Yikes!
Just when you’d thought America may have learned its lesson, that hiring/firing people based on ethnicity and skin-color is wrong, comes this story out of Orleans Parish, in Louisiana.
Turns out that the D.A. there fired the staff that was on when he was elected and replaced them with those of another race...predicatbly, the same race as the D.A.
Yes, Eddie Jordan, the Orleans Parish D.A. (pictured above) fired nearly three dozen white office workers and replaced them with blacks. The fired workers successfully sued Jordan and Orleans parish and won a judgment of $3.65 Million.
Jordan has argued that his office can’t pay that amount and that if forced to pay, it could bankrupt the beleaguered District Attorney’s office. A federal appeals judge ruled Monday (October 22, 2007) that the D.A.’s office $3.5 million in assets could be seized to meet the debt.
"The decision that's going to have to be made by responsible people in the city is whether they want a D.A.'s office," said Clement P. Donelon, who represents the 35 former workers.
Donelon said he didn’t fear a “community backlash” if he took money from the coffers of the office, which already suffers from a low prosecution rate and bungled homicide cases. New Orleans has the highest murder rate in the country.
"It's not us shutting it down. It's the city shutting it down," Donelon said, urging the mayor and city council to take action to compensate his clients.
The decision that allows assets of the office to be seized was made by U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr., who was also part of a three-judge panel that rejected a Jordan appeal in the case in August. Early this month, the court also denied a request by Jordan for more time to pay the debt.
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Citizens from orleans Parish have circulated a petition to force Eddie Jordan to resign from office in the wake of this scandal.
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When are we going to learn that bigotry is wrong period...no matter who indulges in it?
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SEE: http://www.katc.com/global/story.asp?s=7249672&ClientType=Printable
Just when you’d thought America may have learned its lesson, that hiring/firing people based on ethnicity and skin-color is wrong, comes this story out of Orleans Parish, in Louisiana.
Turns out that the D.A. there fired the staff that was on when he was elected and replaced them with those of another race...predicatbly, the same race as the D.A.
Yes, Eddie Jordan, the Orleans Parish D.A. (pictured above) fired nearly three dozen white office workers and replaced them with blacks. The fired workers successfully sued Jordan and Orleans parish and won a judgment of $3.65 Million.
Jordan has argued that his office can’t pay that amount and that if forced to pay, it could bankrupt the beleaguered District Attorney’s office. A federal appeals judge ruled Monday (October 22, 2007) that the D.A.’s office $3.5 million in assets could be seized to meet the debt.
"The decision that's going to have to be made by responsible people in the city is whether they want a D.A.'s office," said Clement P. Donelon, who represents the 35 former workers.
Donelon said he didn’t fear a “community backlash” if he took money from the coffers of the office, which already suffers from a low prosecution rate and bungled homicide cases. New Orleans has the highest murder rate in the country.
"It's not us shutting it down. It's the city shutting it down," Donelon said, urging the mayor and city council to take action to compensate his clients.
The decision that allows assets of the office to be seized was made by U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval Jr., who was also part of a three-judge panel that rejected a Jordan appeal in the case in August. Early this month, the court also denied a request by Jordan for more time to pay the debt.
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Citizens from orleans Parish have circulated a petition to force Eddie Jordan to resign from office in the wake of this scandal.
.
When are we going to learn that bigotry is wrong period...no matter who indulges in it?
.
.
SEE: http://www.katc.com/global/story.asp?s=7249672&ClientType=Printable
