Wisconsin contractor fired for 'pro-Walker' sticker

[Sallow]

Wisconsin contractor fired for 'pro-Walker' sticker | Video | Fox News
**** freedom, right? How dare anyone have a pro-Walker bumper sticker!

This is what the unions do. You either tow the line, THEIR LINE, or your toast.

How dare he!!! The fiend. No free marketeer would ever fire anyone over politics..

Oh wait..

In opening the town hall meeting, Kerry told the story of an Alabama worker who lost her job after she refused her boss's demand to remove a Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker from her car. He compared that treatment to the anger some Florida Democrats felt after they alleged they were blocked from voting or did not have their votes properly counted in the 2000 presidential race.

In Florida stop, Kerry hammers Bush on health care policy - The Boston Globe

The same is true of Lynne Gobbell of Moulton, Ala., who on Sept. 9 was fired from her job at Enviromate, a company that makes housing insulation, for driving to work with a Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker in the rear windshield of her Chevy Lumina. The person who did the firing was Phil Geddes, who owns the company and is an enthusiastic Bush supporter. (Although Gobbell hasn't done any proselytizing for Kerry at Enviromate, Geddes distributed a flyer to all Enviromate employees explaining why they should vote for Bush.
The insubordinate bumper sticker. - Slate Magazine

Should there be a law?

 

[Oldstyle]

Brilliant refutation.
Another BITCHSLAPPIN BEATDOWN delivered to CON BITCHES by DECEPTICON!

Great comedy, But this is a reality board.

REALITY?
When the hell have CONZ given a SHIT about reality?
"Reagan proved deficits don't matter" How's that for an embrace of reality?
Don't discuss reality with me unless you're serious about it.
Wanna talk tax cuts creating jobs or tricking down wealth?
Wanna talk middle class wages?
Wanna talk tax cuts and executive compensation versus worker compensation?
Wanna talk Iraq WMDs?
Wanna talk about how Iraqi oil paid for the war?
Wanna talk about how this woman was treated unfairly for her appearance but Trayvon had it coming for wearing a hoodie?

I already asked for the part of the first amendment or any wisconsin law that would protect this woman and no CON has come forward. Can't get anymore reality based than that.

So if she was fired legally, what's your *****?
People get fired all the time for being assholes and not doing what their bosses tell them.
You think you CONZ are special somehow? That you deserve MORE protection for your idiotic ideas than the rest of us? Grow the **** up. Quit being little bitches, crying in your sundresses over your spilled juice box.

What was the woman fired "for", Decepticon? Having a pro-Walker bumpersticker? On a car sitting in a parking lot next to what I assume are dozens of cars with Recall Walker bumperstickers? So has it really come to this at our schools? Is the level of tolerance for other viewpoints deteriorated to the point where TEACHERS lobby to get a 68 year old cleaning lady fired from her job because of the bumpersticker she has on her private car doesn't match THEIR political viewpoint? All I can say is that's pathetic...

 

[Conservative]

Wisconsin contractor fired for 'pro-Walker' sticker | Video | Fox News
**** freedom, right? How dare anyone have a pro-Walker bumper sticker!

This is what the unions do. You either tow the line, THEIR LINE, or your toast.

How dare he!!! The fiend. No free marketeer would ever fire anyone over politics..

Oh wait..

In opening the town hall meeting, Kerry told the story of an Alabama worker who lost her job after she refused her boss's demand to remove a Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker from her car. He compared that treatment to the anger some Florida Democrats felt after they alleged they were blocked from voting or did not have their votes properly counted in the 2000 presidential race.

In Florida stop, Kerry hammers Bush on health care policy - The Boston Globe

The same is true of Lynne Gobbell of Moulton, Ala., who on Sept. 9 was fired from her job at Enviromate, a company that makes housing insulation, for driving to work with a Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker in the rear windshield of her Chevy Lumina. The person who did the firing was Phil Geddes, who owns the company and is an enthusiastic Bush supporter. (Although Gobbell hasn't done any proselytizing for Kerry at Enviromate, Geddes distributed a flyer to all Enviromate employees explaining why they should vote for Bush.
The insubordinate bumper sticker. - Slate Magazine

Should there be a law?

so... it's ok because it happened before?

 

[Claudette]

It constantly amazes me what CONZ think "freedom" is.
Are you talking about the first amendment? Because that doesn't apply to employers. Are you that stupid? Don't you get that? Don't you understand how your country WORKS? What the founding fathers actually WROTE? I don't think you do.

I can't go into my mostly conservative workplace wearing a t-shirt depicting Ronald Reagan sodomizing puppies (which, I'm told, he did because he enjoyed their whimpering). That would be ******* stupid of me. I know what side my bread is buttered on. They gave her the chance to remove it and she refused. You can't help stupid.

