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Meg Whitman’s Nightmare, Marc Van der Hout, a UN Narc Turns out Van der Hout’s the brains behind the Nicandra “Nicky” Diaz Santillan Dream Team. He he was part of yet another Dream Team pairing with David Cole as co-counsel of the “LA 8″ that resulted in the release of illegal Arab nationals. Van der Hout and Cole bought enough time in the courts for their defendants to become permanent residents of these United States.

SurveyUSA is out with new numbers on the California Senate and gubernatorial races and both Democratic nominees are maintaining their recent polling leads. In the Senate race, Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer is leading Republican former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina 46%-43%, while Democratic state Attorney General Jerry Brown is up on Republican former eBay CEO Meg Whitman in the state's gubernatorial race, 47%-43%.

Lawyer Won’t Say Who Connected Her To Whitman HousekeeperOctober 5, 2010 2:23 PM LOS ANGELES (AP) – Attorney Gloria Allred refused again to disclose how she came to represent an illegal immigrant housekeeper Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman employed for nine years. At a news conference Tuesday, her third in a week, Allred said the former maid, Nicky Diaz Santillan, was referred to her by a fellow attorney. But she added that it’s her law firm’s policy not to disclose who made the referral. She also declined to say whether the attorney had any connection to Whitman’s opponent, Democratic state...

"We have feelings. We cry". Yeah, and you steal Social Security numbers too, and fraudulently file I-9 forms, and deceive employment agencies and employers. You made an astonishing $23/hr. yet have the nerve to whine about being "exploited". You say you lived in the "shadows". So how did the SS office find your stolen number so easily? What a law-breaking, money-grubbing fraud. This is Gloria Allred's "civil rights hero". Rosa Parks is turning in her grave at having this shameless liar compared to her. Exit question: why is she still in America?VIDEO LINKhttp://www.facebook.com/StandWithArizona

In statewide elections in California today 10/04/10, as early voting begins, 3 high-profile contests are fiercely fought, separated by 5 or fewer points, according to this latest exclusive SurveyUSA polling for KABC-TV Los Angeles, KPIX-TV San Francisco, KGTV-TV San Diego, and KFSN-TV Fresno. In the race for US Senator, incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer clings today to a narrow 46% to 43% advantage. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA poll released 12 days ago, Boxer is down 3 points; Republican Carly Fiorina is flat. Seniors are moving toward Boxer; voters under age 50 are giving Fiorina another look. In the race for...

Meg Whitman isn’t the only gubernatorial candidate with a legal skirmish in her past. Cuba expert Ann Louise Bardach reports that Jerry Brown violated U.S. sanction law during a trip to Cuba by using a CIA turncoat as a travel agent. Similar sanction violations were prosecuted extensively by George W. Bush. Plus: never before reported details of Brown’s mojito-fueled conversations with Fidel...the double agent who booked Brown’s travel; and Brown’s later concerns about breaking the law. It was well after midnight on July 24, 2000, when I heard a knock at the door of our room on the Hotel Nacional’s...

Two new polls Monday showed Democrat Jerry Brown leading Republican Meg Whitman in the race for governor, but the modest point spread indicates it will likely remain a tight contest to the finish. The Rasmussen and SurveyUSA polls were the first taken since celebrity Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred revealed last week that Whitman had employed an illegal immigrant housekeeper for nine years -- a story that has dominated the campaign ever since. The polls were released on a day when KGO-AM in San Francisco announced that a radio debate between Whitman and Brown scheduled for today had been canceled....

This video is an absolute classic. Greta destroys Gloria Allred and practically calls her a media prostitute(er pimp). I love when Greta responds to Allred's crap about them being multi-millionaires with "That's class warfare". Allred must have got lost and thought she was on MSNBC where she is a hero with Matthews, Olbermann, Schultz and Maddow. Enjoy this lawyer sleaze getting nuked by Greta for screwing both the Whitman’s and illegal Nicky just to get on TV: Greta Shreds Gloria Allred and Her Illegal Alien Client's Lies

CA, Democrats Cling to Ever-So-Slight Advantages In Governor, Senator, Lt Gov Contests; 'Yes' 7 Puffs Ahead of 'No' on Marijuana: In statewide elections in California today 10/04/10, as early voting begins, 3 high-profile contests are fiercely fought, separated by 5 or fewer points, according to this latest exclusive SurveyUSA polling for KABC-TV Los Angeles, KPIX-TV San Francisco, KGTV-TV San Diego, and KFSN-TV Fresno. In the race for US Senator, incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer clings today to a narrow 46% to 43% advantage. Compared to an identical SurveyUSA poll released 12 days ago, Boxer is down 3 points; Republican Carly Fiorina...

In an election year, this is the time for an "October surprise"-- some sensational, and usually irrelevant, revelation to distract the voters from serious issues. This year, there are October surprises from coast to coast. There are a lot of incumbents who don't want to discuss serious issues-- especially their own track records. This year's October surprise that is getting the biggest play in the media is the revelation that California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman once employed a housekeeper-- at $23 an hour -- who turned out to be an illegal immigrant. It is great political theater, with activist lawyer...

