UPDATE: Suits and a Keg — and a civil rights investigation
By Andrea Damewood
Published: August 9, 2011, 5:00pm
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A guy-oriented fundraiser for the Fort Vancouver National Trust, featuring beer, whiskey and cigars, sparked a formal investigation by the Washington State Human Rights Commission. The commission has closed the investigation because it could not find the woman who allegedly made the complaint.
A complaint filed against a guy-oriented fundraiser for the Fort Vancouver National Trust this Friday featuring beer, whiskey and cigars has sparked a formal investigation by the Washington State Human Rights Commission.
However, serious doubts have emerged about the existence of the Vancouver woman who filed it.
Someone giving the name Rebecca Pulliam filed a complaint July 29 against the event — called Suits and a Keg — alleging that she was told the event was for men only and that she could not bring her breast-feeding baby.
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