Come, I will conceal nothing from you: when I heard that Mary Burke had been essentially accused of being a nepotism-loving nincompoop who had to be fired from her father’s company (Trek Bicycle Corp) because she couldn’t hack the family business, I… shrugged. The original story had one named source – former Trek HR director Gary Ellerman, who is now the chairman of the Jefferson County Republican Party – and a couple of anonymous ones; and while the story certainly rang true you could make a legitimate case that the whole thing was just a partisan attack. Well, OK, it is a partisan attack; which doesn’t make it false, but does make the whole thing arguable.
But then stuff happened. First off, this: Continue reading Independent, NAMED sources: Mary Burke fired from family business for incompetence.