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California GOP gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman says her former housekeeper should be deported. Whitman — down 10 percentage points in the latest Field Poll after spending over $140 million of her own money on the campaign — said Nicky Diaz should be forced to leave the country for lying about her illegal status. “It breaks my heart, but she should be deported because she forged documents, and she lied about her immigration status,” Whitman told Fox News's Greta Van Susteren on Wednesday night.

As Republican gubernatorial nominee Meg Whitman tours parts of California that have traditionally been receptive to GOP candidates, she's also appealing directly to conservative TV audiences, hoping to fire up her party's base. Until now she has declined to comment on whether the former housekeeper should be deported. But Wednesday, in an interview with Greta Van Susteren, Whitman answered the question head on. "Well, the answer is it breaks my heart, but she should be deported because she forged documents and she lied about her immigration status," Whitman said. She also argued that as a Republican she would be a...

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...

Republican Meg Whitman's cam paign for governor of California has hit a snag over her hiring and firing of a Latina housekeeper who lied about her immigration status. It's one more sign that the GOP needs to face the immigration issue squarely. The latest flap in the campaign centers on her Democratic opponent, Jerry Brown -- who either stood by as an aide called Whitman "a whore," or actually used the word himself. Whitman needs to use the break to get a handle on her own flap. Whitman says she fired the housekeeper as soon as she realized the woman...

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,...

Republican Meg Whitman’s former maid said Tuesday she’s not a Democratic pawn in California’s race for governor, but her attorney refused again to provide key details about her claims that Whitman employed her for nearly a decade despite knowing she was in the U.S. illegally. Nicky Diaz Santillan, a Mexican who Whitman says used a fraudulently obtained Social Security card and California driver’s license, dismissed claims by the GOP nominee that she was part of a Democratic smear intended to damage Whitman’s standing with voters, particularly Latinos. “I make my own decisions and I am not anyone’s puppet,” Diaz Santillan...

Here's one way to respond to attacks from a former employee that risk casting a pall over your campaign: Poll the popularity of your accuser's attorney. The campaign of Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman said today it conducted a poll showing 68 percent of California voters have an unfavorable view of Gloria Allred, the lawyer representing the undocumented housekeeper fired by the Whitman family last year.

Original title: Illegal Alien & Liar Nicky Diaz Sues Whitman for $6,210 – Claims Whitman Did Not Buy Her Baby a Present Advice to Republicans: Watch who you hire to clean your home, yard or office, even if you go through an agency. If the employee lies on his/her application, presents false documents and winds up being an illegal alien it will be your fault. Then they will sue you. Those are the new rules of the game. And, please thank Gloria Allred and democrats. Illegal alien and liar Nicky Diaz and her lawyer, democrat and publicity hound Gloria Allred,...

LOS ANGELES ( KTLA) -- A former housekeeper for gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman held a news conference Tuesday to tell the public she is not a puppet for attorney Gloria Allred, Jerry Brown or anyone else. Nicky Diaz Santillan, appeared with Allred for a third week to claim that Meg Whitman knew she was an illegal immigrant when she worked for the former eBay founder for nine years. Santillan says it was only after Whitman launched her campaign that she was fired. 'I want everyone to know my name," Santillan said. "I make my own decisions and I am nobody's...

Lawyer Won’t Say Who Connected Her To Whitman HousekeeperOctober 5, 2010 2:23 PM LOS ANGELES (AP) – Attorney Gloria Allred refused again to disclose how she came to represent an illegal immigrant housekeeper Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman employed for nine years. At a news conference Tuesday, her third in a week, Allred said the former maid, Nicky Diaz Santillan, was referred to her by a fellow attorney. But she added that it’s her law firm’s policy not to disclose who made the referral. She also declined to say whether the attorney had any connection to Whitman’s opponent, Democratic state...

