Victoria Smith has left the Pat McCrory campaign.
Smith had been the campaign manager for the Republican gubernatorial candidate in his mayoral race and for the beginning of his first statewide campaign.
In a brief statement, McCrory credited her for "a successful kickoff, several very successful debates" and assembling "an excellent campaign team."
As a result, our campaign is ahead in the polls for the Republican Primary and in a dead heat for the general election in November with campaigns that have been operating for more than a year. A large part of the credit for this success goes to my campaign manager, Victoria Smith. After committing incredible energy to this campaign, she has decided to take a well deserved rest and leave the campaign.
Smith was best known for her insistence at McCrory's kickoff that a hacker had added a misspelling to a campaign press release.
Her resignation was effective this morning.
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Re: Smith leaves McCrory campaign
It is time the truth be told on the whole spelling error of Governor. New Way Media in Charlotte misspelled the word on the letterhead. They had the correct header given to them by the McCrory campaign but redesigned it because it would not fit onto their Wampower email system. New Way Media never honed up and took responsibility, they sat on this story like cowards letting an innocent woman take the blame for their blunder.
Victoria was never at fault - I, too, would have thought a hacker had done this if I had the correct printed version of the press release in my hands. There was no lying, there was no cover-up. It was a travesty that this false story perpetuated.