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Madigan’s office releases internal harassment investigation results
Tuesday, Feb 27, 2018 - Posted by Rich Miller * This is a developing story. More when I know more…
…Adding… An original copy of the list is here. Notice that no “unresolved” complaints are listed above. Also, lots of exclusions. …Adding… Speaker Madigan said he sent the document to the other legislative leaders and constitutional officers and recommended that they do the same. Reporters were told there are only a small number of unresolved complaints. Madigan could not say when the above incidents occurred. “What does this say about your office?” Madigan was asked about the volume of complaints. “Is there a culture within your office?” Madigan replied, “There’s no culture with me… (The report shows) we don’t tolerate this behavior.” Madigan was asked if any new allegations had emerged against his leadership team or members of his caucus. “Not to my knowledge.” According to Heather Wier-Vaught, the first allegation occurred in 2013, the last one on the list was “more recent.” Speaker Madigan also reiterated that he would not resign.
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- I Miss Bentohs - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 4:28 pm:
Rauner’s next commercial wrote itself.
- 47th Ward - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 4:32 pm:
For Madigan’s sake, I hope this is everything. He has to stop the death by a 1000 cuts, so releasing this makes sense only if it is comprehensive.
- Retired Educator - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 4:34 pm:
I Miss; The Governor’s own office has some of the same kinds of things. They have just not been put out there yet. I don’t believe he wants to throw those stones.
- OneMan - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 4:44 pm:
Any more exclusions at the end it would be a car lease ad…
- Anonymous - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 4:48 pm:
Rauner might not want to run a commercial on this topic in light of Mary Ann Ahern’s tweet. A GC is much closer to the head of the organization these folks.
- Top Floor - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 4:52 pm:
The list says it’s not comprehensive. There are more categories excluded than included. This story ain’t going away anytime soon.
- Politically Incorrect - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 4:55 pm:
Old man needs to learn when to quit….
- Arthur Andersen - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 5:07 pm:
OneMan, your mileage may vary…
To the Post, what does “The Ethics Officer began monitoring the individual” mean? Is the individual still employed? Is he on double-secret probation?
Typical Madigan/Brown baloney.
- Annonin' - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 5:34 pm:
Thanks Mike Madigan and mary Ann ahern” said GovJunk, after bein’ reminded of that minor matter regardin’ his ex lawyer.
- Jen - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 5:44 pm:
There is blood in the water and the sharks are circling. For someone who is supposedly a strategic savant, the way Madigan has handled this is downright incompetent. You have a press conference to share a memo that contains a handful of complaints that are not covered by exclusions in an attempt to reassure the public and the Democratic Party that you are on top of things? Sheesh!
- m - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 6:25 pm:
The exclusions would be far more interesting to read.
- HOD - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 6:26 pm:
The exclusions appear to cover situations where Madigan or his staff would have no authority to do anything about the situation. They aren’t human resource or personnel issues. They can’t punish an outside lobbyist for acting improper toward a member, or a member harassing another member.
- Responsa - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 6:27 pm:
This is not going to go well when the investigative reporters get going on all the questions this “list” raises. .
- Smitty Irving - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 6:39 pm:
Politically Incorrect -
(See Oswego Willy) You’re channeling Tom Cross on voting day after he’s finishing 18 holes on the links and Speaker Madigan has spent 4 hours turning out votes.
- SoAngry - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 6:48 pm:
By “sexually inappropriate” do they mean raped? If not, then they are missing some bullet points.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 6:49 pm:
–Speaker Madigan said he sent the document to the other legislative leaders and constitutional officers and recommended that they do the same.–
And they will have to, or explain why they can’t or won’t.
No one is immune on this issue.
- titan - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 7:08 pm:
Given the number of campaigns, and longstanding campaign cultire, that is probably a low incidence rate
- Keyrock - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 7:45 pm:
OneMan —your mileage may vary.
- Hoping for Change - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 8:57 pm:
I wonder how the victims feel about their confidential stories being sent out to everyone? Names are not mentioned but the victim still knows it is their story, This approach is wrong on so many levels.
- wordslinger - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 10:17 pm:
–Speaker Madigan said he sent the document to the other legislative leaders and constitutional officers and recommended that they do the same.–
So now they either do so or explain why they can’t/won’t.
- Stand Tall - Tuesday, Feb 27, 18 @ 10:37 pm:
There is an official position that Madigan should have had filled that is responsible for the investigation of these incidents. He and his office and private lawyers are not the ones that should be handling(or more likely controlling) these situations. It looks more and more like him using his powerful position to control these things instead of making sure they are properly investigated and proper actions are taking. What you have is the fox in charge of the hen house, not a good situation. The man has way to much power and influence over these harassment issues. Seems like it has taken him a long time to address the issue of sexual harassment with him knowing how extensive the problem has been even before cases were made public.
- PublicServant - Wednesday, Feb 28, 18 @ 6:47 am:
===Speaker Madigan also reiterated that he would not resign.===
Pretty much says it all.
- Anon - Wednesday, Feb 28, 18 @ 8:34 am:
The man has been in office since the 70s and he only can provide complaints going back 5 years? Is that all he wants to provide or all that there is?
- MissingG - Wednesday, Feb 28, 18 @ 8:58 am:
Because this is internal to the Office of the Speaker, I don’t believe this is at all reflective of “campaign culture.” There certainly is crossover between the staffs, but this report is not on campaign complaints.
- Sigh - Wednesday, Feb 28, 18 @ 9:04 am:
—The man has been in office since the 70s and he only can provide complaints going back 5 years? Is that all he wants to provide or all that there is?—
Have the republican leaders or campaign committees taken action on this issue? Where is their data? {sigh}