Govt. Sues Republican Donors’ Biz for
“Racially Discriminatory Hiring Practice”
over Background Checks
Judicial Watch,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: FlyRight,
4/25/2024 6:02:30 AM
The Biden administration appears to be using a federal agency to go after a family that has donated significantly to Republicans by suing its company for “racially discriminatory hiring practice” over background checks. The business, Sheetz Inc., is a chain of convenience stores and the Sheetz family has long supported Republicans in Pennsylvania and the Midwest, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch. In the last few years, the Sheetz’s have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican causes and political candidates,
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Lala 4/25/2024 6:10:17 AM (No. 1705630)
I love Sheetz and was so happy when they showed up in Ohio. I had no clue about their politics. I just was grateful for how clean they all are and how friendly the staff is. Leave it to Biden to try to destroy them. I think I’ll go fill up my gas tank (if I can afford it) and get some breakfast there today.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Highlander 4/25/2024 6:16:36 AM (No. 1705634)
This is more of the raw, naked political persecution of conservatives befitting of third world despotism! Courts have now become the go-to weapon of choice for democrats to clamp down on any opposition.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JackBurton 4/25/2024 6:58:47 AM (No. 1705651)
First they go after Trump with lawfare.
Now it's Sheetz. You are next.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/25/2024 7:23:14 AM (No. 1705669)
Like Trump says. They are after us and he is in the way.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/25/2024 7:24:39 AM (No. 1705670)
Huh? Since when does the Federal Government NOT require applicants pass a "background check" before employment?
Hypocrites!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
skacmar 4/25/2024 7:29:18 AM (No. 1705678)
Sheets does not control the FACT that background checks show that minorities commit more crimes and are eliminated from their pool of potential employees. As long as Sheetz denies employment equally to all people based on the checks, what's the problem? Sheets is looking out for their business and their customers. They have no obligation to hire anyone they don't feel confident will benefit their company. The EEOC has no business interfering.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
chumley 4/25/2024 7:37:56 AM (No. 1705694)
Since this communist BS came up I've found myself going to Sheetz a lot more often than I did. Not a bad place.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Mcscow sailor 4/25/2024 7:40:07 AM (No. 1705699)
So Sheetz , a privately owned company, did not want hire proven pyros, kleptos, pedos, and/or violents of any color to manage gasoline, money, and customer relations (adult and young) at their facilities? And the gov wants to run this grand social experiment at Sheetz’ expense? Essentially, the Gov is in the untenable position of violating equal opportunity when POC’s with antisocial rap sheets are given hiring priority over, other less privileged groups, such as veterans
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 4/25/2024 8:13:49 AM (No. 1705722)
So a business that hires a known felon, one of the FIRST grounds of finding a deep pocket to sue should that felon commit ANOTHER crime while in the employ of the business, is that they ' could or should have known' that said felon was, indeed, a felon, and the potential of the crime now falls on the employer to provide relief to the victim. Also, a business that hires someone to handle money, customer relations, and dangerous, explosive chemicals, some employers must be more selective than others. Like many businesses, the employer hires PEOPLE - not demographics. How dare our government force employers to do what gov't has failed to do in rehabilitating known criminals.
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Biden stopped at a Sheetz, presumably for a pee break. There weren't throngs of people there fawning over him. Actually very few people there. The next day, the government sued. Humm.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
berthabutt 4/25/2024 8:46:44 AM (No. 1705742)
4 - 3 - 2 - ...before the attacks begin attaching KKK to the biz name. Funny how umpteen new GAS stations are moving into our southern Ohio communities; Sheetz, Casey's, Thornton's & even a Bucee's super station north of Dayton, but EV's are the 'way' of the future. Not!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
jasmine 4/25/2024 9:26:24 AM (No. 1705758)
FTA:
"In the lawsuit the Biden administration writes that Sheetz has maintained a longstanding practice of screening all job applicants for records of criminal conviction and then denying them employment based on those records."
Yes. They screen ALL job applicants, a responsible and socially desirable practice. Race doesn't enter into it, but criminal convictions do. The company has an obligation to its own employees and the public to weigh the risks of hiring someone it knows has been convicted, not just accused, of a crime. Note the pattern here, where the power and resources of our own government are being turned against citizens, not to correct a wrong, but to punish political opposition. That is both corrupt, and an abuse of power. Just say no, America.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
dst4life 4/25/2024 9:56:04 AM (No. 1705779)
Lawfare, lawfare, lawfare.
Warfare, warfare, warfare.
It's the Demoncrat way.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/25/2024 10:11:49 AM (No. 1705792)
Surprise! A company doesn't want to hire any thieves or thugs. You do not treat thieves and thugs the same as everyone else. Regardless of color. Apparently, that is discriminatory. The government thinks they should only hire black thieves and thugs. Blacks don't want equality (it doesn't even exist). They want preferential treatment.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
thomthomp 4/25/2024 10:53:38 AM (No. 1705822)
Biden went to a Sheetz store in Pennsylvania. To describe his reception as luke warm would be generous. The next day the government filed against this company. Coincidence?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/25/2024 11:01:32 AM (No. 1705826)
FTA: Last fall the EEOC directed government agencies to “widely publicize” they are “hiring persons with criminal conduct issues in their background checks” as part of a Biden executive order requiring diversity, ....
Like Air controllers?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
padiva 4/25/2024 11:14:30 AM (No. 1705835)
I love Sheetz. I feel safe there. The restrooms are clean. Recently, I met a black man at the local Sheetz. His name tag had the position of 'floater.' He said that he floats as a manager to different stores as needed. Great guy!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 4/25/2024 12:03:21 PM (No. 1705873)
Yeah, since at least 1/3 of all adult black men have at least one felony conviction a background check is "racist". effectively, they are admitting that blacks are doing the overwhelming majority of violent crimes.
NO it is NOT. Do the crime.....don't get hired by many or most employers.
100% on the criminal class for this. Let the felony backgrounds stay where they are EARNED.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Geoman 4/25/2024 3:05:10 PM (No. 1705996)
Employees of federal agencies must go through "suitability determinations, which include background checks and credit history. The background checks must not be racially discriminatory, given the percentage of blacks and other privileged minorities, way out of proportion to their population percentage. In other words, minorities are overrepresented within the federal government, precisely as democrats intended.
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