Viacom's hiring: Must be Male with Republican "stripes"

[Rose Siding]

CREW Calls For Immediate Investigation Into Viacoms Hiring Practices
Viacom Advertising for Male Lobbyist


WASHINGTON, DC — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) today called for both an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Congressional investigation into Viacom International Inc.'s hiring practices.

According to today's Washington Post ("You Can Tell a Republican by His Stripes," 12/17/04) Viacom's Gail McKinnon sent an e-mail this week to offices in the U.S. House of Representatives regarding a job opening in Viacom's government relations department. The e-mail calls for a male, Republican to fill the open position and reads as follows: "Importance: High We need to hire a junior lobbyist/PAC manager. Attached is a job description. Salary is $85-90K. Must be a male with Republican stripes."

"This is a blatant violation of federal law prohibiting discrimination against women in hiring," Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW said today. "It is stunning that one of the largest corporations in America is so comfortable violating this 40 year-old prohibition that it has openly sent an e-mail advertising its discriminatory hiring practices to the very body that passed the anti-discrimination laws in the first place. One cannot help but be concerned that Viacom may have a practice of discriminating against women. As a result, CREW calls upon both Congress and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to begin immediate investigations in into Viacom's hiring practices."

http://www.citizensforethics.org/activities/20041217/

[ET Awful]

1. In keeping with Republican tradition, the stripe must be yellow,

approximately 3 inches wide, and extend from the base of the neck to the coccyx :)

[slor]

2. Lol...

good one...and so true!

[punpirate]

4. Sumner Redstone (corporate DINO)...

... must have gotten DeLay's message that all lobbyists be Republicans and fit into the "traditional values" mold.

Despite the Repugs' repeated assertions that they are the "big tent," they behave in very exclusionary ways, don't they?

[For PaisAn]

3. It's another sad testament

when Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)must call for an investigation on this. Shouldn't the recipients (U.S. House of Representatives) of the E-mail be calling for the investigation?!

[itzamirakul]

5. Isn't is also unethical and unlawful to hire

based on one's political affiliations? I mean hiring in a non-political business.

[morgan2]

6. lobbying would be a political business

Obviously they'd want a republican seeing as they control every branch of government.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Oh, good grief...

this is disturbing on many levels, but it's a lobbying job, and Tom DeLay has apparently made it quite clear that a liberal Democratic woman will not be heard.

Said woman probably couldn't be trusted to make appointments in the right whorehouses. Mght even complain and be unable to do her job when Senate members grabbed her ass and showed her their members.

It's not the "discimination" that's wrong here, it's the entire system of money and corporate lobbyists destroying our government.