Googley-Eyed NY Governor is a Googley-Eyed Racist
Good googley moogley! How racist are you if you are black and blind, but fire a white person, whose color you can’t see, who takes pictures for a living to produce photographs you can’t see, and replace him with a black person, whose color you can’t see, to take more pictures which you still can’t see? That is exactly what New York Governor David “the Googley” Paterson did when he was New York Senate minority leader. He fired a white Senate photographer who had been employed by the Senate for 26 years and replaced him with a black man. I would say this was due to a color preference, but since Paterson can’t see shit, I will have to guess this is a racial preference based on texture! Or maybe taste? Eeeww!
From the NYPost here:
Gov. Paterson, who raised state taxes by $8 billion last month, just cost state taxpayers $300,000 more.
The state has secretly settled an embarrassing federal racial-discrimination lawsuit. Paterson, back when he was Senate minority leader in 2003, fired a white Senate photographer in order to replace him with an African-American.
The settlement ends a civil-rights action first filed in 2005 by Joseph Maioriello, 56, of Schenectady, a 26-year Senate employee who originally sought $1.5 million.
He was fired from his $34,000-a-year job as a photographer two years earlier and replaced by a black employee, El-Wise Noisette.
In the lawsuit, Maioriello said he was told by John McPadden, then Paterson’s chief of staff, that he was being fired because a number of minority senators wanted to replace him with “a minority photographer, a black photographer.” He said he was also told, “You got to remember who Sen. Paterson is. Sen. Paterson is black.”
Paterson, who is legally blind googley-eyed, claimed in a sworn deposition that he didn’t see well enough to have fired Maioriello because of his race. A spokesman for Paterson later said the comment was “a quip, a joke.”
So he had his seeing-eye chief of staff do it for him. Same difference.
