Posted on 06/02/2010 12:01:39 PM PDT by John Semmens
KrisAnne Hall, an assistant state attorney for the Live Oak-based Third Judicial Circuit, was fired from her job for daring to speak out against government excesses during so-called “Tea Party” rallies held in Suwannee County, Florida.
State Attorney Skip Jarvis explained, “a person can’t serve two masters. These Tea Party people are against those of us who are in the government. I gave Ms. Hall the chance to choose which side she was on. She chose unwisely. I had to terminate her employment.”
Jarvis rejected Hall’s argument that her participation in Tea Party activities was the exercise of “protected free speech” on her own time. “It’s not an issue of so-called ‘free speech’ or even ‘free time,’ for that matter,” Jarvis contended. “She was agreeing with and supporting people who are expressing a desire for less government and smaller budgets. No government employee has the right to say such things even on their own time.”
Jarvis also hastened to add that “this firing won’t result in any budgetary savings. I won’t give these enemies of the state the slightest satisfaction. Ms. Hall’s position will be filled by someone who understands where his loyalties must lie if he expects to be on the public payroll.”
If she went to a Blank Panther rally or a Bill Ayers speech she would get a promotion.
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Sounds like somebody else is gonna get fired.....
And sued for discrimination....
“These Tea Party people are against those of us who are in the government”.
...sorry dopey. Incorrect. An administration that rules against our will by passing “Obamacare”, “Stimulous Bills” and everything else is what we’re all about. A simpleton paper pusher like this twirp isn’t on the radar screen.
missed the satire lol lol ;)
This is a gift lawsuit.
Ha - missed the satire. Just woke up. Reread after I posted. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
If this is satire, I don’t get the joke.
“No government employee has the right to say such things even on their own time.”
This guy is going to lose, BIG TIME.
Shit.
I missed the satire, as well.
I seemed just too real to be fake.
I’m a dumbass.
How incredibly honest and stupid, the Tea Party is not against government, as long as they stay out of our hair and don’t break the very Constitution that gives them their jobs.
Skip needs to find another job.
UPDATE: Prosecutor fired for Tea Party talks Not a First Amendment issue, says Jarvis
The firing is real, but I doubt that Jarvis was stupid enough to publicly say what the satirical section attributed to him. However, John always makes it tricky to figure out where the reality ends and the satire (or at least attribution of true, but hidden, beliefs) begins.
“You can’t take a job advocating for the state and go out and take a position against the state,” Jarvis said. “I advised her from my first learning of her activity that she was free to say and do whatever she desired within the law, but she could not do so while assistant counsel for the state.”
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