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Elizabeth Warren’s embattled campaign: Cherokee tie found 5 generations ago
Cherokee tie found 5 generations ago
Desperately scrambling to validate Democrat Elizabeth Warren’s Native American heritage amid questions about whether she used her minority status to further her career, the Harvard Law professor’s campaign last night finally came up with what they claim is a Cherokee connection — her great-great-great-grandmother.
“She would be 1⁄32nd of Elizabeth Warren’s total ancestry,” noted genealogist Christopher Child said, referring to the candidate’s great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, who is listed on an Oklahoma marriage certificate as Cherokee. Smith is an ancestor on Warren’s mother’s side, Child said.
The missing link comes after Warren’s embattled campaign faced sharp questions about her Native American background in the wake of Herald stories that showed both Harvard Law School and Warren herself had touted her tribal lineage and claimed she was a member of a minority for years.
Warren’s shaken campaign faced another crisis yesterday when it was revealed that beginning in 1986 and continuing through 1995, Warren had listed herself as a minority professor in the Association of American Law Schools desk book, a directory of law professors from participating schools.
Warren had flatly denied that she ever touted her Native American background professionally.
Child — who originally could find no Native American lineage in Warren’s family when the Herald broke the story last Friday — said he uncovered a marriage certificate at 4 p.m. yesterday after fielding calls from countless media outlets and even Warren’s own campaign.
Child said he plans on further verifying the records today. “There is a possibility that their Native American ancestry could have been hidden at one point,” he said.
The campaign also hastily produced an undated newspaper clip last night from the Muskogee Sunday Phoenix detailing a “Mrs. James P. Rowsey” — who they said is Warren’s cousin — and her involvement with the Five Civilized Tribes Museum, which is dedicated to preserving Native American art.
“Mrs. James P. Rowsey was Elizabeth’s first cousin — shared the grandparents in question,” a campaign official said in the statement.'
Meanwhile, Warren’s camp issued statements from five faculty members at the four universities where she’s taught, including Harvard Law School and University of Pennsylvania, to knock down any suggestion she used her Native American background to get hired.
“To suggest that she needed some special advantage to be hired here or anywhere is just silly. She was hired for her great abilities as a teacher and a scholar. Her family tree had nothing to do with it,” wrote Jay Westbrook, chairman of the business law school at the University of Texas at Austin, who hired Warren.
Suzan Shown Harjo, a former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, expressed outrage yesterday after learning that Warren had identified herself as a Native American on law school records without documentation.
“If you believe you are these things then that’s fine and dandy, but that doesn’t give you the right to claim yourself as Native American,” said Harjo, who said Warren might have taken a job another Native American could have received.
http://bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view.bg?&articleid=1061128421&format=&page=2&listingType=politics#articleFull
Ho-hum, just another leftist snake.
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She is another marxist thug and fraud.
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Elizabeth Warren’s drop of Cherokee blood
Legal Insurrection ^ | May 1, 2012 | William A. Jacobson
Posted on 05/01/2012 6:00:14 PM PDT by Qbert
Yesterday I posted about how Elizabeth Warren’s campaign acknowledged that she self-identified as Native American on forms she filled out for the Association of American Law Schools in the mid-1980s through 1994, but that she still was searching for the genealogical evidence to support her claim.
According to the Boston Herald (added- Cover here)(h/t Instapundit) Warren found the proof last night, in the form of her great-great-great grandmother being Cherokee:
Desperately scrambling to validate Democrat Elizabeth Warren’s Native American heritage amid questions about whether she used her minority status to further her career, the Harvard Law professor’s campaign last night finally came up with what they claim is a Cherokee connection — her great-great-great-grandmother.
“She would be 1⁄32nd of Elizabeth Warren’s total ancestry,” noted genealogist Christopher Child said, referring to the candidate’s great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, who is listed on an Oklahoma marriage certificate as Cherokee. Smith is an ancestor on Warren’s mother’s side, Child said.
The controversy will not be over, as further reported by the Herald:
Suzan Shown Harjo, a former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, expressed outrage yesterday after learning that Warren had identified herself as a Native American on law school records without documentation.
