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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.
“I feel a moral obligation to see that my Christian brothers and sisters are paid for worked performed in good faith. I’ve continually communicated by telephone and email with Mr. Pollack for 1 year but he broke every promise made to me to pay the staff.
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/bachmann_still_has
Alndln3 wrote:Salon
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.
“I feel a moral obligation to see that my Christian brothers and sisters are paid for worked performed in good faith. I’ve continually communicated by telephone and email with Mr. Pollack for 1 year but he broke every promise made to me to pay the staff.
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/bachmann_still_has
nt_paid_her_presidential_campaign_staff/
The work has already been performed. She owes the money regardless of their refusal to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Such an agreement should be in the contract when a person is hired. They should negotiate a dollar amount separate from the $5000 that is already owed for keeping their mouth shut.
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Alndln3 wrote:Salon
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.
“I feel a moral obligation to see that my Christian brothers and sisters are paid for worked performed in good faith. I’ve continually communicated by telephone and email with Mr. Pollack for 1 year but he broke every promise made to me to pay the staff.
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/bachmann_still_has
nt_paid_her_presidential_campaign_staff/
Surely, any such non-disclosure agreement would constitute an illegal (and therefore non-binding and unenforceable) contract anyway.
If I was the people waiting for their money, I'd sign the agreement, get the money and then spill the beans. She deserves it.
harrycox1 wrote:
Alndln3 wrote:Salon
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.
“I feel a moral obligation to see that my Christian brothers and sisters are paid for worked performed in good faith. I’ve continually communicated by telephone and email with Mr. Pollack for 1 year but he broke every promise made to me to pay the staff.
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/bachmann_still_has
nt_paid_her_presidential_campaign_staff/
The work has already been performed. She owes the money regardless of their refusal to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Such an agreement should be in the contract when a person is hired. They should negotiate a dollar amount separate from the $5000 that is already owed for keeping their mouth shut.
They'd have to be very careful about raising that. Being paid well for discrete service is one thing - blackmail quite another.
Regarding the clause they say they refused to sign to, it's rank stupidity for anyone running for public office to have something like that in there. If it gets out (fairly likely in politics these days - and lo, it has...) it calls into question the entire integrity of the whole campaign, and people start looking for what they have to hide. Of course, ascribing any sort of common sense to a campaign hoping to put that Bachmann woman in the big seat..... Oh, dear.
Edward wrote:
harrycox1 wrote:
Alndln3 wrote:Salon
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.
“I feel a moral obligation to see that my Christian brothers and sisters are paid for worked performed in good faith. I’ve continually communicated by telephone and email with Mr. Pollack for 1 year but he broke every promise made to me to pay the staff.
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/bachmann_still_has
nt_paid_her_presidential_campaign_staff/
The work has already been performed. She owes the money regardless of their refusal to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Such an agreement should be in the contract when a person is hired. They should negotiate a dollar amount separate from the $5000 that is already owed for keeping their mouth shut.
They'd have to be very careful about raising that. Being paid well for discrete service is one thing - blackmail quite another.
Regarding the cluse they say they refused to sign to, it's rank stupidity for anyone running for public office to have something like that in there. If it gets out (fairly likely in politics these days - and lo, it has...) it calls into question the entire integrity of the whole campaign, and peopel start looking for what they have to hide. Of course, ascribing any sort of common sense to a campaign hoping to put that Bachmann woman in the big seat..... Oh, dear.
is it in court?
yumpy wrote:
Edward wrote:
harrycox1 wrote:
Alndln3 wrote:Salon
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.
“I feel a moral obligation to see that my Christian brothers and sisters are paid for worked performed in good faith. I’ve continually communicated by telephone and email with Mr. Pollack for 1 year but he broke every promise made to me to pay the staff.
http://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/bachmann_still_has
nt_paid_her_presidential_campaign_staff/
The work has already been performed. She owes the money regardless of their refusal to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Such an agreement should be in the contract when a person is hired. They should negotiate a dollar amount separate from the $5000 that is already owed for keeping their mouth shut.
They'd have to be very careful about raising that. Being paid well for discrete service is one thing - blackmail quite another.
Regarding the cluse they say they refused to sign to, it's rank stupidity for anyone running for public office to have something like that in there. If it gets out (fairly likely in politics these days - and lo, it has...) it calls into question the entire integrity of the whole campaign, and peopel start looking for what they have to hide. Of course, ascribing any sort of common sense to a campaign hoping to put that Bachmann woman in the big seat..... Oh, dear.
is it in court?
Doesn't appear to be, based on the report linked to in OP. Absent a negotiated settlement between the parties, I would expect it very well could be at some point in the future.
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