On Sunday, Politico published an opinion piece by a former lawyer for Bill Clinton and Brett Kavanaugh, who “implores” public servants to keep their jobs to fight the incoming Trump administration.
Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit organization focused on public servants. pieceposted on the site with the title “To all federal employees: Please don't quit.''
“In the coming weeks, American public servants will spend their holidays grappling with difficult choices: keep your job or work under a president who blatantly despises you and may try to fire you.” Work or quit,” attorney Steer wrote. Previously represented Former President Clinton is under investigation in Whitewater. “We're already hearing from you that you'd rather try your luck in the job market than wait for President-elect Donald Trump's promised purge.”
“I'm asking you, please, stay. Your decision is not just about your career or one president. It's about what the federal government can and should be. It's part of a larger war that's been waged throughout American history.
The op-ed went on to lament that President Trump will not make government bureaucrats' jobs “easier” by “reducing” their “vital roles,” arguing that bureaucrats need to “weather the storm.”
“If we head for the exit now, all Americans will suffer,” Stair wrote, concluding that unelected federal employees are “the lifeblood of our democracy.”
In September 2019, new york times revealed Steer's claims against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh:
Classmate Max Stier said he saw Kavanaugh with his pants down at a drunken party in another dorm, where his friends were forcing his penis into a female student's hand. Mr. Steyer, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the FBI about the account, but the FBI did not investigate and Mr. Steer has declined to discuss the matter publicly. We corroborated this story with two officials who had contact with Mr. Steer. The female student declined to be interviewed, but friends say she does not remember the incident.
But former Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who oversaw Kavanaugh's confirmation and was in charge of investigating sexual assault allegations, told the committee that Steer never He said he didn't say anything.
“That person, Mr. Steer, did not contact or provide any information to the majority of the committee. …My office has not received anything from Mr. Steer or his anonymous friends. “Hmm,” Grassley said. said of hill.
