Obama Palin Shoe Shining Email Could Get Colorado State Worker In Trouble

[RamboLiberal]

DENVER (AP) -- A Colorado state employee could be disciplined for sending an e-mail showing President Barack Obama shining the shoes of former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

The 73-year-old Colorado Department of Transportation worker forwarded the e-mail to at least four co-workers and others on Dec. 22 using her state e-mail account. One of the recipients outside the agency complained.

The original sender of the e-mail, who isn't a state employee, wrote "It appears he (Obama) has found his niche."

CDOT spokeswoman Mindy Crane says the worker could face discipline ranging from a written reprimand to suspension. Employment rules require that she meet with personnel officials first and have a chance to respond in writing. That meeting is scheduled for next week.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/31/obama-palin-shoe-shining_n_408337.html

Ah I cut the old bigot a break - give her a reprimand - after all it's in a Reagan, Bush, Palin America that she still has to work at 73.

[warrior1]

1. hopefully fired

stupid racist.

[RamboLiberal]

5. Good thing my company is not government

Or half our staff would be out on their ass. They and their friends & clients send crap like this all the time.

[Blue_In_AK]

2. This photoshop is wrong on so many levels.

[LisaM]

3. Wow, is that picture offensive

I have right-wing friends who forward offensive stuff to me all the time. It appears to be a hobby of theirs.

I don't think I'd fire a 73-year old, but a written reprimand seems to be in order.

[bridgit]

4. Fired! Prolly been drinking too much pure rocky mountain green beer

Maybe she thinks email is a function of Hallmark Cards - either way she and her recipients need to get with it. Cause Sarah Palin hasn't done shit for anyone cept herself

[Cirque du So-What]

6. Fire her

At 73, she's sure-as-shit old enough to recognize the enormity of that photoshop's offensiveness. It's an affront to public decency that she draws a tax-funded paycheck. The fact that she was amused by it and considered it worthy of forwarding to her bigoted buddies reveals a profound lack of sensitivity in racial matters, and the state is better off not having her in its employ.

[buff2]

7. There isn't ANYTHING those hate filled bastards won't do

God,what a disgusting breed of morons.

[Trekologer]

8. Fire for cause (improper use of information technology) and any pension forfeited

Sounds harsh? She was using a government email account (paid for by taxpayers) to send an unquestionably racist email message and almost certainly while she should have been working (paid for by taxpayers).

[blondeatlast]

9. It's a shame that she remains anonymous. I think her bosses (the taxpayers) are

entitled to know.

Public humiliation is appropriate, IMHO.

[Froward69]

10. Fire her ass!!!

the "just for fun" argument wears a white sheet and hood... Fuck this bullshit...