Johnson County auditor bullies employee about signing petition until she defecates on herself

The Gazette filed an open-records with Johnson County Attorney Janet Lyness for documents related to the nomination petition.

The petition and accompanying signatures were required for Slockett to be on the election ballot. Slockett included a checklist for employees to mark after they had seen it.

One employee wrote that, after the petition had gone around, Slockett went to the people who had not signed and asked them why and would they sign now. He said he would go to their homes to have them sign and “weren’t they his friend?”

According to the same email, Slockett “tried to bully” a woman into signing and the woman became so upset she “had a bout of diarrhea, was unable to make it to the restroom on time, and had to go home and change her clothes.”

That story was corroborated in interviews with other Auditor’s Office employees who spoke only on condition of anonymity because they feared retribution from Slockett, including loss of their jobs.