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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Lately I haven’t listened to anyone but Howie and not all the time.
I took a quick look at his state campaign acct( which I don’t think he could use in a Senate race) and he only has 90k right now.He would need at least 5m and he would have to come up with that quickly
I’m also proud of my Native American heritage. I’m sure everyone else here is, too. I was born in Lynn, MA, a part of the United States of America. I am a Native American.
Is it just me, or are we witnessing the implosion of liberalism itself?
Elizabeth Warren, the Trayvon episode, Sandra Fluke, and now our first gay president-all these are not just backfires, they are revealing political reversals.
The silver lining in the very dark cloud that is Barack Obama is that he has put liberalism into practice, and it has revealed where liberals have been coming from all these years, and it is obviously taking us places we don’t want to go.
LOL! Excellent graphic.
Dem primary 9/6.
National Dem Party already cleared the field for her. Hand-picked by Obama. Rumor circulating that she will be forced out by retiring MA governor and mini-Obama, Deval Patrick. He would be much tougher to beat.
Amazing. 60+ posts and I’m the first to mention Ward Churchill? She can look him up after she implodes and they can commiserate.
No federal campaign listed at FEC as of today.I’ll keep a check on that for a little bit
Howie and Michael Graham have been talking about it. I fear Deval. Granny? Not so much.
If Obama pulls the trigger, money will flow.
She should have a Pow Wow or even a better a Potlatch and give away all her money
That is what concerns me. Brown maybe should have kept this quiet, not letting it goes so far as to cause her to exit the race.
1/32nd? That’s peanuts !!
Being born in the United States of America, I am 100% Native (American).
I doubt highly anyone except for Fauxcahontas will be running.
IMO its too late for any of the replacements mentioned that are state or city office holders to get a federal campaign together. As for Congressmen,they had their chance to line up against Brown months ago and passed. They could use their campaign acct to run but I doubt it.
As for Deval, here are the reasons I don’t see him running:
1.No federal campaign listed with FEC.
2.I think he’s holding out for an appointment in 2nd Obama admin if there is one.
3. He’s won govship with less than 50% of votes twice. Not a ringing endorsement from MA voting populace.
4. He’s lazy. He’s planning on spending vast majority of summer at his “shack” out in the Berkshires.Spend his summer
stuck with the hoi polloi at campaign events in Everett, Fall River,or Fitchburg? Perish the thought.
Hope you’re right. If so, things look about as good as they could be.
They don't just 'rewrite' our history to serve their agenda; they gladly rewrite their own.
Can only ask; where is Oprah, when we need her?
Surprised that no one has mentioned the Urban Legend (I hoe not) about the Anglo-Saxon dude who applied at a college, stating that he was an Indian. When asked what tribe, he said, “SoSueMe”.
I love your post#6: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2884349/posts?page=6#6
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