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Funkhouser, Squitiro Testimony Released In 'Mammygate' Case
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| News Date | Monday, December 1, 2008 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser swears under oath that he's never heard his wife utter a racial slur.
The mayor's testimony is part of a deposition released Monday in a discrimination lawsuit brought by a former mayoral aide.
Funkhouser's wife, Gloria Squitiro's, deposition last week started off rough, with the plaintiff's attorney asking Squitiro why she was late to the deposition. She responded that she wasn't late, that she was in a room with her attorney. He said later that they had been praying together.
There was a lot of back and forth over what Squitiro finds humorous, and whether she had used sexual innuendo in the mayor's office.
She conceded at times that she had, thinking that humor tends to build more friendships than it hurts.
Not only does the mayor contend that his wife never called Ruth Bates "mammy," Funkhouser also testified that Bates knew the word was never intended as a racial slur. |
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