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Posted on 10/26/2018 2:29:01 PM PDT by PBRCat
Several hours after announcing their suspensions, two campaign workers have been fired from Democrat J.B. Pritzker’s campaign amid controversy over an Instagram photo of a campaign worker wearing a charcoal face mask that resembles blackface.
The campaign on Friday morning insisted the incident was not racial in nature and the employees in question would be suspended without pay for exercising poor judgment.
But within hours, the campaign workers were ousted.
The post by Carolyn Mehta — which LinkedIn identifies as the campaign’s Deputy Get Out The Vote Director — comes as the Pritzker campaign faces a lawsuit from former campaign workers alleging racial discrimination.
The image features a campaign worker wearing a “JB & Juliana For Illinois” T-shirt and wearing a black substance on his face. The man is smiling in the image, which appears to have been taken in an office.
The Pritzker campaign is currently fighting a legal battle in federal court after 10 minority campaign workers claimed racial discrimination. Pritzker has called those allegations “untrue.”
Earlier this year, in February, Pritzker publicly apologized after transcripts of a secretly recorded conversation were published between him and then-Gov. Rod Blagojevich. In the conversation, the two men are discussing what African-American politician would make most sense to fill the Senate vacancy left by Barack Obama after he was elected president. Pritzker said Secretary of State Jesse White would be “least offensive” but calls then-State Senate President Emil Jones “crass.”
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Wow. A number of years ago she was mildly funny. How far she has fallen.
(although they did transfer from the Blue Network to the Red...)
Never have a fb or instagram. They only get you in trouble.
I wants me a Halloween costume that looks like the Devil’s Messenger in H.P. Lovecraft’s “Dreams in the Witch House.”
“There was the immemorial figure of the deputy or messenger of hidden and terrible powers—the “Black Man” of the witch-cult, and the “Nyarlathotep” of the Necronomicon.”
A little white paint around the eyes and lips for “effect”.
More and more things are being declared racist. The bar is being raised and no one is told. Result is that anything a White says or does or doesn’t say or doesn’t do is racist.
The impact of a charge of racism comes from the condemnation of virtue signalling white people.
What happens when white people no longer care about racism charges?
Would it be racist for a white woman to go to a spa and get a mudpack facial beauty treatment?
Pigment is everything these days.
“”Layers of complexity as to why THIS is okay. Further complicated by the fact that Archie kept referring to the performance as a “Menstrual Show””
What this country is lacking is an Archie Bunker!!!! Anything to take place of the ridiculous stories on the news! Can you imagine a show like that today? OUCH! But that doesn’t mean we couldn’t use one!!!
It seems the Pritzker might hand Bruce Rauner the office...Good...
I wouldn’t know this female from Adam if she came to my door but I have to remark on the “annoying nasal voice.”
Tonight on The Five toward the end they each talked about what bothers them and Dana Perino’s was “sensitive hearing where sounds annoy me.” I almost swallowed my dinner fork. Her voice annoys me no end and I’ve always said that she should be locked up in a room with a recording of her voice and be made to listen to it for 12 hours. The same can be said for about 8-10 other females on cable news. How about that Jennifer Tarlow? Holy Mackrel!!!! Marie Harf? Ohhhhhhh! At least Gilfoyle is gone!
Pritzker is way ahead. It is very unlikely this will be “enough”. IL is going to go from the frying pan into the fire.
At the company Halloween event there were people dressed up as an Indian. I asked her if she was 1/1024th Indian... She smiled. We had several people dressed up in blackface with white ‘bones’ painted on the face to represent the skull.
The’re whites and a black and ‘Hispanic’ doing this.
Only liberals do not get along and must find something offensive in nothing.
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