“If you believe you are these things then that’s fine and dandy, but that doesn’t give you the right to claim yourself as Native American,” said Harjo, who said Warren might have taken a job another Native American could have received.
On what basis does someone who is 1/32nd of anything claim that 1/32nd as ethnicity or race for any purpose? And is it believable that Warren had no purpose in claiming Native American status when she was building her career in a field which desperately sought minority, and particularly Native American, members.
The issue, though, is larger than Warren personally and goes to the ethos of Warren’s campaign.
How ironic that the new liberal lioness has resorted to counting drops of blood for her self-identification.
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doesnt it have to be 1/16 to be legal? not this 1/32 crap?
seriously, yall are running scoot brown (liberal) against her and he's not polling well. I dont blame this desperate move. If THIS is the best they can complain about, Vote41 is in trouble.
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doesnt it have to be 1/16 to be legal? not this 1/32 crap?
seriously, yall are running scoot brown (liberal) against her and he's not polling well. I dont blame this desperate move. If THIS is the best they can complain about, Vote41 is in trouble.
The fuck are you talking about? Scott Brown had an over 50% approval rating in Mass last I saw. He's either beating her or running within the margin of error in every poll I've seen. He's also polling almost 12 percentage points better than her with independents. And to top it off, he just secured endorsements from the democratic mayors of the two largest cities in Mass, hahaha. The DEMOCRAT MAYOR OF BOSTON endorsed BROWN. And all this is with her having a fundraising advantage.
Seriously, do you read ANYTHING? How can someone watch political news all day and end up so fucking stupid? Actually, scratch that. MSDNC hardly qualifies as political news.
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doesnt it have to be 1/16 to be legal? not this 1/32 crap?
seriously, yall are running scoot brown (liberal) against her and he's not polling well. I dont blame this desperate move. If THIS is the best they can complain about, Vote41 is in trouble.
2. Massachusetts
The basketball shot Sen. Scott Brown sank from half court could be a metaphor for the way his campaign closed the month. Democratic mayors from the state’s two largest cities lined up with the freshman Republican just as a potentially damaging storyline involving Elizabeth Warren’s tenure at Harvard began to snowball.
A Boston Herald piece revealing that Warren had been listed as a minority professor at Harvard because of her Native American heritage left her campaign grasping for an explanation and Warren visibly rattled.
Her inability to say whether she cited her minority status to help land the Ivy League gig is “undermining Warren’s credibility and competence as a candidate,” WHDH-TV reporter Andy Hiller remarked in a recent segment.
Her campaign’s response — accusing Brown of playing “nasty” gender politics — was the equivalent of a Hail Mary pass. Or a half-court shot.
Who won April: Brown
Latest poll: Warren 46%, Brown 45% (Rasmussen Reports, 500 likely voters, April 9)
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/75804.html#ixzz1tiMN1qWc
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She was making something like 440k a year as a law professor.
What a lying sack of shit.
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White and wrong: On the reservation with Elizabeth Warren
Boston Herald ^ | 02 may 2012 | Howie Carr
We all know about “undocumented workers.” Now we have Elizabeth Warren, the undocumented Indian.
Funny thing, I think Ted Williams was one-fourth Mexican. He was white. Johnny Bench is one-eighth Indian. I always think of him as white. And then there’s Pochantas Warren, the blue-eyed, one-32nd Cherokee (or so we’re told) who went from the Southwest Conference to the Ivy League over the course of a decade in which she was claiming to be a “minority professor.”
But once she’d parlayed the racial-spoils racket all the way to a tenured position at Harvard Law, she decided to ... pass, as they used to say in the old South. Once she’d reached the pinnacle of her trade, she ditched the fake-Indian routine. Maybe White Eyes Warren saw the smoke signals and figured out that someone was going to call her out on her ancestry. She was right.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
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doesnt it have to be 1/16 to be legal? not this 1/32 crap?
seriously, yall are running scoot brown (liberal) against her and he's not polling well. I dont blame this desperate move. If THIS is the best they can complain about, Vote41 is in trouble.
