Elizabeth Warren - 1/32nd Cherokee? How?

[Ziggurat]

This conspiracy runs deep.

You have no idea.

 

[jj]

That's been circulating widely. Is it real? Anyone?

 

[carlitos]

It's one of those local crank types. I know of a few people near me that do this. One guy put up a sign "God bless our 57 states" for 4th of July.

http://www.wickedlocal.com/hanson/n...sial-signs-violates-town-bylaws#axzz26jLmlM7S

Hanson business owner lampoons Elizabeth Warren
A Hanson business owner adds a lampoon of Elizabeth Warren to his collection of controversial political signs.

By Maria Papadopoulos
Enterprise Staff Writer
Posted Sep 07, 2012 @ 06:00 AM
Last update Sep 07, 2012 @ 09:29 AM

Warren is lampooned in Hanson sign
HANSON —The local merchant who put controversial anti-Obama signs outside his store has added two placards showing U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren in a Native American headdress with war paint on her cheeks.

“Elizabeth Warren is a joke. Princess Little Big Liar. Vote Scott Brown United States Senate,” state the signs outside Sullivans Inc., a motorcycle accessories distributor at 121 Franklin St.

“We’re $16 trillion dollars in debt and these politicians don’t seem to care and somebody’s got to pay the tab, right?” owner Robert Sullivan, 64, said Thursday.

ETA - his other signs include "Somewhere in Kenya a village is missing its idiot," and the like.

 

[Unabogie]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/09/25/right-wing-bloggers-law-license-attack-on-eliza/190121

Rule 5.5 of the Massachusetts Rules of Professional Conduct states that an attorney cannot, without a license to practice in Massachusetts, "establish an office or other systematic and continuous presence in this jurisdiction for the practice of law." It also states an attorney cannot, without a license, "hold out to the public or otherwise represent that the lawyer is admitted to practice law in this jurisdiction."

Michael Fredrickson, general counsel for the BBO, says he does not believe a law professor would be considered to have "a continuous presence" or "an office practicing law."

"If they actually practice here - as some part-time law professors at some of the smaller schools do - they might," Fredrickson says. "But being a professor at one of the large schools, their office is a professor's office, and the fact that they tend to dabble in the practice of law doesn't run afoul of our rule. I don't think Elizabeth Warren would fall within that, such that she would have to register here."

Gee, what does this guy know, he's only on the Board of Bar Overseers.

I'll take the word of the Breitbart crowd over this loser any day.

tl;dr;

Even if she did work on a case in Massachusetts, and even if the case were in Massachusetts, that does not run afoul of any rule.

 

[jj]

That is pathetic. No, that is beyond pathetic.

 

[Tricky]

That is pathetic. No, that is beyond pathetic.

The most pathetic part is that this type of campaigning is so common because it actually works much of the time. From Willie Horton to Swift Boating, Americans respond to negative campaigning. Are they finally learning? I think that's too much to hope for. I just think the GOP is doing it badly. But the Brown-Warren race is far from decided. It may work again.

 

[carlitos]

The most pathetic part is that this type of campaigning is so common because it actually works much of the time. From Willie Horton to Swift Boating, Americans respond to negative campaigning. Are they finally learning? I think that's too much to hope for. I just think the GOP is doing it badly. But the Brown-Warren race is far from decided. It may work again.

That sign isn't really "campaigning" though, as it wasn't made by the campaign.

I can't be too specific, but I was once nearly sanctioned when an overzealous seller of my product photoshopped something inappropriate and used my logo. This seems similar.

 

[Tricky]

That sign isn't really "campaigning" though, as it wasn't made by the campaign.

I can't be too specific, but I was once nearly sanctioned when an overzealous seller of my product photoshopped something inappropriate and used my logo. This seems similar.

I think the term has a variety of meanings. Personally, I count anything that anyone does in a partisan way as "campaigning", even if it is not "official". If you say, "I'm campaigning for Papoon", does that mean you are employed by him, or just that you support him?

