White House fires Trump EEOC official after she refuses to step down

[RandySF]

The White House fired the general counsel of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on Friday, continuing a push to oust controversial Trump appointees viewed as hostile to the mission of the agencies they worked for.

Sharon Gustafson, who as the commission’s general counsel was in charge of its high-stakes litigation over workplace discrimination on issues like race, religion and sex, was dismissed by the White House by letter on Friday afternoon after refusing to resign, according to Gustafson’s farewell letter, obtained by The Washington Post, as well as a source familiar with the White House letter who was not authorized to speak about it.

The move was quickly denounced by Republican EEOC Commissioner Andrea R. Lucas, who was appointed by former president Donald Trump last year.

“I find the action taken today by the White House against our independent agency to be deeply troubling,” she said in a tweet, calling it an “injection of partisanship where it had been absent.”



https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/03/05/biden-eeoc-general-counsel-trump/

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Sounds like Andrea Lucas had ought to be next in line ... 99% of people IQ45 appointed

were appointed for deeply partisan reasons (Lord knows it wasn't for their competency), and chosen specifically because they are/were hostile to the mission of the department to which they were appointed.

Drain the Swamp!

[marble falls]

2. Dear EEOC Commissioner Andrea R. Lucas, ...

... the same to you. At least it is fairer now.

[ebbie15644]

3. Next up DeJoy

[LakeArenal]

4. Dear Sharon. Wish Repubs had gone for the $600 a week UC?

Hope like the normally unemployed folks, I hope all your hoops are on fire as you jump through them and weeks or months go by where you hear nothing and receive less.

[MichMan]

8. If she had resigned, wouldn't she have been ineligible for unemployment?

I would have made them fire me too in that case

[LakeArenal]

9. True enough.

[keithbvadu2]

5. Trump's own deep state.

Trump's own deep state.

[roamer65]

6. Fire Lucas too.

[Marcuse]

7. She perverted the EEOC in hopes of securing a SCOTUS seat. It worked for Clarence Thomas.