I'm that, does that mean I can claim minority status? ;D
never have before though
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I'm that, does that mean I can claim minority status? ;D
never have before though
i vageuly remember somethign like that from college, reading it on an application. It's either 1/8 or 1/16... but i'm pretty sure it's only 1/16. I thought at the time I was surprised it was so little. i'm too lazy to google.
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leaders should set the example by refusing the benefits of obamacare.
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown has repeatedly spoken out against President Obama’s health care law, yet is using a portion of it to provide insurance for his adult daughter.
The Massachusetts Republican told the Boston Globe that "of course" he uses a provision of the law that allows parents to keep their children on family insurance plans up to age 26. His daughter, Ayla, is 23.
Brown, who won his seat by campaigning against the law, says he still thinks it should be repealed.
Democrats, including the campaign of his chief rival Elizabeth Warren, quickly labeled Brown a hypocrite, saying he’s trying to prevent other parents from providing insurance for their children even as he takes advantage of the benefit.
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leaders should set the example by refusing the benefits of obamacare.
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown has repeatedly spoken out against President Obama’s health care law, yet is using a portion of it to provide insurance for his adult daughter.
The Massachusetts Republican told the Boston Globe that "of course" he uses a provision of the law that allows parents to keep their children on family insurance plans up to age 26. His daughter, Ayla, is 23.
Brown, who won his seat by campaigning against the law, says he still thinks it should be repealed.
Democrats, including the campaign of his chief rival Elizabeth Warren, quickly labeled Brown a hypocrite, saying he’s trying to prevent other parents from providing insurance for their children even as he takes advantage of the benefit.
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I believe Ron Paul speaks out against earmarks and then takes advantage of them to secure money for his district by putting them in there and voting against them, knowing full well that they'll pass regardless.
By the way, this thread has nothing to do with Scott Brown. If you have a problem with him putting his daughter on his insurance then start another thread about it. This thread is about Elizabeth Warren and her claiming minority status to climb the ladder. So despite 3 posts from you now trying to change the topic, it stays. Fuck off, scumbag.
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I believe Ron Paul speaks out against earmarks and then takes advantage of them to secure money for his district by putting them in there and voting against them, knowing full well that they'll pass regardless.
In that case, he's not getting my vote in FL
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warren is a bag of crap if it was 1/16 and she claimed it with only 1/32.
she shoudl be forced to repay for any fincnacial edge she obtained.
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leaders should set the example by refusing the benefits of obamacare.
U.S. Sen. Scott Brown has repeatedly spoken out against President Obama’s health care law, yet is using a portion of it to provide insurance for his adult daughter.
The Massachusetts Republican told the Boston Globe that "of course" he uses a provision of the law that allows parents to keep their children on family insurance plans up to age 26. His daughter, Ayla, is 23.
Brown, who won his seat by campaigning against the law, says he still thinks it should be repealed.
Democrats, including the campaign of his chief rival Elizabeth Warren, quickly labeled Brown a hypocrite, saying he’s trying to prevent other parents from providing insurance for their children even as he takes advantage of the benefit.
reminds me of the teabag congressman who opposed the healthcare legislation and then had a meltdown when he found out his own government paid healthcare wasn't going to kick in for 30 days
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This warren is another fraud and lying piece of trash.
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In that case, he's not getting my vote in FL
Ahh, there's the old 240. He's buried in there somewhere. ;D
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http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view/20220502warren_i_used_minority_listing_to_make_friends
Unreal. Typical leftist playing minorities for fools.
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Scott Brown Is Destroying Elizabeth Warren, And She's Getting Blasted For Claiming Native American Blood
Grace Wyler|36 minutes ago|1,583|24
It has been a pretty bad week for Elizabeth Warren, the feisty class warrior and conservative bogeywoman who is locked in a tight race to replace Republican Scott Brown in the Massachusetts Senate seat once held by the late Ted Kennedy.
