Posted on 09/12/2010 10:11:56 AM PDT by truthandlife
Court documents obtained Saturday by THE WEEKLY STANDARD reveal surprising new details about the gender discrimination and wrongful termination lawsuit filed by Christine O'Donnell in 2005 against her former employer, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative non-profit based in Delaware.* O'Donnell, who is now challenging moderate congressman Mike Castle in the September 14 Delaware GOP Senate primary, sought $6.95 million in damages. In a court complaint, she extensively detailed the "mental anguish" she suffered after allegedly being demoted and fired because of her gender. And, although she didn't have a bachelor's degree until this year, O'Donnell implied she was taking Master's degree classes at Princeton University in 2003.
O'Donnell alleged in a July 1, 2005 complaint filed in district court that she had been demoted because ISI's conservative philosophy dictated that women must be subordinate to men. She claimed she was fired when she contacted the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regarding her demotion. ISI told the Delaware News Journal that she had been "terminated for operating a for-profit business."
O'Donnell's finances, honesty, and stability have been called into question in light of her false and strange claims. The court complaint raises further questions on all fronts. O'Donnell, who made an annual salary of $65,000 at ISI as director of communications and public affairs, sought up to $6,952,477 million in damages, claiming, among other allegations, that ISI had defamed her and had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. O'Donnell sought:
--Up to $3,952,447 in "Direct Damages, including back pay" and "lifetime lost income and liftetime damage to reputation."
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
They had a meeting and decided to come back with one big push at the end. Too bad for them they didn’t have anything new.
This stuff was in the papers in DE a while back. I knew about it, and I’m not even in Delaware.
This is a thread I posted in May with links I put in there in May. One of those links does cover this ISI issue. I gave Freepers this info in May. It’s not news at all.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2522050/posts
this is the link I gave on the thread.
http://www.delawareliberal.net/2010/03/20/christine-odonnells-legal-woes/
and this is what that link said about the ISI matter
- She had a well-known dispute with a previous employer, ISI. She sued them for gender discrimination and they accused her of running a for-profit PR business on the company’s time. That suit has been dropped by O’Donnell.
Not news. I’ve known it for 3 and a half months. People in Delaware certainly know it if I do. Freepers easily could’ve known it.
But RINOs have nothing but recycled mud to throw on Christine at the last minute.
ain’t that the truth.. look at what we got in California this year.. the Gop farm club here is the 19th Hole Country Club Lounge.. and northeasterners..
The good ol’ Gopoop shows it’s sorry butt again, the voters will be the butts of their latest jaunt into RinoLand,
Seats in a buyer’s market in politics are always available as long as you’re loaded.. not sure why the last ‘conservative’ standing in Delaware has to be trashed too.
People who are garbage wrapped in skin will say anything to get RINOs elected.
ya think maybe the Standard might have just a FEW friends in the republican elite hierarchy??
Why are you on a conservative site?
“GOP bringing out all they can? Do we wonder why the GOP shoots themselves in the foot so often?”
This is not ‘the GOP’. I am the GOP and *I* didn’t do this.
That said, it looks no different than how McCain went after JD Hayworth. It either sticks or it doesn’t.
I am afraid this one sticks.
Did you originate it, or copy it from somewhere? Mind if I do the same?
Mike Castle having a bad voting record is irrelevant to this kind of behavior. Having past due bills or financial trouble isn't even the real issue. If she is in fact being less than truthful, that is not appropriate. If Mike Castle or anyone else had done exactly the same thing, it would still not be appropriate for Christine O'Donnell to have done so. The premise that addressing this issue = support for Mike Castle is a false premise for those trying to deflect.
The pattern is obvious, and many posters here follow it.
1) In the general, well, you have to vote for whoever has an 'R' after his name, because the time to pick conservatives is the primaries. So, vote for the liberal with the R after his name, even if a conservative is in the race.
2) In the primary, well, you know, a conservative can't win in the general, so you should vote for the liberal running in the primary instead of the conservative.
The advice always boils down to "vote for the liberal".
If it was just a matter of filing a suit, not a problem. But she filed a suit under dubious circumstances against a conservative organization for $7M. I’ve got a real problem with that.
Those who continue to support her should be arguing on her behalf with dirt on whomever her rat opponent will be, not Mike Castle.
