Pa. swim club accused of bias to file bankruptcy

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iLSkiD_HEJq_JPFUxVKAdRWZjnpAD9BVHH5G2


A suburban swim club accused of discrimination last summer after revoking the memberships of mostly black and Hispanic children plans to declare bankruptcy, a newspaper reported Saturday.

Valley Swim Club president John Duesler sent an e-mail to club "friends and families" Friday saying the board of directors had voted to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy this week, The Philadelphia Daily News reported.

Duesler wrote in the e-mail that many would blame the bankruptcy on legal proceedings and negative media exposure, the newspaper said. But, he said, "the truth is that the club has struggled to stay out of the red for at least the last decade" and owes more than $100,000 in operational expenses and legal fees, the newspaper reported.
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[Hepburn]

1. Geeeeeeee....

....too bad....NOT.

[ecstatic]

2. "struggled to stay out of the red for at least the last decade"

Despite that struggle, they still wouldn't accept money from racial minorities. :crazy:

[MineralMan]

3. What goes around comes around, it seems...

Tough nuts, folks. You gambled that your racist attitudes would work out for you. You lost that bet. So it goes.

[Turbineguy]

4. What a moron!

"Duesler wrote in the e-mail that many would blame the bankruptcy on legal proceedings and negative media exposure, the newspaper said. But, he said, "the truth is that the club has struggled to stay out of the red for at least the last decade" and owes more than $100,000 in operational expenses and legal fees, the newspaper reported."

It was a perfect excuse: "It were libruls that did this to us!"

But no: We ran the club into the fucking ground.

[petronius]

5. Give him credit for honesty, I suppose

But their own bigotry certainly must have hurt (I wonder how much of those legal fees relate to the racist incident)...