Michele Bachmann Refuses to Pay Employees Unless They Promise to Hide Illegal Activities

[WhoIsNumberNone]

Oh this is just tooo sweet...

From Politicus USA:

Americans should be asking themselves this weekend why Michele Bachmann (R-MN), who won re-election this past November as a member of the House of Representatives, is refusing to pay five of her staffers for the work they did helping her try to win the presidential nomination.

Salon reported Thursday,

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.

What kind of employer, save perhaps for the mob, asks an employee to sign a statement barring them from discussing “unethical, immoral, or criminal activity’? Just what kind of activities was Michele Bachmann engaged in during her failed presidential run?

And here I thought it was just because she was cheap.

[Still Sensible]

1. Sounds like an illegal, unenforceable contract to me

so long as fed agents ask those employees the right questions.

[Iggo]

2. Fuckin A right, it is.

Sign it, get paid. Then if someone asks, tell the truth.

[global1]

3. This Woman Is Still In Congress - Is This The Type Of Person We Want Representing Americans?....

Just what kind of unethical, immoral, or criminal activities was Michele Bachmann engaged in during her failed presidential run?

She should be investigated.

[cyglet]

14. Unethical or immoral

Republican status quo....and frequently toe the line between legal and illegal. All of us (with sanity) in Minnesota would like to see her go. Maybe someone will pay them in exchange for the beans being spilt.

She only won by 6000 votes or so last time. Should the Dems want to actually invest in this race in 2 years (maybe with Graves again), she could very well be a goner.

[appleannie1]

4. They should sue while singing like a bird

[glinda]

5. Sounds illegal. Let her rip. Spill people! Get her out of there!

Many of us in MN. Would welcome her removal. Wonder if she looks good in orange. <--- Bachmann

[siligut]

6. Now reporters and police know who to question

Good god what is this woman thinking? Oh, that's right, it's Michele Bachmann . . . she doesn't think.

[pacalo]

7. Incredible! There must be a lot to hush up about her campaign.

From Salon:

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.

(...)

“This story is important. I’ve got five soldiers, as it were, five men who are willing to stand and not capitulate to this unnatural pressure that is coming from the Bachmann campaign. It’s just immoral what they’re trying to do. They’re trying to shut us up. You want to get paid? You gotta sign this agreement and not talk to either the police or lawyers,” he continued.

Bachmann’s campaign was marked by poor management. At one point in October of 2011, her entire New Hampshire staff quit en masse, in part because of a lack of payment. Waldron was brought on in July of 2011 by former campaign manager Ed Rollins, who quickly left the campaign and later publicly attacked his former candidate. Waldron said he’s known Rollins since the late 1980s and “made a tactical error in sticking with the campaign” after his boss left.

http://www.salon.com/2013/01/11/bachmann_still_hasnt_paid_her_presidential_campaign_staff/

[freshwest]

8. Looks like 5,000 reasons a piece to rat her out... Please do... On a talk show, whatever!

[ReRe]

9. Maybe she thinks she's...

... the CIA? Well, looks to me like the unpaid employees have the goods on her. Go for it. Sue her ass. Bring it all out, then MN will recall her and at least we won't have to hear her snide remarks and see her smirking face on the floor of the House any more. At least we would have a chance to gain another seat.

[Kablooie]

10. The employees could probably make more money selling the news of the illegal activity.

And she's on the Financial Investigations and the Intelligence committees.
Making sure that everyone's honest.
Ha.

[PatrynXX]

12. Normally

this happens often.. and so whomever pays the staff and you never hear about this. So well Michelle decided to make a big deal out of it. So of course they are bound to come up with something. Usually you pay them to shut up. And they probably will. Why she dragged her heals on this so long I have no idea. Now she made it even worse for her

[Kennah]

13. Cheap, Crazy, and Corrupt. She has her three C's covered.

[malaise]

15. Delish

Rec

[global1]

16. Maybe This Should Be Investigated By The Congressional Ethics Committee....nt