Posted on 02/05/2020 6:04:00 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
The two leaders of Milwaukee's host committee for the 2020 Democratic National Convention are out.
Late Tuesday, the board for the Milwaukee 2020 Host Committee terminated President Liz Gilbert and her chief of staff, Adam Alonso. The move comes just one day after the board suspended the pair and launched an investigation into toxic workplace allegations.
The Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday that a group of senior women staffers wrote an unsigned letter last week complaining of being "bullied and intimidated" by Alonso something they said Gilbert did nothing to stop. They said Alonso's actions fostered a "toxic and unstable" culture.
"Every employee has a right to feel respected in their workplace," said a one-page statement from the board.
"Based on the information we have learned to date, we believe the work environment did not meet the ideals and expectations of the Milwaukee 2020 Host Committee Board of Directors. Accordingly, Liz Gilbert and Adam Alonso are no longer employed by the organization, effective immediately."
The letter said the board will continue its investigation into the claims about the troubled workplace.
When the staffers' complaints first surfaced, the board hired the local firm of Foley & Lardner to coordinate the investigation. Foley has since brought on another firm Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart to look into the specific accusations and report its findings to the board.
No timeline has been set for the investigation.
"The work of the Milwaukee 2020 Host Committee is critically important but that work cannot be accomplished unless members of the staff can work collaboratively," said the board statement. "The Board is committed to an inclusive and supportive environment at the Host Committee, and will work to ensure that all employees live up to these ideals."
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Exactly. See my post #20.
Ooooo! Even MORE delicious!
Turn off the sound, thats what I do.
Can you imagine trying to work with these snowflakes and hair triggers and micros ?
From the article the other thread cited:
They accused the top two officials, Gilbert and Alonso, of giving contracts to their friends in New Jersey, calling meetings and then failing to attend them and being more focused on accumulating power than promoting Milwaukee.
A New Jersey firm with strong ties to the New Jersey Democratic Party, for instance, developed the website for the host committee and manages its email platform. Both Gilbert and Alonso are top-ranking Democratic operatives in that state.
These assertions come at the same time that Alonso is being accused in his home state of New Jersey of shaking down campaign contributors for his personal consulting business.
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I so pity poor Milwaukee.
I didn’t know that. I was concerned they would be up here!
Tony Soprano is alive....sighting at DNC Host Committee HQ. ;-)
What’s MOST shocking is that the DNC actually got RID of them!
You’d think they’d WANT this type of professional ‘operative’ on the payroll. ;)
Unfortunately, although I use to love Maders and other gems of “Old Milwaukee”, a good part needs to be burned down!
although I use to love Maders and other gems of Old Milwaukee, a good part needs to be burned down!
When the antifa thugs get going and the convention becomes a 1968 redux, you may find Old Milwaukee has become Atlanta 1865.
Oh, yes! We went there on many special occasions. There is still a lot to love - but there are many No-Go Zones, now.
My crazy Aunt (and her dozen cats and a few raccoon) lives on the edge of one which will eventually be enveloped. All of the rest of us have left Milwaukee proper, but she insists on sticking it out. Because she truly IS nutty.
Dad got us out of there in 1970. Nicest thing he’s ever done for me. :)
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