Kerry hires woman fired for having Kerry bumper sticker

[superdave]

Kerry, creating jobs EVEN BEFORE he's president.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2106714

Yeah, I know we had a thread on this, but it seems to have disappeared in the Great Migration.

[Barbara]

That's an awesome story.

[Ian McCracken]

Wait until the unpaid campaign staff get wind of this! 99% of all campaign workers are volunteers, only professional consultants are usually paid (and some of them never get reimbursed for their work). This women will cause a lot of resentment. She'll probably end up whining that she's not paid enough.

[Barbara]

Wait until the unpaid campaign staff get wind of this! 99% of all campaign workers are volunteers, only professional consultants are usually paid (and some of them never get reimbursed for their work). This women will cause a lot of resentment. She'll probably end up whining that she's not paid enough.

I imagine that the voluntarily unpaid staff will applaud this story as much as I do and not resent her in the least. And if they do resent her because they volunteered for something and she did not, then they're more than welcome to vote with their feet.

And you, Ian, are a nasty negative curmudgeon.

[Matrim55]

She'll probably end up whining that she's not paid enough.
Your contempt for the working man (woman) is just sad.

[superdave]

Ian's on ignore, but from the clip, his statement that only consultants are paid is bullsh**. There are tons of young, lowly paid (but not unpaid) recent college grads working on a campaign.

[Ian McCracken]

There are tons of young, lowly paid (but not unpaid) recent college grads working on a campaign.

Yeah, if you consider room and board and pizza money being paid then, yes, there are tons. This woman is moving from working for a private business and probably a decent salary to working for a political campaign for peanuts. My guess is she will be begging to go back to work for her former company.

[Barbara]

Yeah, if you consider room and board and pizza money being paid then, yes, there are tons. This woman is moving from working for a private business and probably a decent salary to working for a political campaign for peanuts. My guess is she will be begging to go back to work for her former company.
Stupid hussy. The nerve of her needing a job when her cushy envelope-stuffing, phone-bank manning campaign job reaches its natural conclusion. The nerve of some people.

[Chicago1871]

Wait until the unpaid campaign staff get wind of this! 99% of all campaign workers are volunteers, only professional consultants are usually paid (and some of them never get reimbursed for their work). This women will cause a lot of resentment. She'll probably end up whining that she's not paid enough.
Seek help.

[Samarkand]

This woman is moving from working for a private business and probably a decent salary to working for a political campaign for peanuts.
So you work for the Kerry campaign? Or Enviromate? Or both? Or neither? I'm confused, but you seem to know a lot about salaries in both Alabama and the Kerry campaign. Obviously, you know this from first hand information, right? I mean it couldn't be that you're just talking out your a.............


(Could it?)

[afgrijselijkheid]

So you work for the Kerry campaign? Or Enviromate? Or both? Or neither? I'm confused, but you seem to know a lot about salaries in both Alabama and the Kerry campaign. Obviously, you know this from first hand information, right? I mean it couldn't be that you're just talking out your a.............


(Could it?)


i dont know... ian definitely seems of decatur, alabama timber

[IntheNet]

I hope the woman knows that Kerry's campaign dies in two months and Kerry's name soon after... she should have signed up with Bush/Cheney and guaranteed herself at least four more years of work!

IntheNet
Bush/Cheney in 2004

[peledre]

Wait until the unpaid campaign staff get wind of this! 99% of all campaign workers are volunteers, only professional consultants are usually paid (and some of them never get reimbursed for their work).
I get paid (rather well) for the campaign work that I've done.

[Bambule GK]

I hope the woman knows that Kerry's campaign dies in two months and Kerry's name soon after... she should have signed up with Bush/Cheney and guaranteed herself at least four more years of work!

IntheNet
Bush/Cheney in 2004


Displaying a (rather typical) lack of understanding of the political "industry."

[Mel Brennan]

Ian's on ignore, but from the clip, his statement that only consultants are paid is bullsh**. There are tons of young, lowly paid (but not unpaid) recent college grads working on a campaign.

He's never worked for a campaign; he has no idea what the real environment is like, or he would never have made that ignorant-ass statement.

You're right Barb; it is an awesome story.

[BlueMeanie]

...she should have signed up with Bush/Cheney and guaranteed herself at least four more years of work!
Exactly! Come early November, she'd have at least four more guaranteed years of work helping the next Republican candidate try to get the GOP back into the White House after they get evicted in 2004! Yay!

[Dan Loney]

This is such a wonderful story.

It should be illegal to fire someone because of their political opinions, but apparently it isn't. What this owner did was absolutely creepy, no matter what party you're in.

[Benito]

Exactly! Come early November, she'd have at least four more guaranteed years of work helping the next Republican candidate try to get the GOP back into the White House after they get evicted in 2004! Yay!

Kerrys numbers are going south fast.

This won't even be a close election. Kerry is taking a hit in most of the battle ground states Kerry is going to lose.

[peledre]

I think it was the Drudge report, so take it for what it's worth, but the latest WaPo poll had Kerry's approval rating or likeability rating (I can't remember which) at 35%, slightly higher than Joe McCarthy in 1954.

Given how close Kerry is in the poll, that really tells you how many people are simply voting against Bush and not for Kerry.

[afgrijselijkheid]

This is such a wonderful story.

It should be illegal to fire someone because of their political opinions, but apparently it isn't. What this owner did was absolutely creepy, no matter what party you're in.


i was thinking the same thing, seems to me she'd have a meaty lawsuit if it went that way