Man who lost job for supporting Democrat gets better job

Kentuckians who dissent from Republican tyranny usually learn awfully quick that it's best to keep silent if they want to keep their job. I know this firsthand. It doesn't shut me up, and it's too late for me anyway, but you better believe I know it.

But Charles Booker, a 29-year-old employee of Kentucky's Legislative Research Commission, didn't know it until it was too late. Booker appeared in a campaign ad for Alison Lundergan Grimes - the Democratic frontrunner against the embattled Mitch McConnell. In February, the LRC fired him because he supported the Democrat. It turned out that Republican lawmakers had pressured the LRC into firing Booker.

But now Booker has just landed a job that pays better than the one he was fired from. So the joke's on the GOPstapo.

Here's the most mind-numbing part: The Republicans are acting like hiring Booker for a new job is some sort of scandal. The real scandal though is that he was fired from his previous job for his political views.

Hopefully the next step will be rehiring and compensating all the other folks who've lost their jobs, been denied employment, or been expelled from school because they wouldn't support the GOP. It's a very real problem in Kentucky.

(Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/18/alison-lundergan-grimes-ad-fired_n_4809975.html;
http://www.kentucky.com/2014/04/23/3209187/legislative-aide-who-was-fired.html)