Posted on 10/05/2010 1:44:51 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) -- A former housekeeper for gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman held a news conference Tuesday to tell the public she is not a puppet for attorney Gloria Allred, Jerry Brown or anyone else.
Nicky Diaz Santillan, appeared with Allred for a third week to claim that Meg Whitman knew she was an illegal immigrant when she worked for the former eBay founder for nine years. Santillan says it was only after Whitman launched her campaign that she was fired.
'I want everyone to know my name," Santillan said. "I make my own decisions and I am nobody's puppet."
Santillan also addressed Whitman directly. "Don't say you treated me like a member of your family because you didn't," the former housekeeper said.
Attorney Allred again refused to disclose how she came to represent Santillan, saying only that she was referred to her by a fellow attorney.
She added that it's her law firm's policy not to disclose who made the referral. She also refused to say whether the attorney had any connection with Whitman's opponent, Democratic state Attorney General Jerry Brown.
Whitman says Democrats are using her former housekeeper as a political pawn.
Allred released a copy of a 2003 letter notifying the Republican gubernatorial candidate that the employee might be an illegal immigrant.
She says Santillan kept the letter from the Social Security Administration after Whitman's husband partially filled it out and told the housekeeper to deal with it.
Last week, Allred produced a copy of the letter and said that the housekeeper recognized the handwriting as belonging to Whitman's husband.
Whitman said she never saw the letter and said she and her husband fired Santillan last year after she told them she was in the U.S. illegally.
"The Nicky I saw at the press conference three days ago was not the Nicky that I knew for nine years," Whitman said at the debate Saturday.
"And you know what my first clue was? She kept referring to me as Ms. Whitman. For the nine years she worked for me she called me Meg and I called her Nicky.
"You should be ashamed for sacrificing Nicky Diaz on the altar of your political ambitions," Whitman told Brown.
Brown said Whitman still refuses to take responsibility for her actions, and that suggests she's unfit to be governor.
"Don't run for governor if you can't stand up on your own two feet and say, 'Hey I made a mistake, I'm sorry, let's go on from here,'" Brown said.
"You have blamed her, blamed me, blamed the left, blamed the unions but you don't take accountability. You can't be a leader unless you're willing to stand on your own two feet and say, yup, I made a mistake and I'm going on from here."
Whitman has fiercely maintained claims that she knew about her housekeeper's immigration status are "all lies." She has even said she'd be willing to take a lie detector test.
She says the timing of the accusations was methodical, with the election just weeks away.
"This is just classic smear politics," Whitman said.
Santillan claims Whitman failed to reimburse her for extra hours and mileage she racked up while running special errands like picking up Whitman's children and husband from various locations.
"She never asked for reimbursement," Whitman responded.
In March 2005, the housekeeper asked for maternity leave and was told she needed to find her own replacement or face losing her job, Allred said.
Whitman said Santillan worked no more than 15 hours a week at a rate of $23 per hour, and only asked for Wednesdays off, which shes granted.
Santillan is filing a claim with the Labor Commission, seeking back wages and mileage
I hope the local U.S Attorney now “knows her name”. And spells it correctly in the cation of an indictment charging her with at least one felony.
Why is she still in the US?
“cation” =”caption”. Sorry.
You deduct mileage from your itemized taxes, not reimbursement from your employer.
She should be either deported for being illegal or in jail for falsifying documents.
That’s what would happen to me.
WHY IS THIS WITCH STILL IN THE COUNTRY!?!?!?!?!?!?!
(sorry for the caps,but I’m shouting...)
Hopefully the effect of all this will be a new governor who has a newfound deep personal animosity towards illegal parasites.
Whitman should have found this big mouth another job with one of her pathetic liberal commie buddies in Palo Alto..Firing an illegal that has worked for you for 9 years was not a very bright decision...
Why is no one asking how “mislead” and horrible Meg had to feel when her “party of the family” came to her to say she had lied all these years! Can you imagine the let down and hurt Meg has to feel. The $23.00 per hr help was lucky she was not deported on the spot..
Sign me and most of the Americans I know around here who are unemployed. The chica doesn’t want the job there are plenty of people who will take it. Whitman obviously paid her at wages better than quite a few Americans doing that kind of work and alot more than practically any illegal house keeper.
And yes you are a puppet your just too stupid to realise it.
Wonder if she worked as a sub contractor and if she paid her income taxes?
Wonder if she collected welfare since she only worked 15 hrs a week? Food stamps?
“Why is she still in the US?”
I believe that she has 2 “anchor babies.”....sigh
We need to get back to the correct version of the 14th and our immigration laws.......PC policies are killing our Nation is many different ways.....
‘WHY IS THIS WITCH STILL IN THE COUNTRY!?!?!?!?!?!?!”
Two words. Aunt Zetuni
That old geezer Brown is suffering from dementia. Does he think people don’t understand this M.O. of Allred. Why doesn’t the California bar assn investigate Allred for the jeopardy she is putting Diaz in... And only to get Brown elected. Small fry under the boots of folks who have stature...
Megan Kelly played a clip of this little piece of work at the end of her show today, She was playing class and race warfare with the usual poor me, I am a person too bs.
Most people can see right through it, except some people in California.
“I make my own decisions and I am nobody’s puppet.”
Which is exactly what Allred told her to say.
Uhhhhhhh, not even close to correct there Mr. "journalist".
I believe that she has 2 “anchor babies.”.
That doesn't protect her from being prosecuted for the felonies she committed.
OK. She never met the people now paying her, or Allred is the conduit. Or a PO Box.
Otherwise, she has to lie to save her keester.
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