Posted on 05/10/2002 7:43:06 AM PDT by jackthompson1
Janet Reno’s Lies About Her Mother’s House and Other Myths
In February 1993, when Janet Reno appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee as Bill Clinton’s third choice to be Attorney General of the United States, she introduced herself with a story about the house that her mother Jane built, all by herself, with her own bare hands. Senator Orrin Hatch was reduced to tears.
It was all a lie.
In May 1993, a Miami Herald writer by the name of Meg Laughlin wrote an expose’ in the paper’s Sunday magazine, Tropic, entitled “The House that Jane Built.” Found in that article, available still in the paper’s archives, is the following:
"People tell me your mother didn't build the house by herself. She got a lot of help. Is this true? Did she?"
"Yes," says Janet, with no emotion in her voice, "she did."
Then she calls off a long list of people who helped. But she is talking so fast, I don't get the whole thing. Roy, the editor of Florida Living, did the plumbing. The bird lady helped him. Travers Ewell and Charlie Merrick did a bunch of stuff. Janet unloaded bricks. Teams of people did the roof. Somebody poured the slab; somebody else helped lay the bricks. Suffice it to say, her mother did not build that house single-handedly, she says.
The article also notes that the house was apparently built illegally without a permit. Meg Laughlin’s conclusion:
In her bid for the highest legal office in the land, Janet Reno had given a speech using the building of her house as a metaphor for her own integrity. It was this speech that had won over her opponents and assured her unanimous confirmation as the keeper of the law. Wouldn't it be ironic if the house behind the metaphor had been built illegally?
Even though Reno has been caught in these lies, Janet Reno is now saying the following at her campaign’s official web site, www.renoforflorida.com:
Tucked away beside one of the nation's largest community colleges sits a large piece of property hidden from view by native high pines and sable palms. This tract of land is located in the midst of bustling Kendall, one of the fastest growing areas in Florida. At the center of the property sits a rough hewn house of cypress wood and block. This is the home Janet Reno has lived in for most of her life; this is the home that Jane Reno, Janet's mother, built with her own hands fifty years ago.
Janet’s sister Maggy says this in the Herald story: "Of course Mother had help," Maggy tells me, cheerfully. "You cannot trust this family. We're constantly reinventing ourselves. We love myths."
A woman who would lie about her mother would lie about anything. Reno’s campaign now refuses to release the identity of the man who supposedly rammed her car yesterday in Kendall. There is no damage to Reno’s car but there is to his. Sounds like Reno did the ramming. If she did not, then the first person the campaign would want to produce is the other driver.
Reno has advanced Parkinson's, is on a powerful mind-altering drug, Sinemet, and she has passed out four times, "but only when I'm fatigued." Reno then brags that she likes to "drive my truck through the night, by myself, to campaign stops." The Department of Motor Vehicles must test this woman to see if she should hold an operator's license. Janet, do it "for the children" you might run over.
As noted yesterday, tongue-in-cheek on CNN’s Crossfire by former Clinton spin-meister Paul Begala: “Reno said at the scene of the accident that she wishes she were still Attorney General because then she would have been driving a tank.” The survivors of the dozens of kids burned alive in Waco by Reno’s tanks are not laughing. Nor are millions of Americans who saw in the terrified eyes of Elian, a machine gun pointed at him, the potential terror in their own children's eyes.
Reno, recently appeared before the National Organization for Women, and stated that she deserves NOW’s endorsement because she has appointed a lot of women to judgeships both as State Attorney and as Attorney General. The problem with that is that those appointments are made respectively by the Governor and the President.
Does Reno need to adjust her meds or should she adjust her internal lie detector? No one knows. But we do know that this woman cannot be trusted to tell the truth, even about her own mother. Caught in a lie she tells it again.
What else is Reno lying about? I know. I’m not sure you want to know. If you do, contact me, Jack Thompson, Attorney, at 305-666-4366.
Copy: Governor Jeb Bush, Attorney General Janet Reno, Media
Someone from the Clinton administration caught in a lie. Say it aint so. /sarcasm
I love the fact that the sister says you can't trust her family. Sheesh
Here's hoping the "fender-bender" facts are exposed and her incompetence is spotlighted. Keep up the good work.
Oh no -- add on the traits "sleazy, two-faced, anti-American, anti-Christian, unethical, inept, pro-socialist, pro-abortion, no- integrity...
Anything missing from a typical Clintonite's resume?
Doesn't that, in retrospect, seem predictable!The Clinton party is, quite simply, untrustworthy. They are judas goats just like the "innocent" fellow passengers who help you assure yourself that it's safe to get in a metal box and trust that it will be piloted expeditiously to the advertised destination--but who turn out to be maniacal forwarders of their own agenda for your life . . .
To vote for such is to call your basic intelligence into question.
M'god! There's more than one!
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