Freedom is apparently the right to do whatever you want without having to endure the consequences of your actions.



Why don't you go complain to Trayvon Martin's parents about how unfair this was ?


At least this stupid con ***** didn't end up ******* DEAD, huh?

Consequences of your actions??

A ******* bumper sticker??

Jesus your an imbecile.

Hey. WHO IS WRITING THE CHECK?
Don't like it? Don't work there!
Problem solved.

You like your job. You dance to your employers tune. You have the FREEDOM to work elsewhere. THAT'S where your freedom is!
Or perhaps you can point out in the first amendment or ANYWHERE ELSE in Wisconsin law where it says you have a right to political speech at your workplace?

**** off Decepticon.

As Cali says I'm sure you'd still be okay with it if the contractor had had a pro Obama sticker on the car.

Shit. I can here the bullshit now.

 

[bodecea]

Great comedy, But this is a reality board.

REALITY?
When the hell have CONZ given a SHIT about reality?
"Reagan proved deficits don't matter" How's that for an embrace of reality?
Don't discuss reality with me unless you're serious about it.
Wanna talk tax cuts creating jobs or tricking down wealth?
Wanna talk middle class wages?
Wanna talk tax cuts and executive compensation versus worker compensation?
Wanna talk Iraq WMDs?
Wanna talk about how Iraqi oil paid for the war?
Wanna talk about how this woman was treated unfairly for her appearance but Trayvon had it coming for wearing a hoodie?

I already asked for the part of the first amendment or any wisconsin law that would protect this woman and no CON has come forward. Can't get anymore reality based than that.

So if she was fired legally, what's your *****?
People get fired all the time for being assholes and not doing what their bosses tell them.
You think you CONZ are special somehow? That you deserve MORE protection for your idiotic ideas than the rest of us? Grow the **** up. Quit being little bitches, crying in your sundresses over your spilled juice box.

You commie prick. Shut up. No one wants to hear your leftist blather.

Typical.

 

[CaughtInTheMid]

i was on another political message board when obama was elected and a poster said that he had fired all of his empolyees (i believe it was 3 or 4) that he knew had voted for obama and was there to encourage all other republican business owners to do the same. a few people jumped on him and asked for details and he ended up looking like some dude who was just mad and making it all up.

But, the fact is, you can fire people in many states for no reason. And you certainly don't have to keep vendors if you don't want.

 

[Oldstyle]

Wisconsin contractor fired for 'pro-Walker' sticker | Video | Fox News
**** freedom, right? How dare anyone have a pro-Walker bumper sticker!

This is what the unions do. You either tow the line, THEIR LINE, or your toast.

How dare he!!! The fiend. No free marketeer would ever fire anyone over politics..

Oh wait..

In opening the town hall meeting, Kerry told the story of an Alabama worker who lost her job after she refused her boss's demand to remove a Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker from her car. He compared that treatment to the anger some Florida Democrats felt after they alleged they were blocked from voting or did not have their votes properly counted in the 2000 presidential race.

In Florida stop, Kerry hammers Bush on health care policy - The Boston Globe

The same is true of Lynne Gobbell of Moulton, Ala., who on Sept. 9 was fired from her job at Enviromate, a company that makes housing insulation, for driving to work with a Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker in the rear windshield of her Chevy Lumina. The person who did the firing was Phil Geddes, who owns the company and is an enthusiastic Bush supporter. (Although Gobbell hasn't done any proselytizing for Kerry at Enviromate, Geddes distributed a flyer to all Enviromate employees explaining why they should vote for Bush.
The insubordinate bumper sticker. - Slate Magazine

Should there be a law?

Personally I think firing anyone over a bumpersticker is ridiculous but Phil Geddes OWNS his company and can do stupid things like that if he so desires. A school however is a different kettle of fish since a school is owned by the public. I'm at a loss to understand why the school administrator...or the two teachers who lobbied to have the custodian fired...thought they had the right to fire someone over a Pro-Walker bumpersticker. Frankly, it shows how out of touch some of our educators are at the moment...

 

[paulitician]

This is the new America the Socialists/Progressives & Neocons have created. Isn't it awesome?

 

[CaughtInTheMid]

This is the new America the Socialists/Progressives & Neocons have created. Isn't it awesome?

one would think that you would be the first person to defend a company owner's rights to do business with whomever they so choose.

 

[Conservative]

Obama vote got T.G.I. guy fired: suit
This is just as wrong. No one should be fired because of who they voted for... or who they have a bumper sticker for.

 

[paulitician]

This is the new America the Socialists/Progressives & Neocons have created. Isn't it awesome?

one would think that you would be the first person to defend a company owner's rights to do business with whomever they so choose.

