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Don’t Get Pregnant: Discrimination at DOJ

3/20/07, 3:51 pm EST

Advice to aspiring U.S. Attorney candidates: Don’t get pregnant.

The document dump from the Department of Justice shook loose this letter from Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor to Alberto Gonzales in reference to the Karl Rove lackey Tim Griffin, who was appointed U.S. Attorney after the ouster of the popular and competent U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins.

What’s revelatory here is the excuse Gonzales’ liason gave Pryor for why Cummin’s deputy wasn’t elevated to the post: She was on maternity leave.

Pryor describes himself as “astonished” that DOJ would use “pregancy and motherhood as conditions that deny an appointment” argued that such “discrimination” would be actionable in court had such a decision been made in the private sector.

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B.Phillips | 3/21/2007, 12:42 am EST

In point of fact, we didn’t scream in the ovens. We only really scream at Cubs games and durring diamond heists.

Dr. Ralph | 3/21/2007, 5:57 pm EST

Yet another reason for the “glass ceiling”. If you have an employee who wants a year off and he’s male to tell him to suck it… if that employee is female YOU take it up the ass and call it maternity leave. Women and minorities get all the breaks.

Let Them Eat Cake | 3/22/2007, 2:32 am EST

Workplace gender discrimination had been down in the past eighteen years or so…but excusing it as “standard”(Especially, In the U.S. Justice
Dept.)is alot Over The Top….

The Apologies from Repubes/conservatives just keep on a coming-No Matter What The Crime, it’s “just a ‘lil ‘thing.”…

Thousands die, ” em-so routine”…(Strong southern drawl)…Post-Katrina, Iraq, Enron, election fraud, multi-billions hiding in Halliburton pockets, money-laundering, war crimes, excess torture o.k., unauthorized wiretapping, child-predators in congress(Lots of Repubes involved) but it’s “o.k.” ….

Who are these neanderthals? They are definitely Not O.K.

Don’t Flip This Off like every workplace gets away with discrimination-And The Justice Department—–PLEASE!

C Co... aka I Smell Propaganda | 3/28/2007, 6:58 pm EST

Dr. Ralph
Damn straight.

Jed Clampett | 3/28/2007, 10:23 pm EST

Some doctor you are, do you really think a woman takes a year off to give birth? In the first place, gestation only takes 9 months. Second, most of the women who work and get pregnant normally work until the few weeks before delivery, then returns a couple of weeks to a couple of months afterward. Depending on the employer, she won’t be getting paid while she’s out and might not have the job when she gets back. Third, are you really comparing being pregnant and going through delivery to a vacation?
Too bad we don’t live in europe where people get some decent vacation time rather than 2 weeks for 5 yrs.

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