Warren's troubles have centered around a Boston Herald report that revealed that now-famous Harvard law professor used to identify herself as a "minority" in law school directories, based on a far-back (and unconfirmed) Native American ancestry.
Although the schools she worked at have since claimed that Warren's "race" never came up during her hiring, Harvard bragged about Warren's Native American background to the Crimson in the 1990s, when the law school was under fire for a lack of faculty diversity.
Conservatives predictably freaked out, and accused Warren of fabricating a minority background to advance her academic career. Genealogists were able to find that Warren's great-great-great grandmother is listed as Cherokee on a 1984 marriage application, but were unable to confirm the ethnicity.
To make matters worse, Warren's response has been ridiculous.
First, she said she did not recall that Harvard had listed her as Native American — which is suspect given that Warren listed herself as a minority. She also tried to say that the story was a sexist attack from the Brown campaign, but the argument didn't make a lot of sense.
And yesterday, Warren told the Herald that she put herself down as minority "in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am."
She also claimed that "being Native American has been part of my story I guess since the day I was born" — despite the fact that she has rarely, if ever, mentioned her Native American ancestor in any of her speeches or statements.
To back up this up, she told reporters,"my Pepaw, had high cheekbones like all of the Indians did."
Seriously. Watch the video:
Brown, meanwhile, has been sinking his shots — literally. His campaign has been sending around a video of the Senator nailing a half-court shot at a youth community center last Friday.
And while Warren has been laying low, trying not to say stupid things about Native Americans, Brown has been hitting the campaign trail hard, hammering in a message of bipartisanship and accusing Warren of engaging in divisive, class war politics.
He also snapped up endorsements from two Democrats, the former mayors of Boston and Worcester.
In the long run, it is not clear how much the Native American story will hurt Warren. So far, the media has been reluctant to give the story much play — even The New York Times appears to have bought into Warren's spin that the story is a distraction from the "real issues."
But there is evidence that Warren's claim to "minority" status could turn into a major issue. I have written before that stories stick when they highlight something we already suspect about a candidate (think Seamus), and the Native American story underscores the conservative claim that Warren is the worst kind of whiny, liberal "victim." On the other end of the political spectrum, Warren's apparent abuse of affirmative action raises big questions about whether she has been taking advantage of the very groups she claims to protect.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-warren-native-american-problem-scott-brown-winning-massachusetts-senate-race-2012-5#comment-4fa2cfec69bedd6865000018#ixzz1tpiXdBlz
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http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/05/03/elizabeth-warren-and-modern-liberalism
Another dishonest leftist crunchy lezbo communist puke.
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Wow: Warren Now Says She Self-Identified as Native American to...Make Friends
Townhall.com ^ | May 3, 2012 | Guy Benson
Posted on May 3, 2012 6:05:38 PM EDT by Kaslin
A surreal update to my item from yesterday, which posed two questions about the curious case of Elizabeth Warren, alleged "Native American." The first: If Warren never, ever, ever would have exploited her possible heritage for career advancement, why did Warren classify herself as a Native American in 1986? The second: Why did she remove that label nine years later -- after she'd achieved tenure at Harvard? Yesterday evening, the candidate answered both curiosities. I swear I am not making this up:
“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am. Nothing like that ever happened, that was clearly not the use for it and so I stopped checking it off.”
The Massachusetts Democrat -- who might be 1/32 Cherokee (more on that later) -- formally self-identified as a Native American in a professional journal for nine years because...she was hoping to get invited to a luncheon. She wanted to socialize "with people who are like I am." Then supposedly, after holding out hope for that elusive lunch invitation for almost a decade, she gave up on breaking into that clique, so she "stopped" checking the "yup, I'm a Native American" box on the form. That's her story. Really. I'm almost at a loss for words. This is the best the Warren campaign could muster? She listed herself as an ethnic minority in hopes of being asked along to "a group something." For nine years. Then gave up. This does not even come close to passing the laugh test. Let's try this alternate explanation on for size: Warren was told as a girl that some of her ancestors were Native Americans. When she set out to establish a career in the academy, she recalled that family lore and decided to make it "official," because she knew the politically-correct world of academia would find that detail mysterious and unique. Plus, she knew she might get some extra considerations here or there, in the name of "diversity," which is something of a religion on the Left. Finally, after she'd achieved the pinnacle of her profession (tenure at Harvard Law) she abandoned the silly and slightly risky game because it was no longer necessary. Does that sound slightly more plausible to you than the howler she's peddling to the press? Yeah, me too.
