Mark Kirk’s re-election campaign, a lawsuit filed against U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth by two employees of a veterans home was settled for just $26,000 on Friday.
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The lawsuit, which had been scheduled for trial mid-August, had been the dominant theme of Republican U.S. Sen.
According to lawsuit documents, after the two employees filed complaints about their supervisor, Duckworth, then director of the veterans department, visited the Anna facility and terminated one of them, Christine Butler, an executive secretary at the home, for being “insubordinate” to Simms and herself.
The civil case stemmed from a 2006 incident in which the plaintiff accused Duckworth of workplace retaliation. The office represented Duckworth in the case.
Senator Mark Kirk, who is running for reelection in IL, has become the only Republican to attack Donald Trump in a campaign ad.
This item has been corrected to reflect that the IL attorney general’s office said the case was settled at “nuisance value” and that there was no finding of any violation of law.
The ad touts Kirk’s support of President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, his dedication to protecting a woman’s right to choose, and his refusal to support presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump to show his bipartisanship. Last month, a judge allowed the case, which has been dismissed twice, to go to trial.
“As the partisanship and gridlock in Washington intensifies, Senator Kirk remains an independent-minded, reform-driven solution seeker”, Kirk’s campaign manager Kevin Artl said in a statement.
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Kirk’s ad bucks his party in other ways, too, depicting a strong affinity for Democrats and their positions.
