Gingrich Slams Ex-Staffers

Newt Gingrich told a Gainesville radio station this morning that staffers in his Georgia office had been neglecting their responsibilities for "at least a month" before resigning, in one instance disrupting cash flow to his campaign. Jim Galloway reports:

Said Gingrich: "At least in the case of Georgia, we discovered that they hadn’t been doing their job in at least a month. … As we began to get ready for some events in Atlanta, we discovered last night there were $13,000 in checks that were just sitting in a drawer that nobody processed. To have people that I had trusted, I’d known for years, fail that deeply was very sad."

Scott Rials is the veteran GOP political consultant who was in charge of that office. He gives Gingrich credit for giving him his start in politics.

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Scott Rials is the veteran GOP political consultant who was in charge of that office. He gives Gingrich credit for giving him his start in politics.

Said Rials: “I’m saddened by where this is going. Our staff did everything they could under trying circumstances. They looked after every check – because there were very few checks. All properly vetted checks were sent to Washington D.C.”

Federal campaigns will return a check to a candidate that is written on a corporate account rather than a personal one, or is beyond the allowed cap on contributions.

In the week since Newt parted ways with the bulk of his staff, there's been a steady stream of reports about campaign screw-ups by Gingrich and his wife, Callista. Now, Gingrich and his loyalists are taking their turn at feeding the story.