In this exclusive interview, Rep. Jack Bergman (R-Mi 1st Dist) says that the names of 264 Congressmen, Senators, and their staff who have settled #MeToo accusations of sexual misconduct, harassment, and discrimination must be released as soon as possible.
The Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 authorized a slush fund from which accusers would be paid hush money if they agreed to sign a non-disclosure agreement that kept the identities of the offenders secret.
Last year, the US Treasury paid more than $934-thousand dollars to victims of Congressional predators. Since 1997, almost $17 million dollars have been paid in total. Bergman said that not only should the offenders be named, monetary awards to victims should be paid by the offenders, not the taxpayer.
Lt. Gen. Bergman (USMC Ret.) also stated that California Representative Maxine Waters may face the House equivalent of “non-judicial punishment” for her calls to harass and intimidate Trump administration officials and other high-ranking Republicans wherever they can be found.
Please sign this petition, addressed to every member of the ethics committees in the House and Senate, to support General Bergman’s #WeWantNames campaign.
After you have signed it, make sure to share it. This is a bipartisan issue. No matter what your personal politics, you deserve to have honorable representation in Congress, not scumbags that use your tax dollars and non-disclosure agreements to silence victims of sexual harassment, rape, and pedophilia.
Since 1995 there has been a slush fund created by the Congressional Accountability Act, legislation which makes members and their employees anything but accountable. If any member of Congress or a member of their staff is accused of discrimination or harassment, settlement costs get bankrolled by taxpayers. Secretly.
The Washington Post reports that the office has paid up to $17 million for 264 settlements and awards to federal employees since 1997. Last year alone, the US Treasury confidentially paid $934,754 to settle sexual harassment and other complaints, but the total amount paid out is estimated to be between $15 and $17 million dollars. Those badly needed tax dollars resolved a total of 264 sexual harassment and discrimination complaints lodged against US Congressmen, Senators, and their staffs.
These sexual predators didn’t even have to pay the damages out of their own pockets, and because non-disclosure agreements were signed by the victims, nobody ever knew about it. Several Congressmen have said they didn’t even know this slush fund existed, or that their colleagues had been accused of these transgressions.
With your help, and the backing of Honorable Congressmen like Marine Lt. General Jack Bergman who represents me and the rest of Michigan’s 1st Congressional district, we can get rid of the predators in Congress once and for all.
Join General Bergman and I in a campaign for transparency called, “#WeWantNames.” The American people deserve to know if their elected representatives are out there perving on women, or men, and it doesn’t matter which side of the aisle they represent. It makes absolutely zero difference if the elected representative is a Republican or a Democrat. The American people, regardless of their political philosophy, deserve to have honorable men and women representing their point of view in Congress.
Please sign and share this important petition!
http://bobpowell.blogspot.com/2018/10/mi-rep-jack-bergman-demands.html
God Bless & Semper Fi,
Bobby Powell, Publisher, The Truth Is Viral
