Posted on 03/15/2017 6:40:03 PM PDT by ThE_RiPpEr.
A University of Wisconsin-La Crosse police dispatcher claims she was fired for supporting Donald Trump.
In a letter sent Tuesday to the UW System Board of Regents, Kimberly Dearman's lawyer, Lee Fehr of Onalaska, said his client had been fired for political speech in support of President Donald Trump's travel ban. Fehr's letter said the comments were spurred by an email UW-L Chancellor Joe Gow sent to faculty, students and staff rebuking the move by the president. Gow denied Dearman was fired for her politics.
"I want to be very clear," Gow said. "We would never let someone go based on their political beliefs. We always follow due process and policy if anyone is let go."
According to a letter sent to Dearman from UW-L Human Resources Director Madeline Holzem on Monday, Dearman was given the option to resign or be terminated. According to the letter, Dearman was investigated after a complaint from a coworker and found to have violated university employee policies against unbecoming conduct and threatening or abusive language.
According to the university's definitions, unbecoming conduct is conduct, on or off the job, that adversely affects an employee's ability to continue to perform assigned duties or the university's ability to carry out its assigned mission, or that tends to promote mistrust or embarrassment of the university. Threatening or abusive language directed toward a supervisor, fellow employee or any other person is not allowed, and that includes offensive language, whether or not it's directed toward anyone in particular, and regardless of the intent.
Reached on Tuesday evening, Holzem said she was would not comment further because of possible legal action but did say Dearman had been terminated by the university. There is much more to the story, she said, but declined to elaborate.
The letter from Fehr states Dearman's remarks were in response to a Jan. 30 email sent to the campus community by Gow on behalf of UW-L leadership stating opposition to President Donald's Trump's initial travel ban. Gow's email said he was shocked and saddened by the order, which prohibited refugees and people from certain predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States.
Fehr's letter said Dearman told a coworker she supported Trump's travel ban and that it would prevent terrorists from entering the country. She also said those immigrants should go back where they came from.
Reached by phone on Tuesday afternoon, Fehr said no legal action had been taken by his law firm but he had asked the university to reinstate Dearman to her position. He has not heard from university officials, he said, and he assumes he will proceed with litigation.
"It is a very tragic situation," Fehr said, "that an employee in casual conversation would end up losing her job because another employee is somewhat offended."
Fehr said he was upset the chancellor didn't face any repercussions for his own political speech and said his actions were intended to alert the Board of Regents to the issue of political speech on campus. He said speech on campus should be diverse but felt university administrators were stifling certain points of view.
Gow said he took exception to those comments and said Fehr's actions seem designed to garner publicity and attention. After concerns were raised about Gow's email about the travel ban, the chancellor sent a second, apologizing for his comments and to make sure they didn't stifle discussion on campus, which he said is of utmost importance at a university.
"I don't know this employee, and he (Fehr) is trying to put this on me," Gow said. "That's a claim without any real foundation."
But when one staff member verbally disagreed with the Chancellor, it easily offended her liberal co-worker, which resulted in her termination because of her support of President Trump.
Time to drain our universities swamp!
Hmmm...
Imagine that.
I have known tons of liberals in my life who would seek to have someone terminated if they could, merely for expressing support of Trump and/or Trump’s policies. I have gotten to the point where I have cut myself off from nearly all liberals I have known over decades, because one can’t have reasonable conversations with these people anymore.
I have heard of this happening in other states and counties also...
Me, when I find a lib, I turn around and walk the other way...you can spot them really easy, they wear pajamas, flip flops with 5 inches of snow on the ground, dirty, smelly, and looks like a whale...
Yes! What a shock! UW system is commie to the core.
The lawsuit should seek punitive damages that would freak the freaks out.
As we all know, Lefties always say the opposite of what they mean.
Discovery is going to be a blast. It might just open up a can of worms and whoop-ass about the dug-in leftist at UW, any campus.
I have done the same
I believe Dennis Prager has said we are in an unarmed civil war, or something to that effect.
America is certainly quite divided.
My sister is a Dem and we cannot talk about politics. I love her dearly, but I keep my mouth shut whenever politics, current events, come up.
I believe Dennis Prager has said we are in an unarmed civil war, or something to that effect.
America is certainly quite divided.
My sister is a Dem and we cannot talk about politics. I love her dearly, but I keep my mouth shut whenever politics, current events, come up.
Why is it part of the school administrator’s job to publicly speak for or against anything any president does?
See, you are the one who always shuts up to keep the peace. Bet you feel resentment about that. I know I do when I have to do the same with my own daughter. The left has taken advantage of our peacemaking. We are good people who love our country and are devastated that our siblings and our children are in favor of it's destruction.....for what?
I think you are right about discovery...If I was her lawyer I would start to look at those who voluntarily resigned in the last 7 years. I bet you that there are quite a few that left for other jobs when told if they stayed they would be fired.
You make an excellent point. Conservatives try to be polite. The left does not. And things are coming to a boil.
I pray for this country.
Btw, God Bless you and yours. Are you in West Virginia? Beautiful country.
Okay, now I have to log off and listen to John Denver. :)
I did that YEARS ago. I got no time for libtards.
My 2 daughters are liberal——and we get along just fine
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That's not what I was referring to. That's family. I don't have non blood relatives as friends, if they are libtards.
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