Las Vegas company lay off 22 Hispanic workers because Obama re-elected

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08 Nov 2012

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Twenty two Hispanic workers have been fired by a Las Vegas based business owner because Obama was re-elected.

The owner using his name only as David fearing legal ramifications told a local radio station, KSNT that he has to build up the nest egg now for the taxes and regulations my way and elections do have consequences, but so do choices”.
The 22 were part of 114 mostly Hispanic employees. He also told the station that on the day of the elections “mostly Hispanic workers and some were wearing Obama shirts.
“I never tell them which way to vote. I believe in the free system that we have. I believe in everybody having their right to choose who they want to be president.”
“And I explained that I always put them first and, unfortunately, I’m at a point now — and am being forced to — that I have to worry about me and my family now,” he continued. “I explained to them a month ago, if Obama gets in office, the regulations for Obamacare are going to hurt our business, and I am going to have to make provision to make sure that I have enough money to cover payroll taxes, the additional health care I’m going to have to do. And I explained that to them, and I said, ‘you do what you feel you need to do, but I’m just letting you know this as a warning that this is things I have to think of as a business owner.’”
“I don’t need the labor force coming down saying I laid people off because they are Hispanic, I don’t need the headache. We are in a right-to-work state, but I did inform people that I would possibly had to be making layoffs. I did make the notification 30 days ago. I followed the laws.”
Source: Raw Story