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Politics claims cancer patient's job
Posted by Fired Fred on May 31, 2007 5:13 PM
Anyone who has followed the federal prosecutor firing story may be shocked, shocked I say, to learn that Democrats may be just as craven and venal as their Republican counterparts.
Ray Allen worked under several Republican administration in Maryland's state government as a contractual computer network staffer. He's also a member of the state's Republican Central Committee. Plus he's been recovering from radiation and chemo treatments.
Did I mention the new governor of Maryland is a Democrat? The oh-so-classy Democrats fired him by certified mail and told him to clean out his desk...
"Is it possible it was political retaliation? I would think it's entirely possible," Allen said. "But no one ever said that."At least Ray has his wife's insurance to keep up with his treatments. I hope she doesn't have a government job too.
Allen said he was a model employee and that he was "unaware of anyone that had any problems with my work."
He said he was told he was being let go because "I wasn't particularly productive over the winter," when he was receiving his cancer treatments.