Two staffers reportedly left Josh Mandel’s Ohio Senate campaign over a toxic work environment created by the campaign’s finance director.
Rachel Wilson berated her subordinates by cussing them out, calling them names, and demanding 12-hour workdays, according to a Tuesday article from the Columbus Dispatch, which cited sources close to the situation. Crying in the finance department was said to be a regular occurrence.
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Three fundraisers have left the campaign in recent months. At least two did so because of Wilson’s behavior.
“Working with Rachel, she very much created a traumatic and hostile work environment,” one person said.
Mandel’s campaign manager, Scott Guthrie, told the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau that Mandel and Wilson have been dating since August.
One source said both Guthrie and Mandel were aware of the behavior for weeks but didn’t end it. The outlet said it confirmed that detail after reviewing text messages exchanged among Mandel’s campaign staff.
“They’d go out in the hallway and scream at each other,” a source said of Wilson and Mandel.
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“This is a process question, and we don’t go into internal campaign processes,” Guthrie said in response to the allegations. “We wish them the very best.”
“They are both single adults and try their best to keep their private lives private,” he added.
The report said the Mandel campaign declined to discuss staff departures and allegations against Wilson. The report also noted Wilson and the three fundraisers who departed in the spring did not return requests for comment.
