Hector Tobar
Posted on 10/08/2010 9:21:47 PM PDT by thecodont
Just about any way they look at it, Meg Whitman comes off badly to the moms I met at the Brentwood Country Mart.
Most of them are lifelong professionals like Whitman, with kids grown up and in college. And, like her, they've lived many years with Spanish-speaking immigrant women working in their homes.
They don't quite believe Whitman when she says she didn't know that her longtime domestic, Nicandra Diaz Santillan, was an undocumented immigrant. And if the billionaire and GOP candidate for governor is being honest — well, in a way, they think, that's even worse.
"If that's true, then what a horrible person Meg Whitman is," a 49-year-old mother of two told me as she headed to one of the Country Mart's boutiques. "How could she have this woman in her home, looking after her kids, and not have a relationship with her? You'd have to be a pretty superficial person not to know that she was illegal."
These Westside moms told me that when a woman works in your kitchen, cleans your bathrooms and prepares your food, day in and day out, you can't help but learn a lot about her. After a year, or two, or nine, she becomes part of your "extended family," as Whitman herself put it.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Just another hitjob.Brentwood is full of idiots anyway and would not vote republican under any circumstances.
Of course Whitman knew.
Suddenly every liberal is pro SB1070 and wants status checked.
So they are saying that "racial profiling" does work? If this is true, why aren't law enforcement officers allowed to use it to enforce the laws of the United States of America?
Rather than being celebrated in this article, they should be rounded up and placed in FEMA camps.
Proof?
The bottom line? Tough to back a candidate who cannot find an illegal alien right in her home.
B......t. We employ a Hispanic housekeeper once a week. Have done so for years. I have no idea whether she is a citizen or not. She drives a care; so I presume, but do not know, that she has a drivers license.
These same women probably treat their domestics like dirt. Spoiled liberals who can’t wait to get quoted in the local paper.
Hector Tobar is a Los Angeles author and journalist whose work examines the evolving and interdependent relationship between Latin America and the United States. He was born in Guatemala. He is currently a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Previously, he was the paper’s bureau chief in Mexico City and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He also worked for several years as the National Latino Affairs Correspondent. In 1992, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his work as part of the team covering the L.A. riots for the Los Angeles Times.
Most other places the "real immigrants" do grow up learning English, but that's simply not the case in major parts of LA.
I work in Brentwood everyday. Liberals.
This is the kind of woman who would then be shocked to find her husband had been cheating on her for the past 10 years -- "I just thought he had to work late a lot".
Because, as we all know, nobody ever keeps any secrets from people they know well.
Hector Tobar
Hecktoor Towbar does it again, typical.
This is how the media trashes conservatives. They take a one-day-max story, something out of millions of things to be considered, and turn it into story after story after story.
This is like Macaca for George Allen, a single slip of the tongue that turned into dozens of newspaper articles over the course of several weeks.
OJ lived there, ‘nuff said.
Yes, you are correct. You must have lived in LA at one time.
Looks like a fag to me.
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