"We have feelings. We cry". Yeah, and you steal Social Security numbers too, and fraudulently file I-9 forms, and deceive employment agencies and employers. You made an astonishing $23/hr. yet have the nerve to whine about being "exploited". You say you lived in the "shadows". So how did the SS office find your stolen number so easily? What a law-breaking, money-grubbing fraud. This is Gloria Allred's "civil rights hero". Rosa Parks is turning in her grave at having this shameless liar compared to her. Exit question: why is she still in America?VIDEO LINKhttp://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona

Meg Whitman’s Nightmare, Marc Van der Hout, a UN Narc Turns out Van der Hout’s the brains behind the Nicandra “Nicky” Diaz Santillan Dream Team. He he was part of yet another Dream Team pairing with David Cole as co-counsel of the “LA 8″ that resulted in the release of illegal Arab nationals. Van der Hout and Cole bought enough time in the courts for their defendants to become permanent residents of these United States.

Hmm, how many poor illegal alien housekeepers possibly guilty of fraud end up with such a prominent Leftist attorney? He represented Nasir Ali Mubarak and looks to have been part of Lynne Stewart's defense team. See below. Gloria Allred named Mark Van Der Hout as Diaz's immigration lawyer on the Mark Levin Show tonight. Mark Van der Hout's political activism goes back years, this from 2004: So far, immigrant Muslims and those from the Middle East and Central Asia have suffered the brunt of the Bush administration's attacks on civil liberties. But as NLG immigration attorney Mark Van Der Hout...

In an election year, this is the time for an "October surprise"-- some sensational, and usually irrelevant, revelation to distract the voters from serious issues. This year, there are October surprises from coast to coast. There are a lot of incumbents who don't want to discuss serious issues-- especially their own track records. This year's October surprise that is getting the biggest play in the media is the revelation that California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman once employed a housekeeper-- at $23 an hour -- who turned out to be an illegal immigrant. It is great political theater, with activist lawyer...

This video is an absolute classic. Greta destroys Gloria Allred and practically calls her a media prostitute(er pimp). I love when Greta responds to Allred's crap about them being multi-millionaires with "That's class warfare". Allred must have got lost and thought she was on MSNBC where she is a hero with Matthews, Olbermann, Schultz and Maddow. Enjoy this lawyer sleaze getting nuked by Greta for screwing both the Whitman’s and illegal Nicky just to get on TV: Greta Shreds Gloria Allred and Her Illegal Alien Client's Lies

The first poll taken in the aftermath of the revelation that California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman employed an illegal immigrant as a housekeeper suggests that she may be taking on water. Last week, Whitman's former housekeeper appeared at a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred, claiming that she had been inappropriately discharged, and that Whitman had employed her fully knowing that she was an illegal immigrant. Whitman claims that she had no knowledge of the housekeeper's status and fired her immediately after learning that she'd been living and working in the country illegally. Rasmussen Reports now shows Whitman trailing...

<p>The Republican candidate for governor of California, Meg Whitman, is looking at a lot of bad press because she employed a housekeeper who lied about her immigration status. Whitman and her husband hired the housekeeper through an agency that provided documentation, including a social security number, driver’s license and I-9 form as proof the woman was a legal U.S. resident. In June of last year when Whitman discovered that the woman who had worked for her for nine years had lied to the agency and to her, she consulted her attorney and terminated her.</p>

Gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown tangled Saturday over Whitman's employment of an illegal immigrant housekeeper, exchanging blistering jabs as they met for their second televised debate. The most direct confrontation between the two candidates of the election season came when the moderator asked Whitman about revelations earlier this week that she employed Nicandra Diaz Santillan, whom she fired in 2009 after nine years. Whitman has denied knowing that Diaz Santillan was undocumented until shortly before she was dismissed. Whitman turned to face Brown and accused him of being behind Diaz Santillan's emergence. "Jerry, you should be ashamed," Whitman...

Earlier this week Michael Barone reported that the battleground for 2010 indicated the Democrats were being wiped off the election map everywhere except the coasts and even there Republican Meg Whitman was slightly ahead of Democrat Jerry Brown. I'd barely read this when the odious Brown supporter and mistress of the legal female victim genre, Gloria Allred, leapt into action, hugging a sobbing illegal alien (Nicky Santillan) from Mexico who claimed Meg Whitman for whom she'd worked as a housemaid and nanny had abused her for nine years.