Eddie Bernice Johnson's Chief of Staff on Leave After Sending an Email About a Gay Colleague to him

Dallas Observer ^ | 5-15-12 | Eric Nicholson

[Dysart]

The Washington Blade, D.C.'s main LGBT news outlet, is reporting that Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has placed Chief of Staff Murat Gokcigdem on leave following questions about a 2010 e-mail... staffer Chris Crowe was seeking a letter of recommendation from Johnson for a position in Obama's Treasury Department....

"It is my personal belief that he has contacts there," Gokcigdem wrote. "And they, as a group watching and supporting each other if you know what I mean."

[Dysart]

For those of you outside of the great state of Texas here's the congresscritter named, one Eddie Bernice Johnson:

Crowe, the aforementioned gay colleague and not pictured here, later died of a staph infection.

[elpadre]

AIDS deaths are being covered up by calling them by other diseases with similar symptoms. I wonder if such was the case here?

[Sooth2222]

"It is my personal belief that he has contacts there," Gokcigdem wrote. "And they, as a group watching and supporting each other if you know what I mean."

Crowe died of a staph infection in 2011 following an open-heart surgery to treat complications from meningitis.

I think Babelfish may have screwed something up when it did the translation into English. Or there are some details missing.

Otherwise, Gokcigdem is saying exactly what I would expect an ultralib to think.

[StonyMan451]

From what I can gather from the article, if you use the phrase “if you know what I mean” about a gay person, then that’s bad. It doesn’t matter if “if you know what I mean” means “because you know that all left handers stick together” or some other characteristic that has nothing to do with sexual orientation. Simply using the phrase “if you know what I mean” must, simply must, mean “because they’re all gay, you know.” Because, you know, everyone will use whatever excuse they can to persecute gays, if you know what I mean.

[Dysart]

The delicious part is the hypocrisy, no, the fraud that liberals are, and all that they stand for is laid bare here. It’s a textbook case for liberalism, and you’re right, the curtain’s pulled back. And it’s documented, thus no wiggle (lying) room to be found.

[Tainan]

Not thats there's anything wrong with that...“if you know what I mean”

[La Lydia]

Why is her chief of staff some Turkish Muslim guy? She is from Texas.

[TXnMA]

AIDS destroys the immune system, making the victim more susceptible to organisms like staph — and the infections more deadly...

[Dysart]

Diversity?