 

[Kestrel]

The most pathetic part is that this type of campaigning is so common because it actually works much of the time. From Willie Horton to Swift Boating, Americans respond to negative campaigning. Are they finally learning? I think that's too much to hope for. I just think the GOP is doing it badly. But the Brown-Warren race is far from decided. It may work again.

The Brown campaign took a lot of flack from an overtly racist demonstration by some of his paid staff last weekend. I suspect this will not go over well with Massachusetts voters. The dude leading the cheer is a paid staffer for Brown's campaign. The guy wearing camo behind him is one of Brown's Senate staffers, we are paying his salary.



It might appeal to middle school playground bullies, but they are not old enough to vote.

 

[Micromegas]

I live in Massachusetts and I'm sick of the racist nutbaggery that constitutes Brown's platform. Months after the Herald had failed to make anything more than a minor stir with this "Fauxcahontas" business, Brown is still working the Cherokee/affirmative action angle in the Senate debates.

 

[carlitos]

I think the term has a variety of meanings. Personally, I count anything that anyone does in a partisan way as "campaigning", even if it is not "official". If you say, "I'm campaigning for Papoon", does that mean you are employed by him, or just that you support him?

Fair enough.

 

[RandFan]

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[mikedenk]

Cynically and fraudulently claiming to be Native American for years, benefiting personally & professionally by gaming the affirmative action system, shutting out actual minorities from job positions, obfuscating and lying about the subject at every opportunity = poor misunderstood lady who just wanted to meet "others like her" for some lattes.

Those who mock the disgusting lying fraud = THE REAL RACISTS!

If the Democrats can throw hold their collective noses and support Lieawatha, the Republicans are more than justified in supporting Todd Akin.

 

[Travis]

Cynically and fraudulently claiming to be Native American for years, benefiting personally & professionally by gaming the affirmative action system, shutting out actual minorities from job positions, obfuscating and lying about the subject at every opportunity = poor misunderstood lady who just wanted to meet "others like her" for some lattes.

Those who mock the disgusting lying fraud = THE REAL RACISTS!

If the Democrats can throw hold their collective noses and support Lieawatha, the Republicans are more than justified in supporting Todd Akin.

Your lies start right there and only get worse.

 

[RandFan]

Cynically and fraudulently claiming to be Native American for years...

A.) Proof that she knew she wasn't Native American? B.) I don't know that she isn't.

Mike, do you bother to read what other people post? Does the truth matter to you? Seriously?

 

[johnny karate]

Those who mock the disgusting lying fraud using racial stereotypes and caricatures = THE REAL RACISTS!

ftfy

No matter what you may think of Warren's alleged heritage, it doesn't change the fact that Brown and his cronies resorted to flat-out racism in response.

I guess it's a good thing she didn't claim to be of African descent. Then we'd have a bunch of Brown's people running around in black face and talking in hip-hop slang.

 

[Tricky]

Cynically and fraudulently claiming to be Native American for years, benefiting personally & professionally by gaming the affirmative action system, shutting out actual minorities from job positions, obfuscating and lying about the subject at every opportunity = poor misunderstood lady who just wanted to meet "others like her" for some lattes.

Can you cite your source on this highlighted part. As I understood it, she never gained in any way from this, she just filled out a form as she believed was correct.

So who's doing the lying here?

 

[applecorped]

Can you cite your source on this highlighted part. As I understood it, she never gained in any way from this, she just filled out a form as she believed was correct.

So who's doing the lying here?

 

[Arisia]

I live in Massachusetts and I'm sick of the racist nutbaggery that constitutes Brown's platform. Months after the Herald had failed to make anything more than a minor stir with this "Fauxcahontas" business, Brown is still working the Cherokee/affirmative action angle in the Senate debates.

I live in MA too, and I thought Brown had pulled back on these things about Warren's heritage since his staffers were shown in that video, but this afternoon while driving to Cape Cod I heard the beginnings of a 'Brown approved' radio ad about Warren actively taking advantage of her heritage at various jobs (it wasn't long before MrArisia turned it off). I like Warren's ad where she just looks into the camera and says "While Scott Brown is attacking my family, I'll be protecting yours" (or something close to that).

 

[applecorped]

How?