The first poll taken in the aftermath of the revelation that California Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman employed an illegal immigrant as a housekeeper suggests that she may be taking on water. Last week, Whitman's former housekeeper appeared at a press conference with attorney Gloria Allred, claiming that she had been inappropriately discharged, and that Whitman had employed her fully knowing that she was an illegal immigrant. Whitman claims that she had no knowledge of the housekeeper's status and fired her immediately after learning that she'd been living and working in the country illegally. Rasmussen Reports now shows Whitman trailing...

<p>The Republican candidate for governor of California, Meg Whitman, is looking at a lot of bad press because she employed a housekeeper who lied about her immigration status. Whitman and her husband hired the housekeeper through an agency that provided documentation, including a social security number, driver’s license and I-9 form as proof the woman was a legal U.S. resident. In June of last year when Whitman discovered that the woman who had worked for her for nine years had lied to the agency and to her, she consulted her attorney and terminated her.</p>

Gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown tangled Saturday over Whitman's employment of an illegal immigrant housekeeper, exchanging blistering jabs as they met for their second televised debate. The most direct confrontation between the two candidates of the election season came when the moderator asked Whitman about revelations earlier this week that she employed Nicandra Diaz Santillan, whom she fired in 2009 after nine years. Whitman has denied knowing that Diaz Santillan was undocumented until shortly before she was dismissed. Whitman turned to face Brown and accused him of being behind Diaz Santillan's emergence. "Jerry, you should be ashamed," Whitman...

Since 1950, Americans with household help have been required to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for workers earning more than $50 in a calendar quarter (plus unemployment insurance for workers earning $1,000). For many years, compliance was difficult and time consuming and, for the IRS, enforcement was a low priority. In 1986, new immigration laws made it illegal to hire undocumented immigrants, even in private homes. Both laws were widely disregarded. So obscure was the tax regulation and so common the hiring violation that neither the Clinton transition team nor the Senate Judiciary Committee that would confirm her (and...

Earlier this week Michael Barone reported that the battleground for 2010 indicated the Democrats were being wiped off the election map everywhere except the coasts and even there Republican Meg Whitman was slightly ahead of Democrat Jerry Brown. I'd barely read this when the odious Brown supporter and mistress of the legal female victim genre, Gloria Allred, leapt into action, hugging a sobbing illegal alien (Nicky Santillan) from Mexico who claimed Meg Whitman for whom she'd worked as a housemaid and nanny had abused her for nine years.

FRESNO – For weeks, Republican Meg Whitman demanded that Jerry Brown, her Democratic rival for governor, debate her in Fresno, clearly hoping it would shore up support in the GOP-leaning San Joaquin Valley and among Latino voters, but Brown stalled. Whitman finally got her wish Saturday in a bilingual debate sponsored by Univision, but it quickly became a slugfest as Brown pummeled her on how she handled a former housekeeper who was an illegal immigrant – a case that had erupted just days earlier. Whitman fired Nicky Diaz Santillan in June 2009 after, she says, learning that her employee was...

The more we learn about this business of Meg Whitman, Republican gubernatorial candidate in California, supposedly hiring an undocumented worker as a domestic the more we have to ask ourselves, how on earth did Gloria Allred ever become known as a hotshot attorney? The letter from the Social Security Administration that Allred cites as damning proof of Whitman’s wrongdoing does no such thing. Read for yourself: "This letter does not imply that you or your employee intentionally provided incorrect information about the employee’s name or SSN. It is not a basis, in and of itself, for you to take any...

Earlier this week Michael Barone reported that the battleground for 2010 indicated the Democrats were being wiped off the election map everywhere except the coasts and even there Republican Meg Whitman was slightly ahead of Democrat Jerry Brown. I'd barely read this when the odious Brown supporter and mistress of the legal female victim genre, Gloria Allred, leapt into action, hugging a sobbing illegal alien (Nicky Santillan) from Mexico who claimed Meg Whitman for whom she'd worked as a housemaid and nanny had abused her for nine years. What is hardly murky in this tear stained account is that the...

California is America's most physically beautiful state. From her snow capped mountains, to her gorgeous beaches to her silicon-enhanced starlets, it is a state very whose image conveys transcendent beauty. For much of California's long history she also represented the ideal of the American Dream. Miners flocked to the gold mines. Traders came to San Francisco. Men and women with a dream to be famous departed for Hollywood. The Beach Boys sang about the lifestyle that came from such easy living in mild weather. Even the money was better: in 1950 Californians enjoyed a per-capita income that was 24% higher...

Fresno (Los Angles Times) -- Gubernatorial candidates Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown tangled in a blistering dispute Saturday over Whitman's employment of an illegal immigrant housekeeper as they met for the campaign’s first and only Spanish-language debate. The most intense exchange of the debate, held at Cal State Fresno, came when the moderator asked Whitman about the revelations earlier this week that she had employed Nicandra Diaz Santillan for nine years before firing her in 2009. Whitman has denied knowing that Diaz Santillan was undocumented until just before the dismissal. Whitman turned to face Brown and accused Brown of being...