Businesses are not always right. In fact, they are often very much like our Government. They just don't care about individual's Freedom & Liberty. On the bright side though, one day this kind of incident will lead to the arrest and imprisonment of such 'subversive' Citizens. Aren't Nanny States/Police States fun?

 

[CaughtInTheMid]

This is the new America the Socialists/Progressives & Neocons have created. Isn't it awesome?

one would think that you would be the first person to defend a company owner's rights to do business with whomever they so choose.

Businesses are not always right. In fact, they are often very much like our Government. They just don't care about individual's Freedom & Liberty. On the bright side though, one day this kind of incident will lead to the arrest and imprisonment of such 'subversive' Citizens. Aren't Nanny States/Police States fun?

so what law would you pass that would force businesses to do business with certain vendors? you're on a very slippery slope.

 

[paulitician]

one would think that you would be the first person to defend a company owner's rights to do business with whomever they so choose.

Businesses are not always right. In fact, they are often very much like our Government. They just don't care about individual's Freedom & Liberty. On the bright side though, one day this kind of incident will lead to the arrest and imprisonment of such 'subversive' Citizens. Aren't Nanny States/Police States fun?

so what law would you pass that would force businesses to do business with certain vendors? you're on a very slippery slope.

Always side with Freedom & Liberty. If you do that, you'll do the right thing. It's simple, and it really does work.

 

[CaughtInTheMid]

Businesses are not always right. In fact, they are often very much like our Government. They just don't care about individual's Freedom & Liberty. On the bright side though, one day this kind of incident will lead to the arrest and imprisonment of such 'subversive' Citizens. Aren't Nanny States/Police States fun?

so what law would you pass that would force businesses to do business with certain vendors? you're on a very slippery slope.

Always side with Freedom & Liberty. If you do that, you'll do the right thing. It's simple, and it really does work.

and you're the one that is not siding with freedom. you sound like you want to force the government to force businesses to do business with certain entities depending upon a certain criteria.


there was a local sports talk jock who had a show at the beginning of the NCAA tourney this year and one of his questions, since we live in an area with hated rivalries, was "have you ever not done business with a company because you knew the owner was a rival fan?" and "have you ever not hired someone because they were a rival fan?" there were a ton of people who called in and said yes.

but, we could do it your way and mandate that people and/or business do business with other business according to government regulations. kinda like racial hiring quotas for government employees or college enrollment.

 

[Lovebears65]

It constantly amazes me what CONZ think "freedom" is.
Are you talking about the first amendment? Because that doesn't apply to employers. Are you that stupid? Don't you get that? Don't you understand how your country WORKS? What the founding fathers actually WROTE? I don't think you do.

I can't go into my mostly conservative workplace wearing a t-shirt depicting Ronald Reagan sodomizing puppies (which, I'm told, he did because he enjoyed their whimpering). That would be ******* stupid of me. I know what side my bread is buttered on. They gave her the chance to remove it and she refused. You can't help stupid.

Freedom is apparently the right to do whatever you want without having to endure the consequences of your actions.



Why don't you go complain to Trayvon Martin's parents about how unfair this was ?
At least this stupid con ***** didn't end up ******* DEAD, huh?

YOU ******* MORON.. THese same people who fired her had a bumper stickers on their cars that said RECALL WALKER.. Its ok them to have their stickers but not..

 

[CaughtInTheMid]

It constantly amazes me what CONZ think "freedom" is.
Are you talking about the first amendment? Because that doesn't apply to employers. Are you that stupid? Don't you get that? Don't you understand how your country WORKS? What the founding fathers actually WROTE? I don't think you do.

I can't go into my mostly conservative workplace wearing a t-shirt depicting Ronald Reagan sodomizing puppies (which, I'm told, he did because he enjoyed their whimpering). That would be ******* stupid of me. I know what side my bread is buttered on. They gave her the chance to remove it and she refused. You can't help stupid.

Freedom is apparently the right to do whatever you want without having to endure the consequences of your actions.



Why don't you go complain to Trayvon Martin's parents about how unfair this was ?
At least this stupid con ***** didn't end up ******* DEAD, huh?

YOU ******* MORON.. THese same people who fired her had a bumper stickers on their cars that said RECALL WALKER.. Its ok them to have their stickers but not..

what law would you pass to prevent this and how would you word it?

 

[Oldstyle]

It constantly amazes me what CONZ think "freedom" is.
Are you talking about the first amendment? Because that doesn't apply to employers. Are you that stupid? Don't you get that? Don't you understand how your country WORKS? What the founding fathers actually WROTE? I don't think you do.

I can't go into my mostly conservative workplace wearing a t-shirt depicting Ronald Reagan sodomizing puppies (which, I'm told, he did because he enjoyed their whimpering). That would be ******* stupid of me. I know what side my bread is buttered on. They gave her the chance to remove it and she refused. You can't help stupid.

