Fired for being Republican


It apparently happened in New York, reports the Smoking Gun. Jillian Caruso a 26-year old Birch Lane Elementary School Teacher has filed a federal discrimination lawsuit after she was allegedly forced to resign for displaying a portrait of President Bush in her classroom and for working for George Bush's re-election campaign after work hours.



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There are laws against politcal campaigning by public employees. They were passed in an attempt to control corruption - politicians used to reward their best supporters with jobs on the public payroll, often jobs they didn't even have to show up for. It rather discouraged "patronage" when those patronage-winners couldn't even fold leaflets in the next campaign...

The problem is, I very, very much doubt that this is applied even-handedly in regards to teachers volunteering for campaigns, and I know damn well that it isn't applied to the teachers' and other public employees' unions.

Posted by: markm at July 25, 2005 12:21 PM

How many teachers campaigned for Clinton during their off hours, then proudly displayed his picture in their classrooms during his presidency?

Just wondering. ;^)

Posted by: Lornkanaga at July 25, 2005 1:46 PM

The thing is, she wasn't displaying a picture of GWB. She was displaying portraits of presidents, one of which happened to be GWB. The principal didn't say, "take down the portraits," he said, "take down that portrait."

Posted by: Phelps at July 25, 2005 3:33 PM

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