Eloise Spooner, the wife of the farmer in question, is defending Sherrod. From an interview with the Atlanta Journal Constitution:

But (Eloise) Spooner, who considers Sherrod a “friend for life,” said the federal official worked tirelessly to help the Iron City couple hold onto their land as they faced bankruptcy back in 1986.

“Her husband told her, ‘You’re spending more time with the Spooners than you are with me,’ ” Spooner told the AJC. “She took probably two or three trips with us to Albany just to help us out.”

Spooner called Sherrod Tuesday morning.

“She’s very sad about it,” Spooner said. “She told me she was so glad we talked. I just can’t believe this is happening to her.”

Sherrod didn't "resign."

She was fired by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.

IMO, she should be reinstated.

Well she has a racial overtone in her speach, but don't think she should have been fired. Looks like with her viewpoint on helping the poor and taking from the rich to do it she would fit right into this administration.
paul

*sniff sniff..., yup, I just dried my eyes and blew my nose so I could type out a big ol I AGREE, Paulwa. But, yes, she was right to resign as she had no choice but to do so after her mouth got the better of her senses. This is, no doubt in my mind, a woman who made her way up the ladder in the Ag Dept thru Peter's Principle.

edit...oh, I see she was fired. Good

But, yes, she was right to resign as she had no choice but to do so after her mouth got the better of her senses.

IN MY Original post i wonder why she 'quit'. but in her position she shouldnt be saying it's not about race it's about the haves and the have nots.. class warfare is heating up BIG TIME. imo the class statement was/is the problem

Your breaking the unspoken creed. It is against the rules to agree with me Ronda

In your mind. I'm afraid most people agree with you on this one. Sorry.

Ah ha, but you just adhered to the creed.

IN MY Original post i wonder why she 'quit'. but in her position she shouldnt be saying it's not about race it's about the haves and the have nots.. class warfare is heating up BIG TIME. imo the class statement was/is the problem

Class warfare is all of a sudden heating up when the wealthy lose some tax breaks.

You forget about the "wealth distribution" encapsulated in Obamacare. Being forced to pay for other people's medical needs is a prickly thorn.

Yeah, I'd like to sticks some thorny pricks in fat cat asses.

Shakey, I don't understand how some of you can be on this consistent kick about the haves and have nots, the big business bad guys, the reminder that under Bush this or that. Do you read yourself and how it doesn't relate to Johnboy's post? Young and old (now) I can relate to being in situations with people. People who were angry and hurt by what *they considered to be 'about the haves and have-nots'. Thru-out my days, and years, and I can say I saw the way they saw it -- from both ends...I'm sure pretty much all of us can say that. Although ya'll will tell me you can say it a whole hell-of-a-lot better and more coherently than I can.

Now, we mention something one time about the haves and have nots, ..class warfare...and you're on it! Cus yer still on yer rag - you haven't 'left' it. It isn't cus of tax breaks for the rich or no tax breaks for the rich, or Bush in office or Obama, ya know? As for my yakking about my local school system for kids..well, you could have a middle-class kid living amongst the poor in town for some circumstance reason or the other, and he's going to go to school and, I'm thinking, not get as good an education as the kids who go to the schools that get the money. It's about: location, location,location. Sucks to be segregated and our school people say they are not about that...I believe them, they want the best thing for all...but I see it as an inevitability.

Be happy, shakey. What, you can't be happy? Aren't you feeling the increase in wealth on a personal level cus Obama, your vote (not literally...cus you said you didn't vote) is Now? well, dry your eyes...we feel ya. Hey, life ain't fair. Some are rich and some are poor. boo hoo yooo, as you say. Gads all mighty, yer the most negative downers around here I ever saw. lol

On another note, do peeps from PQ just come here to be arnery or is your post really on the 'for real' ? It's funny to read them over there say that NM is only for getting into CluckFusters. Yet, they are talking about youse! LMBO, now That's hilarious.

niteAll, specially greg