Bloomberg for President?

I'm not sure and NDA can protect Bloomberg from sexual harrassment suits. It's my understanding that NDA's can't be used to keep criminal acts secret.
 
thaiboxerken said:
I'm not sure and NDA can protect Bloomberg from sexual harrassment suits. It's my understanding that NDA's can't be used to keep criminal acts secret.
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Workplace sexual harassment isn't a criminal issue. An NDA can't prevent someone from reporting a crime, but it absolutely can be part of a settlement that ends a sexual harassment lawsuit.
 
thaiboxerken said:
I'm not sure and NDA can protect Bloomberg from sexual harrassment suits. It's my understanding that NDA's can't be used to keep criminal acts secret.
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Not all sexual harassment suits are criminal in nature. One can choose to file a civil complaint without ever notifying the police or DA. Or one can have an attorney write a letter to the Company in question threatening such a civil complaint.

Settling that civil complaint, or threatened civil complaint, without involving the police or DA is common.

There may be laws that would require the parties to testify in a criminal matter if called upon to do so, but who would get that criminal matter started if there is no criminal complaint filed?
 
Cabbage said:
Actually, the point is you assume that you know the ultimate effects of that negative campaigning. You don't.
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Yep. To voters in the 18-30 demographic you could have a picture of Bernie smoking a cigar with Castro and it wouldn't change their vote.
 
thaiboxerken said:
I understand. It depends on the level of sexual misconduct.
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Or the exposure of the sexual misconduct. Even if a woman claims that she was raped, and has good evidence of that, she has no duty to report that crime to police. In fact, it may be to her personal benefit to not report that rape to police if the rapist was someone of great wealth.
 
Dr. Keith said:
Or the exposure of the sexual misconduct. Even if a woman claims that she was raped, and has good evidence of that, she has no duty to report that crime to police. In fact, it may be to her personal benefit to not report that rape to police if the rapist was someone of great wealth.
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While true, I don't think her reporting it would be a violation of any NDA, not an enforceable violation.
 
xjx388 said:
The guy is mysoginist...sexist, even.
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Wait, you think it's worse to treat women differently than men (sexism) than it is to harbour a general hatred of women (misogyny)?


ETA: Sorry that's a bit OT.

Have a meme:
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SuburbanTurkey said:
He could always wait until after the election season to reap vengeance. If Bloomberg loses the election, there's really no reason for him not to extract his pound of flesh from whoever injures him by violating the NDA.
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This is indeed possible, but it assumes that he loses the nomination / general election.
 
ahhell said:
I heard an interesting analysis this morning to the effect, nobody wants to attack sanders because they still can't believe he might get the nomination and they don't want to alienate his voters. Most of them figure that anyone currently willing to vote for any of the rest of the candidates will probably vote for the Dem in the general regardless but they think there's a good chance that Bernie's voters will stay home if the eventual candidate was perceived as too anti-Bernie.

Its interesting, I don't totally buy it but its interesting.
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If they don't want to alienate his base, it could be people are holding back lest they give the GOP ammo to use if Sanders becomes the nomination.

I know I'm reluctant to go full negative on Sanders.
 
Dr. Keith said:
When one accepts a settlement the terms of that settlement typically include the payment of a large sum of money and the signing of an NDA.

I have no evidence of such settlements, I am just trying to clarify that such NDAs are often much different from the NDA one may sign as they are hired into a company or onto a campaign. In fact, they are typically drafted from basic form language but tailored to that particular case or dispute.

#notallndas
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Don't get me wrong, you had an excellent point. The reason I was frustrated is it meant starting over looking for some evidence surrounding the lawsuits.

We know there were 40 supposedly. How do we know that? There has to be something somewhere even if the details are hidden.
 
Dr. Keith said:
"How sexist?" is something left to be discovered.
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There's enough out there to know he makes sexist comments. He's single has plays the field apparently. I don't think it's a big deal. Certainly he has nothing like Trump's disdain for women.
 
xjx388 said:
I’m finding your posts here in support of Bloomberg ... interesting.

It’s well-reported what the NDAs the women signed are all about. Vox has an explainer.. The guy is mysoginist...sexist, even.

So why the defense of Bloomberg? It seems...inconsistent.
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It's only inconsistent to someone not paying attention.

I mentioned all the sexist comments, it's all out there. And I posted about the rape accusations amid drug use that involved a male employee who has since been fired.

The majority of those cases concerned discrimination — on the basis of gender, race, disability status, or pregnancy.
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So there have been ~40 cases, over 20 years, against the company not against Bloomberg, most involving discrimination, not harassment, most settled out of court. Meaning the plaintiffs took a settlement.

Klobuchar and Clinton were/are supposedly jerks to work for.

Politico: Klobuchar's opening pitch sidetracked by staff horror stories

Sanders is never not angry. And his wife was involved in a college land deal that wasn't squeaky clean.

Buttigeig is holding private donation deals in posh locations.

Warren has reversed herself on taking PAC money.

Demonizing candidates is not the stuff I think is the most important deciding factors here.
 
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thaiboxerken said:
I'm not sure and NDA can protect Bloomberg from sexual harrassment suits. It's my understanding that NDA's can't be used to keep criminal acts secret.
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You would be correct. It's the same when people put any illegal things in contracts. You can't do that.
 
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