Slap On The Wrist For GOP Aide After 'Fags' & 'Dykes' Email

[wyethwire]

by 365Gay.com Newscenter Staff
Posted: September 28, 2004 8:18 pm ET

(Columbia, South Carolina) GOP Senate candidate Jim DeMint is under fire for refusing to fire a key aide who referred to fags and dykes in an email.

DeMint is running for the US Senate from South Carolina. He said that Ginny Allen was personally admonished in a private meeting over the email. Allen is DeMint's director of operations.

Gay rights advocates in the state say she should have been fired.

http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/09/092804email.htm

[yardwork]

1. Personally admonished = "Be careful who you say that to next time

Don't let the media find out because then I have to pretend that we're sorry it happened."

[donco6]

2. Who in SC gives a damn about fags and dykes?

Unless it's to figure out how to string 'em up?

[Charlie Brown]

3. Sadly, this will probably help DeMInt in SC

more of the population probably share his sentiments.

[bogey18]

5. I hate to point out the obvious

but this is becoming a fine art with these people. This is exactly the kind of thing you "accidentally" let slip - who do you think these people are trying to curry favor with? How come no e-mails about illegal contributions or rich benefactors ever get released or unintentionally overheard. Why no incidental comments about moronic fundie idiots? No, when something like this "accidentally" gets out, it is a calculated non risk - do you think these people are afraid of losing the gay vote?

[CornField]

4. A slap on the wrist?! We should expect this from "nice lady" DeMint

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/9763122.htm

When will they ever learn?

In the mid-1980s, U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond incurred the wrath of women when he welcomed a group of feminist leaders to a meeting of the Judiciary Committee: “Why, you all are such pretty ladies. Why, if you all aren’t married, you could be.”

When Holly Cork was in the S.C. House from 1988 to 1992, male members often would address her as the “little lady” from Beaufort. Women were incensed.

Now, they are fuming again, this time over the way Republican U.S. Senate nominee Jim DeMint refers to his Democratic opponent, Inez Tenenbaum. He often calls her a “nice lady, but ...”

Women — Republicans and Democrats — are not amused.

...

BTW, it seems Pickles herself was in SC to fund-raise for DeMint. http://www.abcnews4.com/news/stories/0904/173804.html

She spoke with reporters at the Columbia Metropolitan Airport this afternoon before heading to the luncheon. Bush says wants to support DeMint's campaign because he has worked with her husband on important issues, including tax relief and the war on terror.

She did not mention DeMint's support of President Bush's trade policies. DeMint has been criticized by some textile industry leaders in South Carolina for supporting Bush policies they say hurt the industry.

Bush is expected to speak to about 250 people, who paid 1,000 dollars a plate for the luncheon.

[Moderator]

6. Duplicate

of your own earlier thread. You can add this link if it offers more information.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=870061