Kudos to Mr. Souder for trying to get the employee's job back.By Sylvia A. Smith
Washington editor
WASHINGTON – He doesn’t even like turkey.
Rep. Mark Souder, R-3rd, is gritting his teeth about a couple of articles in a Capitol Hill newspaper that portrayed him as an impatient, haughty customer of a basement café in the Capitol.
According to the first article, Souder ordered a grilled turkey sandwich, was repeatedly asked by the café employee whether he wanted the sandwich toasted and then “stormed” out of the shop when he didn’t get what he ordered.
Within days, the sandwich shop employee was fired, and a second story appeared. Both were posted on several Indiana political blog sites.
Souder was perplexed because he didn’t file a complaint or ask that the worker be fired, didn’t raise his voice during the exchange and left the restaurant sans sandwich because he had waited 20 or 30 minutes for his order to be filled and had to get to a meeting.
What’s more, he didn’t order the centerpiece of the story.
“I order pastrami on rye, grilled, about once a week,” Souder said.
That’s what he requested the day of the Sandwich Scandal.
“I don’t like turkey,” he said. “I don’t even eat it on Thanksgiving.”
The chairman of the committee that oversees restaurants and other shops in the Capitol asked Souder Thursday to join him in asking for the employee to be rehired; Souder agreed.
3 comments:
Turkeys rejoice.
I bet when we send Kelty to Kongress in DC, Sandwich-Gate will be fixed.
mark souder doesnt eat turkey, because for him it would be cannabalism -because he's the biggest turkey around. I'd vote for a pastrami sandwich before i'd re-elect souder. no kool-aid, thank you.
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