fired for having wrong friend

[DrLeftover]

01/07/2014

A recent college graduate and aide to Colorado state Senator Irene Aguilar was fired from his job because he visited the office of a friend who worked for a Republican.

Tyler Drum, who graduated from Colorado State University last year, told Campus Reform that his friendship with Republicans made Sen. Aguilar uncomfortable, though she did not formally give a reason for his firing.

“Partisanship runs much deeper than I thought,” he said in an interview with Campus Reform. “I thought this would happen on the Republican side.”

Drum, now unemployed, has lost some of his faith in the Democratic Party.

“Now I’m a disenchanted Democrat,” he said. “This was my first job after graduating, [the Democrats] don’t care about my situation, they don’t care to know who I am.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/01/07/for-crime-of-hanging-out-with-a-republican-democratic-state-senator-fires-staffer/#ixzz2plD8Bu1W

 

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Tyler Drum said that his friendship with Republicans made Sen. Aguilar uncomfortable, though she did not formally give a reason for his firing.

^ So all we have to go on is Tyler saying he thought he made her feel uncomfortable? ...he could have been fired for anything

 

[DrLeftover]

True that.

But if he had been a 'she' or any other protected minority, or had worked for a Republican, I believe it would be a bigger story now.