Exclusive: Neo-Racist Heritage Foundation Prez Kay Cole James Sued for Banning Conservative Anti-Semitism Opponent from Jason Chaffetz Event
Washington Gadfly Evan Gahr, who just essentially won a major pro se lawsuit against Tucker Carlson, last week sued the Heritage Foundation in the United States Distrct Court for the Distirct of Columbia Circuit for violating the landmark Civil Rights Act by banning him from their public events in retaliation for his DC Superior Court employment discrimination lawsuit and then threatening to expel him if he attends anyway and asks about Heritage co-founder Paul Weyrich saying the Jews killed Christ.
Former GOP Congressman Jason Chaffetz is scheduld to speak at the September 10 Heritge event that Heritage vice-president is refusing to allow the Eric Breindel protege to attend.
Chaffetz did not reply to Gahr’s requests for comment.
Last week, Heritage lawyer Dan Farrington, in his lawerly way, used coded language to intimidate Gahr and give him the impression that he he would be kicked out if he discusses his lawsuit or Weyrich’s anti-Semitic remarks at any Heritage events.
Lauren Goetzl, then representing Heritage at the August 9 status conference for the case, used the exact same coded language that Farrington did so this is apparently a calculated legal strategy to threaten and intimidate Gahr without explicitly saying he’ll be booted for talking about Weyrich.
Also, at the status confernce, to the best of this reporter’s recollection, Lauren lied to the judge when she said Gahr had never asked to attend Heritage events.
It seems that Heritage Foundation president Kay Cole James or general counsel seem to think they have latched onto a really nifty and shrewd strategy to shut Gahr up without violating the law--by making their threats with coded language. .
But the reality is that implcit threats are just as much against the law as explicit threats.
The federal lawsuit charges illegal discrimination in public accommodations due to religion and intentional infliction of emotional distress because the Eric Breindel protege repeatedly told Heritage that banning him from the events would be medically, professionally and economically deleterious.
Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress is a tort with a very high bar. Lots of lawyers just throw it on top of other claims because it has such stringenent requireemtns. Plaintiff’s making the claim must show that the defendant’s conduct as extreme and outrageous and undertaken with the express purpose to harm him.
To make his case on that cause of action Gahr notes that, as far as he can tell, in the entire time since Weyrich co-founded Heritage with Ed Feulner, Jr., in 1973 they have never barred anybody from their public events. And that the ban violates Heritage’s own stated principles of being committed to robust debate which they purport to protect from constant assaults by liberals, Democrats and the so-caleld libeal media.
To prove intent to cause harm with the ban he includes his medical reports about being treated for severe depression and says Heritage was shown those reports and told that banning him from the events would exacerbate his depression and casue him more PTSD problems.
Michael Horowitz, architecht of neo-con cover-up for the Christian Right, criminally harassed Dr. Gahr in conspiracy with the Bush White House
The Washington Gadfly is battling PTSD and memory blackouts largely from the aftermath of fromer Reagan White House and DOJ official Michael Horowitz crimnally harassing his father after he got fired from Hudson in 2001.
Horowtiz contacted Dr. Gahr, purporting to be talking as one concerned father to antoher, just days after Gahr told Horowitz he was going to invstigate Hudson donors, particularly his and while he and Hudson were anticipating litigation.
The NYPD has told the younger Gahr that any repeated unwanted communications that occurs during an employment dispute is automatically consdired aggravated crimnal harassment. Mitigating factors that might apply in other cases don’t in this one, said an officer who Gahr stopped in 2017 when he was feeling threatened and frightened by Horowitz, who has repeatedly ignored his requests to tell his parents he lied to them so they wouldn’t be so frightened by his lies anymore.
Horowitz first made his menacing and mendacious and threatening phone call to Dr. Gahr--during which he yelled at and breated him--and told the renowned PCP that his precious and adored son wasn’t fired for critcizing Weyrich he was fired for being derangd.
Dr. Gahr, who won the Alpha Omega Alpha Award, medical school equivalent of Phi Beta Kappa, looks cute and healthy today--he just retired after working 50 years at the same Upper East Side office, where devoted patients came from Brookly, the Bronx, Queens, and event central New Jersey and Upstate New York. Evan’s mother, a natural school teacher the way her son is a natural journalist, was the office manger and developed close relationships with the patients as well.
One patient even traveled all the way from Puerto Rico after being recommended to Dr. Gahr.
After Dr. Gahr hung up on Horowitz, effectively putting him on notice to cease and desist all communcations, Horowitz violated that edict by sending him a mendacious FedEx package in conspiracy with AEI, National Review writer Jonah Goldberg, the late Robert Bork and then-OMB general cousnsel Jay Lefkowitz (more recently the lawyer who got Jeffrey Epstein the sweetheart deal with Acosta).
Jay Lefkowitz has more recently distinguished himself as Jeffrey Epstein’s Key Lawyer
It was Lefkowtiz, a notorious apologist for Chrsitian Right anti-Semitism wh famously told the New York Times magazin that a little Christian anti-Semitism “is good for the Jews” who incited Karl Rove, a close ally of Weyrich to get Gahr, who he paled around with in DC in the early 1990s, fired from Hudson.
Rove had his aide, Tim Goeglein, threaten then-Hudson president Herb London with loss of government contracts if he didn’t cut him loose.
Wait.
Why does Hudson get government contracts--aren’t conservatives opposed to big government?
