http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3944/is_200104/ai_n8950191

http://www.holysmoke.org/cos/cc-lawsuit.htm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/01/top10_2001_09.html

Ten African-American employees at the Christian Coalition’s Washington, D.C., office have filed a lawsuit in federal court accusing the organization of racial discrimination.

The complaint alleges that Coalition Executive Director Roberta Combs excluded black employees from staff prayer meetings and an inaugural dinner the group sponsored when George W. Bush became president. It also charges that the Coalition extended health care benefits to white employees but not blacks and maintains that black employees were forced to eat lunch in a segregated dining area.

According to the Lee v. Christian Coalition lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Washington Feb. 23, the workers, most of whom did data entry for the Coalition, were told they could not enter the Coalition offices through the front door, Instead, they were ordered to enter through the back door but were not given key cards to open it and thus had to pound on the door every day to get in.

The suit maintains that Combs said she did not want the black staffers entering through the front door because they would wear out an Oriental rug in the reception area and because she did not want visitors to see employees from the data entry department milling about in that area. It also asserts that she complained about the employees being “talkative and wast[ing] too much time in the kitchen.”

The court filing says black employees were denied use of a break room that has a television, refrigerator and microwave oven and were instead forced to use a “segregated break area, consisting of tables shoved against the wall of the remittance/data entry room.” It alleges that the Coalition failed to pay the employees the minimum wage.

A week and a half after the lawsuit was lodged, a separate legal action was brought by a white employee who says he was fired after he refused to eavesdrop on the black employees who had complained about working conditions. Trent Barton, a lobbyist for the Coalition, said he sympathizes with the African– American employees and told the St. Petersburg Times, “I believe they have a lot of factual information on their side.”

In his lawsuit, Barton charges that Tracy Ammons, a consultant to the Coalition who is Combs’ son-in-law, asked him on Feb. 22 to spy on the black employees. Barton asserts that he was fired after he refused.

Barton filed his legal case, Martin v. Christian Coalition, along with two former black Coalition employees, Rhonda Martin and Samantha Henson. Henson said Combs “became uncomfortable” when she and another black employee joined in employee prayer meetings. Henson said she stopped attending the prayer meetings and shortly thereafter African-American employees stopped receiving notification of the gatherings.

The Times reported that on Feb. 27 Combs prepared a memo denying that the Coalition had refused to allow black employees to enter through the front door. That same day they were issued card keys. Combs later released a statement repudiating the allegations raised in the lawsuits.

“This pro-family organization, one of the most effective in the nation, is committed to fighting religious bigotry and defending expressions of faith in the public square,” said the Coalition, “and we view any act of discrimination as morally reprehensible.”

The lawsuits are the latest in a string of problems for the Coalition. The group, founded with much fanfare in 1990 by TV preacher Pat Robertson, has fallen on hard times. It is in debt and seems to be losing its political influence in the Republican Party.

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Denny has clear political ties to candidates that he is working to get elected. He is only doing this to make a point—ABT Anybody But Trent. Why? Google Trent’s name and read the news articles and maybe then you will see the light.

In Prince William Conservative Republican’s are no longer hidden in the shadows of the Ideologues. Ideology doesn’t work, Pragmatism does.

It is more important than ever that the Committee support its Chairman. Aren’t we all tired of a stale economy because the County is perceived as a politically unfriendly place to do business? Ideologues try to run people off acting like bullies, but this time lets not let them get away with it. It’s time for Conservatives and Moderated (including it’s Committee defectors) to join together in promoting Integrity with the Republican Party.