CA: can't even come up with a sober October Surprise...
*facepalm*
Rly? If this is the best the CA-CircleD’s and “Flush” Brown can come up with to knock Meg off-message, I can only imagine how well he’ll ride heard on the legis-klownz and the public unions.
Let’s hear from Weepin’ Nikki Diaz:
“Meg Whitman was wrong when ... she… put a gun to my ...puppet.”
“From now on ...I ...don’t know me and ...you… don’t know you,”
“I ...am.. my own ...puppets. I’m not ...Allred*sound of cloven hooves*‘s ...piece of garbage,”
“I wanted to speak out because I wanted ... $23 an hour”
Meg? wanna shaaaare?
"Nicky had falsified the hiring documents and personal information she provided to the employment agency that brought her to us in 2000.” The statement continued, “Nicky told me that she was admitting her deception now because she was aware that her lie might come out during the campaign.” ...
Whitman’s campaign also provided an employment questionnaire Diaz filled out in 2000 in which she stated that she could legally accept work in the United States, as well as copies of immigration and W-4 forms, a California driver’s license and a Social Security card all in Diaz’s name.
How’s that workin’ out?
"After nearly a week of press conferences, Gloria Allred still refuses to disclose who is paying her fee and who has helped her orchestrate this stunt,”
[Whitman campaign spokeswoman Andrea Jones Rivera] said in a statement. “...poll conducted this week shows that 68% of Californians view Gloria Allred*sound of cloven hooves* unfavorably, and that despite the Brown campaign’s best efforts to capitalize on this circus, this race remains neck-and-neck."
Hey, Allred*sound of cloven hooves* --- remember this?
In the closing days of California’s 2003 recall election, Allred*sound of cloven hooves* represented a woman who claimed that then-candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger had sexually assaulted her in the past. The lawsuit was later thrown out.
All right, all right; stop shoving! Gloria Allred*sound of cloven hooves*:
“Was Ms. Whitman engaging in her own form of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell so that she could continue to benefit from the work of a vulnerable and undocumented worker and exploit her while pretending that she didn’t know the truth about Nicky’s status?" Allred*sound of cloven hooves*: asked, adding that her client “was terminated in a sudden, cruel and heartless way."
erm… No.
“There is no additional legal obligation for an employer to follow up or respond to SSA with new information," said Gening Liao, a labor and employment attorney at the National Immigration Law Center in Los Angeles, which defends immigrants.
Liao added that it is “very important that the employer does not take adverse action against the employee” merely based on a letter from Social Security.
...Social Security’s notice to employees says the letter “does not, in and of itself, allow your employer to change your job, lay you off, fire you or take other action against you.”
..."Not only is (accepting the documents) all the law required her to do, but there’s a counterbalancing anti-discrimination law that keeps her from probing further or demanding different documents,” said Crystal Williams, executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association in Washington.
...Once Diaz announced that she was in the country illegally, it was Whitman’s legal obligation to fire her, attorneys said.
Poor Weepin’ Felonious Nikki, the $23/hr Puppet.
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