Illinois Waitress, Claims She Was Fired For Wearing Tea Party Bracelet
Activism Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
From Huffington Post
Tea Party members gathered outside a suburban Chicago Outback Steakhouse over the weekend after a waitress at the restaurant claimed she was fired for wearing a Tea Party bracelet to work.
Megan Geller, 23, claims a couple dining at the Crystal Lake, Ill. steakhouse was offended by her “Don’t Tread On Me” bracelet in early October. They allegedly complained to management, and she was fired shortly after, Geller’s mother told the Northwest Herald.
Tonya Franklin, Geller’s mother, told the Herald that she gave her daughter the yellow bracelet after receiving it at a Tea Party event. Franklin joined protesters in calling the firing a violation of Geller’s free speech.
“They stirred up the wrong hornet’s nest and messed with the wrong mama,” Franklin told the Herald. “When mamas get mad, mamas get to work.”
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Wearing something like that in Chicago, is like wearing a big sign saying ‘Obama Sucks’…
As a tea-partier, libertarian-leaning Ron Paul republican, I can say that this is NOT a free-speech issue. That is a private company and can make it’s own rules. You don’t have a right to say what you want there. You DO have a right to either follow their rules or find another job. If I ran a restaurant, I wouldn’t want to bring politics into it either… I would like to have all paying customers come. This is the principle of PROPERTY RIGHTS.
and he does suck!