Notice something missing from the] paragraph in an article on how 1970s California governor Jerry Brown and businesswoman Meg Whitman addressed the issue of the latter’s housekeeper in their recent debate?
The housekeeper’s lawyer has also argued that Whitman and her husband should have known her immigration status due to a Social Security Administration mailed to their house in 2003.
Well, you’re right, there are several things missing.
First, writer Jordan Fabian fails to identify the political affiliation of the housekeeper’s lawyer, refusing to even name her, making her seem like a dispassionate practitioner of the law. We all know that Gloria Allred is a Democratic partisan who filed a similar suit the last time a non-incumbent Republican was making a big for the Governor’s chair. And she supports Whitman’s opponent Jerry Brown. (Kind of important when you’re filing a suit –with much fanfare — so close to a contested election.)
Not just that. If this attorney believes “Whitman and her husband should have known” their housekeeper’s immigration status, then said attorney knows she represents a client who falsified documents and continued in said deception for nearly the entirety of a decade.
UPDATE: We do find some balance on the web. Over at AOL’s Politic Daily, Bonnie Goldstein provides some needed contest and calls out Miss Allred out:
When the housekeeper confessed she’d been lying, Whitman “immediately terminated Nicky’s employment.” Saying “it was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done,” Whitman added she “considered Nicky a friend and a part of our extended family.” . . . .
Whatever her motivation for the explosive betrayal, Diaz’ own actions now put her at risk for arrest and deportation. Momentum for the accusations and suspiciously timed revelations seem to be orchestrated by her lawyer, Gloria Allred. (Allred is known for inserting herself into high-profile disputes.)
Read the whole thing.
Yup, that’s right, friends, in her zeal to put herself in front of the TV cameras, while helping her candidate for Governor, this housekeeper’s attorney has put her client at risk for arrest and deportation. What a great way to represent your client, Gloria.
But, then, for Gloria, it’s not really about advocating for her client, but instead about promoting her political party. Oh, and maintaining her media presence.
Ms. Whitman is being blasted by many for failing to try to help the woman who she “considered Nicky a friend and a part of our extended family.”
Unfortunately, I can’t fill in the blanks in my post due to blanks in my memory.
But, sometime back a woman up for a presidential appointment had tried to do exactly that. She was helping a woman who was an illegal immigrant, and I believe a battered wife, also.
Enter the Maelstrom Media! No appointment for her, just twisted condemnation.
Gloria Allred is famous for wanting to be more famous than Madonna. Should have been a pop star. Any album title suggestions?
Gloria Allred knows that no illegal alien is ever deported from this nation after coming to the attention of the MSM. She is so steeped in the kool-aid that she believed everyone would accept her “helpless, undocumented worker” spin on her client’s crimes.
I’m curious to know why this obviously not too bright woman (the housekeeper, not Allred) kept a letter from the SocSecu for YEARS, a letter that had her employer’s handwriting on it. Who advised her to do that? Reminders that you committed a crime are unusual souvenirs.
The woman lied to her employers, they trusted her, so when the letter arrived they believed it was a gov’t glitch. They were wrong and she parasited off them and the U.S. system for several more years. She has a batch of anchor babies, too, whose presence is now being used to boohoo for legal status. That’s why they call them anchors. We’ll see if the latino babywaving ploy works.
Honestly, the Left in California has fostered such an “it’s okay to be illegal” and “Consuela in every home” attitude that this is becoming much like smoking pot in the political arena: he smoked a joint, so what?
Mrs. Whitman gave this woman a high-paying (for that field) job in her home, even treating her ‘like family’ {until obviously afoul of the law}…isn’t that EXACTLY what the lefties ask for? Take in a starving illegal, they’re only here to work and better themselves, blah, blah, blah..
Oh wait..Lefties can do that. If it’s a Conservative, it’s oppression and degradation and racism.
