Frank Ricci: The left's newest Joe the Plumber-Sarah Palin style target.

In his FrontPageMagazine.com article, Gregory Gethard lays out the evidence of a building smear campaign by groups such as the left-wing lobbyist group People for the American Way and other noted leftist luminaries last seen smearing Joe "The Plumber" Wurzelbacher and Sarah Palin

Ricci became famous as the plaintiff in Ricci v. DeStefano, the fireman who sued the New Haven, Connecticut, fire department to enforce merit-based promotions. The Second Court of Appeals, on which Sonya Sotomayor sat, issued an unsigned decision against him. The Supreme Court embarrassed Sotomayor on the eve of her Senate hearings by overturning that decision without a single justice siding with Sotomayor's reasoning.

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