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Female director with the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association has filed a lawsuit against the organization 

She says president made lesbian claim
Jump to full article: Louisville (KY) Courier-Journal, 2008-06-20
Author: Jason Riley

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A female director of the Burley Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association has filed suit against the association, claiming that its president said at a board meeting that she was having a "lesbian love affair" with a former employee.

Helen Cornett alleges that the president and some directors are trying to force her to resign because of her support of Danny McKinney, who resigned as chief executive of the co-op at the request of the board in December 2006.

The lawsuit, filed in Fayette Circuit Court last week, names board President Roger Quarles and each member of the board.

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