Posted on 10/17/2010 9:10:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
At first, it looked like a glimmer of hope for the beleaguered state of California.
Meg Whitman, an accomplished business executive with the very consumer friendly “Ebay” name attached to her own, was leading slightly in the fight to be California’s next Governor. It was still a tight race, yes, but Democratic gubernatorial nominee (and the guy who was California Governor when I was in 5th grade) Jerry Brown, a perennial government employee, was struggling to find a compelling message amid the anti-Obama backlash.
And then Ms. Whitman (and her entire family) got hit with a very ugly surprise. Nicky Diaz, a former employee of the Whitman family, spoke at a press conference orchestrated by left-winger attorney Gloria Allred to announce that they were suing Meg Whitman for $6, 210.00. Diaz and her attorneys were alleging distress and “damages” from the way Diaz was treated during her term of employment with the Whitmans, and from the fact that Whitman was so insensitive as to have “fired” Ms. Diaz (is employment termination no longer permitted in Obama’s America?).
After this disgraceful press conference, the discussion about who should be California’s next Governor devolved into a TMZ-Perez Hilton – styled gossip fest about Nicky and Meg. While Whitman quickly responded by dismissing the law suit as “Jerry Brown politics,” Jerry Brown insisted he had nothing to do with “it.” Whitman was also forced to abandon her campaign message – at least a little bit, anyway – and to answer questions about her relationship with Nicky Diaz.
Whitman explained that Diaz had been a live-in family housemaid from 2000 to 2009, and earned $23.00 an hour. According to Whitman, Diaz had provided all the appropriate “paperwork” to demonstrate that she was residing in California legally. Whitman apparently did not become aware of Diaz’ “illegal” status until 2009 (the same year that Whitman decided to run for Governor, interestingly enough), whereupon Whitman did the only thing she could do to bring herself into compliance with federal law – she terminated Diaz’ employment.
For her part, Diaz’ story was fascinating. She openly confessed to using somebody else’s Social Security number for the purpose of duping both Whitman, and immigration authorities. And never mind the fact that she held a steady fulltime job for nine years earning $23.00 an hour while living in a plush home the likes of which most Americans will never experience. Being “used” for a time by Meg Whitman and then being callously “discarded” was emotionally painful, and Diaz needed retribution. As she put it, speaking through her broken, Hispanic-tinged English, “I’m doing this for all the other Nicky’s…”
Shortly thereafter when Whitman and Brown met in Fresno for the second of three California gubernatorial debates, Whitman was forced to again tell “her side of the story” – she was given falsified documents that showed Diaz to be “legal,” but when she realized that Diaz was “illegal” she had to fire Diaz. Brown conveniently ignored the legal entanglements, and simply stated that, because she fired Nicky Diaz from her job, Whitman had failed the most basic tests of “decency” and “respect.”
Today, polling data indicates that Brown is leading Whitman by roughly six percentage points. It’s not “over” for Whitman, not by any means, and she could still win. But it is difficult to suggest that she hasn’t been damaged by this embarrassing scenario.
This is an “emotional matter,” to be sure. But let’s step away from the “feelings” for a moment and talk about some facts.
It is a fact that Nicky Diaz has violated U.S. federal law on multiple accounts. She entered into the U.S. illegally; by her own admission she falsified documents for both the Whitman family, and for federal immigration authorities; she stole somebody’s Social Security number (among the citizen class we call this “identity theft,” and many of us spend a lot of money each year trying to protects ourselves from this type of crime); she worked illegally in the U.S.; and so far as we can tell she is still residing illegally in the U.S. today.
Jerry Brown, currently California’s Attorney General and, as such, California’s top law enforcement agent, has had absolutely nothing to say about any of the lawlessness of Nicky Diaz. He has played politics with this matter, and even insisted that Meg Whitman behaved in an “insensitive” and “indecent” fashion by firing the illegal immigration Diaz.
Yet Meg Whitman hasn’t exactly been forthcoming, either. She has yet to state the obvious about this situation – that Nicky Diaz has violated U.S. federal law, and continues to do so.
It would seem that stating the obvious about crime, and lawlessness, is just too politically “dangerous” – especially when the “obvious” involves illegal immigration
Poor Whitman. $110M spent. All that time running a huge corporation employing tens of thousands of people, knocked out of the race by one of the Libs’ most common tricks: lying and having the Lib lie trumpeted by the Rancid Media. Unless copnservatives develop a strategy to fight this kind of press criminality, all the Whitmans will be defeated.
Doesn't California have an attorney general to pursue and uphold the law and resolve such situations?
RINOs ... they suck.
Please watch what Texas is going to do since the Commies in Washington isn’t going to do anything..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpQi5mXl3hc
This is the standard tactic of the liberals:
Can’t win the argument on the merits, change the subject and accuse the republican of some malfeasance.
Same with Carl Paladino in NY. Prince Andrew has not faced any serious scrutiny and the media keeps Paladino off message by changing the subject back to Paladino. The whole gay-rights thing is a distraction from the serious policy of what to do with a broken socialist state and the media talks about gay marriage, and anythihng n but the failed policies of Sheldon Silver and the rest of the DemcRAT Socialists.
Thou Shall Not Say “Illegal” and “Immigration” In the Same Sentence
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Well since those 2 words dont go together why would we ???
Unless we added a “but” or “do not”
Illegal aliens do not have anything to do with immigration
Illegal aliens are here illegally, but those who enter legally are obeying the United States immigration laws..
But personally I like “and”
“there are illegal aliens and then there is immigration”
Criminal conduct has been the standard of behavior for DemoRats for at least a century, so Republicans have no excuse to not be aware of this.
Yet whenever Republicans are in power, they do not investigate, prosecute, and convict the DemoRat criminals, but in fact, at the slightest Rat squeal, they appoint shill DemoRat special prosecutors to railroad loyal Republicans and destroy their careers.
If the Republicans simply convicted DemoRats of the crimes they commit on an ongoing basis, their would be few DemoRats that could be elected on their record of felony convictions, if they WERE out of prison. Doper Moonbeam is one of them.
Imagine if this were to happen; roving bands of heavily armed bandits roaming the country{and the world} in heavily armed junkers. Chaos would ensue among the masses, police would be almost helpless, and the Army would have to call in their cavalry divisions.
This particular scenario takes place in Texas, where this video comes from a Dallas perspective.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bfdlVFbegE&feature=related
Excellent point
One reason the Democrats use dirty tricks is that they work.
Only among the brainless.
But even the brainless eventually figure out that something is not quite right with everybody's world.
Regardless of how much the Jerry Browns of California keep shoveling the manure...
Anyone else notice that Barbara Boxer's entire reeletion campaign is attacking her opponent?
Absolutely no discussion desired about her "achievements" of the last 28 years.
How are your buddies in the Taliban doing, Babs?
I wonder how Meg feels about these wonderful illegal aliens now?
“Doesn’t California have an attorney general to pursue and uphold the law and resolve such situations?”
Yes - his name is Jerry Brown.
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