Posted on 11/27/2010 10:11:01 AM PST by shibumi
-By Warner Todd Huston
Meg Whitman’s race for Governor of California seemed to take a nose dive right after it was discovered late in the campaign that she had employed a maid that was an illegal alien. The San Francisco Chronicle reports on the “tantalizing mystery” of just who it was that launched this torpedo at the Whitman campaign. Unsurprisingly, the SFChron has discovered that it was a union that did the dirty work.
The illegal alien, Nicandra Diaz, worked for about 8 years for the Whitman’s but was fired in 2009 once Whitman found out she was an illegal. So how did this illegal alien get so much press?
In early September, Diaz turned to a friend who knew a member of the powerful, Oakland-based California Nurses Association, The Chronicle has learned.
The union called in two lawyers for Diaz: Marc Van Der Hout, a longtime immigration attorney in San Francisco, and celebrity feminist attorney Gloria Allred, a fierce workplace rights litigator who arranged for Diaz to tell her story in a live-webcast news conference.
Naturally the union had been big supporters of re-Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown and once they found Diaz they were more than happy to use the woman to destroy the better gubernatorial candidate, Whitman.
Once again we see unions serving as the worst influence possible on our electoral system.
Unions suck.
That’s an understatement!
Now we are stuck with governor moonbeam. Figures.
And the voters were entirely too stupid to see that they were being played.
Well good for them. I pray they go bankrupt and get to console themselves in their little broken down hovels that they by gawd showed that evil republican hypocritical beotch.
If thats all the brains California voters have, they deserve everything they get.
Just don’t bother the rest of us...
ACTION NOW
(A) Officials and insiders of The California Nurses Association shoud be interrogated by the FBI to determine whether tax-exempt monies were used illegally WRT to interference with US elections.
(B) TCNA should be asked to produce records on how they spent tax-exempt money.
(C) If the TCNA refuses, the IRS, SEC, FBI, Congress and the GAO can easily review the TCNA's paper trail to determine whether TCNA submitted falsified documents to govt agencies (a felony).
AIDING AND ABETTING TCNA may also be charged with being an accessory after the fact----for aiding and abetting lawbreaking. A significant clue is that Allred is NOT bringing this case to court, an acknowledgement of wrongdoing------b/c a litigant must approach the court with "clean hands"---that they broke no laws in the quest for US justice.
OTHER POSSIBLE CHARGES Criminal complaints might be lodged against TCNA Staff and Executive Board members for fraud, conspiracy and concealment, and criminal civil rights violations. Since there has already been the public admission that a possible felony was committed, it is also possible that other federal offenses have also been committed including but not limited to;
<><>Title 18 U.S.C. §1341,
<><> Mail Fraud, 18 U.S.C.§1001, Presenting a False Document to an Agent of the US Govt;
<><>18 U.S.C.§1027 False statements and concealment of facts in relation to documents required by ERISA of 1974, including civil and RICO violations.
<><>18 U.S.C. §§1961-68 (RICO Act),
<><>18 U.S.C. §1341 (Mail Fraud),18 U.S.C. §1027 (ERISA Violations), and,
<><>18 U.S.C. §241 (Conspiracy Against Civil Rights).
A full investigation of a RICO conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. §1962(c) is warranted because (1) several persons (2) were employed by or associated with an enterprise (TCNA), (3) that engaged in or affected social and financial enterprises (elections) , and that (4) the persons (TCNA) operated or managed the enterprise (5) through a pattern (6) of racketeering activity, and, (7) person(s) were injured in its enterprises and financial interests by reason of the (TCNA) pattern of racketeering activity.
Thus, a formal RICO investigation is also warranted b/c the alleged violation of Title 18 U.S.C. §241 – Conspiracy Against Constitutional Rights – prohibits in relevant part, “two or more persons (from conspiring) to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person (Whitman) in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him/her by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same . . .” See, 18 U.S.C. §241.
REPORT POSSIBLE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY: Conspiracy, collusion, government fraud; mishandling public property, falsifying official records, tax fraud, computer trespass to destroy data (a Class C felony), US Postal and electronic fraud.
IRS TOLL-FREE 1-800-829-0433----(you may remain anonymous).
