Posted on 10/14/2017 6:04:59 PM PDT by markomalley
Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez would not say Friday whether the DNC would return all of its contributions from movie mogul Harvey Weinstein as he stands accused of decades of sexual harassment and assault.
Weinstein is a longtime Democratic donor who has given $300,000 to the DNC. However, the DNC announced last week it was only donating $30,000 of that money. Furthermore, the groups getting the cash were openly pro-Democratic organizations Higher Heights, Emily's List, and Emerge America.
After an event at the University of Wisconsin on Friday, Perez was asked by a tracker whether the DNC would return its contributions from Weinstein.
"You have a nice weekend, sir," Perez said without looking.
DNC vice-chair Keith Ellison (D., Minn.) similarly dodged the question when asked about the subject on Wednesday.
"I don't have any comments for you right now. I don't know you, and I don't take questions like this," Ellison said sharply.
Under Perez, the DNC has struggled in fundraising and was more than $4 million in debt as of an August fundraising report.
Weinstein's downfall in the aftermath of reports of his behavior has been swift. He has been fired from The Weinstein Company, and on Saturday the Oscar-winning producer was ousted from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Dozens of women have accused Weinstein of harassment and abuse in the wake of bombshell reports from the New York Times and New Yorker.
Weinstein has bundled or donated millions of dollars over the years for top Democrats, including Hillary Clinton, who have condemned his conduct and announced they are donating his contributions.
There always will be male decision makers in businesses.
Often, females are needed in businesses where sex appeal is required. The sex appeal gets customers, both male (for their libido) and female (who look for role models).
Entertainment roles, media roles, waitresses, barmaids, music venues, fashion retail, industrial sales etc.
So, most women do not want to use their body to access employment and rightly so.
However, some women are willing. Those women will have an advantage. The male decision maker can say that the “willing” female better fit the organization or some other intangible reason why she is there.
This is bad for the organization, causes jealousy and lawsuits from the “unwilling” women. See Fox News. These lawsuits are nothing more than embarrassment avoidance settlement payment machines.
The “unwilling” women were not necessarily harassed or molested. If they were, it’s criminal and they need to seek charges.
Harvey Weinstein is evil. But we need to separate the criminal behavior from the business decision maker behavior. Women need to blame other women for their influence on the decision makers.
Hell no they aren’t going to return them. Whinestein is their Hollowoody Georgie Soros.
I don’t see how returning “tainted” money helps. It mainly benefits Weinstein. Better to burn it than to give it back.
The DNC will probably issue a statement that a decision will be made sometime in the future. Meaning never.
Team Evil
it gets the smell off their hands.
if they do like clinton says she will donate it - to what “charity” clinton family slush find charity? some leftist, socialist, or wacked out women’s lib org?
I think also spiritually it shows God a person honestly wants a re-do, a reset back to before the money was received and let God take it from their to bless them His way.
“But we need to separate the criminal behavior from the business decision maker behavior. Women need to blame other women for their influence on the decision makers.”
Balzy post, but SPOT ON!
ANTIFA will be well funded by the time the Dems get done “returning (ha,ha)” all the money they collected in their war on women.
Perez had better keep the Weinstein money for bail. He’s going down, esp. if there is a federal investigation of Casa de Maryland.
See if James Jim Simpson’s massive study on that leftist group is on the internet or go to www.USAsurvival.org and check for it there.
It is full of surprises and possible criminal activities under Perez.
bttt
Your post was insightful. Thank you for it.
‘Pod
DNC is too broke to return that much money ...
Depends on who he was with at their headquarters. I wouldn’t want it.
rwood
This is what democracy looks like.
Give is ALL back!
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