Radical Sherrod Turns Down Lucrative Offer From USDA
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, August 24, 2010, 10:55 AM
In July radical Shirley Sherrod was fired by the Obama Administration after clips from a racist speech she gave were revealed to the public. After her firing the state-run media quickly declared her innocent despite the fact that the speech in question was loaded with racist attacks against whitey and numerous attacks against Republicans.
The democratic-media complex never showed you the rest of her hate-filled speech.
That’s just how they roll.
Today Sherrord turned down an offer to work in the USDA.
The AJC reported:
The former Georgia director for rural development told reporters Tuesday morning that she came very close to taking the new job Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack offered her after demanding her resignation more than a month ago.
” The secretary did push really, really hard for me to stay and work from the inside ,” Sherrod said. “I was tempted.”
On the table were both a deputy director position guiding efforts to fight discrimination within the department, and her old position helping needy Georgia farmers connect with USDA resources.
“I would want to see that work continue,” Sherrod said of her former role in Georgia. “I just don’t think at this point, after all that has happened, that I would be able to take the job.”
Sherrod met with her former boss Tuesday morning for the first time since she was ousted in July over beliefs she was racist.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 91 Comments
JR commented:
She would’ve had a new title with higher pay but do essentially the same job: nothing.
Militant Conservative commented:
This is the first time I have ever been proud of Sherrod. Now, fade away into history and GO AWAY.
powder is dry.
RickZ commented:
Watching Shirley Sherrod speak in front of the NAACP, I swear I’m watching aliens from another planet.
Cammie Novara commented:
The first minute I found a link to the astounding hilarious Yes We Scam! B.S. We Can Believe In! Obama Approval Plummets site I realized that Gateway Pundit’s readers truly have to be able to argue about this link: http://hubpages.com/hub/Yes-We-Scam-BS-We-Can-Believe-In-Obama-Approval-Plummets
sandy commented:
Is Sherrod going to sue Fox News and Breitbart? If so, thats a career move which should net her plenty of moolah.
Granny commented:
Since she was fired, the scam that Sherrod and her hubby ran on the American people in the Pigford case has become public knowledge as have the allegations about the working conditions on her farms that approached modern day slavery.
Shirley probably did both herself and the Obama regime a huge favor by turning down this job.
StandUp4Chuck commented:
Another goberment worker sponging off the tax payers. Good riddance. I am sure the race pimps will support her long enough to sue Andrew and FN.
neomom commented:
She will sue and get her some of that free “Obama Money”! What a useless pig.
larry commented:
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hrh commented:
I wouldn’t say she turned down the lucre, however…
She’s still going to be “consulting” with them about diversity.
That sounds very lucrative to me. Probably more $$ for less work, actually.
Albert commented:
Larry: The true face of the Tea Party.
jimg commented:
Being a ‘victim’ is much easier than punching a time clock, right Shirl?
jimg commented:
Clean up on Aisle 9.
Joanne commented:
OT -
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neomom commented:
Larry, the true face of a troll trying to harm conservative blogs and the Tea Party. Jim, do you want to handle that?
TXBitty commented:
Pigford czar.
gus commented:
Why would this race bating hustler get a job that has anything to do with race bating and hustling.
WTF is wrong with LIBTARDS. This woman should be NO WHERE NEAR any decision on race or diversity. She has proven herself to be a hustler.
Granny commented:
Worse than that Gus – she has proven herself to be a criminal. Go take a look at what she was up to in the 70′s on her farm – the same one she’s claiming “discrimination” for. Link is in my post above. I can tell you right now that even in the early 60′s the minimum age for farm workers was 12 (and that was very limited). To most not working on a family owned farm the minimum age was 14 and the minimum wage was $1.10 an hour. This woman was paying her workers $0.67 an hour! And that is not the worst of it.
She should NEVER have been hired by USDA to do anything, anytime, anywhere. And she and her hubby should have been made to divvy their Pigford money up with the people who actually earned that money!
Militant Conservative commented:
FM did not air the stor till 24hours later. Sherrod was fired by then. You libs are fun to watch spin.
The truth just hurts too much huh! Powder is dry.
RickZ commented:
# 9 Larry:
Is that you, Kilgore Trout?
bill-tb commented:
It’s way past time we audit what all these losers actually do. Either that or just reduce all federal worker pay by 75%, your choice.
