Wednesday, May 04, 2005

How Your Vote Can Get You Fired

"How can the United States bring democracy to the Middle East while allowing American citizens to be fired for how they vote?"

Lynne Gobbell's boss fired her from her job after she refused his demand that she remove the Kerry-Edwards bumpersticker from her car. "I would like to find another job, but I would take that job back because I need to work," she told the Decatur paper. "It upset me and made me mad that he could put a letter in my check expressing his (political) opinion, but I can't put something on my car expressing mine." Coworkers confirm that the company attached a pro-Bush letter to paychecks.

He has that right under Tennessee law.

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