Harris' testimony also came after his attorneys were scolded Thursday for not producing, in a timely enough manner, a text message between himself and Warren asking her to connect him with a man that ran an absentee ballot program that "could have put me in the US House this term, had I known, and he had been helping us." That man would turn out to be Dowless. "The timing of your disclosure raises significant and material concerns regarding the Committee's compliance and candor prior to, and now during, the hearing," Josh Lawson, the general counsel for the board of elections, wrote to Harris' attorney John Branch on Wednesday evening. McCready was not present at the hearing was represented by his attorney Mark Elias. Elias called the failure to disclose the text message in question "gamesmanship," and characterized the exchange as "explosive."