Posted on Sep 8, 2023
Ex-CPAC employee sues group for discrimination, requests $55 million in damages
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“Regina Bratton alleges that out of around 30 workers, interns, and volunteers at CPAC, she was the only one who identified as African American and experienced hostility from up and down the command chain.“
Ex-CPAC employee sues group for discrimination, requests $55 million in damages
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Lawsuit
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Racism
Posted 8 mo ago
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LTC Eugene Chu
"Regina Bratton alleges that out of around 30 workers, interns, and volunteers at CPAC, she was the only one who identified as African American and experienced hostility from up and down the command chain.
The Conservative Political Action Conference and its leaders, including Matt Schlapp, have been named in a former employee’s lawsuit, accusing them of racial discrimination and defamation.
Regina Bratton, a former communications and marketing supervisor who worked for CPAC in 2021 and 2022, claims the organization’s leadership “conspired to and embarked upon a systematic, concerted effort to create a hostile work environment,” according to The Washington Post.
Bratton requests $55 million in the lawsuit, filed in a Virginia federal court on Friday.
“The culture at CPAC was terrible,” the lawsuit states, “as Matt Schlapp and his wife, Mercedes Schlapp, ran the organization as if they were the King and Queen — like a dictatorship which ignored rules, laws, and basic decency when dealing with employees.”...
"Regina Bratton alleges that out of around 30 workers, interns, and volunteers at CPAC, she was the only one who identified as African American and experienced hostility from up and down the command chain.
The Conservative Political Action Conference and its leaders, including Matt Schlapp, have been named in a former employee’s lawsuit, accusing them of racial discrimination and defamation.
Regina Bratton, a former communications and marketing supervisor who worked for CPAC in 2021 and 2022, claims the organization’s leadership “conspired to and embarked upon a systematic, concerted effort to create a hostile work environment,” according to The Washington Post.
Bratton requests $55 million in the lawsuit, filed in a Virginia federal court on Friday.
“The culture at CPAC was terrible,” the lawsuit states, “as Matt Schlapp and his wife, Mercedes Schlapp, ran the organization as if they were the King and Queen — like a dictatorship which ignored rules, laws, and basic decency when dealing with employees.”...
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$55 Million seems to be a bit over the top. I am not defending them but doesn't the monetary figure in a lawsuit supposed to in some way reflect the loss sustained in the lawsuit?
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