Shirley Sherrod and Pigford: ‘There is More to the Story….’
by PubliusAmerican Thinker offers some interesting background on Shirley Sherrod.
The Thinker quotes from veteran Democrat Pol Willie Brown on her firing by the Obama Administration:
“This past Sunday, in his weekly column for the San Francisco Chronicle, ‘Willie’s World,’ veteran black politico Willie Brown confirmed that ‘there is more to the story than just [Sherrod's] remarks.’
‘As an old pro,’ Brown acknowledged, “I know that you don’t fire someone without at least hearing their side of the story unless you want them gone in the first place.’ Brown observed that Sherrod had been a thorn in the USDA’s side for years, that many had objected to her hiring, and that she had been ‘operating a community activist organization not unlike ACORN.’ Although Brown does not go into detail, he alludes to a class action lawsuit against the USDA in which she participated some years ago.”
The Thinker goes on to describe Sherrod’s involvement in the Pigford case, in which black farmers charged racism and won a settlement from the Department of Agriculture. Sherrod and her husband were beneficiaries of the suit.
“More to the point, out of about $1 billion paid out so far in settlements, the largest amount has gone to the Sherrods’ New Communities Incorporated, which received some $13 million. As Time Magazine approvingly reported this week, $330,000 was ‘awarded to Shirley and Charles Sherrod for mental suffering alone.’
Unwittingly, Charles Sherrod shed light on the how and why of the settlement in a speech he gave in January 2010. As he explained, New Communities farmed its 6,000 acres successfully for seventeen years before running into five straight years of drought. Then, according to Sherrod, New Communities engaged in a three-year fight with the USDA to get the appropriate loans to deal with drought.
Said Sherrod, ‘They were saying that since we’re a corporation, we’re not an individual, we’re not a farmer.’ Nevertheless, the Sherrods prevailed, but the late payments ’caused us to lose this land.’ In other words, the bureaucratic delay over taxpayer-funded corporate welfare payments cost them their business.
Then, thanks to their ‘good lawyers,’ said a gleeful Sherrod, who seems to have fully recovered from his mental suffering, the Sherrods successfully sued the government for ‘a large sum of money — a large sum of money.’ While saying this, he made hand gestures suggesting $15 million. The land itself was admittedly worth no more than $9 million.”
The Thinker goes on to note that Sherrod and her husband have apparently been awarded an FCC license for a radio station. Their message?
“Sherrod gave this talk to announce that the FCC had awarded New Communities a radio station in Albany, Georgia, still another race-based corporate welfare boondoggle. Before the award of this station, he added, the Sherrods ‘had no means of communicating with our people.’
The ‘our people’ in question, of course, are black people. With this new voice, the Sherrods will help ‘stop the white man and his Uncle Toms from stealing our elections. We must not be afraid to vote black.’”
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Shameful. Plain and simple.
Like I have said since this whole incident started, Sherrod is a racist. She is not a repentent racist, just a racist. Progressive/socialist using racism is a tactic to use racism to advance a racist agenda. Nuff Said.
IMO, Both Sherrods are full of hate and are mental.
Add, people like Shirley Sherrod are the perfect agitprop tool for the racist NAACP… a screwdriver!
TAKE AMERICA BACK – NOVEMBER, VOTE THE DIRTY COMMIE RATS
It really seems more like a personal agenda to benefit themselves while using race as their argument.
Just be aware that the awards came out of taxpayer pockets. Government does not earn; it only spends.
I can't wait until this woman's 30 minute of fame are up!
I am tired of looking at pictures of smug government officials. Especially smug racist officials.
New law even when the Government is wrong danage awards will not exceed $1.00 US Tender. I can live with it!
Of course the is more to the story.
There always is.
Rather than be gracious, and accpet the apology from the Secretary of Agriculture and take her new job, Sordid Shirley Sherrod dug her heels in and did the thing that type "victim" always does. She went off the deep end, and took great umbrage over the perceived slight that her "good" name had been traduced and besmirched.
Enquiring minds want to know, and I want to know one thing.
Does Shirley Sherrod know, and have a long standing relationship with Bertha Lewis?
Nobody has asked that question.
Until now………….
Official conspiracy to suppress "Whites" and their "Black" friends/associates along with every other spectrum of color Of the Conservative allegiance of the "Rainbow Coalition"!!!!! Those Conservatives are "Racists, no matter what color they are in the rantings of the "Progressives"!!!!
Reparations by other means! …it seems being a bigot pays off…hmmm!
