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 ...
Do you look at people who make corrupt deals and betray conservatives as well as the GOP with a jaundiced eye?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2587987/posts
There are TWO types of suits filed.
a. Substantive
b. Frivolous
May be someday Americans will install the British system.
There if you sue someone and lose, you pay their legal &
court costs. Stops most frivolous suits in their tracks.
But I never want any one’s right to sue taken away. That
would amount to strangling our freedoms.
Please see my post #582
Please see my post #582
Castle will lose the general: he is polling under 50% as the defacto incumbent, and he is completely alienating the most passionate voters out there. Even though he would be going up against an easy opponent in the general, he is a dead candidate walking.
On the other hand, O'Donnell is on the right side of the issues, and on the right side of the current political tsunami. Will she win? Maybe. But she has a helluva better chance than Castle does.
Sorry, but I just don't buy it. Yes, the country in general is undergoing a groundswell of conservative support. The unfortunate logical error that many FReepers are making, however, is in thinking that what applies generally to the country will also apply specifically to Delaware, which is, as a state, extremely UNrepresentative of the country as a whole.
In short, FReepers are falling into a part-whole fallacy that is doing nothing more than setting them up to collectively curse the Delawarean electorate for their monumental stupidity when Coons is named the winner early on election night after handing O'Donnell her head on a platter.
Rasmussen has Castle beating Coons by 11%. At the same time, he has Coons beating O'Donnell by 12%. If there's one thing I've learned, it is that Rasmussen polls are a whole lot more trustworthy than the wishful thinking of a bunch of FReepers who let emotion run roughshod over rationality.
If I am wrong, and Castle wins the general, I will gladly admit my error. If O'Donnell wins the general, will you?
Shoot son, I'd be ecstatic if O'Donnell somehow manages to pull off an upset victory in the general (which she will probably get a chance to do, since the most recent polling has her up over Castle in the primary). Problem is, it's almost assuredly not going to happen.
My main concern is that she takes Castle out in the primary on Tuesday. I'm sick of that guy being in our national legislature - period. I'll gladly trade losing the general election if it means Castle goes into early retirement.
That's exactly my point, We've got people like RiF running around on this thread acting like everybody who tries to warn about O'Donnell's questionable pass are all just a bunch of RINOs who want Castle to win yada yada yada. That tells me that people like reasonisfaith don't really have any arguments - if you're whole "argument" is "you disagree with me, so you're a RINO," then it's obvious you have some sort of mental handicap.
What's funny is that I *want* O'Donnell to win, knowing full well that she will lose - badly - in the general election. That's how bad I want Mike Castle to be cleansed from elected office.
Oh, okay. Well....all's fair in electoral politics. I'm sure O'Donnell's crew would do the same to Castle if they had something new on him.
I also don’t think it’s true that O’Donnell can’t win in the general - although that may be conventional wisdom.
Well, one thing I learned after 2008 is to go by the polls from reputable polling houses (i.e. not the MSM) like Rasmussen, Mason-Dixon, etc. I found that they were a whole lot more reliable than the "gut feelings" of whole threadfuls of FReepers who were dead-set sure that McCain was gonna pull it off and beat Obama, a belief that was based almost entirely on nothing but their desire for it to be so.
Rasmussen has O'Donnell losing quite badly to Coons if she wins the primary. That is not my opinion, that is fact. Now, there are still, what, eight weeks until the election, so that's a lot of time for the dynamics to change. Who knows, we may find out that Coons is a gay porn star who sells drugs out of his SUV and runs a child prostitution ring on the side - that would probably allow O'Donnell to blast past him and win it. Still, as it stands now, based on facts rather than wishful thinking, O'Donnell will not win.
Shoot, I still want her to win the primary, regardless. I'd be quite happy for her to send Castle out on early retirement, even if we don't subsequently take the seat. There are plenty of seats in solidly conservative states that we can shoot for in 2012.
Kirk is an unfortunate debacle. Hopefully we can deal with him in 6 years.
Same deal with Kirk. I really hope he loses. I mean, it's not like we lose a seat if that happens. but we DO lose a RINO. A RINO who will probably vote for McConnell as majority/minority leader against the impending Jim DeMint insurgency to take over the GOP top spot.
I don't know what is worse, but the former is less dangerous: at least you know where the enemy is.
Why the question?
I'm not voting in Delaware. My opinion matters only so much. But I'm not going to dismiss this over some argument like, "Yeah, but the other guy is worse." I mean, Really?
I'd need a better explanation than that. I hope O'Donnell has one.
“Yeah, but the other guy is worse.” I mean, Really?
Yes, REALLY.
Elections about about one candidate versus another, it’s not about a candidate versus the hypothetical ideal.
For all I know, this was a "boilerplate" lawsuit, but she did go there.
Forget the PPP poll.
The Dems didn’t vet their Obama
The lesson is WE SHOULD vet our candidates, because the press will be screaming about this until November if O’Donnell wins.
I’d need a better explanation than that. I hope O’Donnell has one.
Apparently the people of Delaware are satisfied with her explanation, even if you are not. She has moved ahead of Castle among likely voters.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2588004/posts
DING DING DING!!!!!!
We have a winner here folks!
All this “we can’t win in the general” is soooo 2008 when all RINO’s were running around saying we had to be more like democrats. Like when Newt made the green commercial with Pelousy.
As they are fond of saying at the Wall street Journal, “The American public is not stupid, and when Republicans start acting like Democrats, Americans go for the real thing (Democrats)”.
The RINO Republicans at the end of Bush era spent like Democrats. Americans took notice and voted for the real thing.
CN is managed by ISI.
Bill Kristol is one of Weekly Standard's editors.
More irony...CN's "College of the Week" this week?
Princeton!
You have mental and emotional issues.
Please try to deal with them before spewing your attacks in public again.
Does that mean they are not included in the rule of law?
But you have to give him credit for working in so many cool words into his statement. Any time you can use the words “temporal proximity” is a win. So long as you don’t mention temporal shifts at the same time.
I agree with you on that point, if it can be proven it’s a pretty easy case, which makes me think it wasn’t so easily proven.
But that begs the question of why they had so many points (over 100?) if so many were not material to the complaint, especially points that didn’t seem helpful.
Well at least we know we have a RINO loving troll here. It doesn’t bother you that Mike Castle voted FOR Crap and Trade?
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