May
2012
Friday, October 29, 2010
Rachel Weiner, The Washington Post

Meg Whitman is a Piece of Excrement

Former CEO of eBay and Republican gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman of California is shedding crocodile tears while declaring that her former housekeeper of nine years should be deported.

[WAPO] The sleazy opportunistic former eBay chief executive has been accused of knowingly employing an undocumented immigrant for nearly a decade. Ironically, as part of her gubernatorial platform, she is calling for tougher sanctions against employers who hire illegal workers.

"Well, the answer is it breaks my heart, but she should be deported because she forged documents and she lied about her immigration status," Whitman said in an interview with Greta Van Susteren on Fox News. "And it breaks my heart ... On Nov. 3, no one's going to care about Nicky Diaz. But the law is the law and we live in the rule of law. It's important."

Last month, Nicky Diaz Santillan revealed she had worked for Whitman illegally for nine years, and stated that her employer knew of her immigration status. Whitman countered that Santillan had misled her with false documents, and that she fired the maid when she found out the truth. There is absolutely no chance in Hades that Whitman did not know her housekeeper was an illegal. 

"As soon as we found that she was an illegal immigrant, we did what we had to do as an employer, which was to let her go," Whitman said. "But all of the documentation that we had said that she was legal."2

In a bold-faced lie, Whitman claims that she kept the story a secret in order to protect Santillan: "Because Nicky had worked for us for 10 years, I was very fond of Nicky and I didn't want to make an example of her. It's not an obligation of the employer to turn in illegal employees."

Lest we put to fine a point on it ...

Meg Whitman is a piece of plutocratic shit.

Posted by Editor on 10/29/10 at 08:28 PM •  (0) Comments

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