Posted on 12/11/2004 7:33:21 AM PST by EggsAckley
Hope this wasn't already posted. Nothing came up on a search.
Another example of a Republican owning up to his mistakes and moving on (A la Bush re: the coke / drinking crap of his youth). A dem would have denied, denied, denied, then evaded, then lied ...
It's a stupid mistake that he made but he did the right thing by owning up to it and moving on.
Why is it that ethics, New York and Cop never seem to go together?
Police Commissioner who may have broke the law (they aren't clear whether she was an illegal) just shows the need for STRICTER laws concerning illegals.
Maybe now President Bush will get tougher on illegals (?)
I dont think that they said if W knew about this when he chose him.
But the rats and their rat media are really blowing this one up out of proportion as usual.
Why in the hell didn't Kerik just decline when his name first came up. Very insulting to Bush, IMO.
Ya sure?
:)
Nyuck nyuck nyuck. Very funny, Mr. Snoid.
I don't see why this should be such a problem since they don't have a problem with illegal immigration.
So ... whats the guy done wrong?
What always surprises me is that the power elite who are in the top echelons of their profession delegate their children's welfare to someone who is not even a citizen. Seems to speak badly for them as parents let alone as citizens avoiding tax law.
Because this happened while he was away in Iraq. His wife made the mistake, and he is taking responsiblility for it. Just as he said in the resignation letter, he discovered it when he was filling out the papers to support his confirmation.
Part of the legacy from the years of the regime of the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001". Several nominees to Cabinet level posts and administrative positions were withdrawn in those years because of a "nanny problem", illegals who were employed and for whom no payments were being made to FICA on a timely basis. This established a precedent, which is another example of political correctness once again carried too far.
"What did this person know, and when did he (or she) know it?"
Once, it was entirely possible that an employer might NOT have known the status of a foreign-born employee, and it was not all that uncommon for a domestic servant to not have Social Security funds withheld from pay and forwarded to the US Treasury, a requirement easily overlooked by someone who casually employed only one or a few people for domestic purposes in a year.
Can you provide a source? The NYT says:
A former New York City official who knows the circumstances of the withdrawal said that the housekeeper, who had worked for the Kerik family for about a year, left for her home country two weeks ago.
Fox says Keric left Iraq 9-4-03. In any case, he was present for a year of her employment without checking or withholding.
I find it interesting that her departure is about a week before his nomination.
Prsident Bush never has said that he used coke, where do you get your information? Do you have sources, can you provide a link? Are you trying to start a rumor?
B.S.
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