Posted on 10/13/2007 11:24:52 AM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
It’s probably already in the works. This is one of the most blatantly crooked politicians I’ve seen in my lifetime yet.
This is a long post, but I think it’s worth reading:
I am quite serious about the risk we run of importing corruption from Mexico and other places.
If you read the link I posted above, at least one of the one of the crooked Rhode Island DMV workers was an alien who had been ordered deported.
>> However, there are questions about how the state came to employ a clerk whose own immigration status is in peril.
Dolores Rodriguez-LaFlamme, 40, of Providence, one of the two clerks arrested in the fraud scheme, had already been ordered deported. Her application for adjusted immigration status had been denied after a federal investigation discovered two fraudulent marriages, according to a state police affidavit. LaFlamme is appealing the deportation order.
Some who know LaFlamme from her political action in the Latino community said they knew about her immigration issues. LaFlamme had volunteered on a number of election campaigns for Democrats, including those for U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline, and City Councilman Nicholas Narducci Jr.
Yesterday, Narducci said he learned LaFlamme wasn’t a citizen last year when she tried to run for a seat on the Ward 4 Democratic committee. She had posted her campaign on a page on Narducci’s Web site — touting her employment at the Registry and that she’d come to this country from the Dominican Republic in 1996, and borrowing Narducci’s election slogan “A New Beginning.” But Narducci said another candidate eventually ran for the seat when it was discovered that LaFlamme was ineligible to vote. She was put on the Ward’s community action committee instead.
State Rep. Anastasia Williams, D-Providence, a close friend of Laflamme, said yesterday she didn’t know what type of visa LaFlamme entered with, or how long it would have allowed LaFlamme to remain in the United States legally. Williams said that LaFlamme “had gotten married to someone here, while she was still in good standing.”
“If she was illegal, she would not have been such an open person” in the community, said Williams. “She would have been trying to hide, if she had something to hide.”
When LaFlamme was hired by the state DMV in 2000, she would have gone through the state personnel system, which conducts a background check and identity check including an applicant’s Social Security number, said Zanni.
It’s unknown whether the DMV knew that LaFlamme had been ordered deported. Zanni declined comment on the employment status of LaFlamme or Soraya Santiago, 42, who is the other clerk accused of being involved in the license scheme.<<
Yes, why did the state hire a deported illegal to issue drivers licenses? How deep is the corruption?
In Mexico, even though the cost of labor is extemely low, and yet the cost of buying a truck or car is much higher than here. Why? Corruption.
In turn, the price of a new truck creates a black market, as you would expect. People buy or steal a truck in the USA and then get papers for it from corrupt officials.
When I was living on a ranch in the Mexican state of Zacatecas, you would see many license plates from the nearby state of Coahuila there. Why? They found not just corrupt workers in Coahuila, but an entire corrupt state government, from the top down.
I believe that all levels of our government are at risk. I hope the people of NY get rid of Spitzer ASAP. And I hope that RI will investigate thoroughly why illegals were hired to issue drivers licnses! Otherwise, other crooks will see what Spitzer and others can get away with and the corruption disease will spread.
It's a good read and a very timely example of what may be coming to NY. As much as many of us would like to now get rid of this unbathed clown Spitzer it's tough in NY with its archaic political system to remove scum like him from office. For the moment the fight is in halting his illegal licensing scheme because if we don't not only NY but the whole country will pay for it.
“I believe that all levels of our government are at risk. I hope the people of NY get rid of Spitzer ASAP. And I hope that RI will investigate thoroughly why illegals were hired to issue drivers licnses! Otherwise, other crooks will see what Spitzer and others can get away with and the corruption disease will spread.”
Bingo
“If she was illegal, she would not have been such an open person” in the community, said Williams. “She would have been trying to hide, if she had something to hide.”
DUH, yawn....
Ms Williams...explain again to me how thousands of illegal aliens can hide while at the same time be in-our-faces rioting in our streets?
They ALL have “something to hide” but they dont care...because of you and the other criminal enablers....
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