They use race to silence people who question the veracity of their claims. And decent people like us used to comply out of fear of being branded as hateful. It's utter bullsh!t of course, and if you truly know in your own mind that you do not hate, then the fact is, logically, their charges will never gain purchase.
The veneer has come off this tactic. And it scares the sh!t out of the left. Their bazookas have been replaced with flexi-straws… the sleeping giant of decent people in this country have had enough.
She's a female Al Sharpton making millions off of the race rackets by playing victim and signing up thousands of other "victims".
She got the USDA job as part of her personal settlement, for crying out loud. She's wiped off the networks before the seamy truth gets out.
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As smug as she is, she should be working for the City of Bell, CA.
Always is. Politicians are extremely calculating individuals. No way they ran the risk of forcing her out, unless letting her remain was more dangerous in their view. Add another investigation to the list of garbage we need to take out on November 3rd.
Now Shirley wants to sue Breitbart for showing her in her own words.
She had better hope that he doesn't start looking into that Pigford lawsuit.
That is definitely something that certain people may not want scrutinized too well.
Ah yes, the Sherrods again.
Those racists.
Dammit! Fire her again! I have come to the conclusion that I was "snookered" by Fox News into thinking the Sherrods were decent people.
I disagree. The payout should come from the pockets of those within the government in the wrong.
Ah Andy
You put the carrot in front of the media cart donkey I see. I knew there was more to your story than what was told. A friend of mine calls it "bait and switch". If we can drag out that alledged law suit of theirs, maybe we can get back some of that $15mill they (Sharrod's) swindled out of the public pocket. I wonder if Barry thought that the transformation would take this path. No doubt he will take credit. A couple more months or more of the truth ozzing out of the festered sores of federal corruption, and the end of the world in 2012 will look like a bright spring "We The People" day.
You da man Andrew!!!
Pigford? Seriously? Pigford!?!?!?!?!?
A shallow part of a body of water where swine may cross by wading!
Peggy Noonan (sp),………. where ever you are,……….
maybe you should start thinking about retirement sorta,…………
but before you go,………….. do talk to Bill O'Reilly.
The taxpayers were lynched, again.
Man. I've been posting about this since the whole Sherrod thing started. Nice to finally have someone put it in lights, so to speak.
So…where do I go to get back all the negative rep points I've gotten for posting it?
Haha Haha Good question, I always laugh at your humor, it always seems so relevant too.
You da man too! In fact, it WAS here where I first heard about "Pig Fjord" (for owlworks
) and started to dig.
But the City of Bell guys were'nt taking MY money. She is, or at least was, and probably still is somehow…
That branding came about, as far as I'm concerned, when the PC crowd raised it's divisive head.
yep. fox is becoming msnbc lite. there really isn't much difference between BOR and Olbermann. Maddow and Hannity go to the same barber…and I think she might be smarter…
But seriously, Fox News is becoming very wishy washy of late.
Wow, deja vu…
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/111675...
noonan sucks donkey nuts.
gotta love rahm. seriously, he's a ballsy bitch.
"The ‘our people’ in question, of course, are black people. With this new voice, the Sherrods will help ‘stop the white man and his Uncle Toms from stealing our elections. We must not be afraid to vote black.’”
Absolutely, Publius.
If I had access to important democrats I’d have a lot of fun telling them “Better be careful… Breitbart’s been recording you” and then watching puddles forming on the floor around their feet.
The Sherrod's are Con's and Hustlers gaming the system for personal enrichment. The rock they crawled out from under needs to be turned over and examined. .
Keep digging….this woman is as dirty as they come…….
Looks like Breitbart's minions are still on their smear campaign against the Sherrod family.
Yes, keep harrassing this innocent lady.
That's how the majority of the country feels about Airhead Palin.
look who's back!
Another of the racist, homophobic trolls that infest this site.
By the way, are you a member of journolist?
I've said it before, I'll say it again; do these old RACE PIMPS REALLY want to engage in dueling discovery with Breitbarts lawyers. I'd BET the Shirley and hubby have WAY MORE to hide than they could ever WIN from Breitbart assuming they actually have a case.
Considering Breitbart's airing and text concerning Racist Shirley & the NAACLP contain HER OWN WORDS – IN CONTEXT and with her "redemption" language included – look for her BLUFF to be called, reconsidered and folded:
– point – set – match.
And how do you figure she'd innocent? Seriously–how?
me too. I've always contended that the Sherrods DON'T want too much "sunshine" blazed on that little scam/venture/shakedown.
