NDAs or Non-Disclosure Agreements are in the spotlight in the #MeToo era because they were used to buy the silence of women complaining about sexual harassment. They’ve also come up in the 2020 race because of their use by the Bloomberg campaign.
The Kamala Harris campaign had its own NDA issues which the media failed to cover.
The NDA issue isn’t black and white. Obviously they’re routinely used to cover up abuses and other problems. But, on the other hand, they can also prevent a problem person from harassing an organization or a person. Without the NDA, why settle a frivolous lawsuit at all? And there are plenty of those around. But now that the Dems have come out against NDAs as a social justice issue, oops.
Here’s a Sanders NDA.
A political advocacy group founded by Bernie Sanders entered into a nondisclosure agreement with an African American political consultant that bars her from discussing a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination at the organization and the Vermont senator’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The consultant, Tezlyn Figaro, confirmed the existence of the nondisclosure agreement to The Associated Press without providing additional details.
The deal is tied to a 2019 lawsuit in which Figaro said she was fired from the Sanders-created political group Our Revolution a year earlier due to her race and in “retaliation for complaining about the organization’s treatment towards her and African-Americans.” The lawsuit was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount of money. Though the lawsuit was aimed at Our Revolution, it included broad criticism of Sanders’ campaign, arguing an all-white leadership staff “was accused of racism” by black staffers and failed to engage black voters.
Figaro was forced out in a civil war between Turner and some of the Intercept types in the Sanders campaign.
Past comments Figaro made about immigration on Twitter and as a pundit on Fox News quickly surfaced and drew rebuke, with critics and some Our Revolution staffers saying that they were anti-immigrant.
“If AMERICAN black folks can go to jail when they break the law then certainly so can an illegal immigrant,” she said in one tweet.
“U r being distracted abt ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS meanwhile more blacks are under prison/parole control in in 2010 than were enslaved in 1850,” she wrote in another.
Figaro, who is black and worked in the African-American outreach department on Sanders’s first presidential bid, made headlines last spring for comments she made praising President Trump and decrying immigrants as recipients of “benefits that Americans do not get,” while black Americans are disproportionately incarcerated.
Calling her pro-Trump is a stretch, but politically incorrect certainly. And that established that illegal aliens are higher up on the intersectional food chain than black people.
But now that NDAs are persona non-social justice grata, will Sanders be asked if Our Revolution will waive its NDA?
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