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Ag secretary offers Sherrod 'unique' position
Associated Press ^ | July 21, 2010 | MARY CLARE JALONICK and BEN EVANS

Posted on 07/21/2010 2:18:23 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says he has apologized to ousted employee Shirley Sherrod and offered her a unique new position at the agency.

Sherrod, in an interview with The Associated Press, says she is considering the offer.

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To: Ann Archy
she mentioned she is thinking about suing Andrew, Fox News and the federal govt over her firing.
41 posted on 07/21/2010 4:28:06 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: livius
This is utterly insane. I guess the $13 million she and her SNCC-Black Panther husband Charles Sherrod got wasn’t enough, huh?

Tell us more...links, if available.

I figure that she will get a raise to the super-GS schedule, at a minimum.

42 posted on 07/21/2010 4:47:08 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

There goes our TARP money.


43 posted on 07/21/2010 4:59:24 PM PDT by Ham Hock
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To: Free ThinkerNY

They created a new position for her? My question remains, if she had just won a suit against the Agriculture Department, why did they hire her in the first place? You don’t usually hire someone who just took a bunch of money from you, even if it was fully justified.


44 posted on 07/21/2010 5:36:35 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Sherrod will sue USDA for getting fired, will collect a lot of money in damages and then will be hired by the Pretender In Chief as a civil rights consultant.....for a lot of money.


45 posted on 07/21/2010 5:37:00 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (We don't have a leader in the Oval Office, we have a reader in the Oval Office.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Do she get another $150,000 again in shakedown money?

USDA Employee Shirley Sherrod Received $150,000 in Minority Farm Lawsuit


46 posted on 07/21/2010 5:51:54 PM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Borax Queen

**That’s pretty bad about the pitchfork.**

Well, where I live, it’s referred to as a ‘spudhoe’. Flat tines, somewhat dull tipped, about an inch wide. They work real nice for digging up potatoes.

The protesters probably think it’s a real pitckfork, but wouldn’t be caught dead actually having to use one for pitching hay that’s already ‘been through the cow’.


47 posted on 07/21/2010 5:52:53 PM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....nearly 2,000 years and still working today!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

She should be Deputy Racist Jackass of the Department


48 posted on 07/21/2010 6:06:03 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Put her directly in the White House — she and Obozo are made for each other. One racist POS “community organizer” to another, even if he did say he was fully briefed on and approved of her firing....


49 posted on 07/21/2010 6:13:56 PM PDT by Enchante ("The great enemy of clear language is insincerity." -- George Orwell --)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

“Offers her a unique position”. Boy, this White House crowd is a real bunch of amateurs. They’re taking something that should be private and spreading it all over the country.


50 posted on 07/21/2010 6:16:57 PM PDT by popdonnelly (Democrats = authoritarian socialists)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Yet another minority racist dirtbag soaks us working taxpayers for a few more million.

I guess the beeyoch spent the last 16 million bucks she scammed the taxpayer out of.


51 posted on 07/21/2010 6:23:43 PM PDT by soycd
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To: smoothsailing

Man the democrat base are fast with the polished protest favors. Notice the dude in front
with the fresh shave, brand new megaphone, free cloths and
the perfect union made protest banners with the ink still wet
behind him.

The professional minority protesters have it sown to a sham wow job now.

Pathetic and lazy filth all shined up to sell their scam.


52 posted on 07/21/2010 6:28:52 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Undersecretary of No-Show? The pay is a million a year as long as you don’t sue. One of the perks is a lifetime supply of Get Out Of Anything Free Cards, which should allow her to make some interesting speeches at black events.


53 posted on 07/21/2010 6:39:10 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Obama is like a rocket scientist....who's trying to do brain surgery with a hammer.)
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To: NormsRevenge

No more unique than Michelle’s hospital job.


54 posted on 07/21/2010 6:53:29 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop thinking about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Ag secretary offers Sherrod ‘unique’ position

same one he offered Larry Sinclair in 1999?


55 posted on 07/21/2010 7:52:17 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

She gets a job passing out checks to tens and tens of thousands of “farmers” who claimed they were wronged.


56 posted on 07/21/2010 8:00:38 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: sorry

The entire Government should be terminated every 4 years. RE-hiring gridlock would keep them busy. (Military at Lieutenant and below exempted.)

Gov pensions converted to SS.

(Let them eat what they baked!)


57 posted on 07/21/2010 8:10:30 PM PDT by Cyber Ninja (Live and let live; is not working...)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Bill O’Reilly also apologized to Sherrod on his program today. Bill said that he “hadn’t done his homework.”


58 posted on 07/21/2010 8:13:21 PM PDT by jamese777
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Does this “new position” involve bending off and grabbing her ankles?


59 posted on 07/21/2010 8:28:16 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Bryanw92; popdonnelly

Czaress of Racial Wisdom.

As for why you would offer a job to someone who just beat your ass in court, I can only think of a few reasonable answers ( there may be more)

1. They have more ammunition, and you know it.

2. They know how to exploit your weakness(es) and you buy them off. (Like promoting union stewards to management)

3. Family, political ties or a favor to a third party who controls you both.

Her SNCC past seems a good clue. Old ghosts can be pretty fearsome.


60 posted on 07/21/2010 9:46:33 PM PDT by One Name
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