own campaign previously highlighted the complaints as a potential vulnerability.
“I’m hearing this from you for the first time,” Nunn told a reporter for the Atlanta-based NBC affiliate WXIA 11 last week, when asked about the issue.
On page 55 of Nunn’s campaign memo that was leaked this past summer, the campaign listed “Records related to two EECO [sic] complaints identified by [campaign research firm] New Partners,” as a potential vulnerability for the candidate.
Now, unless Points of Light, the nonprofit Nunn was CEO of until recently, ran afoul of the Electrical Equipment Company, the Nunn campaign meant the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
If evidence of these complaints appears in her own campaign memo, how could Nunn not know about them?
Nunn’s communications director did not respond to a Washington Examiner inquiry prior to press time.
That’s what women supporters of Nunn’s opponent, Republican David Perdue, wanted to know when they wrote a letter to Nunn requesting she release the details of the complaints.
“The only way for Georgians to know the truth is for you to voluntarily release this information,” the letter said, as quoted by Savannah Morning News. “Why haven’t you done so already?”
Nunn told Atlanta news station WSB-TV 2 the EEOC found no issue with the complaints, which never resulted in lawsuits. Asked why she wouldn’t release the details of the complaints, Nunn dodged.
“There’s nothing to come clean on,” Nunn said. “There’s nothing to talk about there.”
Nunn indicated that the EEOC records were public, although since there were no lawsuits, the records can remain confidential. But if, as she asserts, there is nothing to come clean on, why not just release them?
