An influential voting rights group that has partnered in past elections with the likes of Barack Obama and Taylor Swift faces a lawsuit by its founder
But now the woman who created the voter advocacy group is thrusting it into a legal dispute at a time when its services are most in need—less than three months before a midterm election, when voter turnout is typically at its lowest.,” Cleaver tells TIME. “While it pains me to bring this suit, our democracy is fragile, and we can’t let a small group of privileged insiders advance themselves at its expense.
The spokesperson claimed that Cleaver was fired not because of her threat to report the severage package, which Vote.org maintains was legal and justified, but because of her erratic and abrasive personal behavior. They added that Cleaver was removed as head of the organization by a unanimous vote of the group’s board “for conduct that was witnessed by multiple individuals and documented.”
The complaint seeks a disbanding of the current board, and for Cleaver to be compensated for damages and back pay, and reinstated as CEO.in April 2020, shortly after the pandemic reached the nation’s shores and it became increasingly clear that the country would need to expand vote by mail to preserve access to the ballot in the presidential election without the risk of spreading the deadly virus. Vote.
The infighting at Vote.org led to several high-profile funders, many of whom were closely tied to Silicon Valley, pulling their support. In some cases, donors tried to leverage their continued financial support toward keeping Cleaver in charge of the organization. The start-up guru Sage Weil offered the group a $4 million donation—but only under the condition that Cleaver remain CEO, VoxIt didn’t work. Shortly after her departure from Vote.
Ufot, who has partnered with Cleaver on previous voter mobilization efforts, tells TIME she can’t comment on the merits of the complaint, but feels the issue needs a resolution so that both parties involved can focus on the election. “They’ve been in the press before and it didn’t hurt their ability to walk and chew gum,” she says of Vote.org. “I just think that this is a question that needs to be settled.
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