...Lynne Gobbell, packing cellulose insulation
Somebody made this up, right?
Posted on 09/15/2004 4:11:47 PM PDT by quantim
John Kerry Campaign Hires Fired Worker
POSTED: 9:06 am EDT September 15, 2004
DETROIT -- Democrat John Kerry has a new campaign worker helping him drum up support in Alabama after hiring a woman who was fired for displaying the presidential candidate's bumper sticker on her car.
Kerry called Lynne Gobbell on Tuesday after reading a newspaper story describing how she had been fired last Thursday from her job packing cellulose insulation at a Moulton, Ala., plant.
Gobbell said her former employer had told her she could either work for him or Kerry. She said Kerry told her, "Let him know that as of today, you're working for John Kerry." "He was proud of me for standing up for what I believe in," the newly employed, 41-year-old said of her quick phone call with the candidate.
Gobbell said Kerry didn't offer too many details about her new position. She will be helping the campaign and may be traveling a little as it gets closer to the election.
She could receive help from another corner, as well. A liberal Web site, AMERICAblog.org, began raising money for Gobbell on Monday night after learning of her dismissal. John Aravosis, who runs the site, said he collected $1,800 over a 24-hour period.
THe employer you presented is a slug that collected slugs. It's that simple, and he isn't going to change that fact , because he attempted, or was successful at forcing a coverup.
"As for property rights, they are very American."
Sure they are, but your concept of them went out with kings, script and the company store.
...Lynne Gobbell, packing cellulose insulation
Somebody made this up, right?
It doesn't really say, but I think that maybe this lady was campaigning on the job.
Why else would the boss tell her "you can work for him or you can work for me"?
I doubt a business owner is dumb enough to fire someone for a bumper sticker on their vehicle...even a really offensive one such as the one this lady had.
Nope, you're simply trying to say that you either qualify what you consider is Free Speech or you're implying that an employer has the right to make prospective employees reveal their entire personal and political affiliations so he can discriminate against them on that basis.
"Sure they are, but your concept of them went out with kings, script and the company store."
My concept that the legal owner of the property has the right to determine whether political ads are displaying on his personal property or not is un-American?
I don't know where you live but in the America where I live the property owner has rights to his propery, the property owner has the right to express his own first amendment rights by deciding whether political ads are displayed on his property, and fat whiny liberals are not entitled to infringe on this rights.
Where do you live?
Did she? Every story I've read says she was fired(yes, I know, the press lies), but I haven't seen any details about that.
Thanks. Don't worry about it. I understand people get mad sometimes. Stay safe.
How do you know this? Do you work for this guy as well? There's nothing in the article that makes this claim. Projecting a little, aren't we?
Amazing how people are so quick to take up the cause for the latest "victim" of a self inflicted wound.
What is it about "private property rights" that spunkie doesn't understand? I'm done trying to 'splain it to him.
So does the military on vehicles that have base stickers. If your vehicle has a bumper sticker that they believe is objectionable or offensive, or that could be deemed such by the general public, you have two choices: remove the bumper sticker or remove the base sticker (and you will not be allowed to drive onto any military installation).
Of course on a military base a political sticker wouldn't be included in that, but you don't find many Kerry stickers on base anyway.
Lots of experience.
The US.
I'll be out and said enough, so stay safe...
LOL! Not the US I live in...where property rights still exist.
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