A day after Bill Richardson announced that he would expand his campaign in Nevada to fill the vacuum left by the retreating John Edwards, one of the governor’s top organizers in that state resigned today when the campaign learned he was a wanted man and had worked for a brothel.
“We did not know about all of this,” Richardson’s spokesman in Nevada, Josh McNeil, told the Associated Press. “We accepted his resignation today.”
Kristian Forland, until today, was the campaign’s eastern Nevada field director, the news service reported. He is wanted in Los Angeles for failing to appear in court on four felony counts of writing bad checks. He was also arrested twice – last month and last year – on bad-check charges in Las Vegas.
The Associated Press said it’s not clear if the Las Vegas cases have been resolved.
In addition, he was investigated by police in Elko, Nev., after working at a legal brothel that was accused of shorting women on their pay, the news service reported. He was never charged in that case.
The campaign hired Forland earlier this month to help Richardson compete in rural Nevada, which is a GOP stronghold. According to the news service, he was vice chairman of the Elko County Democratic Party before taking the job with Richardson’s campaign.
A day after Bill Richardson announced that he would expand his campaign in Nevada to fill the vacuum left by the retreating John Edwards, one of the governor’s top organizers in that state resigned today when the campaign learned he was a wanted man and had worked for a brothel.