freecounterpoint: El wise Pepe

Friday, May 01, 2009

[[Added illus. -- Rot]]

Tecumseh said...: The settlement ends a civil-rights action first filed in 2005 by Joseph Maioriello, 56, of Schenectady, a 26-year Senate employee who originally sought $1.5 million. He was fired from his $34,000-a-year job as a photographer two years earlier and replaced by a black employee, El-Wise Noisette.
Wise move.

In the lawsuit, Maioriello claimed he was told by John McPadden, then Paterson's chief of staff, that he was being fired because a number of minority senators wanted to replace him with "a minority photographer, a black photographer." He said he was also told, "You got to remember who Sen. Paterson is. Sen. Paterson is black."

Paterson, who is legally blind, claimed in a sworn deposition that he didn't see well enough to have fired Maioriello because of his race.
Standard pinko line.; 5/01/2009 11:11 AM
Tecumseh said...: Ah. It took me a while to get it: El wise <-> Elvis. Pretty good, Mr Rot, pretty good. Texas air does marvels for you.; 5/01/2009 7:22 PM
Mr roT said...: No gay marriage to keep me watching my back. Can look ahead...; 5/01/2009 7:24 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: So, Rot, you hinting Presley was an OxyMoron?; 5/01/2009 9:15 PM
Mr roT said...: He went to Accidental College with Shteyngart and Yomama, no?; 5/01/2009 10:04 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Damn, what brilliant light of Dawn shines through morning's window:
Rot, you shoulda gone with the phonetically and ontologically superior: "El Wuss Pepe".; 5/02/2009 12:01 PM