Donald Trump and Gonzalo Curiel

Canada Free Press ^ | June 6, 2016 | Sylvia Thompson

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This poster was just used on Lou Dobbs !

( is Lou a freeper?)

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IN HALF A CENTURY OF CHANGE, FAMILY REMAINS A CONSTANT
Post-Tribune (IN) - May 9, 1999
Author/Byline: CAROLYN CURIEL

Fifty years ago, the streets of they were mostly marshland and jungle.

A Westminster-style democracy with a Prime Minister now, it was then a colony of Britain, called British Honduras. There was no American ambassadors here. Wood - from logwood to mahogany - was king.

Tucked under the arm of the Yucatan and buffered by Guatemala and the Caribbean Sea, it seemed indeed, as Huxley put it, to be beyond the end of the world.

Fifty years ago, the Calumet Region was a different place, too. The streets rumbled with heavy-fendered tank-like automobiles. The overpass and rush hours had not become the way of life. Subdivisions were unheard of. The post-war boom made steel the undeniable king.

It was steel that brought Alejandro Curiel to Indiana. Born in San Francisco, he had been taken to Mexico as a child, to be raised in a rural town in the mountains. But coming of age, he made his way back to the land of his birth, and speaking no English, headed where friends and relatives told him that with hard work, he could make a good living and even get free English lessons. He came to East Chicago and got a job at Inland Steel.

It was steel that brought Angelina Ortiz and her mother and brothers and sisters to Indiana. Her father, a hearty man from Michoanca, Mexico, had been recruited in El Paso, Texas, to come to Kansas and build the railroad. He delivered my mother with his own hands when a doctor could not be found. Years later, he would die after a botched surgery on his stomach. The doctors offered his wife, my grandmother, a few hundred dollars to go away and forget it, as if that were possible. She decided to leave the sadness and go where her strong sons could earn a better living. They came to Indiana and her sons worked at Inland Steel.

Alejandro met Angelina when his best friend and her brother, Floyd, introduced them.

Alejandro was dapper, strapping and handsome, with a head of thick hair and an easy sense of humor. Angelina had dark eyes, lustrous dark and big hair and perfect teeth that she showed to their best advantage with dark red lipstick. She put Linda Darnell to shame. Angie, as she was called, had an air of seriousness about her. She and Alex, as he was called, complemented each other perfectly.

They married in May 1949, honeymooned in Niagara Falls, and had seven children, naming the eldest son after Alex (as he came to be known) and the eldest girl after the doctor who delivered her, Carolyn Rawlins.

They owned two homes, the first in East Chicago, at 3725 Butternut Street, where the top and bottom floors of the three-story home were always occupied by colorful characters who were usually related in some fashion to Alex.

The second, a brick three-bedroom, was in Hammond. Sometimes, on a whim, he would offer to show visiting relatives or friends of Niagara Falls, as if it were next door to Indiana. More than once, they took him up on the offer, and an all-day and all-night drive would ensue. The impulsive tourists were never disappointed.

Life in the Curiel household - beyond the usual sibling declarations of war of annihilation - was usually quiet. Angie quit her secretarial job in Chicago with her first baby, and devoted herself to home and the children. Alex worked shift work his entire career at Inland, more than 40 years, and even walked to work during a blizzard so he wouldn't miss a day.

They both made sure their children had the best education available, and for grade school, that meant being taught by the nuns. They insisted that the children show some industry and find financial support for higher education, which they did.

They taught their children to respect others and to respect themselves. Every one of their children moved on to good jobs. One even followed Angelina and became a housewife and mother. One is a steelworker and father. Almost all have stayed close to home.

Alex and Angelina rightfully take pride in their family and in the 17 grandchildren who have come along the way.

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CLINTON’S WORDSMITH SPEAKS FOR HERSELF
Albuquerque Journal (NM) - June 24, 1996
Author/Byline: Frank Zoretich Journal Staff Writer

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One of seven children from a blue-collar Hispanic family in Hammond, Ind., a steel mill town near Chicago, (Carolyn Curiel) decided to go to Purdue University on a scholarship and become a journalist.

