Dan Snyder could be voted out after demands
Dan Snyder – It’s not uncommon to see a club sold for a big quantity of money in sports, but no owner has had as considerable an impact as Dan Snyder.
Throughout his tenure as owner of the Washington Commanders (then Washington Redskins), the situation has been volatile.
The controversies, combined with Snyder’s latest demands for the team’s sale, have sparked thoughts of voting Snyder out as owner once more.
The news
According to the Washington Post, Dan Snyder and his attorneys are seeking assurances from the NFL and fellow club owners that he would not suffer legal ramifications after selling the organization.
Snyder’s demands apparently infuriated other owners, resuming conversations of voting to remove him as owner of the Washington Commanders.
They allegedly called his actions “absurd,” given that the franchise is still being investigated.
A string of controversies
In December, the US House Oversight and Reform Committee produced a 79-page report alleging that the league and the Commanders covered up decades of sexual misconduct.
Snyder was accused of creating a “toxic” work environment and a “culture of fear” in the report.
The committee also ruled that the organization was responsible for the following:
Bullying
Sexual harassment
Other toxic conduct
Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) made the following statement:
“Today’s report reflects the damning findings of the Committee’s yearlong investigation and shows how one of the most powerful organizations in America, the NFL, mishandled pervasive sexual harassment and misconduct at the Washington Commanders.”
Response
Meanwhile, John Brownlee and Stuart Nash, the Washington Commanders’ legal counsel, made the following statement:
“Those Congressional investigators demonstrate, almost immediately, that they were not interested in the truth, and were only interested in chasing headlines by pursuing one side of the story.”
“Today’s report is the predictable culmination of that one-sided approach.”
“There are no new revelations here,” the statement continued.
“The Committee persists in criticizing Mr. Snyder for declining to voluntarily appear at the Committee’s hearing last spring, notwithstanding Mr. Snyder’s agreement to sit, at a date chosen by the Committee, for an unprecedented 11 hours of questioning under oath.”
“The only two members of Congress who witnessed any part of that deposition, one Democrat and one Republican, both made public statements in the wake of the deposition characterizing Mr. Snyder’s answers as truthful, cooperative, and candid.”
“As is typical of the Committee, they have refused, despite our repeated requests to release the full transcript of Mr. Snyder’s deposition.”
“The Committee suggests that Mr. Snyder prevented witnesses from coming forward yet does not identify a single witness who did not come forward or who suffered a single adverse consequence for having done so.”...Read More
Source: Portland News
