Michael Brodkorb gets settlement for $30K, not including legal fees. Says he can move on... pic.twitter.com/mOsj0ZbAVw
— Tom Lyden (@LydenFOX9) September 26, 2013
The Star Tribune's Baird Helgeson reports in Brodkorb, Minn. Senate settle lawsuit for $30,000:
The Minnesota Senate has settled a lawsuit with Michael Brodkorb for $30,000, far less than the former GOP spokesman was seeking.
“I am glad to have this over with,” Brodkorb said Thursday. "This is about putting this matter behind me and allowing me to get my life back and wake up tomorrow with this not on my shoulders."
The Senate Rules Committee committee will need to approve the payment before it is final.
The Senate did not immediately provide comment.
A statement has since been issued by the Senate:
Subject to the approval of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, the Minnesota Senate and Michael Brodkorb have entered into an agreement that will dismiss all claims Mr. Brodkorb has made against the Senate that have not already been dismissed by the court. The terms of the agreement include:
- Having conducted discovery, Mr. Brodkorb acknowledges that the facts of the case will not support a sex discrimination claim or any of his other claims.
- Mr. Brodkorb releases all claims to date, and the current case is dismissed with prejudice.
- The Senate will withdraw the pending motion for sanctions and agrees not to seek the recovery of its attorneys fees incurred in the case.
- Subject to approval by the Committee on Rules and Administration, the Senate will pay Mr. Brodkorb the severance pay it previously offered him before the suit, in the gross amount of $30,000, which is approximately the amount of money he would have earned had he remained employed with the Senate through the 2012 legislative session.
Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk released the following statement:
“We are pleased to have successfully resolved this matter in the best interests of taxpayers and the institution of the Minnesota Senate. This agreement permanently dismisses Mr. Brodkorb’s claims in their entirety while providing the limited severance pay that was offered to him before he commenced litigation against the Senate.”
Senate Minority Leader David Hann released the following statement:
“We have said all along that the Senate acted appropriately in this matter. I am pleased that this agreement acknowledges that the facts of the case do not support any of the claims against the Senate and that the case has been dismissed.”
We had been hoping that Brodkorb would have had to pay for legal fees for this nonsense, but perhaps this is for the best.
Koch and her husband divorced and she did not run for re-election. After leaving office, she bought a bowling alley in Maple Lake. Brodkorb still lives with his family in Eagan and maintains a political blog.
"This has very hard on my family and I greatly appreciate their support throughout this," Brodkorb said.
A dear friend noted, "Should have been $.02 and no more. Rather hard to agree.
Images: A tweet of the moment from Fox 9 Tom Lyden (top); Ken Avidor's take(bottom).
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I suspect that once the alleged dirt tiger cat escaped the Brodkorb bag and was found to be more on the order of a rumpled kitten, the incentive for his former legislative bosses to shovel great heaps of money at the Reverend Dimmesdale was greatly reduced.
Posted by: Phoenix Woman | Sep 26, 2013 at 11:12 PM