Think Progress

Right-wing media outlets are engaged in an effort to tar House Speaker-designate Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who won the Cesar Chavez award from the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation in 2003, as anti-worker.
The conservative claim, initiated by Hoov…

Remember Linda Chavez? Chavez withdrew her nomination for Secretary of Labor after she acknowledged sheltering an illegal immigrant. But since she has an “R” by her name, the rules are different.

To be fair, a couple of Clinton appointees were also forced to withdraw their nominations due to hiring illegal aliens. I think one of them was Zoe Baird, who was a Clinton nominee for AG before Uncle Janet finally got the job.

And as someone very familiar with wine-grape growing: the company hires a labor contractor. The labor contractor is SUPPOSED to hire only legal workers. Whether they do or not is of no consequence to the vineyard owner-the labor contractor will take the flack. I’ve only seen one union labor contracting company, and I’ve only seen one labor contracting company that did not (knowingly) hire illegals… But since the unions are now pushing for amnesty too, it’s a moot point. I just wonder who the hell unions are supposed to be looking out for.

And aside form her union hypocrisy, there’s her blatant hypocrisy regarding the environment…

One other issue for Nancy Pelosi. I hate to pick on her, but it’s just so inviting. As they say in the military, it’s a target-rich environment. With Nancy Pelosi, another big issue is the environment. She always makes statements that, with us, the environment is not an issue, it’s an ethic, it’s a value. Which is a nice way of saying, “I love the environment, but not when it comes to our own businesses.” A lot of people don’t realize that, in 1996, Nancy Pelosi and her husband and fewer than 10 other partners wanted to build a golf course and country club outside of San Jose, California, called the CordeValle Country Club. In order to get approval to build on these 275 acres, they had to comply with some very stringent county environmental regulations. Now the California tiger salamander and the Western pond turtle are apparently endangered species and they’re very, very common on these 275 acres that the Pelosis wanted to develop.

So the agreement they struck with local regulators was, we’ll build the golf course, we’ll set up some holding ponds and we’ll create a natural habitat to make sure that these environmental endangered species survive.

Of course, they built the golf course. It opened in 2000. If you want to join, the membership is $250,000. But they never followed the environmental regulations. The ponds were never built for these endangered species. For seven years, they also failed to file any of the environmental reports required by the California Fish and Wildlife Commission. A 2004 County Environmental Compliance Report found all kinds of environmental problems on the Pelosis’ golf course.

I think Rove thought it was common knowledge how corrupt this woman is…

I’m guessing Peolosi’s vineyards produce a Sauvignon Blanc Stare, a full-bodied wine that can be bought for the right price. — fogw

…kudos…kudos….

omprehensive immigration reform calls for these people to be legalized. — Grebrook

I’d agree to that, but only if one of them gets to take your place. :-) — SouthernGent

…ever the voice of reason, Gent. I’d take in three illegals for the Greebster…if Mexico promised to take *ALL* of him…now….

We work out an exchange program: three of your indigent, under-educated, stoop-labor peons for every one of our fey, “hypocracy”-spouting Lefties. It would, as Will Rogers said, raise the IQ of both nations.

…after we’ve exported enough of them there, they’ll be able to organize and aggitate to get the Southwest back, preying on all that “victim-culture” stuff they use up this side fo the border, fulfilling their “anti-American Dream”.

…then, we can declare war on ‘em as the citizens of a belligerent country and wipe ‘em out.

…win-win….

That is… if there are any hard hitting journalists out there anymore…

Crap… wait… forgot…she’s a dem….crap…

Comprehensive immigration reform calls for these people to be legalized.

I’d agree to that, but only if one of them gets to take your place. :-)

I hereby publicly retract my previous public retraction. You cleary are an idiot.

I hate to be a killjoy, but I bet AP’s gone to bed.

see-dubya on November 14, 2006 at 1:28 AM

I didn’t post it, see-dub.

Allahpundit on November 14, 2006 at 1:29 AM

Impressive, AP.