Posted on 04/24/2002 5:02:39 PM PDT by What Is Ain't
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:11 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
San Francisco -- Fuming over the ouster of the city's African American elections chief, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown blamed the firing yesterday on racial politics and all but invited a federal investigation.
"If they had done something like this in the South, the Justice Department would have stepped in," Brown said, one day after the city Elections Commission fired Tammy Haygood. "Maybe some of (Haygood's supporters) should ask the Justice Department to step in."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Shhsss. Don't tell him that the Republicans control the Justice Deptartment.
Willie only reads the San Francisco papers so thinks that Algore is in the White House.
Before anyone starts the flames on the racist "thing" - shall we point out the facts (as provided) in this story?
1) Her critics on the commission had come to see Haygood as an unreliable department head who spent money without fully informing them, sometimes on frivolous items.
Ummm....gee, Ms Haygood, did ya forget that you actually worked FOR someone else?
2) "...voted 4 to 3 in closed session Monday night to dismiss Haygood, ending a nine-month tenure marked at the end by a $5.6 million budget overrun and layoffs in the Elections Department."
Yep...if ya worked for me I would have fired you, too. I believe this fits nicely with the descriptor - incompetent. More on that word in just a minute!
3) As commissioners turned their attention to finding the city's sixth elections director in five years,
Rough place to work.
4) Haygood, a lawyer and engineer with no previous elections experience,
giggle...ummmm....who did she know / bl** to get this job?
5) "I think it's kind of interesting that San Francisco is as racist as it is, " Haygood said. "But I'm from the South, so I guess I'm used to it."
gag - SF racist - ????????? The real Sin City - ?? Surely, you jest.
The elimination of the "African American" tag needs to happen. Sorry, Sister Haygood - you be an American first. You just happen to have African branches in your family tree.
The branches in my tree are mostly Irish - I don't "display" or "claim" that I am an "Irish American."
By insisting on claiming a "what ever" minority - American title, you show your greed, arrogance and ignorance all at once. I refuse. You are nothing more than an American, and nothing less. You "deserve" nothing more than I do - and I'll do my best to make it so. You are a selfish snot that needs to be spanked.
I am an "American". This minority dash American crap needs to stop. Why? See the clown by the name of Haygood.
Just my $0.05 worth.
LVM
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