The other problem with Christine now is.......what else is going to come out about her and when? After she’s got the nomination and there’s nothing we can do about it? What have the rats got on her? She should have disclosed this long ago and she should have been vetted. If the pubs have shot themselves in the foot again, it’s not by supporting Mike Castle. It’s by not vetting this woman and not finding better candidates, meaning better than Christine or Castle.
Oh, come on, you aren’t really commenting on a lawsuit based solely on the filing for the plaintiff, are you?
How do you know she was “fired with no explanation”? According to the news article we are commenting on, the company told her she was fired for running a for-profit business.
Not sure what your definition of “detailed” is. Maybe you mean quotes she included like this: “ISI is strongly motivated by it’s political beliefs to oppose, dislike, and try to evade these laws”. Because that’s what liberals say conservative groups do all the time.
Or maybe the part where she claims they knew their actions were illegal because “Miss O’Donnell advised ISI Senior Executives that ISI’s conduct was illegal”.
Or maybe the parts where she admits that she took jobs in Jordan and with ICON productions, and that her employer encouraged her not to do so.
Or item 69, where she says she had already applied to Princeton’s graduate school (when she in fact hadn’t gotten her undergraduate degree yet).
Or where she says she had a $125,000 job offer that she turned down to take a $65,000 offer so she could go to a graduate school that in fact she had never applied to, and to which she couldn’t go because she didn’t have her undergraduate degree.
Or maybe you mean the LACK of a bullet that provides an attachment of a written employment contract that specifies all the many things she CLAIMS she was promised. (BTW, do we want a Senator who doesn’t get her employment contract in writing?)
Or maybe you mean item 84, where she CLAIMS she had to “quit” her classes at Princeton, “losing her time and money invested in this course of study” — classes that Princeton says she was never signed up for, and that she couldn’t have signed up for, since she didn’t have an undergraduate degree.
I liked the part where she notes that Doug Schneider, the man she keeps saying is “clearly unqualified” “may have had” experience as an Amway salesperson. In that vein, she claims that his position as being in charge of Marketing (to which they decided to have her position report) was a subordination of her position, even though her position was “Director of Communications and Public Affairs”.
Or maybe the part where she admits that her job was to train him in the public relations, and that a year after she trained him, she still called him “unqualified”, thus indicating that in her opinion, she failed at her job of training him.
In the end, she claims that this happened because the VP she reported to was taking a leave of absense, and the ISI company didn’t want her to be on her own, and needed her to report to a man. It’s her whole “subordination argument”, that somehow ISI had an employment philosophy that required all women to be in submission to men.
Anyway, I would love to have read ISI’s response to this. It apparently was good enough that the EEOC didn’t persue the case, and she wasn’t able to win or advance her lawsuit, and eventually had to drop it.
Reading her story, I am reminded that many times in my career, people who came in after me, and some who I trained, later were put above me, even though I was much better at my job than they were. But they had other skills, skills that made them better at being in charge of things.
If I ran a business, and had a public relations director who wanted to take a 6-month leave to work on a film promotion, I’d want to make sure I had some directory above her who had passing knowledge of her area so he could direct her subordinates in her absense.
All that being said, the importance of the lawsuite to me has nothing to do with all the minutae. It’s that I don’t think the people of Delaware are going to elect a woman who has never held any office before, who has admitted that she had a nervous breakdown and needed professional help because a company made her report to a man she thought was unqualified.
No difference between RINOs and Dems.
John McCormick+A$$hole
Can you imagine the headlines, when the liberals would say that the “conservative candidate” filed a lawsuit claiming that conservative philosophy requires that women be subordinate to men”.
John McCormick=A$$hole
better
Castle has refused to be interviewed by Mark Levin or even the Weekly Standard’s shoeshine boy McCormack.
He did permit an interview with someone who endorsed him, Hugh Hewitt. What a profile in courage.
We have O’Donnell vs Castle right now.
Castle would be a bad senator.
O’Donnell would be a good senator.
The lawsuit she filed sounds like she was a woman unhappy with her salary who wanted to take 6 months off to do film publicity.
But all I can know for sure is the lawsuit was unsuccessful.
How do you know it’s not coming from the rats? Maybe they made a deal with Castle to switch parties if they help him in the primary. How do you know the rats aren’t feeding stuff to the media or else to Castle who’s feeding it to the media because he wants to win?
They wouldn’t. Because it would look like they’re picking on behavior that they do.
Fact is, the Democrats won’t be talking about this.
They will be talking about masturbation, which I haven’t seen here yet, but is all over the internet.
Doesn’t matter. Castle is garbage and must be stopped.
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