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Kerik Withdraws his name for top DHS Job
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Posted on 12/10/2004 8:09:32 PM PST by Jeff Head
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Wouldn't an illegal housekeeper/nanny be a plus nowadays?
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:21:20 PM PST
by
Captainpaintball
(This war has been brought to you by the letters P and C)
To: JustAnotherOkie
"I read on Drudge it was a 'Nanny Gate' tax affair."
Really too early to believe anything. Another "newsbreak" mentions a stun-gun company which sold product to Homeland Security and expected to do more. Kerik has some interest in the company.
Another "newsbreak" tells how even Ted Kennedy supported the guy, along with other major player Democrats, but minutes after the nomination was announced, an opposition group circulated an attack paper listing his vulnerabilities.
Maybe Kerik stood back and took a cold look at the landscape, then said to himself, "Who needs to go through this BS?"
To: Jeff Head
That just gives me a case of the red A$$! He appeared to be a guy that wouldn't take crap from anyone and would have been a good fit for the job. Probably in desperate need of sensitivity training.
FGS
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:21:37 PM PST
by
ForGod'sSake
(ABCNNBCBS: An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.)
To: GSlob
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:21:40 PM PST
by
phxaz
(thank you for not using the word "implode".)
To: Racehorse
From this article:
But the only moderately troubling information uncovered about Kerik so far was news that Kerik had earned $6.2 million by exercising stock options he received from Taser International, which did lucrative business with the Department of Homeland Security, this official said.
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:22:25 PM PST
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: MegaSilver; Regulator
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:22:38 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Democrat Obstructionists will be Daschled!)
To: Jeff Head
How IRONIC that an imminently qualified man is KO'd for the Head of HOMELAND SECURITY, by the MOST obvious flaw in the Homeland Security of the United States...... "Illegal Immigration"... and the fact that it is looked upon as something necessary and encouraged rather than something ILLEGAL and punishable.
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:24:31 PM PST
by
PISANO
(Never Forget 911!! & 911's 1st Heroes..... "Beamer, Glick, Bingham & Bennett.")
To: Palladin
Would love to see Guliani in this post, but he probably has other interests---and it is kind of thankless job...if nothing happens, no one cares, and the Left bitches about 'civil and personal rights being abused'...but you sure will get blamed if there is another attack...sure do not know who would want the job
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:24:50 PM PST
by
flixxx
To: texasflower
texasflower wrote:
Hmm. Well at least he dropped out let the White House know instead of having embarrasing stuff come out in a confirmation hearing.
..............................................
Totally agree. Best thing he could have done. The MSM is going to put every nominee Bush presents under their biased micrcopes, so these people better either be sqeaky clean or find a way to keep those skeletons under lock and key.
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:26:02 PM PST
by
phoenix0468
(One man with courage is a majority. (Thomas Jefferson))
To: PISANO
Yes it is. Like I said to another poster, if he had any question about his own housekeeper/nanny, then he should have not gone down this road to begin with...and if he didn't know, then that raises even more concerns IMHO.
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:26:39 PM PST
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: phxaz
The 6.2 million dollar stock option looks like the real reason.
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:27:23 PM PST
by
Collier
To: jveritas
He is a very honest man. No he's not. If he hired an illegal alien as a housekeeper and another (?) aa a nanny, he was breaking the law. At the same time he was a law enforcement officer and was applying for a job that is a combination of law enforcement, counter intelligence and various quasi military functions. Not what I'd call honest.
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:27:55 PM PST
by
El Gato
(Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
To: Jeff Head
Hmm, I thought everyone had an illegal immigrant baby sitter, house cleaner, landscapper, cook, and balls scratcher that were payed under the table.
Now I'll give Kerik the benefit of the doubt but I'm not liking the near slavery system we have here. Slaves can eventually revolt and its not like they don't want "their territories" back.
To: Jeff Head
I agree with that, except that it says he realized he had a problem when he was working on the paperwork required for confirmation.
If this happened years and years ago, then it truly may have slipped his mind and never occurred to him as a problem at all.
The reason I say I can understand this is that 14 years ago, I was working tons of shifts and my husband at the time, was a Border Patrol agent working in Florida.
I was still in Texas. Anyway, my housekeeper was a wonderful sweet Columbian woman.
Mike didn't know anything about her until she had worked for me for almost a year.
I never thought about her legality to work and I was the wife of a Border Patrol agent.
I never filed any papers or anything.
I am one of the most honest people you could ever meet. I just never thought anything about it.
So, maybe he was young and not fully aware of legality issues.
BTW, Mike had a near stroke and I had to get rid of Lucera.
She was so nice......I wonder what happened to her.
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:31:35 PM PST
by
texasflower
(Liberty can change habits. ~ President George W. Bush 10/08/04)
To: RoarkMan
spend political capital? not for kerik.. just for annan.
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:33:06 PM PST
by
phxaz
(thank you for not using the word "implode".)
To: Jeff Head
I thought employing illegals was fashionable these days. It's just another job Americans won't do for 1.99 an hour.
To: Jeff Head
Losing a good one IMHO.
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:35:50 PM PST
by
b4its2late
(Alcohol & calculus don't mix. Never drink & derive.)
To: RoarkMan
just because of his nanny's taxes. ahh - not his nanny's taxes, per se - but the income taxes HE was suppose to pay as her employer - it's called "tax evasion" - and usually people don't pay it because the nanny is an illegal - soo-ooo, not really a little thing for a law enforcement person
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:35:51 PM PST
by
maine-iac7
(...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." Lincoln)
To: texasflower
lets hope she didnt save her wages and is now attending flight school.
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posted on
12/10/2004 8:36:12 PM PST
by
phxaz
(thank you for not using the word "implode".)
To: Jeff Head
But the only moderately troubling information uncovered about Kerik so far was news that Kerik had earned $6.2 million by exercising stock options he received from Taser InternationalMuch thanks. I saw that.
Mort Zuckerman was on Scarborough a little while ago with Pat Buchanan. He seems to think reporters were set to unleash a string of accusations based upon their investigative research, that Kerik was probably tipped off by the calls from reporters asking for comment on this or that incident from his past, and something caused him to undercut the mob by withdrawing his nomination. Only caught part of the discussion, so I don't whether Zuckerman let slip anything USNews might have been working.
Considering his long exposure through the NYPD, New York Department of Corrections, city and state politics . . . and simply his private life . . . impossible to know, unless he tells us, why he really withdrew. Personal reasons sounds good.
At this moment, Fox is hyping up the Nanny-gate aspect . . . Yep, personal reasons sounds good to me.
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