Former Texas governor Rick Perry has stopped paying his campaign staff in South Carolina.
“Everybody that’s working last week is on board this week,” said Katon Dawson, Perry’s South Carolina state chairman, who confirmed that payments have been halted. “The financial questions will be up later. Right now, we’re working in a volunteer capacity, proud to be doing it. Our field staff is working today, I just met with them an hour ago.”
Dawson, who has worked in South Carolina politics for 40 years he says, and two political consultants in the state have been moved to a volunteer basis, which Dawson says they are “happy to do so.”