Rep King (R) Iowa has it right – let's look into Shirley's employ at the very agency she'd been BATTLING for years, or decades really. Let's OPEN UP THE BOOKS.
I guarantee the Sherrods are EXPLOTING that tax payer PIGGYFORD/PIGGY BANK.
Last week the race trolls invaded. We all got it. Watch out for kid_funkadelic. He hit me yesterday and I reviewed his comment stream before responding. It had a link to his personal website and all I can say is he is a loose cannon racist loser blaming all white people for every problem on earth. He is in his 40's and works as a file clerk and has links to really really UGLY BLACK BLOGS.
Ralph, Peggy went over the edge years ago; her desire to remain relevant in Washington D.C. (?) is stronger than her desire to be truthful to the Reagan revolution or the speeches she penned so long ago.
Old ladies like Noonan need to feel *wanted*.
"Lemondrop" says "hi" – (and she bounced up and down once! that's my girl)
No I think the majority of the country feel that way about losers like you..
It would be great if the Breitbart's teabagger brigade would stop their racist smear campaign against this innocent lady. She was a devoted public servant, and is a wonderful woman for helping the Spooners to save their farm. I don't see any of the teabaggers on this site helping any nice old couples save their farms. Shirley Sherrod has a positive influence on society unlike Breitbart and his followers.
Hahahahahahahahaha
Please explain to me what part of "servant" is Shirley, the race baiting tax-payer funded sycophant? Seems to me that the lady is under qualified, over paid, over litigious and over privileged. She definitely ain't no "servant" because apparently she finds if difficult to "serve" anyone but herself, her husband and those who aren’t of the caucasion persuasion. Let's get this straight: The only people who "serve" the public are those in our military and unlike them, it appears that ol' Shirley would rather spit on us (or sue us) than die for us.
Expose the racist mental midgets, pass me the pliers…!
Shirley Sherrod overcame the kind of horrible, vicious racism that people like you deny ever happened. She has faced unspeakable acts of racism and OVERCAME the natural feelings that would come from those experiences to help a white couple save their farm. How many farms have you saved? What actions have you done to benefit society? We know that Shirley Sherrod has had a postive impact on those that she has served.
Mentally warped midgets…
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Wrong. Breitbart edited the video and lied by saying the incident occured WHILE she was serving in the Obama Administration.
Ah Heels . . . yet another lib troll . . . assuming that the person they're "talking" to is racist (and white!)–without the supposed life experiences (and "service"!) of a race-baiter like Sherrod. Amazing.
I'm quite sure that your father wasn't murdered by someone of another race who was then not punished because of HIS race. So, NO, your experiences are NOT like hers.
Shirley Sherrod tries to help others, while Breitbart is only out to harm and smear others.
Legal solution to putting an end to cases like the Sherrod nonsense. I know this will drive the Trial Lawyers Lobby and RAT party batty, but when suing Uncle Sam (taxpayers), instead of the sky's the limit, how about passing legislation limiting the amount awarded?
Who other than herself and her bank account has she really helped?
C'mon…you lovely racist, you make pronouncements but you never answer questions.
If they don't have a long-lasting relationship…they went to the same "school" and learned their lesson well!
How do you know? Do you know every single person here? Hmmmmm?
She's not a race baiter, she's a racist. She and her husband both.
Keep on LYING the LIE you *widdle* prick. You're a Media Splatters jerk off – not a man, to wit:
"Media Matters has published a timeline on their website of the chain of events, although they get a few things wrong and left out others, it’s good enough to prove my point. They start things off on Monday at 11:18am EDT when Breitbart posted seven video clips from Sherrod’s speech at a NAACP conference in March of this year. Several blogs picked up the story subsequently, but the King of News Websites, The Drudge Report, didn’t post it until just before 5pm.
By that time, Sherrod had already resigned. Furthermore, the first mention of the story on the Fox News Channel was around 8:48pm EDT during the Bill O’Reilly’s show. The afore mentioned Glenn Beck, who’s show airs three hours earlier at 5pm, did not mention it at all on Monday. When Glenn did mention it on Tuesday, he defended Shirley Sherrod, saying that the White House, USDA, and the NAACP, all jumped the gun and overreacted before having all the facts." http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6778
So…tarheels77…explain the whole pigford thing. what are the lib talking points on that? enlighten us.
