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State legislators who refused to automatically approve the second term of a Virginia circuit court judge accused of sexual harassment are racist, sexist lynch-mobbers for it, reports the Washington Post.
Newport News Judge Verbena M. Askew, the first black female circuit court judge in the state, had her re-nomination blocked by Republican committees in the state house. The GOP’ers latched onto the fact that a city was forced to pay $64,000 to settle a sexual harassment claim by a woman who said the judge hit on her then blocked her career advancement when she was rebuffed.
GOP leaders said her case was identical to that of former speaker S. Vance Wilkins Jr., the Republican leader forced from office last summer after he acknowledged paying a $100,000 settlement to a woman who accused him of improper sexual advances.
But black lawmakers said there were other motivations. They accused their colleagues of acting like a "lynch mob" and said the GOP majority had conducted an "execution" of Askew.
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Snuffing out Smokes
Recent prints of the famous 1969 photo of the Beatles crossing a street near the Abbey Road studios have been altered to remove the cigarette from Paul McCartney’s hand, reports London’s Sun.
Companies, among them U.S. giant Allposters, asked that the cigarette be removed by computer wizardry. It may also be removed for the cover of the Abbey Road album the next time it is re-issued.
Anti-smoking activists praised the move, but smokers’ rights groups said it was absurd.
"This is pathetic," said Simon Clark, of the pro-smoking group Forest. "What next? We will have to remove pipes and cigars from pictures of Sherlock Holmes and Winston Churchill. These people should stop trying to rewrite history."
State legislators who refused to automatically approve the second term of a Virginia circuit court judge accused of sexual harassment are racist, sexist lynch-mobbers for it, reports the Washington Post.
Newport News Judge Verbena M. Askew, the first black female circuit court judge in the state, had her re-nomination blocked by Republican committees in the state house. The GOP’ers latched onto the fact that a city was forced to pay $64,000 to settle a sexual harassment claim by a woman who said the judge hit on her then blocked her career advancement when she was rebuffed.
GOP leaders said her case was identical to that of former speaker S. Vance Wilkins Jr., the Republican leader forced from office last summer after he acknowledged paying a $100,000 settlement to a woman who accused him of improper sexual advances.
But black lawmakers said there were other motivations. They accused their colleagues of acting like a "lynch mob" and said the GOP majority had conducted an "execution" of Askew.
And in other liberations...
Snuffing out Smokes
Recent prints of the famous 1969 photo of the Beatles crossing a street near the Abbey Road studios have been altered to remove the cigarette from Paul McCartney’s hand, reports London’s Sun.
Companies, among them U.S. giant Allposters, asked that the cigarette be removed by computer wizardry. It may also be removed for the cover of the Abbey Road album the next time it is re-issued.
Anti-smoking activists praised the move, but smokers’ rights groups said it was absurd.
"This is pathetic," said Simon Clark, of the pro-smoking group Forest. "What next? We will have to remove pipes and cigars from pictures of Sherlock Holmes and Winston Churchill. These people should stop trying to rewrite history."
