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Utah Employer, Terry Lee Forensics, Fires Workers Supporting Obama
By Claire Gordon
Posted Jan 18th 2013 @ 11:00AM
Filed under: Employment Law, Bosses, Employment News & Trends
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After the president's reelection, a Las Vegas company laid off 22 employees,
claiming it couldn't bear the burden of Obama's health care law. A Cedar
City, Utah, employer also laid off two workers because of the law, and the
boss claims that he chose the unfortunate souls because they voted for the
guy responsible for it.
The Salt Lake Tribune published a story on Wednesday about a Vernal City
smoothie bar, called I Love Drilling, that charges liberals more for a drink
. Terry Lee, owner of Terry Lee Forensics, applauded the decision in the
comment section:
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"Love it. We had to let two employees go to cover new Obongocare costs and
increased taxes," Lee wrote. "Found two Obongo supporters and gave them the
news yesterday. They wanted the idiot in the Whitehouse [sic], they reap the
benefits." (Obongo is a racial epithet for Obama.)
In a follow-up interview with a Tribune reporter, Lee explained that this
remark was somewhat "tongue in cheek" and that the employees also lagged in
performance. But their support for Obama was certainly an issue too.
And It's Legal
Most employee in the U.S. are "at will," which means they can be fired for
any reason, as long as it's not a specifically prohibited one. Under federal
law, only race, color, religion, sex or national origin are unlawful
reasons, and only in five states -- California, New York, Connecticut,
Colorado and Mississippi -- are employers forbidden from firing workers for
their political beliefs.
In most of the country, you can't fire someone for worshipping the devil,
but you can fire someone for leaning to the left.
This isn't true, however, for public employees. After all, if the government
fired someone for his or her political speech, that would be the government
suppressing political speech -- a big no-no in modern democracies.
Fired For Wanting Revolution
Private employers, on the other hand, can kick out anyone they disagree with
-- and Terry Lee isn't the first. In October 2001, the nonprofit network
Goodwill Industries fired one of its garment workers, Michael Italie. He was
running for Miami mayor on the Socialist Workers Party ticket, which had a
somewhat controversial agenda -- including inciting a working-class
revolution, and usurping the war-making powers that be.
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Goodwill, which produced American flags and U.S. Navy apparel, told Italie
to pack up his things because his views on the government were "contrary to
those of this agency."
Supporting Obama may be slightly less incendiary than calling for an
overthrow of the government, but this past election incited private sector
passions more than most. In the lead up to November, several major CEOs
warned their employees against voting for Obama, saying layoffs were likely
if the president had a second term. Terry Lee Forensics is the first
reported employer, however, to actually admit to laying off employees
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