"Now, let us get into a few details that Media Matters, Huffington Post and the rest of the Lame Street Media are ignoring. Number One, Breitbart says he got the video from a source back in April. So why did he release it when he did? Let us begin at the REAL beginning, March 20 of this year.
On Saturday, March 20, 2010, the Tea Party held a mass rally in Washington to protest the passage of the health care reform act. During which, allegations were made that protesters made racial slurs to several members of Congress. Some Congressmen even said there was “mild physical abuse”. None of these allegations have been proven true. Breitbart, himself, has offered a $100,000 to anyone who can produce video or audio of any racial slurs yelled by Tea Party protesters. None have come forward because, perhaps, it never happened!"
"Did protesters vent their anger at the Congressmen, be they black, white, male or female? You bet they did! But none of it, from video or audio records can be proven to be racial, sexual or anything other than political. So, moving forward ‘in context’, we next have the NAACP meeting in Georgia where Sherrod spoke on March 27, one week later.
During her speech, she talks about how she thinks that racism is worse now than ever and uses the allegations of the black Congressmen from the week before as an example. She even goes on to say that any criticism of the health care act ought be considered racial. At several times during the video, many in the audience at the NAACP meeting laughed or applauded her statements. This is why Breitbart released the video when he did."
"Fast forward to three weeks ago when the story broke, on Fox News, that a former attorney for the Justice Department, J. Christian Adams, resigned from his job as in the civil rights division and claims that the reason the voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party was dropped was due to a racial bias. That the Justice Department would not pursue such a case if the defendant were black and the victim were white. We also learn that some of the pressure to drop the case came from NAACP members.
This event then led to the NAACP passing a resolution at their last national conference stating that the Tea Party needs to clean out and condemn any racism within their organization. The hypocrisy of this is what led to Breitbart releasing the Sherrod video. That is the REAL timeline of events, if one wanted to put the whole issue in full context."
"Interestingly enough, it seems that even the full speech version of the video now on the internet is not complete. There was indeed some editing. Who did the editing? Well, since the original video was in possession of the NAACP, I’ll let you draw your own conclusions.
Media Matters, Huffington Post and the rest of the Progressive blogosphere and Lame Street Media are attempting to paint collusion between Breitbart, Fox News and the Conservative blogosphere on this story. Oddly enough, this comes just as we have the Daily Caller story about how the Progressives used a web forum called Journolist to collude against Fox News, John McCain, Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh and others. Imagine that! Me thinks she, Shirley, and the LSM, doth protest too much." http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=6778
Simple logic moron. Each aspect of the situation narrows it down and makes it less and less likely that another person has experienced the same circumstance. Few people's fathers were murdered. Even fewer by a person of another race. Then MUCH, MUCH fewer by a person that was not punished because he was white and the victim was black.
The speech was in APRIL you idiot – she was hired LAST AUGUST (AS IN DURING the OBAMA misADMINISTRATION) you stupid assed LIAR. To wit: "On the video, Sherrod, hired last August as director of rural development for the U.S. Agriculture Department in Georgia, talked about her unwillingness to offer much help to a white farmer when she worked at a non-profit organization 24 years ago".
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/mornings/usda-and-shir...
You are also wrong about who serves the public. Federal employees are public servants. Sherrod never spit on anyone. You are just full on nonsense.
So, YOU ARE WRONG about the hire date/ wrong about the editing (NCAAP had the tape).
Anything else you me to FIX for you? Moron.
Throw this mongrel under the bus and get on with your life.
America is fighting for her life and Sherrod is a waste of time. http://www.eutimes.net/2010/03/world-mourns-as-co...
My Congressman's aide said the 1.5 B, Pigford 2 had not been paid YET, they're waiting for an appropriate
bill on which to attach the authorization for funding. It was added to the FINRA bill but was stripped out be-
fore passage for reasons he didn't know.
So the Sherrods may not have got their mitts on that 13 M yet. Pigford 1 has already been paid, it was all
the real farmers who were really discriminated against by some USDA local employee. They received an
average of less than 70K each.
Another 'class' has been designated for OTHER MINORITIES, HISPANICS, and WOMEN et al. So if you
know anyone who ever dreamed of farming that fits one of these classes tell them to get on the ball and
cash in. No use letting the Dems get all that money.
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You cannot prove that the racist attacks against the congressmen didn't occur. We are left with the choice of believing elected congressmen or a propagandist with a record of smearing people with lies and edited videos.
http://www.breitbart.tv/unlikely-defender-msnbcs-...
Fox "News" ran it on their web site before it was aired on O'Reilly's show. Quit trying to ignore the truth!
