Posted on 05/16/2012 6:28:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The controversy over Elizabeth Warren's claim to Native American ancestry shows no signs of dying down, and is now threatening to derail her campaign for Republican Scott Brown's Massachusetts Senate seat.
Politico reporter Maggie Haberman has now uncovered Pa 1997 piece from the Fordham Law Review that refers to Warren as "the first woman of color" hired by Harvard Law School.
The piece cites as its source Harvard Law spokesman Michael Chmura, the same spokesman who bragged about Warren's Native American heritage to the Harvard Crimson in 1996.
Warren has so far dismissed the story, which first surfaced when the Boston Herald uncovered the Crimson article. She has said that she did not know Harvard was billing her as a minority professor, although identified herself as a minority on law professor listings until around 1995, and was also identified as a minority faculty member when she worked at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Brown campaign has seized the story, and is demanding that Warren release her law school personnel records to show whether her minority background had anything to do with her hiring.
“The question here is not about Elizabeth Warren’s credentials, so much as it is about Elizabeth Warren’s integrity and truthfulness and willingness to be transparent,’’ Brown's campaign manager Jim Barnett told reporters yesterday.
Conservatives have also demanded that proof that Warren is 1/32 Cherokee, as she claims.
Breitbart.com has turned the issue into a cause célèbre, publishing almost daily stories that claim debunk Warren's ancestry, including one alleging that one of Warren's forebearers actually rounded up Cherokees for the Trail of Tears.
Warren's response hasn't helped quell the firestorm. Despite first denying that she knew anything about the minority listing, she now repeatedly claims to be "proud" of her Native American heritage
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Deval is the only Dem who could beat Scott Brown.
That’s a great story. They didn’t even need Billy Jack to bring them together.
FWIW, I’m an early boomer (b. 1948). Dad was WWII, Korea, & we served concurrently in Vietnam. I’ll never understand how the Greatest Generation managed to produce so many hippies & misfits. The draft dodgers I kind of understand even there were many ways to enlist & never see combat, and maybe the majority of draft age boomers led more or less normal lives, but what drove the counterculture hippie movement totally escapes me to this day.
Grey ponytails are its only remnant.
Could it be that her “chickens are coming home to roost?” DemocRATs everywhere will see their “chickens” coming home to roost in November.
Add another thing: Brown could rake him over the coals in a state-wide for the whole EBT thing. Like Giggidy said, Coupe never received more than 50% of the vote, and if it weren’t for frigging Cahill, he’d probably not be governor today.
Maybe I’m just a big goof but I’m seeing bad news for the commie ‘RATS everywhere I look. We’re going to need a lot of straight jackets for the buffoons in the state run “media” after the November elections. Those morons are about to get a wake up call from America. JMO.
In the internet world, universities are superfluous. They don't know it yet, that's all. And they're supposed to be so smart.Yup.
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