Well, there have been times in my life that this sort of oppression and degradation at what? $23-25 an hour? would have been WELCOMED by me…
This story is only the tip of the iceberg. There are millions of illegal aliens (Mexican in particular) who have become good employees. Note that $23 an hour certainly should not be work that no American on welfare would take. But, for whatever reason, the employment agency apparently did not have a third generation on welfare American mom with three kids who can do the work.
The amnesty puzzle is how about how we separate the productive illegal aliens from the criminals, welfare leeches and general bad actors? The solution for many is to round them all up and ship them home. The media is anxiously awaiting the pictures of the dejected refugees being herded like cattle.
Like it or not, amnesty is going to happen. Whether it happens before the border is secured is the real issue. Meanwhile, the country of Mexico is morphing into a land run by criminals where good people lock themselves in.
We are seeing a reflection of our own drug market culture and the results of a welfare society. We have a huge resource of legal labor. We just do not have the manufacturing and agriculture jobs that will get them off welfare. The illegal aliens follow the jobs. The welfare class has to stay glued in place.
It was mean of Jerry Brown to plant that illegal maid on Meg Whitman nine years ago back in her non-voting phase. Somehow he just knew Meg Whitman would get political and end up running against him.
Sorry. Anybody who has ever had a housekeeper for more than a few years knows everything there is to know about that housekeeper.
How about calling on her to take responsibility for what she did, instead of trying to pass the buck.
Despite the MSM carries Gloria Allread’s water via Jerry Brown, it backfired when Meg Whitman provided the paperwork. Allred tried to recover the momentum by appearing on Conservative radio such as Mark Levin & Fox News Greta’s show, but they destroyed her what was left of any credibility.
Jerry Brown no longer knows how to campaign against a formidable opponent to date. He’s incompetent. Glora Allred is just as a corrupt as Jerry Brown.
“Sorry. Anybody who has ever had a housekeeper for more than a few years knows everything there is to know about that housekeeper.” What nonsense!! I know there are sad sacks who become chummy with their house maids but normal, busy people don’t get involved with the life dramas of household helpers.
I know, I know… Whitman is a Republican and Moonbeam is a Dem but I’m just not impressed with her.
She’s “tough as nails on immigration” – until she wins the primary; now she’s spending millions to court Hispanic voters (Hispandering: which means amnesty).
She’s been prepping to run for governor for years yet failed to address the “nanny problem”? And why is it worth $120 million to her to be governor?
Whitman and Brown – what a choice.
California Democrats will run over Whitman. Should have nominated Poizner.
Did Whitman, or whomever was responsible for hiring the housekeeper get two forms of identification that would have proved that she was not an illegal alien? Or to the employment agency that she was hired through? I thought this stuff was done today. When my employer lost copies of such documents, I had to provide them again.
Still shouldn’t be a big issue, but… this is politics. And since I haven’t followed this election, I don’t know what Whitman’s position is on illegal immigration, so I don’t know if the hypocrisy angle is part of it.
to Pat…. Snap out out of it kiddo, the election is around the corner….. So you know, it’s already been established that Whitman instructed the employment agency to send her only candidates who met the legal criteria for hiring anyone in this country. Nicky showed a fake driver’s license and a phony SS card to the employment agency.
Greta Van Susteren Destroys Lib Hack Gloria Allred: “Gloria This Is Almost Delusional” (Video)
http://www.wikio.com/video/greta-van-susteren-destroys-gloria-allred-4206713
You know everything they want you to know. Hell, just watch Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry? sometime.
Spartann, snap out of what? I admitted that I didn’t follow the election. And I’m not a citizen of California, legal or otherwise. It just strikes me that this could have happened without the agency figuring this out. A fake license and a fake SS ID? Okay, I guess one can be fooled, and perhaps the agency is taking steps that this won’t happen again.
Pat – A drivers license and a social security card are two forms of ID that are acceptable for employment (see the I-9 form).
I suspect the employer can get into trouble for digging too deeply.