Her steelworker father had told her: “God blessed you with a brain; go use it.”

She started as a sports reporter and eventually became chief of United Press International’s Caribbean division. She worked at the Washington Post and later was a foreign desk editor for the New York Times and Ted Koppel’s writer and producer for the ABC-News “Nightline” show.

But she only worked for Koppel for a year before a friend passed on her name to the Clinton administration in 1992.

The White House called her in for an interview just days after Clinton’s inauguration. At the gate to the White House, she bumped into Koppel, who later popped into the interview to give her an in-person recommendation for the job.

As senior speech writer, she often travels with the president. She was aboard Air Force One, for example, during Clinton’s recent swing through the Western states.

But she was back in Washington, D.C., before Clinton’s stop in Albuquerque on June 11. So she missed what she referred to as “The Famous Flying Salsa Incident,” the air-turbulence jolt that shook the president’s plane after take-off from Albuquerque International Sunport with food from Garcia’s Kitchen aboard.

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United Press International has appointed Carolyn Curiel Caribbean division..

UPI NewsTrack - October 3, 1984

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She recentlywas named a Minority Fellow by the American Newspaper Publishers Association, which provided her with management training at a seminar conducted by the University of Chicago.

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CLINTON SPEECHWRITER TO TALK ABOUT DREAM JOB SCRIPPS-MCCLATCHY WESTERN SERVICE
Scripps Howard News Service - June 23, 1996
Author/Byline: T. J. SULLIVAN, Scripps-McClatchy Western Service

Carolyn Curiel was at The Washington Post in 1985 when she told a friend about her dream job: writing speeches for the U.S. president.

There was only one problem: ‘’I said that I would never work for a Republican, and it looked like the Republicans were in for life.’’

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NY Times adds Curiel to board - Hammond native will help shape decisions for paper’s editorial page.

Post-Tribune (IN) - August 13, 2002
Author/Byline: Steve Walsh, Post-Tribune staff writer

Hammond native Carolyn Curiel has taken on one of the most coveted jobs in journalism.

The New York Times announced Monday it has named Curiel, former presidential speechwriter and U.S. ambassador, to its editorial board.

“This is something I have wanted, and I’m thrilled to be part of the New York Times editorial board,” Curiel said from her desk at the newspaper’s office. “It’s actually a humbling experience, to think my opinions will help make up the editorial page decisions of the Times.”

Curiel grew up in Hammond and graduated from Purdue University. She had been a visiting fellow on the editorial board this summer.

From 1997 to 2001 she was the U.S. ambassador to Belize. From 1993 to 1997, Curiel was a White House speechwriter during the Clinton administration.

More recently, she had been senior fellow at the Pew Hispanic Center since 2001.

Starting out at UPI in Chicago, Curiel worked previously as an editor for the New York Times and the Washington Post. She was a writer and producer for Ted Koppel at ABC’s “Nightline” when she got a call from the incoming Clinton administration to audition as speech writer.

Among her credits are Clinton’s speech on affirmative action, considered one of his best.

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Every mature, intelligent person in this country knows that the judge in the Trump University case, United States District Court Judge Gonzalo Curiel, could very well be biased against Donald Trump, - the one man who has the testicular fortitude to declare that he will build a wall on the Mexican border. Judge Curiel is of Mexican heritage.

There is, by the way, a law already on the books calling for building such a wall (Secure Fence Acts, 2006 and 2008),

but establishment politicians in both parties have no interest in doing so.

The “righteous indignation” Republicans Paul Ryan and Newt Gingrich are displaying over the fact that Trump asserted Curiel is biased (because of his heritage), does not impress those of us who tend to agree with Trump.

Check out article and graphics, esp. # 30 , # 31 , # 32 , - # 24 , # 23 .

Thanks, Maggie.

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At least some FReepers who thought Eye of Newt was a conservative know have a clue. Newt is a globalist first, and always has been one.