On Monday March 5, 6pm at the Irish Pub, the Atlantic City Democratic committee plans to vote & bring criminal complaints against Mayor Frank Gilliam for theft of a $10,000 donation. Democrats worry this is just the tip of the iceberg. Gilliam’s most immediate problems are not from Republicans, Pres Donald Trump or Gov Phil Murphy. They’re from within his own party.
InsiderNJ: At a campaign staff meeting the day after his primary victory, Gilliam lashed out at Councilman George Tibbitt, “The man was almost in tears,” AC Dem Committee Member Pam Fields said of Tibbitt.
Fields realized Gilliam had a problem. She suggested a solution: a campaign event where Gilliam would honor women who had served on the city council. Sheila Oliver would be the keynote speaker, and agreed to clear her schedule to attend. Gilliam would have none of it. He exploded, Fields said, demanding to know the benefit to him. “F—k Sheila Oliver,” Gilliam said. The event never happened.
From INSIDERNJ.com:
At the end of that night inside Mr. Steak on Atlantic Avenue the more than $5,000 raised was arrayed on a front table. A banner reading “Fundraising for Gilliam” hung across the front window, bracketed by posters of the smiling candidate.
Gilliam walked up to the front table. Next to him was Craig Callaway, a fellow Democrat, former councilman turned former inmate on bribery charges, now head of the campaign’s get out-the-vote effort. The two men were less than an arm’s length away from the table when, Callaway said, Gilliam’s hand went for the cash.
“He reached out to grab it,” Callaway said. “I’m like, ‘Frank, don’t touch that money.’” Callaway was briefly distracted by another conversation and stepped away from Gilliam. “I turn around – the money was gone.”
No one has turned on Gilliam more completely than the man who delivered him the mayor’s seat. Now, Craig Callaway laments galvanizing Atlantic City behind a man he has come to see as a dangerous charlatan.
“I’ve studied psychology,” Craig Callaway said, “and I’m saying to look at Frank’s characteristics. Frank has all the characteristics of a sociopath.”
“He’s bad, he’s a bad person,” Craig Callaway said. “Evil resides in his eyes and in his heart. Something is wrong with that guy.”
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