Elizabeth Warren drafted a contract for Michael Bloomberg to sign that would release women who accused him of sexual harassment and workplace gender discrimination from nondisclosure agreements.
“I used to teach contract law, and I thought I would make this easy,” the Massachusetts senator said at the start of a CNN town hall on Thursday in Las Vegas.
During Wednesday’s Democratic presidential debate, Warren brought up alleged sexist comments by the former New York City mayor and pressured him to release former employees and any others from nondisclosure agreements made following allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct.
Bloomberg’s debate response that maybe some of the women were offended by “jokes” he made “just doesn’t cut it,” Warren said.
“All that Mayor Bloomberg has to do is download it — I’ll text it — sign it, and then the women or men will be free to speak and tell their own stories,” Warren said.
She read her agreement draft: “Bloomberg and the company release any and all obligations contained in any agreement, including but not limited to any employment, settlement, severance, or nondisclosure agreement between Bloomberg and/or the company and any other person to the extent those obligations preclude the other person from disclosing information relating to sexual harassment, discrimination, or other misconduct at the company or by Bloomberg himself.”
“If he’s not willing to remove those gags and let those women and maybe those men talk, then he is disqualified from being president of the United States,” Warren said.
The exact number is unknown, but it’s been reported that several women accepted settlements from Bloomberg, such as after he allegedly told a pregnant employee to “kill it.” Other alleged sexist Bloomberg comments include calling members of the royal family a “horse-faced lesbian” and a “fat broad.”
