A former government aide to Mayor Brandon Johnson who’s been listed as his campaign fund’s treasurer for several years is now telling state elections regulators that she hasn’t been in that role for a long while and should not be listed on paperwork.

A Johnson campaign aide insists that it’s all a misunderstanding and that Lisa Schrantz indeed has been serving as Friends of Brandon Johnson’s treasurer, but simply wasn’t involved in the “day-to-day” operations which an outside company has been handling.

“The campaign was not sitting for two years without a treasurer,” says Johnson’s campaign aide, Christian Perry, saying Schrantz “misspoke” in a recent letter to the Illinois State Board of Elections in which she wrote:

“I have not been involved with the financial dealings of this committ

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