YOU CAN'T prove RACIST ATTACKS on black congressman DID HAPPEN. That's the point. You have no PROOF, there is no guilt UNTIL it's PROVEN – so far – despite a big LIE – no proof. Wake up. The accusers have BACKED OFF – and shown to be WRONG.
$100K HASN'T PROVED there wasn't any RACIST LIES. It was MANUFACTURED OUTRAGE to pimp the Obamacare DEBACLE which is what started all of this.
The left is about to get it's collective ASS KICKED and no amount of race baiting, race pimping, and race lying will stop it. The more pimps like you whine, the more people are SICK of hearing the whining. There are 30 black reps an idiot Senator about to leave and and a MORON President in office who ARE BLACK.
I think I could use $330,000 for mental suffering from this infectious human waste.
I seem to her recalling the farmer 'thinking he was better than me'. But maybe he did act like that, but she's so race obsessed she sees it as a racist thing. Maybe he just thought he was better than her because he was a working man who produced something of value to society while she wasted her life as some government bureaucrat?
No James, McCain and Palin lost the election, so we don't have a moron in the White House. We have a man who graduated from Harvard Law, not one who finished near the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy or a woman who had to attend 4 different colleges in order to find one easy enough for her to be able to graduate.
I'm wishin' now AB had ignored the sound bite tape he received..
It's gone from viral, to esoteric, to FUBAR, now "FUBAR esoteric"…
MSM SNAFU on purpose to keep the waters muddied and racist template intact…
Funny. A few days ago a 14 year old black kid attacked a 20-something white guy because the white guy was listening to rap and 'white people aren't allowed to listen to rap'. Are you crying about that sort of random senseless violence?
And why do you have to respond to everything with insults? Are you so unsure of your ground?
I see that this American Thinker article is written by Jack Cashill , who also wrote the articles about Bill Ayers being the secret author of Obamas books. I wonder why Breitbart stopped pushing that story? Too ridiculous even for his devoted readers?In any case it's quite a dubious source.
it's a good thing "Lemondrop" isn't anywhere near,…..
"……Old ladies like Noonan need to feel *wanted*.,….status.
my daughter was put on the board of directors of the Chicago Young Republicans Org.
Seems like the USDA was discriminating against black farmers, not giving them loans when they would give white farmers loans. So there was a lawsuit and lots of black farmers got money. Can you enlighten me on why everyone on here assumes the whole thing is a scam?
Mongrel huh, you are sure a classy bunch on here.
We smear the guilty……the left mass murders the innocent.
from an article about the case:
"Virginia farmer John Boyd describes a scene from a painful past: a white U.S. Department of Agriculture loan officer only allows black farmers to apply for loans one day a week. "Black Wednesday," the farmers call it, and they line up outside the USDA office in Richmond, Va. The loan officer, James Garnett, leaves the door to his office open so that all the farmers in the hallway can hear the loan requests of their colleagues be summarily, and vehemently, denied.
But Black Wednesday was not an artifact of the '50s. This was the America of the '80s and '90s, and in 1994, the USDA itself commissioned a review of the treatment of minorities in its Farm Service Agency programs. The commission's study found that "minorities received less than their fair share of USDA money for crop payments, disaster payments, and loans."
Jamesb simply cut you off at the knees and fed you your raisin size balls to you for lunch.
Most others here could do the same.
He turned you into a joke.
Watch…… people won't even waste their time giving you thumbs down.
HEHE
The left attacks the people they fear most.
Nothing but violence and hatred these people bring to the arena of ideas.
LOL!
LOL!! Let's see his grades! What's the stuttering FOOL hiding? Huh?
Why did he SEAL ACCESS to his ENTIRE LIFE before January 20, 2008? WHY?
Andrew Breitbart is no rookie, and he knows how to navigate through rough waters. IMO, the facts are on side, and he'd easily prevail in court. However, on the flip side, I don't believe the NAACP can hold up to the same scrutiny.
Maybe he asked her for help and she rebuffed him because he wasn't black. Maybe he told her that
was racial discrimination, and that he was just as poor as the black farmers in the community she had
been helping. Maybe she took offense at him upsetting her applecart and dumping it in her lap. Maybe
that WHITE farmer taught Sainted Shirley a lesson. And then perhaps that ONE WHITE farmer was a
good Christian and forgave Shirley for treating him badly at the time of their initial visit. By the way, was
there only ONE WHITE farmer whom Sainted Shirley helped in her career? Why are there no other WHITE farmers? Why were there no black farmers who came forward to vouch for Sainted Shirley?
