Washington Post covers Howard Dean's deposition in the GLBT-firing lawsuit

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In a ferocious display of journalism, the Washington Post has decided to cover the Donald Hitchcock lawsuit against the DNC for anti-gay discrimination.

Dean's detour from walking a perpetual tightrope between the presidential campaigns of Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and hearing the complaints of angry delegates in Florida and Michigan was not a welcome diversion. Until now, for the most part, the lawsuit, which Dean's spokeswoman calls "absurd," had remained safely out of the mainstream press.

Hitchcock filed his suit against the DNC last spring, a year after he was fired, alleging the DNC discriminated against him because he's gay and retaliated against him because his life partner, well-known Democratic activist Paul Yandura, publicly criticized the Democratic Party for not doing more to fight anti-gay ballot initiatives. Hitchcock is asking for unspecified damages and severance pay.

The lawsuit and Dean's deposition, a copy of which was obtained by the Sleuth, has dredged up long simmering tensions between the DNC and gay Democrats.

more at http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2008/03/howard_deans_gay_headache.html

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1. Oh, My. Well, I Guess the Washington Post Hates Democrats, Too.