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Meg Whitman’s Immigration Woes

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Posted on Sep 29, 2010
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Meg Whitman shares a laugh in this promotional shot from her campaign website.

According to the very busy and seemingly ubiquitous attorney Gloria Allred, California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman has run afoul of her own public stance on the immigration issue by virtue of having allegedly hired an undocumented worker to help in her home for nearly a decade. For her part, Whitman denied the charge Wednesday and called Allred’s credibility into question. —KA

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What did Meg Whitman know and when did she know it?” said Allred, who charged that Whitman “never asked if Nicky were here legally” when she hired her to work as a $23-an-hour housekeeper in Whitman’s 15,000-square-foot home in 2000.

Allred added that Whitman ignored correspondence sent to her home from the Social Security Administration in 2003. The letter informed her that Diaz’ Social Security number did not match her name—a red flag for an undocumented worker.

The letter asked Whitman to show that Diaz had proper documentation, Allred said, and there is no record that Whitman had responded.

The charges came as Whitman was starring in her own news conference in San Jose with Cisco Systems CEO John Chambers, an event aimed to underscore her credentials on job creation. She forcefully denied the accusations.

“I feel terrible for Nicky,” the former eBay CEO told reporters. “She is being manipulated and I’m sorry. Everything Gloria Allred is saying is an absolute lie.”

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By Savion, April 27, 2011 at 2:32 pm Link to this comment
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Very true! Makes a caghne to see someone spell it out like that. smile

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By purplewolf, October 4, 2010 at 8:34 am Link to this comment

Call Me Roy: My, aren’t you a bit heavy handed lumping the Left as having no morality,right or wrong, good or evil. Seems to fit the Right side much more snugly.

RentALawyer: As for the eBay guideline comment, having dealt with eBay and it’s guidelines, they do not even understand them,(when it comes to Native American items and anything pertaining to Indians), let alone follow and uphold them. I know this from personal experience. I finally gave eBay the boot and found a much better site to sell through which has a low set monthly fee, up to 10 pictures per sale page and unlimited items for sale and the best thing about it is no commission charges if the item sells unlike eBay who charges to list and then selling fees, picture fees and tons of other charged for costs.

Now Meg paid this woman $23/hr. Used to be in the 1990’s-2007 when the illegals worked here the claim was they couldn’t get room keepers(hotel equivalent of a house keeper)here in America so they hired the illegals at $12/hr plus free rooms. I worked in that field for a while and funny, I would have done that wok for $12/hr, especially as they only paid American workers minimum wage which was much less that what it cost to hire the illegals in the first place.And Meg could have hired a legal American citizen for $7.25 an hour, now that’s what I call stupid. Too stupid to be given a position of power. And we still hear about our elected idiots wanting a review of the minimum wage rates and Mitch McConnell from Kentucky wants wait people to be paid less than $2/hour. These republicans make me ill.

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By call me roy, October 3, 2010 at 10:15 pm Link to this comment

It amazes me that the left thinks that this will turn this election…
Gloria Allred has a colorful history of pulling last minute, ego-stroking stunts like this. Allred attempted to derail Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2003 recall election by drumming up sexual harassment charges and a lawsuit from a Hollywood stuntwoman named Rhonda Miller. Miller claimed that Schwarzenegger “pulled up her shirt” and “suckled her breasts” on the Terminator 2 set. She also alleged that Schwarzenegger fondled her during the filming of True Lies. Despite the salacious allegations, Rhonda Miller’s suit was later dismissed.
It’s high time Allred got investigated. She is a media who#e. I believe Meg should go at Allred with “both barrels”.Any time Allred is involved it is a degrading event. She is a contributor to the Brown campaign also. These people need to be held accountable in a court of law.
By the way, the letter wasn’t addressed to the nanny but to her employers, so how did Ms Allwet get her grimy little paws on it? Did some Governor Moonbeam operative pull a Watergate (Nannygate?)on the Whitmans, or did ninnynanny go diving into their filecabinets before she departed for her 15 min of fame? The Great One (Levin) ripped into Ms Alldread this afternoon, taking a very pointed tack in asking the Ms Allhead the question of who is paying her fee? Mark said he was going to get on the proverbial money trail and do some digging, yippee! Who else thinks Ms Dunderheads fees are being met by Governor Browns organization, eh?
On the John & Ken show, KFI AM 640 received e-mails on this subject. Many of them were from folks who said that they didn’t know who to vote for, Whitman or Brown. Now that Allred has pulled another one of her political stunts they’re voting for Meg. They hate Gloria that much. Don’t you just love it when this kind weasely trick backfires?
Remember for the Left there is no morality, no right nor wrong, no good nor evil. Instead right and good are defined as that which enables them to obtain and keep power. Wrong and evil are that which prevent them from obtaining and keeping power.
Classical Marxism is this.

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By RentALawyer, October 1, 2010 at 1:01 pm Link to this comment
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Poor Meg Whitman got her hand caught in the cookie jar. It is VERY hard to believe someone can work for you in your house for MANY YEARS and you not knowing the person was illegal alien. Is this the same Meg Whitman who forced many ebay sellers thoughout the years with strict guidelines and selling practices and code of ethics? What is even worse is the money spent in salary throughout all those years could have went to an AMERICAN USA CITIZEN.

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By ibh, September 30, 2010 at 8:23 am Link to this comment
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As a Hispanic California voter, all I can say is Ha-Ha.
Do let the door hit you on your way out.

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By BrunoDiderot, September 30, 2010 at 7:41 am Link to this comment
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She’s rich, so “the rules” don’t apply to her.

She’s rich, so she will never be prosecuted for any of this.

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