{"id":194931,"date":"2008-08-07T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T01:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/07\/employee-fired-for-refusing-to-donate-to-romney\/"},"modified":"2008-08-07T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T01:24:00","slug":"employee-fired-for-refusing-to-donate-to-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/07\/employee-fired-for-refusing-to-donate-to-romney\/","title":{"rendered":"Employee Fired for Refusing to Donate to Romney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An executive at Huron Consulting Group has <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121806644837018651.html?mod=hps_us_inside_today\">filed a complaint that he was fired, in part, for not donating to the Mitt Romney campaign<\/a> (he is also alleging age discrimination):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">The company denies that charge. But officials confirm the authenticity of emails showing that the CEO of the Chicago-based corporate consulting firm, Gary E. Holdren, repeatedly linked his requests for donations to Huron&#8217;s business prospects. The emails were provided to The Wall Street Journal by Mr. Pimentel.<\/span>[the complainant]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">In another email, dated Sept. 21, 2007, Mr. Holdren wrote, &#8220;I wanted to thank all of you who contributed to Mitt Romney. You can&#8217;t realize how much leverage this gives Huron going forward to ask various people for business.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\">Other emails from Mr. Holdren refer to conversations with Mr. Romney, deals Huron supposedly won from Romney supporters at other firms and promises to reward Huron executives with &#8220;business for your contributions.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s why, when Republicans talk about running government like a business, you should <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">run the other way<\/span>.  It&#8217;s all graft and back scratching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An executive at Huron Consulting Group has filed a complaint that he was fired, in part, for not donating to the Mitt Romney campaign (he is also alleging age discrimination): The company denies that charge. But officials confirm the authenticity of emails showing that the CEO of the Chicago-based corporate consulting firm, Gary E. Holdren, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,970,975,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corruption","category-employment","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194931"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}