Tim Goeglein, now DC lobbyist for Focus on the Family, parent organization of the Family Research Council, Goeglein also got Marshall Wittmann, now chief AIPAC spokesman, ousted from Hudson
Accoridng to a New Repubic article by Frank Foer Goeglein, who has been quoted saying he does nothing “without the permission of Mr. Rove” complained to Hudson about Wittman, trashing the Adminisration on his conservative reform website.
Hudson then deleted the website.
Curt Smith, the Hudson official who Goeglein complained to about Wittman, was himself later fired.
At a 2004 Hudson event Goeglein said he “talks to the good folks at Hudson all the time and owes them a debt of gratitude.”
Debt of gratitude, Indeed
Michael Horowitz, who Gahr is suing in the same lawsuit against Heritage for intentional infliction of emotional distress, is currently senior adviser to his secret ally David Saperstein’s Dupont-Circle-based Religious Action Center.
Michael Horowitz, once hospitalized for a serious psychiatric disorder, probably OCD, has not responded to Gahr’s complaint, even though he was servd through Hudson months ago.
Horowitz, a Yale Law School classmate of Eleanor Holmes Norton, s clearly so frightened of any public confrontation that one day before the August 9 status conference Michael called the judge’s chambers had said he was unavailable because he was suposedly out of town.
Heritage Clearly Mistook Gahr’s Cease and Desist Letters About the Confernces Ban as Ptiches to Wemple
The federal lawsuit was filed only after Heritage, apparently believing they can blithely violate his civil rights because Wemple is not asking about him, ignored or disregarded multiple cease and desist letters, telling Heritage that it was blatantly illegal to ban him from their events.
Rob Bluey, Heritage vice-president for public affairs, is personally named in the complaint because he refused to give Gahr permission--effectively prohibited him from attending--the event next week with former Congressman Jason Chaffetz (D-Utah.)
Heritage Foundation president Kay Cole James, who presumably knows Gahr from his articles for major conservative publications, including the Wall Street Journal, dating to the early 1990s, is personally named in the lawsuit as well.
In non-belligerent emails and tweets Gahr, who Lloyd Grove dubbed the Washington Gadfly was press columnist for the late New York Post editorial page editor Eric Breindel, for whom Newscorp has two annual awards, asked Chaffetz to disavow his Heritage patrons banning him from the event he is headlining.
Deposing Jason Chaffetz
Chaffetz did not reply so Gahr is planning to drag him into the lawsuit by subpeoning him for a deposition.
Gahr, who lately has started referring to himself as Tucker Carlson and all of conservative Washington’s own Jewish NWA, referring to the iconic 1980s gangster rap band NWA, is lookng into whether he can hold panelists at Heritage conferences that ban him legally culpable.
This is an interesting question.
If a hotel or any facility, , for example, hosts some kind of conference that illegally discriminates it can be held responsible, according to this reporter’s discussion of an unrelated public accomodations issue with a veteran civil rights lawyer, let’s call him Serpico.
Panelists are not sponsors of the conference/public accommodations that is barring Gahr but they are agents of it--key agents.
Ambush Telephone Interviews of Heritage Donors Planned
In discovery for his DC Superior Court lawsuit Gahr also plans to find out which Heritage donors are funding the September 10 conference and go after them as well--journalistically.
Heritage Also Sued Under Little Known Reconstruction Era Statute
The lawsuit also charges Heritage and Katrina Trinko, editor of Heritage’s so-called news website, with violating the little-known these days Civil Rights Act of 1866 by denying him writing contracts, including rejecting his proposed exclusive interview with Chuck Schumer, which he told Trinko he could probably get because the Senate leaders knows him personally from when he worked for Eric.
In fact, the two men discussed Eric when they ran into each other at NYU hospital last Fall.
The Reconstruction era statute, enacted to protect blacks, bars discrimination in contracts based on race.
In the 1980s, the United States Supreme Court expaned the Act to prohibit discrimination based on religion in a case that alleged anti-Jewish discrimination.
The decision was controversial because many people consider it anti-Semitic to deem Jews a race.
Separately, Gahr last week filed a motion for injunctive relief with the Superior Court of the District of Columbia judge who has his employment lawsuit.
The Washington Gadfly asked her to ask Heritage to either show cause for excluding him from their events--provide a legitimate non-discriminatory reason--or give him permission to attend.
Heritage in express retaliation for the April 12 lawsuit has effectively prohibited him from attending their events.
Gahr contends that the events are public accommodations akin to restaurants under the landmark Civil Rights Act because food and beverages are served and they are “open to anybody in DC--well anybody but ‘Evan Gahr.’”
To take the analogy further he says that you need to put your name on the list for the event--no questions asked.
Just like some restaurants require reservations but anybody can make them.
Heritage to Evan Gahr: We don’t serve coloreds here
Gahr contends in his complaint, filed in the Court dropbox over Labor Day Weekend, that Heritage foundation president Kay Hall James and Vice-President Kay Hall James are guilty of the “pretext free discrimination of whtie Southern racists of yesteryear.”
Just like white Southern racists overtly told black people seeking service that we don’t serve blacks instead of offering some kind of excuse such as there are no available seats, he writes, Heritage is expressly barring him in retaliation for his lawsuit and for being Jewish and determined to ask Heritage panelists about Weyrich saying the Jews killed Christ.
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