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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (374402)	7/22/2010 4:59:08 PM
From: longnshort	3 Recommendations Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793972

Here are just a few questions about Ms. Sherrod that deserve answers: * Was Ms. Sherrod's USDA appointment an unspoken condition of her organization's settlement? * How much "debt forgiveness" is involved in USDA's settlement with New Communities? * Why were the Sherrods so deserving of a combined $300,000 in "pain and suffering" payments -- amounts that far exceed the average payout thus far to everyone else? ($1.15 billion divided by 16,000 is about $72,000)? * Given that New Communities wound down its operations so long ago (it appears that this occurred sometime during the late 1980s), what is really being done with that $13 million in settlement money? Here are a few bigger-picture questions: * Did Shirley Sherrod resign so quickly because the circumstances of her hiring and the lawsuit settlement with her organization that preceded it might expose some unpleasant truths about her possible and possibly sanctioned conflicts of interest? * Is USDA worried about the exposure of possible waste, fraud, and abuse in its handling of Pigford? * Did USDA also dispatch Sherrod hastily because her continued presence, even for another day, might have gotten in the way of settling Pigford matters quickly? The media and the blogosphere shouldn't be so quick to forget about Shirley Sherrod. Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com washingtonexaminer.com