Who is Linda Chavez and why did she speak

[Sebass1271]

so negative about Sotomayor? Watching the hearings today I was struk by this woman's negative and nasty comments on Sotomayor. Who is she? Did republicans pay her to do this?

[Spazito]

1. Oh she is a real piece of work...

Linda Chavez (born June 17, 1947 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American conservative author, commentator, and radio talk show host. She is also a Fox News analyst, Chairman of the Center for Equal Opportunity, has a syndicated column that appears in newspapers nationwide each week, and sits on the Board of Directors of two Fortune 1000 companies: Pilgrims Pride and ABM Industries Inc. Chavez was the highest-ranking woman in President Ronald Reagan's White House, and was the first Latina ever nominated to the United States Cabinet.

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In 2001, President George W. Bush nominated Chavez for Secretary of Labor. She was the first Hispanic woman nominated to a United States cabinet position. However, she withdrew from consideration after it was revealed, through her neighbor Margaret "Peggy" Zwisler, that she had allegedly given money to Marta Mercado, an illegal immigrant from Guatemala who lived in her home more than a decade earlier. Chavez withdrew as President Bush's nominee after pressure from Bush's political team. During vetting by Bush transition officials, Chavez had stated that she was not aware Mercado was in the United States illegally until after the woman had left her suburban house, but Chavez conceded in withdrawing that "I think I always knew." <7>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Chavez

Edited to add some more info on her:

http://firedoglake.com/2007/08/13/linda-chavez-i-love-you/

[Sebass1271]

4. I see. A republican. And why the hell was she invited

to testify against sotomayor? Was she suppose to be the representative of all Hispanic Americans in the U.S.?

This is bullshit!.

[Spazito]

5. The repubs had to drag the bottom of the barrel to find "witnesses"...

to testify against Judge Sotomayor and this person shows how far down they had to go, imo.

[Hepburn]

10. Boy is that ever true....

....the nut jobs were totally out this afternoon:

Halbrook
Rivkin

[Spazito]

14. I had to shut down the stream I was watching...

I really thought that those repub assholes (Senators and witnesses)could not make me as angry as they did when they were in control of government but, damn, I was wrong! I not only had to shut down the stream in order to save my computer, I had to walk away and, I tell ya, with heat generated by my anger, I could have had dinner cooked in no time, lol.

[MADem]

2. This one? Read the bio, it'll become pretty apparent what she doesn't like about Sonia.

And no, I'm not talking about the NYrican v. Mexican-American wars!

http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ch-Co/Chavez-Linda.html

Finding herself lacking support from most Democrats, Chavez officially joined the Republican Party after being hired onto Reagan's White House staff in 1985. As director of the Office of the White House Public Liaison, Chavez was the most powerful woman on the staff. Her position gave her an increased level of influence with the president, but she left this post after less than a year's time in order to run for senator in Maryland.

For the senatorial race, Chavez ran as a Republican in a mostly Democratic state. The state's citizens were distrustful of Chavez's short residence in Maryland as well as her track record in her shifting political beliefs. On election day, Chavez was handed a devastating defeat. Soon afterwards, she removed herself from the political arena.

[zbdent]

18. so Chavez is a role model for Sarah Palin ...

Quitter ... quitter ... quitter!

[MADem]

21. Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!! That post gets a plus TEN! nt

[imdjh]

3. Linda Chavez is one of the older political whores in the DC area.

She made her political debut about 30 years ago when she moved from one county to another in Maryland so she could run for office. She has tried to trade on her ethnic surname and as a woman in the Republican party. Somehow or other, Washington started giving her some ink and she ended up writing a column for the Washington Post or Times.


edit: on reading another poster's response- she moved from DC to Maryland not one county to another. It went over like a fart in church.

[Maccagirl]

6. She's been polluting the airwaves and our lives for s long

time, especially during the Clinton years. A garden-variety neo-con (the garden being full of weeds in this case.). Yawn.

[lunatica]

7. She was rejected as a Labor Secretary nominee because

she hired illegal Mexican nannies and maids and didn't pay their Social Security. She lasted about three days and Bush and the Republicans threw her under the bus.

She's been a pundit and a tv commentator for years. She's a 'latina' who trades on her ethnicity even thought she despises Mexicans, thinks mariachis are an embarrassment and never bothered to learn Spanish. She always lobbies against minorities and all women.

I've despised her for decades. She's that proverbial snake in the grass and a backstabber to her own people thinking she'll get the white man to overlook her ethnicity.

[zbdent]

8. they needed a "Latina woman" to balance out

the Latino firefighter ... to prove that they also had women, as well as a Latino ...

Like always, one was all they had ...

makes me wonder ... how much is Vargas getting for being the token "discriminated" Latino in the case? I guess that, since Sonia Sotomayor ruled against him, that makes her a racist AGAINST "her own kind" ... which really f*cks up their attack ...

[Solomon]

13. You just know they wanted to ask him NOT to show up,

but how would they do that? LOL

[zbdent]

17. no, they NEEDED him to show up

so that they could have it that it just wasn't a bunch of white guys whining ... they probably would only be making the RW-iest circuit of the "liberal media" if it wasn't for the one "Latino" filling the quota ...

[Stevenmarc]

9. Linda Chavez didn't help the Republicans, she came off like a jealous, nasty, bitter hag

[blondeatlast]

11. Exact Chavez quote from today's hearing: "I testify today not as a wise Latina woman..."

Truth in advertising and a pretty bad rhetorical gaffe besides {Latina woman is a redundancy).

[Hepburn]

12. Well, I would agree....

...she is NOT a wise Latina....or a wise anything. Label her dumbass.

[UTUSN]

15. We have a DUer with DIRECT knowledge of her and other a-hole Ruben NAVARRETTE

She's an a-hole, need we ask? about a minority-Repuke?1 But our champion DUer, "Maestro", debated her and other a-hole NAVARRETTE back when. It's all predictable: Why was NAVARRETTE an Affirmative Action alum, like Clarence THOMAS, who turned against "WHITE LIBERAL MALES," like Clarence?!1

Looks like those "Liberal" colleges TURN the AA(s) AGAINST the Dem party that instituted AA. The "Lib professors" go, "Don't be 'predictable' -- GO for the political party that OFFERS your group MORE. Pick and choose. Cafeteria Catholic. Don't swear lealty to ONE party."

Looks like that's what Affirmative Action "Liberal" universities have done.

[UTUSN]

16. Oh, I forGOT, why does Linda "CHAVEZ" *not* use her married surname - she's SO liberated!1

It's SO trendy to use an Hispanic surname!1

[zbdent]

19. didn't the media lay into Hillary for keeping "Rodham" in her name,

saying that it was an indication that she was a radical feminist?

I mean, it was "Hillary Rodham Clinton" ... I've never heard Linda Chavez's last married name ... ever ...

[UTUSN]

20. But in Linda's case, the Latino surname is the usual wingnut fake PLOY

The Potemkin Village of "minority"-as-Wingnut, while she is NOT representative of Latinos' interests or views.

[MADem]

22. And she's only "half latina" too....wonder why Rush doesn't point THAT out? nt