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

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.

stupid racist.

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

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.

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

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.

God,what a disgusting breed of morons.

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).

entitled to know.

Public humiliation is appropriate, IMHO.

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