Thursday, July 29, 2010

@sarahpalinusa needs to "refudiate" Cook Country GOP for sexual misconduct/harassment of whistleblower

It seems like Chairman Roupas, needs to be forced out as well. Not only is the alleged sexual misconduct bad so is the attack on the whistleblower.

From Huffington Post Chicago
Jeremy Rose Resigns: Cook County GOP Official Leaves Amid Growing Scandal

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Jeremy Rose, the executive director of the Cook County GOP, resigned Tuesday night after word spread of a past allegation of sexual misconduct. According to documents obtained by Huffington Post Chicago, his boss -- Cook County GOP chairman Lee Roupas -- has known about the allegations for over a year, during which time he hired and promoted Rose. And when a whistleblower came forward about the complaint, Roupas organized a concerted effort to remove that person from her elected position within the party.
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According to many sources, including Lee Roupas in his interview, tensions between the Chicago Republican Party (CRP) and the Cook County Republican Party (CCRP) have long run high. In order to address those tensions before an important election, Roupas tried to organize a meeting early this summer between himself and Jeremy Rose from the county, and Steve Boulton and Eloise Gerson from the city.

Gerson, a Jewish woman who immigrated to the U.S. from Peru, rose through the ranks to become the head of the Chicago Republican Party in April of 2008. When Roupas reached out to meet with her, she encouraged Boulton, her general counsel, to join her in doing so.

But in a two-page letter sent on June 3, 2010, Boulton refused his boss's request. He told Gerson that he was wary of Rose's tactics, and mentioned the allegations made against Rose by the woman from the Young Republicans.
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Frustrated with his failure to oust Gerson, Roupas was allegedly overheard in an angry rant after the meeting, calling Gerson "boss b**ch." And, despite objections by many committeemen that the new post appeared to undermine Gerson's authority, Roupas announced the appointment of a Chicago Chair of the CCRP in an email on July 1.
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1 comment:

  1. As a resident of the 10th District of Illinois, what I find most interesting is the Mark Kirk connection as written about by Ellen of the Tenth.

    http://ellenofthetenth.blogspot.com/2010/07/alleged-mark-kirk-connection-to-jeremy.html

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