Tom Steyer aide stole Kamala Harris' SC volunteer data from 2020 presidential voter file

[PunkinPi]

COLUMBIA — A South Carolina aide for Tom Steyer’s 2020 presidential campaign stole valuable volunteer data collected by Kamala Harris’ campaign using an account from when he worked with the S.C. Democratic Party, according to multiple state and national party officials.

The Democratic National Committee quickly caught the attempt on Friday by Steyer’s deputy S.C. state director Dwane Sims to export Harris’ data, which contained thousands of volunteer contacts collected over the course of the campaign in this critical early-voting primary state.

The party sent a cease-and-desist letter and has since received certification from Sims that he destroyed the stolen data, S.C. Democratic Party chairman Trav Robertson told The Post and Courier. The Steyer campaign said it does not have possession of the data.

Sims was placed on administrative leave over the weekend while the Steyer campaign conducts an internal investigation, Steyer campaign spokesman Alberto Lammers said.

Sims also is permanently banned from the voter file and all Democratic Party systems, Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa said.

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[mcar]

1. What. The. Fck?

Steyer is a gazillionaire. He can afford to get his own damn data! This person should be charged with a crime.

[Deb]

2. I can't tell, was he fired?

[OnDoutside]

3. Time to find a new career....

[Cha]

4. What!? That stealing data is a BullShit Move..

and Definitely should Disqualify the hell out of him.

[PunkinPi]

7. 2016 redux.

[Cha]

8. You know

it!

[StevieM]

5. This is watered down version of what a Sanders staffer did in 2016.

And Steyer is handling it much better so far.

Ironically, that was the moment when the nonsense about the DNC trying to help Hillary win first began to take off. Their restrictions on Sanders, until he took the necessary steps to ensure that her data was not still possessed by him, led him to claim that there was some type of conspiracy.

Could you imagine if the roles had been reversed? If an HRC staffer had breached the firewall and downloaded Bernie's data? People would have openly called her a corrupt and terrible human being. In other words, they would have gone full Tulsi Gabbard on her.

Hillary, to her credit, was so fair with Bernie. She immediately accepted his guarantees that it was not deliberate on his part, and he knew nothing about his staffer's actions. O'Malley was so shocked by her graciousness at the debate that he couldn't quite process it, and delivered his pre-written line about "bickering." That pretty much finished him off.

[Andy823]

6. Sims should be fired

and Steyer should be questioned about what, if anything, he knew about it before it happened.

This is just completely uncalled for, and if Steyer knew, he should drop out now. I wonder if like when Bernie's guy did this, people will start getting calls and emails from the Steyer campaign?

[Me.]

9. Again, Again One Candidate's Staffer Steals Another Candidate's Data?

Just like 2016?

[MustLoveBeagles]

10. Not cool

He should be fired and Steyer should apologize to Kamala.

[mcar]

11. How is this getting no attention?

A billionaire white man has a staffer who steals data from the only WOC running and..meh?

The staffer needs to be charged and Steyer has lots of 'splaining to do. He also needs to offer an apology to Harris.

I'm reading on Twitter that Harris supporters suddenly are getting emails from Steyer's campaign. But, yes, let's believe that the data was destroyed.

[MustLoveBeagles]

13. I don't know. It should.

Bumping because it's important.

[dalton99a]

12. Eerie similarity

[BannonsLiver]

14. I forgot Steyer was even still in the race

Thanks for the unpleasant reminder.