Granny commented:
bill-tb, I’m certainly with you re reducing federal employees pay. They are currently making half again as much as they would doing the same job in the private sector and have far better benefits. Not to mention that there is one federal worker for every private worker these days.
Even the military is out of control pay wise. I’m a former military wife and certainly all for paying the military enough that they do not have to ask for food stamps but I was STUNNED when I ever looked at the current military pay scale recently. Thousands of dollars a month even at the lowest levels – and that does not count free housing, free meals, free equipment and uniforms, free insurance, free medical care and access to extremely low priced goods through the PX system. Have a peek for yourself -
http://www.militaryfactory.com/military_pay_scale.asp
Bunni commented:
I knew from day one this race bating lying bimbo would NEVER accept a job from the gov’t! She thinks she can make even more money by suing us again. Haggard old hag, she better use the money she scams for a face lift and jenny craig.
Shirley Sherrod commented:
To work or not work. That is the question.
I think I’ll not work and collect my gubmint money.
Granny commented:
Bunni, Jenny Craig does not work. Witness their former spokesmodel, Kristy Ally, now three times as much woman as she used to be.
OxyCon commented:
Sherrod just wants to be a victim. It’s where she feels most comfortable.
Male Silverback commented:
…ousted in July over beliefs she was racist.
Beliefs??? If a white person made the statements she made they would be through.
Kevin W. commented:
She’s not hurting for money and she knows it. Her and her husband sued the USDA and won a $13 million dollar settlement for “discrimination”.
She’s a typical faker, and fraud.
Please do some research, and hopefully a full story will appear on this website about the “Pigford Farms Case”.
For background, the Pigford Farms case is a class-action lawsuit filed against the federal government on behalf of black farmers and black wannabe farmers, who say they were discriminated against in loan proceedings.
The federal government settled Pigford Farms for an unbelievable $1.15 billion. An incredibly high percentage of those receiving awards under this settlement have done so fraudulently.
Shirley Sherrod was not only an initiator of the Pigford Farms case, she received a chunk of change for her company, New Communities, Inc. To be accurate, she received the largest chunk of change for New Communities — $13 million.
New Communities was a bankrupt commune-type land trust held by Sherrod and her husband. She and her husband personally received $150,000 each to compensate them for “pain and suffering.”
http://biggovernment.com/bshapiro/2010/07/22/congressman-sherrods-hiring-should-be-investigated/
There’s a 7:33 interview with Congressman Steve King of Iowa in the above link, he’s the sole voice calling for an investigation in this Pigford Farm Scam, and the hiring of Shirley Sherrod.
And some more of this scam and how Obama was behind it. After you read this, you would swear this is a back door reparations.
That the “black farmers’ discrimination” shakedown—a 1999 “settlement” reached under Clinton-appointed Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman between USDA and black “farmers”—is a colossal fraud has been documented by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
In July 2007, the GAO released a report accusing USDA of paying $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 172,800 dead people between 1999 and 2005. [Deceased Farmers Got USDA Payments, By Sarah Cohen, Washington Post, July 23, 2007] Self-serving politicians immediately pretended to be scandalized by such waste and abuse, and vowed to hold hearings and get to the bottom of this “incompetence.”
However, during that same six-year period, a USDA settlement with “black farmers” paid out nearly $1 billion to just over 15,000 people—most of whom had no connection with agriculture and had never applied for assistance from the department. Several years ago, one politician asked the GAO to investigate this paradox—but quickly pulled back that request for fear of the fraud that the watchdog agency might find.
Not one politician supposedly outraged by payments to dead people has expressed the slightest concern about even more massive payments to those highly dubious claimants in the settlement that was supposed to resolve the Pigford v. Glickman, now known as Pigford v. Johanns lawsuit.
Obama’s tucked-away language, deep within the bowels of this year’s 670-page Farm Bill, would give 71,700 additional “black farmer” claims already ruled out of order by the court yet another chance to be adjudicated. (All too typical of legislation, the provision is poorly written and the actual number is uncertain.)
The $100 million line-item provision in the farm bill Congress “effectively reopened the government’s discrimination settlement with black farmers”, according to the Capitol Hill newspaper .
http://www.vdare.com/misc/080909_march.htm
The above link is a real eye opener. Read the full story, it’s well worth the time to see the Sherrod/Pigford Farm story for the scam that it is.
John commented:
If you turn down a job don’t you lose unemployment?
Pat the First commented:
That pretty much guts any lawsuit she might want file.