Iraq Veteran Fired Due To Skin Color

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(07-30-2019, 01:46 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: Oh it was in the WAPO.

I don't have a subscription, so I can't view it again for today/this week I think.
If you google the line

"In a statement Sunday that was first reported by Politico, Reps. Vicente Gonzalez and Filemon Velam, both of Texas, called for Jaslow’s firing and said the DCCC was “in complete chaos.”

It will bring up the WAPO article.

I shared that Politico story.

The word "fire" "fired" "firing" does not appear in that story according to a quick search by me. The Sunday article makes no reference to any statement by Gonzalez or Velam either.

Edit: I also cited the first story about this and there is this quote:

Quote:CHC members were incensed in late June when The Washington Free Beacon published a story revealing that DCCC aide Tayhlor Coleman sent a series of derogatory tweets roughly a decade ago, including one that was portrayed as her being afraid of Mexicans. Coleman publicly apologized for the tweets late last month.

The day after the story ran, Bustos announced in a caucus meeting at the party headquarters that Coleman was getting a promotion to be director of cycle of engagement, a minority outreach program. Some lawmakers — well aware of her tweets — turned to look at each other in shock, according to multiple sources present.

Rep. Vicente González, a second-term Texas Democrat shocked by the tweets, said he asked Bustos the next day if they were “fake.” Bustos texted González back, writing: “I want you to know I listened, I acted. She is no longer in the job.” Coleman is, however, still working at the DCCC.

House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) said in an interview that he asked Bustos to keep Coleman on staff.

“I asked for her not to be terminated but to please be given different duties and responsibilities, but don’t terminate a young African American woman for something she may have done on social media when she was 19 years old,” Clyburn said.

Clyburn added it is his understanding Coleman was removed from her position as director of the cycle of engagement and moved to a different post.

Similarly, Rep. Tony Cárdenas (D-Calif.) didn’t call for Coleman to be fired but wanted her moved elsewhere. The DCCC told Cárdenas that Coleman would no longer be working on the minority engagement project or on any issues concerning minorities at all.

But Coleman was scheduling meetings regarding minority outreach strategy as recently as last week, according to messages seen by POLITICO. A DCCC aide said the committee does not discuss staffing issues.

“Wow, it was my understanding that that individual was no longer in the title that she’d recently been promoted to and that she was in a different position,” Cárdenas said. “And also not in the diversity team.”

Cardenas said Bustos has made herself available for meetings with BOLD PAC, the campaign arm of the Hispanic Caucus which he chairs. “I want to see progress. [Rep.] Ben Ray [Luján] really took it to another level in a good way but we can’t rest on our laurels and we can’t assume it’s going to stay that way,” he said.