Engage cloaking device...pay no attention to landscaper, other criticism.
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Posted on 12/06/2007 12:17:58 PM PST by meandog
The landscaper who Mitt Romney fired earlier this week for continuing to employ illegal immigrants says the termination boils down to little more than politics.
The GOP presidential candidate cut ties with Ricardo Saenz, of Community Lawn Service in Chelsea, Mass., in anticipation of a Boston Globe article reporting that the company employed undocumented workers a year after the hiring practices were first revealed. Romney said he gave the company a second chance and that "the company's failure to comply with the law is disappointing and inexcusable."
But Saenz told FOX25 in Boston that Romney did not demand that the company not employ illegal immigrants...
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Romney never asked, and Saenz never told.
OK, regardless of what Romney knew or didn’t know...that’s the biggest bunch of bullsh*t for an excuse I have ever heard in my life.
It’s now the responsibility of the customer to demand that the business not break the law in its hiring practices?
Only if you want to be President.
How do you like the Socialists Senator, Jim Webb (S-VA), you spend all your time here last year helping elect with your postings?
Like him better then George Allen? You remember Allen, who has a Lifetime American Conservative Union rating 92%?
Or maybe you come here to admit you have been totally wrong about Iraq from day one now that your, and Jim Webb's, Surrender Now dogmas have been proven to be such a disasterous ignorant fraud?
Wander back to Moveon.org fool, Freepers know which side you play for.
Not the issue...the issue is whether the Romulan told the truth or not about claim he instructed the landscaper not to employ illegals. I tend to believe the landscaper over Slick Willard.
Is Ricardo Saenz, of Community Lawn Service in Chelsea, Mass being investigated by ICE yet?
Ricardo may have done a job for Mitt... but I bet he gets a steady paycheck from The Globe.
Romney says landscaper never insisted he was a criminal.
Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor.
- Theodore Roosevelt
I tend to believe the landscaper over Slick Willard.
Oh, you do? Well then there’s no problem:
Saenz also insisted to the Globe that the workers he hired were legal, but he did not show reporters their papers.
If you're running for office and had been previously told the same business was hiring illegals in the past and had decided to give the business a "second chance" after that, then yes, I would assume you would have both the right and responsibility to demand that the business not screw you over when you're going to be under a microscope.
“Nobody told me not to paint the cat...” What, ya gotta specify no criminals now?
This jerk needs to be prosecuted.
Fredheads, if the exact same incidents occurred with Fred Thompson would you care a whit?
My initial reaction to the story was that it was a weak attempt to "gotcha" Romney. (I can even provide a link to my original comments if you like.) I still think it's not a particularly strong thing to nail him on, but the fact that the same company had indeed been using illegals in the past, and Romney knew about it, does mean that he should indeed have insisted on a "no illegals" policy when giving the company a second chance.
Now what we have here is the company saying that no such demand was made, which conflicts with Romney's position that he did so. I have no idea who is right, but such discrepancies will give the story "legs".
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