EMAIL .......OAAG.Tax@tax.USDOJ.gov
FBI TIP PAGE http://tips.fbi.gov/ (you may remain anonymous)
Well, California got what it wanted. Too bad it’s not possible to make it go away and live with the consequences.
I’m a far piece from CA, and could generally give a s*** about the Golden State. Whitman was not a great candidate, absent this “issue”, so it’s hard for me to develop any emotion on this. I would hope that the maid gets deported as soon as practicable (which, as my seminar in immigration law in law school 15 years ago suggested, is some glacial time frame.) If you are going to waive a flag and state that you are an illegal immigrant - great - but you need to pay the price for that.
California is circling the drain and needs to go belly-up and have these ridiculous pensions and other entitlements, including to illegals, terminated. The rest of you better fight any federal bailout too!
Meg should have released the information at the beginning of the campaign. She had done everything right, but coming at the last minute it made her look guilty. Like the Bush dui nonsense.
The President of the student body of Fresno State recently declared that he is an illegal alien. In California if you question it, YOU become the target. The whole state is upside down. I doubt anything will happen to the illegal maid except she’s now a star and rich.
Sadly, it's worse than just moonbeam. The "progressives" pretty much ran the election table in the once-Golden State, and slimed through a new law limiting state budget-deciding majorities to 50%.
The Marxists/Greens/progressives who own the Dems (and who own the legislature) will never understand that the same folks whom they will yoke with new regulatory burdens (and from whom they confiscate wealth and property), are the very peeps who are the West Coast economic engine.
They (we) will move out at the earliest opportunity, leaving California in hopeless debt, with nothing but welfare rats and government employees promising "green jobs".
(But, don't get me started).
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I beg to differ in that it takes an idiot to beleive one and in this case the majority of voters in Kalifonya proved P.T Barnum's operational basis of his fame and fortune.
Granted, Ms. Whitman is and will not be a good candidate for anything other than websites to lure the gullable to buy something from someone who you have never met and have never done business with before in your life. Nevermind the huge chances one makes in sending money in advance for something you have never seen.
Though the details of this have been debated and detailed ad nauseum, I still have no idea exactly what Whitman should have done differently.
Hired through an agency at least partially for the obvious purpose of checking such things, her maid came to her with full pedigree and documentation as to citizenship. Is Meg Whitman supposed to hire her maid and then immediately embark upon a full-time, FBI-level background check?
Whitman got the “hey this is funny” letter from the either INS or the SSA and asked her maid to check up on it. Or what?
Whitman paid the maid $23/hour and I can assure you that that is more than 99.9% of maids are paid. The maid’s agency is equally liable, since they handled the withholding taxes.
When Whitman found about about the illegal status of the maid she fired her. What else was to be done?
And yet this is all gassing in the wind and second-guessing the functioning neuron levels for the third-grade mentality of CA voters. With election upon election, they have proven themselves so far beyond stupid, they can’t catch a bus back to stupid. May they feast on the rotting corpse of CA to their heart’s delight.
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They weren't that stupid, they were just looking for a reason not to vote for her. She was always going to lose just like Fiorina, they just needed an excuse to vote against them and feel good about it.
The reason they lost is because they are rich, self made women and it goes against everything liberals and unions stand for.
If the whole story is told then Whitman actually comes out shining: she hired someone she thought was legal. She paid her a great salary. She fired her as soon as she found out she was illegal.
The problem is not that the story came out, but that it came out in the general election. If Poizner had forced Whitman to deal with this earlier it would have been old news by the time she had gone up against Brown.
Whitman needed a little tough love from Poizner and didn't get it.
All she got was an ad showing a car going over a cliff: a perfect metaphor for the Poizner campaign.
One small hurdle to a criminal investigation of Diaz and the union is the US Attorney General — Eric Holder.
I am firmly convinced that the already liberal and statist California voters have been convinced that the rest of the country will be dragged by the Obama Administration into bailing California out as being “too big to fail” (and too important to Obama’s re-election as well).
This might have been valid pre-11/02/10 with Madam Speaker Pelosi (D “Babylon by the Bay” aka San Francisco) but with a very healthy GOP majority that owes about nothing to the almost exclusively Democrat Donors of California, it has become a bad bet indeed. Oopsie!
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