Lawmakers Working to Get Unemployment Benefits for Former Workers of Minnesota Nightclub

The disclosure triggered a backlash, including much of its staff who walked out and several regular performers canceling gigs

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Several Minnesota lawmakers are pressing to ensure former staff at a shut-down Minneapolis nightclub gets unemployment benefits.

Clubhouse Jager closed earlier this month amid an uproar over the owner’s $500 donation to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke’s 2016 U.S. Senate campaign.

The disclosure triggered a backlash, including much of its staff who walked out and several regular performers canceling gigs.

St. Paul Rep. Tim Mahoney and Minneapolis Rep. Jim Davnie say the bar employees who quit “made the same decision all of us would have made in that situation.”