Forcing Ga. Official to Resign Over YouTube Clip was the Right Call, Agriculture Chief Says
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Published July 20, 2010
Shown here is USDA Georgia official Shirley Sherrod. (YouTube)
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Tuesday stood by his decision to demand the resignation of a Georgia official over a controversial YouTube clip, though the ex-official claimed afterward that the Obama administration never gave her a chance to tell her side of the story.
Shirley Sherrod, the department’s ex-Georgia director of Rural Development, said the White House forced her out after the video surfaced showing her telling a story about how she withheld help to a white farmer in trouble. But she claimed the video omitted key context and that the administration just got scared.
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