Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg will release three women who registered complaints about him from their nondisclosure agreements in a striking victory for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who has been pressing the issue.
“I’ve had the company go back over its record and they’ve identified 3 NDAs that we signed over the past 30-plus years with women to address complaints about comments they said I had made,” Bloomberg said in a statement. “If any of them want to be released from their NDA so that they can talk about those allegations, they should contact the company and they’ll be given a release.”
“I’ve done a lot of reflecting on this issue over the past few days and I’ve decided that for as long as I’m running the company, we won’t offer confidentiality agreements to resolve claims of sexual harassment or misconduct going forward,” he added.
He also promised to institute cultural changes at his company, along with structural ones in the form of equal pay and family leave.
Warren identified the NDAs as a Bloomberg weak point and went to town during the Nevada debate, challenging him to release all of his former employees from their non-disclosure agreements. She even wrote up a text for him to use. Her campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
During the debate, Bloomberg would not promise to free the employees from what he called their “consensual” agreements and cited statistics about women in leadership at his company in response. His dismissal of “jokes” he may have made elicited boos from the debate audience.
He had no choice but to do this, there’s no way that he could leave that hanging and expect women to vote for him in the primary. It may not matter though, Warren took him apart on this and several other issues, and it left a really bad impression. If he has a second weak debate he’s likely done…he can hope Biden continues to fall and people decide to hold their noses to vote for him, but the “replace their arrogant billionaire with our arrogant billionaire” message is going to stick.
Good… Now, let’s see if this leads anywhere. Just don’t think this will start a trend and tRump will release all his employees bound by NDAs
That was a striking victory. Very symbolic as well and it will not be lost on women, going forward.
why these three specifically
why only three
and how are these women even supposed to know to get in touch with him
well. I read down through the headlines on the news page.
I am informed enough for today.
Thats all folks. lol
have a great evening!!!