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Sue Me Twice, Shame on You
Talking Points Memo —
... What I didn't know is that, as Brian Beutler explains at TPMDC, Ricci landed a job with the fire department back in 1997 as part of a settlement of his own regular old discrimination suit (he has dyslexia). Not exactly the guy you would expect the GOP to make a poster boy for all of us "oppressed" white men. ...
Morning Maybe...(The Tribute Band of Open Left Diaries)
Open Left - Front Page —
... Maybe Frank Ricci isn't the best person to testify against Sonia Sotomayor after all. Seems like Ricci was for "special rights" before he was against them, Talking Points Memo reports: ...
The Conservative Culture of Complaint
Open Left - Front Page —
... , I quoted from Talking Points Memo on Frank Ricci, about his history of filing lawsuit--"Ricci was for 'special rights' before he was against them," I wrote, referring to the fact that he was hired in the first place only after he sued to take the place of someone who scored better than him. Why? Because he was dyslexic. ...
Veni, vidi, Ricci
Balloon Juice —
... We’ve heard a lot from the Village about what an extreme decision Sotomayor made in Ricci v. DeStefano, how it proves she’s too much of a hot-headed Latina victimologist, and so on. It seems worth noting that Ricci had a job as firefighter in the first place because of a suit he filed. From 1995 (via TPM): ...
The Rude Pundit — ... Ya gotta love that Ricci got his job by suing under the Americans With Disabilities Act because he's dyslexic, thus blocking a non-dyslexic from getting being a firefighter. Maybe he got it backwards and thought he was black, and that's why he sued again for promotion. ...
