Bachmann still hasn’t paid presidential campaign staffers
Source: Salon
Five Iowa staffers say they've waited 375 days for payment, but refuse to sign the gag order the campaign demands
BY ALEX SEITZ-WALD
Over a year after she dropped out, Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann has refused to pay five staffers from her failed presidential bid, according to a former top campaign official. Peter Waldron, her controversial former national field coordinator, told Salon the dispute started when former Iowa straw poll staffers refused to sign a nondisclosure agreement that would bar them from discussing any unethical, immoral, or criminal activity they witnessed on the campaign with police or reporters.
Waldron said the staffers are owed a mere $5,000, and that Bachmann has more than $2 million in her campaign account, but has refused to pay unless the staffers sign the agreement. Negotiations over payment with Bachmann Finance Chairman James Pollack eventually broke down and Waldron decided to go public with the news, posting a press release on Christian Newswire this evening.
A Bachmann spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but we will update when they do.
I feel a moral obligation to see that my Christian brothers and sisters are paid for worked performed in good faith. Ive continually communicated by telephone and email with Mr. Pollack for 1 year but he broke every promise made to me to pay the staff. I appealed to Dr. [Marcus] Bachmann for help. I appealed to Representative Bachmanns Chief of Staff Robert Boland to intercede with Mrs. Bachmann on behalf of her loyal Iowa staff all of whom are married, all have children, Waldron said in the press release.
It is sobering to think that a Christian member of Congress would betray her testimony to the Lord and the public by withholding earned wages from deserving staff, Waldron added.
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Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/bachmann_still_hasnt_paid_her_presidential_campaign_staff/
Omaha Steve
(99,737 posts)I'm sure they would get a lot more $ going public with any of this activity they did see.
typical republicon , spend money they don't have, and cheat hard working people .
Bjorn Against
(12,041 posts)She outspent her opponent in the last election several times over, she has plenty of cash and could easily pay her workers wages. Isn't it a crime to withhold wages?
It is VERY revealing that Bachmann is so insistent on them signing an agreement promising not to discuss criminal activity in the campaign. If there was no criminal activity why would this waiver be so important to her? I hope the FBI is paying attention, I sense a big scandal.
Gore1FL
(21,152 posts)Volaris
(10,274 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Last edited Fri Jan 11, 2013, 01:24 AM - Edit history (1)
...did she even have TIME to do anything she wouldn't want disclosed?
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Hard to believe she could even HAVE anything to hide.
sellitman
(11,607 posts)alittlelark
(18,890 posts)Perhaps they should call on Jesus to come sort it out?
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)alittlelark
(18,890 posts)Move over Judge Judy, the Big Dog's comin' in!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)I think that is an illegal non-disclosure
Marcus must have gone off again
Bachmann should be sent to prison for non payment of earned wages
hughee99
(16,113 posts)but I think you're right, I don't think you can sign an NDA to protect criminal activity.
eggplant
(3,913 posts)Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)Remember when she said that we should get HOT for Jesus?
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)Last edited Sat Jan 12, 2013, 12:38 AM - Edit history (2)
The frog said, "No! You'll sting me, and I'll drown." The scorpion said, "If I did that, we'd BOTH drown."
The frog couldn't argue with that, so he let the scorpion jump on his back. He starts swimming across the pond, and the scorpion stings him!
The frog gasped with his last dying breath, "Why? Why did you sting me when you knew it would kill you, too?"
The scorpion says with HIS last dying breath, "Because it is my nature."
rocktivity
littlemissmartypants
(22,819 posts)sakabatou
(42,176 posts)rocktivity
(44,577 posts)How can that in itself possibly be legal?
rocktivity
LiberalFighter
(51,103 posts)Tabasco_Dave
(1,259 posts)Rob H.
(5,352 posts)Is there such a thing? (Seriously, I'm curious.) As far as I know, failure to report a crime can be a crime in itself. If any criminal activities were to come to light, it almost sounds as if they were dumb enough to put it in writing that they were willing to be accessories to them.
Gman
(24,780 posts)what's a RW nut to do?
olegramps
(8,200 posts)samsingh
(17,601 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)"Dear Congresswoman,
Please disregard our previous requests for owed wages for our work on your Presidential campaign. Since we are now collaborating on a tell-all book and we've gotten some very high offers (with a generous advance in each), we've decided we can do without the money you owe us.
Enjoy and God bless!
Regards,
Names"
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)lexw
(804 posts)klyon
(1,697 posts)If they refuse to sign (I would) than no work. It is a little late now.
What is she hiding? Hopefully someone will speak up.
Hubert Flottz
(37,726 posts)The repug misleaders are "Christian" In Name only and the repugs do that self naming to get votes from suckers.
Blue Owl
(50,512 posts)n/t
Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)Rob H.
(5,352 posts)all over the US when his campaign cancelled all their credit cards right after his concession speech. Since they were willing to backstab and abandon the people who were on their sides and trying to help them win, just imagine what would've happened to the country if either of those self-centered assholes had actually won!
dorkulon
(5,116 posts)At least they're always implying that. Never seen any actual evidence of it, though.
NYtoBush-Drop Dead
(490 posts)NOT.