After Mike Bloomberg acknowledged using nondisclosure agreements to settle issues as a business executive during Wednesday’s debate, Sen. Elizabeth Warren wrote him up a contract of her own.
“So I used to teach contract law,” the former law professor said during a CNN town hall on Thursday night, “And I thought I would make this easy. I wrote up a release and covenant not to sue. And all that mayor Bloomberg has to do is download it. I’ll text it, sign it, and then the women and men will be free to speak and tell their own stories.”
Warren, who was on the attack with just about everyone during Wednesday’s debate, went after Bloomberg for the use of nondisclosure agreements and his treatment of women that had been reported in the press, repeatedly asking how many of them were there.
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“None of them accuse me of doing anything, other than maybe they didn’t like a joke I told,” Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City, countered. “They signed those agreements, and we’ll live with it.”
But Warren doesn’t seem to be keen on living with it — she said on CNN that Bloomberg’s comments on women were “disqualifying” — and she tweeted her proposed contract.
The Bloomberg campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Mike Bloomberg can easily release the women who have accused him of sexual harassment—and who voluntarily want to speak about their experiences—from their non-disclosure agreements. Take a look at how simple and straightforward it would be: pic.twitter.com/XLncEnSXDF
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) February 21, 2020
Later, on “The Last Word” with Lawrence O’Donnell, the Massachusetts senator described conversing with the former mayor during a debate commercial
She also offered another case for her candidacy: efficiency.
“I get real stuff done. I have rock solid values, and I get stuff done. I get hard stuff done. I fought for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, got that thing enacted and set it up over the space of a year. I can work across the aisle when I need to,” she said, naming her hearing aid bill with Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, which Trump signed into law.
Warren has struggled to rise in the polls, while rival Sen. Bernie Sanders — who shares the progressive lane with her — surges.
“I don’t want to be president just to yell at people,” she said. “I want to be president to change things.”
