Top Democrat In Connecticut Senate Calls On Elizabeth Esty To Resign - Polidicks

Top Democrat In Connecticut Senate Calls On Elizabeth Esty To Re.. Rep. Elizabeth Esty apologizes for not protecting women in her o.. Elizabeth Etsy is currently a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. It came to light that her Chief of Staff from 2014-2016 had been abusing women on her staff, including violence and death threats. When she found out, he was not placed on leave during the investigation (a period of 3 months), he received $5000 Severance Pay (Which Etsy has personally paid back to the Federal Government), an NDA stating that this information will stay private, and a recommendation for a job at the Sandy Hook Promise Gun Control advocacy group. As a result of this incident coming to light, Baker no longer has his job at the advocacy group. What is happening now is that Connecticut Democrats in the State Legislature are calling for her to resign for her extreme mishandling of the incident. The top Democrat in the state Senate is joining a groundswell within the party calling for U.S. Rep. Elizabeth Esty to resign over her handling of repeated acts of domestic violence by a since-fired chief of staff against a former aide.” “If the facts of this matter involving former staff of the congresswoman’s office are as they are alleged to be in recent news articles, then Congresswoman Esty should do the right thing and resign,” Senate President Pro Tem Martin Looney of New Haven said in a written statement Saturday Looney followed statements earlier Saturday by Democratic women in the state legislature who said Esty had to go. State Sen. Mae Flexer — an architect of the “Time’s Up Act,’’ introduced by Democrats in the state Senate as an overhaul of Connecticut’s sexual harassment laws — was the first officeholder in Esty’s own party to say the congresswoman should resign. “The congresswoman failed her staff on every level when she decided to protect an alleged abuser instead of them,” Flexer said. “It's completely unacceptable. Her failure to do the right thing here hurt us all, especially as more and more women are courageously coming forward. It's time for Rep. Esty to step aside.” Esty’s top adviser, Tony Baker, remained on the payroll for three months after Esty learned of the allegations of abuse involving aide Anna Kain before she dismissed Baker. He not only received a $5,000 severance payment, but got a favorable recommendation from his one-time boss that led to his hiring by the gun-control group Sandy Hook Promise. While Republicans have called for Esty’s resignation, most prominent Democrats, including Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy and U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, have been silent on the question of whether or not she should step down, only saying she has owned up to mishandling the situation. “During the three month investigation, she did not place her chief of staff on leave — he continued to work — thereby putting her staff at continued risk,” Juleson-Scopino wrote. “She may not have been the perpetrator, but she enabled and covered up this dangerous behavior. This is not a Democrat issue or a Republican issue — this is a moral issue — and we cannot stand idly by in silent complacency.”

Well, that's totally untenable. Unless there are extreme caveats to the case with her employees, like the allegations being completely unsupported by evidence, I don't really think she has a leg to stand on.

She won’t be seeking reelection.

Good, But my gut saying her supporters and some loyal Democrats blame sexists and (closet) Republicans for her resign.

Another update, this time from Connecticut Public Radio. It seems she used her private email account on the severance agreement with Baker. Her office had originally sent the un-redacted version of the NDA to WNPR, however they did not want the version with her personal email published. They ended up publishing the redacted version and reserved the right to publish the un-redacted at a future point in time. There are a few questions that they feel have been left unanswered, and the most important one I think is this • Was she using her personal email to avoid the public disclosure of the severance agreement? Also, the NDA on his severance gave Baker a waiver on his student loan payments.