I assume it counted but how would you know? I'm sure it wasn't intentional, just one of those things.

Just more irrational sensationalism. folks.


Ex-worker accuses GOP of bias
The Florida party discriminated against her because she is black, she says.

By Tamara Lytle
Washington Bureau Chief
Orlando Sentinel
Posted August 24, 2004

WASHINGTON -- A black woman charged Florida's Republican Party on Monday with discriminating against her, based on race, and then firing her when she complained.

Nadia Naffe, 25, of Tampa was a field director for the state party from August 2003 until she was fired April 2, after she complained to the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, according to a lawsuit she filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Florida.

"When I went to work for them I was so disappointed in the things that I saw," said Naffe, who cried during parts of a news conference Monday at the National Press Club. Naffe, former head of the campus GOP group at the University of Tampa, is unemployed now.

"The things they would say, they were so ugly, and they would do it right in my face. . . . It was humiliating," she said.

Naffe said the state party required her to do outreach to black groups, which the lawsuit describes as illegal "race matching." Employees there also created a hostile work environment by making racially insensitive remarks, such as calling black people "ignorant," she said.

After she took her complaints all the way to state party Chairwoman Carole Jean Jordan, party officials fired her in retaliation, the suit said.

Party spokesman Joseph Agostini denied the charges but would not comment on specifics.

"Allegations are simply that -- allegations," he said. "We believe that once the process takes its due course, these allegations will prove to be without substance."

Naffe's suit, filed by two high-profile law firms, also blamed the Republican National Committee and the Bush-Cheney presidential campaign, saying those groups were involved with the financing and supervision of her position.

"We stand before you as not as Democrats and Republicans but as democrats, small 'd,' and republicans, small 'r.' Citizens should be able to participate in democracy free of bias," said attorney Cyrus Mehri, a frequent contributor to Democratic candidates. Mehri said the suit is being filed now because of statute-of-limitations requirements, not to score political points against Republicans a few months before elections.

Mehri, whose legal victories include race-discrimination cases against Coca-Cola and Texaco, called on President Bush and his brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, to settle the case.

Naffe also is represented by Charles Burr and Sam J. Smith of Tampa, who accused the Adam's Mark hotels of discrimination against black students during Daytona Beach's Black College Reunion in 1999.

Tamara Lytle can be reached at tlytle@tribune.com or 202-824-8255.

I wonder how long she worked for them.....

That may be less than 2-4 weeks!

She was probably a 'plant' by the DNC :o

Just more evidence in support my assertion - the Florida Republican Party is run by a bunch of racist crackers who will do anything to keep the votes of black people in that state from being counted. They are brazen in their attempts to do so, because they are protected from prosecution by their co-conspirator Jeb Bush and his cronies on the state level, and John Ashcroft and his cronies on the federal level.

Because it did not happen on one particular occasion, it has been a gradual process, and YES, it is my opinion that we have progressed to the point that "unlevel playing field" is no longer a valid excuse for anything.

You're talking in circles. Next question please.


It is implied in many subtle, and not so subtle, ways.

Take the NAACP for example. They are never accused of being a "racist" organization. But what do you think would happen if you tried to start an NAAWP organization? Why?

If someone tried to found an all-white college today, there would be cries of racism from here to Timbuktu, yet no one sees any racism in having an all-black college? Why?

Everyone is fine with the concept of African-American sholarships, Hispanic-American scholarships, Asian-American scholarships....Yet think of the drama there would be if someone offered an Anglo-American scholarship. Suddenly the concept would be "racist". Why?

I'm just sick of the double-standard. We all know it exists.... EVERYONE in this country is encouraged to be proud of their racial background and ethnic heritage. Unless you're white.

When are we all just going to be "Americans", and get over all this bull$h!t?...


Common sense.

Mike

Kirk, seriously....You can borrow my hat anytime. It's nice and shiny.

:rolleyes:

Mike

That woman's story is such a pathetically obvious set-up....

A couple of months before the election....what more convenient time for her to come out with such complaints and drama! Why did she wait until now, if this had been going on all along?

Next.

Mike

And a she is a Republican no less. You missed that part.

Interpret that for me, please.

MM insinuates this is an election eve plot, probably cooked up by those nasty old liberals. I am simply pointing out she is, or probably was at this point, a Republican. I doubt if she is doing this frivolously. I think she was just mistreated by a bunch of racist crackers, in other words, by a typical Florida Republican official.

Kirk,

This cracker is starting to take offense at you screaming cracker at every turn. Remember it isn't "how it was intended" but rather "how it is received".

Well, if you are a racist cracker, you deserve to be offended. If you are not, then why are you "receiving" it?

There is strong evidence in the last election of race-based vote fraud, and there is strong evidence here that intimidation is being added to fraud. As far as I am concerned, every racist cracker in Florida who is part of this scheme needs to be named for what they are. That's what I'm offended by.

Kirk,

I could care less who you call a racist, bigot, facist neo-nazi pig. The derogatory connotation of cracker is unnecessary, as are any derogatory terms.

Don't lose the passion, just the thinly veiled hatred.

Thank you.

If your offended by it, I'll drop it. It seemed a fitting term to describe the people I am talking about. It sure beats "peckerwood".