A Vince Gray for Mayor campaign volunteer sent out e-mails to people fired by the Fenty administration asking for their stories, The Washington Examiner has learned.
One e-mail, obtained by The Examiner, says:
“The Vince Gray for Mayor Campaign has an URGENT REQUEST For: Are you or do you know any DC resident formerly employed by the DC government that was involuntarily terminated by the Fenty Administration? We would like you to please share your story with the Vince Gray for Mayor Campaign.”
The deadline for sending the campaign stories was Sunday (as in yesterday).
Gray spokeswoman Traci Hughes told The Examiner that the e-mail was sent out by a volunteer and it was not authorized by the campaign.
“We are not trying to identify people who have been fired by the Fenty Administration,” Hughes said. The Gray campaign, she said, has been inviting people who feel they wrongly fired by the Fenty administration to volunteer for Gray as a way to “channel their frustrations.”
Hughes said the Gray campaign is not planning to do a commercial featuring people fired by the Fenty administration.
