The Connecticut chapter of the National Organization for Women is outraged by the discriminatory treatment April Capone Almon has endured based on her sex while in office. The East Haven Mayor has been arrested for interfering with police business over the summer and is now being charged with an ethics complaint. The complaint involves a salary increase for one of her secretaries, which it has been claimed resulted from an "undeclared relationship" between the two. CT NOW questions the motive of the claim, a month before elections, when the raise was given in July of 2008.
Women in power continue to face sex discrimination in the public sphere. US Rep. Rosa DeLauro has called the ethics complaint filed against Capone Almon "a slimy political attack, full of innuendo, going after a strong woman leader." CT NOW recognizes the barriers to equal treatment in politics and fully supports the strong women in the field who are willing to represent their constituents in the face of such adversity.
