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To: peter a. pedroli who wrote (121596)	1/10/2001 2:24:24 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 769667

The Dems can't have it both ways, so this is their way: Compassionate Libs: Chavez Should Have Shunned Battered Refugee Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2001 10:54 a.m. EST Compassionate Libs: Chavez Should Have Shunned Battered Refugee Bush Labor Secretary-nominee Linda Chavez should have tossed her beaten and abused houseguest Marta Mercado out on her ear once she learned that the woman had come to America illegally. No, that's not Mr. Anti-immigration, Pat Buchanan, speaking. That's what Ms. Chavez's liberal Democratic critics seem to be saying, now that they smell confirmation blood in the water. On Sunday, Bush spokesman Tucker Eskew said Chavez told him she did not know Mercado was an illegal alien until after the woman left her home. Mercado herself seems confused on the point, first telling the New York Times Monday that she did not recall informing Chavez about her immigration status, then saying, "When I was in her house, she knew." But one detail everybody agrees on so far: When Chavez took Mercado under her wing in late 1991, she did not know about her illegal status. Indeed, under the circumstances, questions about her immigration were hardly a priority. Details are finally emerging about Mercado's desperate condition at the time Chavez came to her rescue. Abigail Thernstrom, a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission and a friend of Ms. Chavez, told the Wall Street Journal that Mercado had just been severely beaten and "badly abused" by a boyfriend, an experience that left her depressed and withdrawn. "It's a powerful story," one Republican official told the Washington Post about the Guatemalan refugee's plight. "Mercado, now 40, said something terrible happened shortly after her arrival [in the U.S.]," reports the Post. "Although she won't say under what circumstances, Mercado ended up in a police cruiser that took her to a shelter for abused women in Northern Virginia, where she lived for ten days." Next, Mercado was taken in by Erika DeLeon, a friend of Chavez. Within days, Chavez herself offered to shelter the bruised and psychologically devastated woman in her own Bethesda, Md., home. If indeed the Bush labor secretary pick learned sometime thereafter that Mercado had skirted the immigration laws, what was she supposed to do? According to Washington's compassion and sensitivity police, apparently Chavez should have thrown Mercado out the door and into the gutter, then called in Janet Reno's Elian Gonzalez SWAT team to arrest her - preferably at the point of a machine gun. newsmax.com

To: peter a. pedroli who wrote (121596)	1/10/2001 11:06:53 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

Peter, based on the honest consistancy of democat's as exhibited time and time again, it is clear that the defender of the minions of truth must, shall, and will find reasons to not allow this HUGE tax cut go forward. Fact, both Gep and Dash voted for the Reagan tax cut. Fact when the voted for this tax cut there was no surplus. Fact the Reagan tax cut was 333% of the Bush Tax Cut. FACT Gep and Dash have gone through a spiritual awakening since that time in the crotch under the smirk of the Master Of The Truth. So examine the positions of leading democrats in the case of watman.com and clearly the reason and honesty of the leader's, the minion's of the Master can be easily predicted. Tom Watson tosiwmee