CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp responded to accusations on Thursday, from the former treasurer of the American Conservative Union, which runs CPAC, over alleged money mismanagement accusations within the organization.
Schlapp denied accusations of financial mismanagement, and said he was experiencing a "political assassination attempt on every part of my character" after Bob Beauprez resigned as treasurer on Tuesday.
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“It's tragic that routine internal complaints of disgruntled employees are being rehashed and leaked to the paper of record of the Left," Schlapp tweeted Thursday. "The claims contained in the original email are out of context or are in error ... I've experienced a political assassination attempt on every part of my character and integrity for the past five months."
Schlapp also said he was "disgusted" that he was being asked to respond about "internal deliberations" of CPAC.
Beauprez claimed he was not "fully informed" of the organization's use of money for Schlapp's legal defense against a lawsuit accusing the chairman of sexual assault. A Republican staffer filed a lawsuit in January, accusing Schlapp of groping him on his way to a hotel while the pair were campaigning together for Senate hopeful Herschel Walker in Georgia last fall. Schlapp has denied the accusations.
The former treasurer told the ACU's board of directors that he felt he was "in the dark" when it comes to the union's finances, and what was being shelled out to cover his legal proceedings. The union did confirm that it paid Schlapp $50,000 so he could retain a lawyer immediately after the lawsuit was filed. But Beauprez also claimed he felt blindsided when Schlapp told him that he had raised another $270,000 from the ACU and its related foundation's donors.
A lawyer for the organization later told Beauprez in February that the $270,000 was already invoiced or dispersed, according to New York Magazine.
“I cannot deliver a financial report at the upcoming board meeting with any confidence in the accuracy of the numbers,” Beauprez wrote in a letter to the union's board. “I have to admit that I feel like I’m in the dark. I have received no further information about what additional costs have accrued since then … I assume any monies paid are either coming from Matt personally or from ACU/F. But, again, I don’t know, and it is most unsettling.”
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Beauprez concluded that he had to resign because he felt he could no longer honestly represent the union to donors, and linked it with the sentiment that a "cancer" had been growing inside the union for years.
“A cancer has been metastasizing within the organization for years,” Beauprez wrote. “It must be diagnosed, treated, and cured, or it will destroy ACU/F. You simply cannot survive like this.”