Setting aside her intelligence-insulting tale, Warren may have inadvertently compounded her problem by letting an implicit admission slip: She says she "stopped checking it off" in 1995, after hopes of a luncheon invitation faded. "It" being the "Native American" identification box. Unless I'm misunderstanding her quote, this implies that she proactively checked that box every year. It wasn't a mindless, one-time error in judgment. She persisted in consciously identifying herself as a Native American every year for nine years -- a period that just happened to coincide with her ascension through the professional ranks. What a remarkable coincidence, no? With her back to the wall and her story falling apart, Warren is back to playing the gender card:
"The only one as I understand it who’s raising any question about whether or not I was qualified for my job is Scott Brown and I think I am qualified and frankly I’m a little shocked to hear anybody raise a question about whether or not I’m qualified to hold a job teaching,” she said, pushing to put Brown on defense. “What does he think it takes for a woman to be qualified?”
I don't think anyone is questioning your qualifications at this stage, professor. I'd say we're questioning your honesty, judgment and integrity. And the sexism red herring is embarrassing. Just stop. I'll leave you with three kickers to this mess:
(1) Via Legal Insurrection: "The section [of the directory] listing 'minority' faculty doesn’t list which minority, so Warren listing herself that way would not be a means of meeting other Native Americans, because no one else would know she was claiming to be Native American just from the listing." Wouldn't she have identified this massive flaw in her quest to make NA friends after, say, the first year?
(2) According to a Republican source, several Native American clubs and organizations existed at Harvard while Warren was there, yet yearbooks and membership directories show no evidence that Warren was involved with any of them. Wouldn't this have been a good place to seek out "people who are like I am," if that were her true intention?
(3) According to the Boston Herald, even the report that Warren's great-great-great grandmother was Cherokee cannot be confirmed:
Warren’s statements come as genealogists at the New England Historic Genealogical Society were unable to back up earlier accounts that her great great great grandmother is Cherokee. While Warren’s great great great grandmother, named O.C. Sarah Smith, is listed on a electronic transcript of a 1894 marriage application as Cherokee, the genealogists are unable to find the actual record or a photograhic copy of it, Society spokesman Tom Champoux said.
UPDATE - You've got to be kidding:
Elizabeth Warren's Native American Proof? High Cheekbones...
Her grandfather had high cheek bones. "Like all the Indians do." This is her latest evidence: An anecdote from her aunt, commenting on the facial structure of someone who was three generations removed from a woman who might have been Cherokee (presuming she's even talking about the correct side of her family).
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Elizabeth Warren brings no peace to Dems
Boston Herald.com ^ | May 4, 2012 | Joe Battenfeld
Posted on Friday, May 04, 2012 9:29:47 AM by Hojczyk
Elizabeth Warren’s stumbling efforts to douse the firestorm surrounding her claims of being a Native American minority have raised concerns among local and national Democrats who are questioning her campaign’s competence.
“There’s nobody watching this that doesn’t think she’s in big trouble,” one well-known Massachusetts Democrat said.
Joe Trippi, a prominent national Democratic consultant, told the Herald that while Warren has time to recover, the campaign should have anticipated this issue would surface.
One well-known Massachusetts Democratic strategist faulted Warren and her campaign for failing to put out a consistent message.
The strategist also said many local Democrats are alarmed at the campaign’s failure to contain the damage after the Herald first reported about Warren’s minority status at Harvard in the 1990s, based on claims her great-great-great grandmother was Cherokee.
