Afraid you mean the story years ago from DC itself.
Some local gov admin made some comment in committee about the council or procedure or fiscal situation being niggardly.
Big bruhaha.
The great schadenfreude was that he was homosexual.
I had to look this up. I didn’t realize there was more than one incident. I am talking about the Wilmington incident-
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%22niggardly%22
They would be in a heap of trouble if we retaliated against their verbage. Why are they a protected species?