‘There Is Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich On His Own’
Some (like Warren) got rich through fraud, lying and cheating.
Posted on 05/16/2012 6:28:56 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The controversy over Elizabeth Warren's claim to Native American ancestry shows no signs of dying down, and is now threatening to derail her campaign for Republican Scott Brown's Massachusetts Senate seat.
Politico reporter Maggie Haberman has now uncovered Pa 1997 piece from the Fordham Law Review that refers to Warren as "the first woman of color" hired by Harvard Law School.
The piece cites as its source Harvard Law spokesman Michael Chmura, the same spokesman who bragged about Warren's Native American heritage to the Harvard Crimson in 1996.
Warren has so far dismissed the story, which first surfaced when the Boston Herald uncovered the Crimson article. She has said that she did not know Harvard was billing her as a minority professor, although identified herself as a minority on law professor listings until around 1995, and was also identified as a minority faculty member when she worked at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Brown campaign has seized the story, and is demanding that Warren release her law school personnel records to show whether her minority background had anything to do with her hiring.
“The question here is not about Elizabeth Warren’s credentials, so much as it is about Elizabeth Warren’s integrity and truthfulness and willingness to be transparent,’’ Brown's campaign manager Jim Barnett told reporters yesterday.
Conservatives have also demanded that proof that Warren is 1/32 Cherokee, as she claims.
Breitbart.com has turned the issue into a cause célèbre, publishing almost daily stories that claim debunk Warren's ancestry, including one alleging that one of Warren's forebearers actually rounded up Cherokees for the Trail of Tears.
Warren's response hasn't helped quell the firestorm. Despite first denying that she knew anything about the minority listing, she now repeatedly claims to be "proud" of her Native American heritage
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The higher their profile, the more offensive their persona and ideology, the more reassuring their fall.
And the more educational their example.
Hmmm...well, what do you know...she really is a teacher.
I don’t want to see her campaign derailed so she can be replaced by a stronger candidate.
I want to see her defiantly limp across the finish line to place a far distant second.
Then the lawsuits for fraud can begin.
What interests me is when, oh, MCAD or the Justice Department or whatever announces an investigation into Harvard's minority hiring practices! ;-)
Beware premature celebration!
There’s talk about the Dems dumping Fauxahontas for MA governor, Deval Patrick. He’s an Obama protege and Moonbat extraordinaire, but he would be a more formidable opponent.
But did you stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night?
I’d like to take this opportunity to point out that america’s most famous “white hispanic”, George Zimmerman - is the great grandson of a black man.
Same here. Are we chumps?
No. Definitely not really.
Seems she’s a “transparent” “woman of color”...hmmm - is “clear” a color?
I agree!
Yes this is a perfect case calling for the Lautenberg gambit.
Some (like Warren) got rich through fraud, lying and cheating.
There is an “immigration lawyer” named Marisa DeFranco who is running. Little known, no money.’
http://www.masslive.com/politics/index.ssf/2012/05/democratic_us_senate_candidate_2.html
>>U.S. Senate candidate Marisa DeFranco will drop off more than 10,000 signatures to the Secretary of State’s office at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, validating her primary run against Harvard Law professor Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic battle to unseat Republican Sen. Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate race.
DeFranco, a federal immigration lawyer in Middleton, has worked against the odds to remain one of the two Democratic contenders in a Senate race once made up of several notable politicians all aspiring to take on Brown in November.
DeFranco collected $9,074 in campaign contributions during the first quarter of 2012, ending the period with $8,080 cash-on-hand, according to the Federal Election Commission.
>>is “clear” a color?
In one episode of Sanford and Son, Fred gets robbed, and the two neighborhood cops, Smitty and Hoppy, drop by. The white cop asks Fred, “Mr Sanford, you saw these burglars...were they colored?”
Fred: “Yeah, they was white.”
It’s all over talk radio here in Boston. It makes perfect sense, since he’s already announced that he won’t be seeking reelection, and he recently offered a non-denial denial.
The MA primary for Sen. is on Sept 6: “The primary election is September 6, 2012, two months before the general election. It was originally scheduled for September 18, 2012, but was moved due to a conflict with Rosh Hashanah. The 2012 Democratic National Convention is scheduled to end on September 6, which has led to new concerns about the primary date.”
That was from Wikipedia which also mentions other candidates like Newton Mayor Setti Warren and City Year founder Alan Khazei withdrew. Among the people who possibly could have run but decided not to: Congressmen Barney
Frank, John Tierney, and Mike Capuano; RFK son Joe Kennedy II (father of
JoeJoeJoe); Ted K’s widow Vicky; libtalker Rachel Maddow;
Bos Mayor Tom Menino; MA Gov Deval Patrick etc
Fauxcahontas of the Fauxnee tribe. They are offshoots of the Pawnee tribe who have a great restaurant/zoo called Wild Bills, while the Fauxnees have Bile and Schill....
Ain't that the truth?
An old army buddy of mine grew up on the Wind River Reservation near Riverton, Wyoming.
He told me that prior to World War II, the cowboys and Indians in that area didn't like each other much and mostly kept to themselves.
After the war, many had served together, gained a mutual respect and discovered mutual interests.
When the hippies started showing up in the early 1960's, a popular male boding activity was to go to town, practice their lassoing on hippie motorcyclists passing through, then proceed to give them a good close haircut with a set of sheep shears. Sometimes, the activity was fueled by alcohol. Mostly, it was just for fun to show the hippies what they thought of their disrespect for the flag and all other things American.
One summer night, the local law enforcement was on high alert because a motorcycle gang of hippies had vowed to right into Riverton and teach the town a lesson.
The cowboys and Indians were waiting for them. The resulting fight produced nothing more serious than a bunch of split lips, scrapes and bruises plus a broken store front window. But the grand finale was a gaggle of hippies with new haircuts limping out of town southbound on highway 789 serenaded by a combined cowboy and Indian chorus singing patriotic songs.
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