After first saying she didn’t know anything about reports that Harvard Law had listed her as a minority, Warren’s campaign then said she was “proud” of her Native American heritage, citing records showing she was 1⁄32nd Cherokee.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
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LOL @ Glen Beck. Lol @ Republicans.
Jobs report came out. I turned on Glen Beck bright and early hoping to get details and insight.
instead, it's Beck and co-host doing voice imitations of Eliz Warren for my entire drive. I had to come home and turn on MSNBC to get the jobs numbers.
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LOL @ Glen Beck. Lol @ Republicans.
Jobs report came out. I turned on Glen Beck bright and early hoping to get details and insight.
instead, it's Beck and co-host doing voice imitations of Eliz Warren for my entire drive. I had to come home and turn on MSNBC to get the jobs numbers.
Why not come here instead? Did MSNBC talk about labor force rate? BD model? No, so guess what - stick on this board and you will learn more than from Madcow
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Why not come here instead? Did MSNBC talk about labor force rate? BD model? No, so guess what - stick on this board and you will learn more than from Madcow
I was driving and didn't want to try to read phone while on the road. My name isn't Ozmo.
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Democrats worried about Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts
Hotair ^ | 05/04/2012 | Ed Morrissey
Posted on Friday, May 04, 2012 11:42:31 AM by SeekAndFind
Are Democrats about to lose the Senate seat held by the Kennedys since before I was born ... again? According to the Boston Herald’s Joe Battenfeld, a number of Democrats in Massachusetts are aghast over Elizabeth Warren's faceplant on her claims to Native American heritage, and now worry about whether her campaign has completely derailed:
Elizabeth Warren’s stumbling efforts to douse the firestorm surrounding her claims of being a Native American minority have raised concerns among local and national Democrats who are questioning her campaign’s competence.
“There’s nobody watching this that doesn’t think she’s in big trouble,” one well-known Massachusetts Democrat said.
Joe Trippi, a prominent national Democratic consultant, told the Herald that while Warren has time to recover, the campaign should have anticipated this issue would surface.
“The problem is they weren’t ready for something they should have been ahead of,” Trippi said.
Political analyst Larry Sabato is more blunt:
“This takes her biography into a bizarre dimension,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics. “It has derailed the effort to define Warren in a voter-friendly way.”
Sabato also said that Warren’s claim that she didn’t list herself as a minority to gain an employment advantage is not believable.
“This is what happens when candidates don’t tell the truth,” he said. “It’s pretty obvious she was using (the minority listing) for career advancement.”
That becomes even more apparent when one looks at the context of Warren’s placement at Harvard. Paul Bedard did some digging for the Washington Examiner and found that Warren was nearly alone on the Harvard Law faculty in terms of her alma mater’s status among law schools:
That “box checking,” as critics call it, likely played a role in her Harvard hiring especially when her background is compared to those of the other near-100 Harvard Law School professors and assistant professors, according to an analysis of law schools the professors attended. Most graduated from Harvard, and all from the nation’s top 10. Warren graduated from Rutgers University in Newark, ranked 82nd by Top-Law-Schools.com.
What’s more, only Rutgers has current law school professors who graduated from Rutgers. And in the analysis of the law school degrees of the roughly 350 Ivy League law school professors provided by a Warren critic, only one graduated from a lower-ranked law school than Warren, a Yale professor who attended the University of Nebraska Law School, ranked 89.
Harvard used that claim to brag about their own inclusiveness. Now they won’t even clarify if they’re still counting Warren as their lone Native American, Hillary Chabot reports for the Herald, which is having a field day with Warren’s identity crisis:
Harvard Law School lists one lone Native American faculty member on its latest diversity census report — but school officials and campaign aides for Elizabeth Warren refused to say yesterday whether it refers to the Democratic Senate candidate. …
The 2011 report indicates that “Race/Ethnicity designations are from self-report data,” meaning whoever is listed as a Native American told the school of their tribal lineage.
Robert C. Clark, a professor and former Harvard Law School dean, is listed as part Choctaw in a 1999 Harvard Magazine article. Clark has worked for the law school since 1989 but wasn’t named in a 1996 Harvard Crimson article when law school officials sought to defend their minority hires. Clark did not return requests for comment.
