Bleskachek
Posted on 03/21/2006 9:32:02 AM PST by MRMEAN
A lesbian firefighter in Minneapolis filed a discrimination suit Tuesday against the city's fire chief, a woman who happens to be the firefighter's former domestic partner.
Capt. Jennifer Cornell sued in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis against Chief Bonnie Bleskachek, naming the city as a co-defendant, the Pioneer Press newspaper reported.
Cornell claims Bleskachek denied her training opportunities and stood in the way of her advancement through "a history of animosity, ill-will, malice and bad faith conduct," the paper reported. The suit seeks an end to discrimination and $75,000 in damages.
The case puts Mayor R.T. Rybak, who appointed Bleskachek as chief in November 2004, in a potentially difficult political situation. Both Rybak and Bleskachek have refused comment, the mayor saying through a spokeswoman that he cannot comment on ongoing litigation.
Bleskachek, one of the nation's few openly gay fire chiefs, oversees a staff of 450 and a budget of $43 million.
The lawsuit also claims that Bleskachek was violent toward Cornell during their relationship. They were domestic partners from 1996 to 2001 and share custody of two children, the paper reported.
Bleskachek and Cornell co-founded the Minnesota Women Firefighters Association.
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Dikes on fire?
Catfight!
No problem. Since homosexual fornication is a death-penalty offence, this altercation is easily straightened out.
Great band name...
Was she too rough with firehose?
Nooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's a sentence you have to read more than once!
Lesbian firefighters, who would have imagined?
Drama, drama, drama!!
Bleskachek
I think I read about this in Animal Farm.
Tony Blair?
Sheesh - looks like Cindy Sheehan's ugly kid brother - er, sister!! Or something!
you and your sapphic fantasies again....
minding my own business, trying to eat a Subway sandwich,
and "Jug-head"s ugly sister comes up on my screen . . . .
And many wonder why homosexuality is a no no in the military.
Sweet!Any bikini pics?sarc intended
Wasn't "Rybak" the character name for Steven Segal in "Under Siege"?
Meanwhile, Minneapolis can be proud that daughters of Lesbos are doing a crackerjack job running its fire department.
Ugh.
Why, WHY, W H Y are you always attracted to these threads. < /rhetorical question >
That's what happens when two gals carry a torch for one another.
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