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Alabama woman says she lost job for sporting Kerry sticker on car
Decatur Daily ^ | 9/12/2004 | Clyde L. Stancil

Posted on 09/12/2004 4:54:10 PM PDT by GeorgiaFreeper

MOULTON — Lynne Gobbell never imagined the cost of a John Kerry-John Edwards bumper sticker could run so high.

DAILY Photo by Clyde Stancil Lynne Gobbell said her boss fired her last week because of the Kerry-Edwards campaign sticker on the back of her car. Gobbell of Moulton didn't pay a cent for the sticker that she proudly displays on the rear windshield of her Chevrolet Lumina, but said it cost her job at a local factory after it angered her boss, Phil Gaddis.

Gaddis, a Decatur bankruptcy attorney, owns Enviromate, a cellulose insulation company in Moulton.

Gaddis did not return phone calls from THE DAILY about the alleged Thursday firing.

Gobbell said she consulted a lawyer, but then changed her mind about going to see him. She said she has cried about the incident and must do without income for three weeks while the state unemployment commission decides if she is eligible for compensation.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: kerry; stupiddemocrat
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Don't ya just love right to work states :D
1 posted on 09/12/2004 4:54:10 PM PDT by GeorgiaFreeper
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To: GeorgiaFreeper

She seems to be on the same diet Gore is on.


2 posted on 09/12/2004 4:56:08 PM PDT by Torie
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To: GeorgiaFreeper

Gobbell said she consulted a lawyer, but then changed her mind about going to see him. She said she has cried about the incident and must do without income for three weeks while the state unemployment commission decides if she is eligible for compensation.


typical dem doesn't even think about looking for another job.....


3 posted on 09/12/2004 4:56:18 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: GeorgiaFreeper

The Kerry sticker says it all she is an Idiot.


4 posted on 09/12/2004 4:56:19 PM PDT by Fast1
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To: GeorgiaFreeper

I don't believe it.


5 posted on 09/12/2004 4:57:42 PM PDT by BenLurkin (We have low inflation and and low unemployment.)
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To: GeorgiaFreeper

More than likely, she got fired for not performing her job adequately. This is just a typical flimsy leftist excuse.


6 posted on 09/12/2004 4:58:41 PM PDT by meyer
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To: GeorgiaFreeper

I believe anyone who has a Kerry sticker can be legally let go for "integrity" issues.


7 posted on 09/12/2004 4:58:54 PM PDT by Vinomori
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To: rolling_stone

was about to post the same line. haha.


8 posted on 09/12/2004 4:59:05 PM PDT by rineaux (hardcore for W04)
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To: BenLurkin

I don't either. Smells "manufactured"...


9 posted on 09/12/2004 4:59:07 PM PDT by sionnsar (Iran Azadi ||| Resource for Traditional Anglicans: trad-anglican.faithweb.com)
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To: GeorgiaFreeper

"I would like to find another job, but I would take that job back because I need to work," she said. "It upset me and made me mad that he could put a letter in my check expressing his (political) opinion, but I can't put something on my car expressing mine."

She was referring to a flier that she said Gaddis placed in employee envelopes to remind them of the positive impact that President Bush's policies have had on them. An employee at the plant who would not identify himself confirmed the contents of the letter.

Gobbell provided a copy of the flier. It says:

"Just so you will know, because of the Bush tax (cut):

I was able to buy the new Hammer Mill
I was able to finance our receivables
I was able to get the new CAT skid steer
I was able to get the wire cutter
I was able to give you a job"
It further says:

"You got the benefit of the Bush tax cut. Everyone did."


10 posted on 09/12/2004 5:00:01 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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The DUr's are emailing the company to complain. Maybe we freepers should contact the company and offer our support / business.
11 posted on 09/12/2004 5:00:03 PM PDT by GeorgiaFreeper (Hitlery does not have fat ankles. That's where the hooves show through above the foot prosthetics.)
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To: GeorgiaFreeper

And how is this different from the story oif a woman fired from a Moslem owned company in Florida becasue she ate a BLT sandwich at work? I'm definitely NOT a Kerry supporter, but firing someone over a political sticker, democrat or republican, is a bit over the top.


12 posted on 09/12/2004 5:00:12 PM PDT by doc30
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To: GeorgiaFreeper
Bullcrap. Sounds like a charge made when she got fired for something else.
13 posted on 09/12/2004 5:00:19 PM PDT by atomicpossum (If there are two Americas, John Edwards isn't qualified to lead either of them.©)
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To: GeorgiaFreeper

Better she be fired then thousands of us lose our jobs under a John Kerry failed economy.


14 posted on 09/12/2004 5:00:19 PM PDT by tomnbeverly (Do not let the UN make decisions for the protection of the United States... VOTE for George W. Bush)
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To: meyer
More than likely, she got fired for not performing her job adequately. This is just a typical flimsy leftist excuse.

That is what I thought, Liberals do some really underhanded things, I would not put it past her.

15 posted on 09/12/2004 5:00:30 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ((John Kerry is now in full retreat))
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To: GeorgiaFreeper
Probably got fired for being stupid. That's a bumper sticker, lady.
16 posted on 09/12/2004 5:00:30 PM PDT by July 4th (You need to click "Abstimmen")
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To: GeorgiaFreeper
Gobbell said she consulted a lawyer, but then changed her mind about going to see him.

Maybe John Edwards will help her out -- he should be available 11/4. :-)

17 posted on 09/12/2004 5:01:43 PM PDT by T-Bird45
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To: July 4th

Sad day in a American, when you can play some stupid "liberal card" to keep a job you are goofing off on, just like their leader John Kerry..absent from his senate Job ....80 percent of the time.


18 posted on 09/12/2004 5:01:54 PM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ((John Kerry is now in full retreat))
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To: July 4th

Oh,(as a beautiful woman once said) "It's twwue, it's twwue!"

CBS has the memos to prove it.


19 posted on 09/12/2004 5:02:21 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: GeorgiaFreeper
I'll pass. I think she was looking for a fight and while its his business and he makes the rules, I won't do business with folks who try to abridge political speech.

Like John McCain for instance.

20 posted on 09/12/2004 5:02:39 PM PDT by jwalsh07 (GIVE'M HELL, ZELL!)
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