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XXXXX DRUDGE RETORT XXXXX 10:55:59 UTC TUE OCT 16 1998 XXXXX Judge: President Clinton Creates Hostile Work Environment!
By Everett Fortuna A federal judge ruled yesterday that a photograph of President Bill Clinton contributed to creating a "hostile work environment" in a San Francisco branch of the U.S. Post Office. Postal worker Danica Walinsky sued her employers last month on sexual harassment charges, claiming that the post office where she worked was filled with sexually suggestive trinkets and decorations. The most damaging item, her suit claimed, was a framed official portrait of Bill Clinton. "Every time I saw that picture," Walinsky confessed to a friend who sent an e-mail to the DRUDGE RETORT, "I just thought about blowjobs. It really interfered with my mail-sorting efforts." Although a list of other sexually suggestive trinkets has remained part of the court's sealed testimony, a racquetball partner of the wife of Ninth Circuit Judge Matt Yelland reports that the items included a wind-up walking hot-dog, a coupon for a JIFFY LUBE job, and a ticket stub from a PEARL JAM concert. In his decision, Judge Yelland stated, "It's a sad day when the image of the president can cause erotic and otherwise inappropriate impulses. But I don't think Miss Walinsky is the first to feel sexually threatened in this way. I know we all get certain feelings we'd rather not have every time we receive a JFK 50-cent piece." This precedent-setting case is sure to boost to similar cases across the country. A parents group in Independence, Mo., is currently trying to oust a public school teacher for brazenly displaying Clinton's image in his classroom. Rutger Dittmeyer, a Christian activist in Jacksonville, Fla., has started a campaign to prevent newspapers from running President Clinton's picture on the front page. "We always talk about reducing our children's access to smut," says Dittmeyer in a press release that was found in a Hollywood Hills, Calif., dumpster. "How do we teach our children that whoremongers are bad people when they see pictures of one of them meeting with members of Congress every day?" The White House changed its number after repeated requests for comment from the DRUDGE RETORT. © DRUDGE RETORT 1998 |