DRUDGE:ARKANSAS SENATOR-ELECT HOUSEKEEPER SIGNED 'FALSE AFFIDAVIT'

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[jbstrick]

The Insider November 8, 2002

Nannygate

Speak Spanish? Know someone who does? If so, you might want to pick up a copy of El Latino, the Spanish-language weekly that is a member of the Arkansas Times family.

This week's issue will include an exclusive interview with the Mexican woman who became an issue in the final hours of the race for U.S. Senate. She once worked as domestic help for Attorney General Mark Pryor. Republicans raised questions about whether she was a legal alien and whether Pryor had been required to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes as her employer. Pryor said there'd been no wrongdoing.

The woman now tells El Latino editor Michel Leidermann that she was indeed an illegal worker when employed by Pryor for about six months in 1999 and that she told his wife this at the time. She also says she made $70 a day for a day of work a week or more for six months, which could mean she earned enough to have required small tax payments by the Pryors. She says she was encouraged by Pryor in-laws to sign a statement absolving Pryor and that she did so because she was unnerved by being the center of controversy.

Expect to hear more about this. In English.

[BushRep]

Bill Clinton was Arkansas Attorney General too, no?

Must be the building or something.

[TLBSHOW]

Not to say there shouldn't be more threads like this to get the word out! :>)

[sweetliberty]

"Can he go to jail for this?"

Are you kidding? Like I said before.."Silly FReepers; laws are for Republicans."

[Dahoser]

Unfortunately, that would allow the RATS to immediately call out the shadows of impeachment. It's up to the voters of Arkansas to take care of this.

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

I hate to admit it, but you're right. I also suspect that a great many of my fellow baptists who sat on their hands rather than vote for Hutchinson are themselves divorced and remarried.

Now if he'd only stayed married to his first wife, like Slick . . .

[topher]

Can he go to jail for this?

It is tax evasion on a small amount.

It sets a very bad example for the American people (which is why the President's annual Tax Return is published around tax return time -- which has been published by the sitting President I think since Reagan was in office).

If we have Senators who evade taxes, then are normal citizens expected not to check?

He will probably be called up by the ethics committee, and should be, as this is a very bad example, in my opinion.

[karlamayne]

"Pryor is a Democrat, so he won't be held accountable, even if proven that he knew about a false affadavit. "

This is the kind of semi-issue that has been hitherto used almost exclusively against Republicans. I think it showed the desperation of the man from Arkansas. Perhaps a truce should be declared with the Dems forever excluding from legitimate campaigning who your kids' babysitters are.