Freedom is apparently the right to do whatever you want without having to endure the consequences of your actions.



Why don't you go complain to Trayvon Martin's parents about how unfair this was ?
At least this stupid con ***** didn't end up ******* DEAD, huh?

YOU ******* MORON.. THese same people who fired her had a bumper stickers on their cars that said RECALL WALKER.. Its ok them to have their stickers but not..

what law would you pass to prevent this and how would you word it?

First of all I don't feel the need to pass a law every time something happens in the world. That's part of the reason our country is so screwed up...we have legislation instead of common sense.

The problem here lies in the belief of the school administrators that they have the right to permit one side of an issue to have bumper stickers on their cars while prohibiting the other side from having the same privilege. What were these people thinking? We live in a Democracy and that's not how things work. I may not "like" your Obama sticker on your car but I understand your right to have it there.

 

[Decepticon]

Great comedy, But this is a reality board.

REALITY?
When the hell have CONZ given a SHIT about reality?
"Reagan proved deficits don't matter" How's that for an embrace of reality?
Don't discuss reality with me unless you're serious about it.
Wanna talk tax cuts creating jobs or tricking down wealth?
Wanna talk middle class wages?
Wanna talk tax cuts and executive compensation versus worker compensation?
Wanna talk Iraq WMDs?
Wanna talk about how Iraqi oil paid for the war?
Wanna talk about how this woman was treated unfairly for her appearance but Trayvon had it coming for wearing a hoodie?

I already asked for the part of the first amendment or any wisconsin law that would protect this woman and no CON has come forward. Can't get anymore reality based than that.

So if she was fired legally, what's your *****?
People get fired all the time for being assholes and not doing what their bosses tell them.
You think you CONZ are special somehow? That you deserve MORE protection for your idiotic ideas than the rest of us? Grow the **** up. Quit being little bitches, crying in your sundresses over your spilled juice box.

We can discuss anything you wish, Democrats havent told the truth about any single issue in my lifetime. But if you think you can do battle because I am a repub you would be mistaken and owned thoroughly.

Give it your best shot *****.

Name an issue dems lied about and I'll show you 10 republican lies about it.

Go on. Give one instance of dems substantially misrepresenting an issue. Go ahead. I'll wait while you fail utterly.


“The Obama administration has consistently blocked America’s energy production.” — Speaker John Boehner, March 10, 2011
“These resources are being kept out of reach because of an intense regulatory bias and radical environmental activists — both in the administration and elsewhere.” — Chairman of the Oversight and Government Oversight Committee Rep. Darrell Issa, May 12, 2011
“He is diminishing and decreasing the amount of energy in our market domestically and that, of course, resulting in prices that are rising and gas having doubled since he has been in office.” — Sarah Palin, May 6, 2011
“I would reverse Obama’s entire pattern of being anti-American energy. I would start by saying drill here — drill now, pay less.” — Newt Gingrich, May 12, 2011
“The decisions that the President is making on energy, and has been making since the beginning of his administration, has made it very clear that America is not interested in developing our own energy resources.” — Mitt Romney, April 25, 2011
“This is a president who has sat on his hands as it relates to drilling. You know, we’ve got a country that’s got some enormous energy assets that are not being exploited or leveraged to the benefit of our country and to our people.” — Tim Pawlenty, April 25, 2011

Yet...oil production is up 11% from the Bush years.

Gee, that appears to be the SAME LIE, told by 5 fat-******* CONZ, wouldn't it?

Now, perhaps you can do what I just did and prove where say 3 dems all told the same lie?
I'll wait while you call me a name and then fail.

 

[theunbubba]

It constantly amazes me what CONZ think "freedom" is.
Are you talking about the first amendment? Because that doesn't apply to employers. Are you that stupid? Don't you get that? Don't you understand how your country WORKS? What the founding fathers actually WROTE? I don't think you do.

I can't go into my mostly conservative workplace wearing a t-shirt depicting Ronald Reagan sodomizing puppies (which, I'm told, he did because he enjoyed their whimpering). That would be ******* stupid of me. I know what side my bread is buttered on. They gave her the chance to remove it and she refused. You can't help stupid.

Freedom is apparently the right to do whatever you want without having to endure the consequences of your actions.



Why don't you go complain to Trayvon Martin's parents about how unfair this was ?
At least this stupid con ***** didn't end up ******* DEAD, huh?

Classic reply from a loser libtard who sees the defeat of his entire agenda coming on fast.

Thanks for the laugh.

 

[Truthseeker420]

One wonders whether Deceptively Stupid would be ok with this if he'd been fired for having a 'pro-Obama' sticker.

It was pointed out in the OP video, that anti-walker bumper stickers could be found in school parking lots. Why weren't the owners of those cars told no politics on school grounds???

Because Walker is anti-education?