Could it be that Sainted Shirley was really only in that job 24 years ago to help HERSELF?
Color me curious! There is much more we need to know about Sainted Shirley Sherrod, MUCH much more.
He apparently hasn't been reading the FBI crime statistics over the last twenty years that shows the significant disparity of white on black crime versus black on white crime…especially with the crimes of murder and rape. But then again, I doubt he is seriously wanting to educate himself but would rather continue to believe whatever lies have been spoon fed to him about those evil conservative white people just wanting to pick on a poor little old black lady receiving reparations from the US government whose daddy was killed by a evil white person. Discovering what you thought to be true your whole life is actually a lie and that you were a tool, would be incredibly difficult for the psyche.
Well, sadly the "Harvard Law" grad has bungled every decision he's come across. Some brain trust. Credentials do not equal knowledge, necessarily. Bush had an MBA from Yale.
Can't have it both ways. And, by the way, where in his class did Barry finish? Careful, now.
from American Thinker: http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=htt...
Oh I "edited" it in case you didn't want to review the whole available article.
In the way of background, in 1997, a black farmer named Timothy Pigford, joined by four hundred other black farmers, filed a lawsuit against Bill Clinton's Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman, claiming that the USDA treated black farmers unfairly in all manner of ways, from price support loans to disaster payments to operating loans. Worse, they charged that the USDA had failed to process any complaints about racial discrimination.
The notion that the Clinton Ag Department had spent four years consciously denying black farmers their due defies everything we know about Clinton's use of race and should have made the media suspicious about Pigford's claims dating back to 1983.
part 2 http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=htt...
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At the time, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said the agreement would close a "sordid chapter" in the department's history, a chapter in which no one seems to have been so much as reprimanded.
The major media reported the settlement as though it were the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. For the last forty years, as the civil rights industry has manufactured more and more absurd grievances — most notably the Tea Party smear that incited Breitbart's reprisal — the media have reported on them with increasingly wide-eyed innocence.
In the various stories on the settlement, not one reporter that I could identify stopped to do the math. Pajamas Media did in a detailed article by "Zombie" titled appropriately, "Pigford v. Glickman: 86,000 claims from 39,697 total farmers?"
Although 86,000 black farmers are alleged to have received payments, at no time in the last three decades have there been more than 40,000 black farmers. Nor is there much turnover in the farming business. No entrepreneurial activity involves more long-term investment.
part 3 http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=htt...
Flush with revenue in 1999 and eager to appease this bedrock constituency, the administration settled with the farmers — more realistically, their attorneys — for fifty grand apiece, plus various other perks like tax offsets and loan forgiveness. If any of the presumably racist USDA offenders were punished, that news escaped the media.
After the consent decree was announced, the USDA opened the door to other claimants who had been similarly discriminated against. They expected 2,000 additional claims. They got 22,000 more, roughly 60 percent of whom were approved for this taxpayer-funded Lotto.
Despite having a year and a half to apply, some 70,000 more alleged claimants argued that they not only had been discriminated against, but also had been denied notice of the likely windfall that awaited them.
part 4 http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=htt...
In 2008, for reasons unknown, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa lobbied to give the alleged 70,000 "another bite at the apple." Co-sponsoring the bill was none other than U.S. Senator Barack Obama. In February of 2010, the Obama administration settled with the aggrieved 70,000 for $1.25 billion that the government did not have to give. This money, by the way, was finessed out of a defense appropriation bill
So are Jack's facts incorrect with his article on American Thinker? If his facts are incorrect, then I think he should be contacted and let know in what manner his facts are incorrect
Careful there, she might sue you (<;
Oh did you get to see the transcripts?:) You mean he actually went even though not one classmate can remember him, and he was so important as to be in Law Review? Did his transcripts say he was admitted as a foreign student receiving aid or better yet who was his sponsor? Or maybe it is as simple as that he was so damn dumb he finished at the bottom? But of course they want to have it both ways…call Bush an idiot and then come to find out when the candidates released their transcripts, uh doh Kerry performed worse than Bush! Call Palin an idiot because she went to four colleges and graduated but never demand that Barry Soetero release his transcripts. If the liberal oppressive throw the straw man up again and again, the conservatives are going to fall for it! They forget that many conservatives are not Republicans and not even close to the RINOs who fall for that shit because they are afraid of offending someone or losing a donor.
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