Former law school spokesman Mike Chmura said in the 1996 article that out of 71 professors, only one was Native American and that was Warren.
This embarrassment comes courtesy of the curious American identity fetish. It wouldn’t exist at all if we hadn’t set up perverse incentives to make baseless (or at least undocumented) claims about heritage in order to gain financial advantages. This fetish started as a means to assist the truly underprivileged overcome economic disadvantages imposed by government discrimination, but became yet another means to exploit employment and educational placement systems for unfair advantage.
Can anyone objectively looking at Elizabeth Warren’s life make a case that a 1/32nd Native American background, even if it’s true, disadvantaged her in any way at all? Of course not; not even Warren can make that case, which is why Warren now says she used that identity claim for social purposes rather than economic advantage. Harvard’s actions speak louder than those words, however.
In the short run, Warren should be thoroughly discredited as a political candidate. In the long run, it’s far past the time to reconsider the incentives placed on ethnic heritage claims in education and employment, and to put a stop to affirmative action. Instead, we should be focused on improving schools through competition so that we produce equitable outcomes up front rather than treat people differently later.
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Harvard Won’t Say If Liz Warren Listed As Minority
BH ^ | 5-4-12 | Hillary Chabot
Posted on Friday, May 04, 2012 4:36:32 PM by tcrlaf
Harvard Law School lists one lone Native American faculty member on its latest diversity census report — but school officials and campaign aides for Elizabeth Warren refused to say yesterday whether it refers to the Democratic Senate candidate.
Warren — who has been dogged by questions about whether she used her claims of Cherokee lineage to further her career — has insisted she never authorized Harvard Law to count her as a Native American in the mid-1990s, when the school was under fire for not having enough minority professors.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
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Boston Globe: Bad week may haunt Warren - Handling of controversy is roundly criticized
Boston Globe ^ | May 5, 2012 | Noah Bierman and Frank Phillips
Posted on May 5, 2012 11:14:13 AM EDT by Zakeet
Elizabeth Warren fumbled through her worst stretch as a Senate candidate this week, setting off a debate among strategists over whether the controversy over her claims to Native American ancestry would linger when the November election is closer.
The Warren campaign will not say when top advisers learned that she considered herself part-Native American, but it was an element of her biography that seemed to catch them off guard.
When news emerged last Friday that Harvard Law School had publicly touted Warren as a Native American professor in the Harvard Crimson in the 1990s, Warren advisers saw it as a story that would go away quickly.
But the story took added dimension when it was revealed that Warren had listed herself as a minority in a major legal directory.
The fallout and her unsteady response to it subjected the rookie Democratic Senate candidate to tough questions, an unflattering national glare, and a recognition from others that she had hit her first real stumble. The Washington Post’s political blog, The Fix, gave Warren the dubious honor “Worst Week in Washington."
“I have yet to run into anyone in politics who believes that this was handled well at all," said Jennifer Duffy, a senior editor at The Cook Political Report who tracks Senate races around the country. “The explanations have left enormous room for doubt and speculation."
Right: Little Chief Running Mouth dress-um in native garb after her step-um in heap deep doo doo!
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
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Not defending Warren in this case, however many Indian tribes in the 1800s were lead by Multi-raced chiefs, such as William Weatherford of The Creeks (Muscogee) who was only 1/8th Indian and was bested by the great Andrew Jackson in the Creek War.
Many other tribes were led by Multi-racial chiefs some with 1/16 to 1/32 heritage. Another being Alexander McGillivray, who created an alliance between the Creek and the British during the American Revolution and was commissioned as a British Colonel and later commissioned as a Brigadier General for the United States after the war which allowed him to amass three plantations and 60 slaves.
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Elizabeth Warren, fraudster
Last Updated: 10:39 PM, May 6, 2012
Posted: May 07, 2012
‘Like the Seminole, Navajo, Kickapoo . . . I’m an Indian, too,” wrote Irving Berlin for his Broadway classic “Annie Get Your Gun.”
Maybe Elizabeth Warren should adopt the ditty as her campaign theme song.
Last week didn’t go well for the hard-left icon and Democratic US Senate candidate from Massachusetts, as she struggled to find an ancestor to bolster her claims of being a Native American.
Seems that Harvard Law School, where she teaches, had long identified her as such on its ethnic diversity reports to counter criticism that its faculty is too white and too male.
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Elizabeth Warren
And she listed herself for a decade in the Association of American Law Schools annual directory of minority law professors.
Her first response: The claim has long been part of her “family lore,” including a photo of her grandfather, who “had high cheekbones, like all of the Indians do.”
Then genealogists finally uncovered a great-great-great-grandmother who was listed as Cherokee on an electronic version of an old government record — which, if accurate, would make Warren 1/32nd Native American.
So why claim such a connection?
To score some free lunches, said Warren.
“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon . . . with people who are like I am,” she said.
(We’re not making this up!)
As for the much more likely explanation — that Warren was grasping a dubious affirmative-action hook to help her rise up the academic ladder — don’t even consider it.
That’s sexist, says Warren.
“What does he think it takes for a woman to be qualified?” she piously asked after her GOP opponent, Sen. Scott Brown, raised just that issue.
In fact, the flap just points up the dishonest essence of affirmative-action programs — and the ease with which they can be manipulated.
Never mind that all of the law schools that hired Warren quickly released statements swearing that her so-called minority status had nothing to do with it.
But, as blogger Ann Althouse notes, “What would you expect them to say?”
Such programs are designed to give members of “victimized” groups an unjustifiable leg up over equally — or even more — qualified applicants for the same job.
And all on irrelevant qualifications — like a single ancestor five generations back.
Elizabeth Warren figured out pretty quickly how to game the system.
Fortunately, it takes more than a long-dead bud on the family tree to get elected to the US Senate.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/elizabeth_warren_fraudster_XFsYakQBffFwy0COlwWHPP#ixzz1uBseDAbO
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Elizabeth Warren, fraudster
Last Updated: 10:39 PM, May 6, 2012
Posted: May 07, 2012
‘Like the Seminole, Navajo, Kickapoo . . . I’m an Indian, too,” wrote Irving Berlin for his Broadway classic “Annie Get Your Gun.”
Maybe Elizabeth Warren should adopt the ditty as her campaign theme song.
Last week didn’t go well for the hard-left icon and Democratic US Senate candidate from Massachusetts, as she struggled to find an ancestor to bolster her claims of being a Native American.
Seems that Harvard Law School, where she teaches, had long identified her as such on its ethnic diversity reports to counter criticism that its faculty is too white and too male.
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Elizabeth Warren
And she listed herself for a decade in the Association of American Law Schools annual directory of minority law professors.
Her first response: The claim has long been part of her “family lore,” including a photo of her grandfather, who “had high cheekbones, like all of the Indians do.”
Then genealogists finally uncovered a great-great-great-grandmother who was listed as Cherokee on an electronic version of an old government record — which, if accurate, would make Warren 1/32nd Native American.
So why claim such a connection?
To score some free lunches, said Warren.
“I listed myself in the directory in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon . . . with people who are like I am,” she said.
(We’re not making this up!)
As for the much more likely explanation — that Warren was grasping a dubious affirmative-action hook to help her rise up the academic ladder — don’t even consider it.
That’s sexist, says Warren.
“What does he think it takes for a woman to be qualified?” she piously asked after her GOP opponent, Sen. Scott Brown, raised just that issue.
In fact, the flap just points up the dishonest essence of affirmative-action programs — and the ease with which they can be manipulated.
Never mind that all of the law schools that hired Warren quickly released statements swearing that her so-called minority status had nothing to do with it.
But, as blogger Ann Althouse notes, “What would you expect them to say?”
Such programs are designed to give members of “victimized” groups an unjustifiable leg up over equally — or even more — qualified applicants for the same job.
And all on irrelevant qualifications — like a single ancestor five generations back.
Elizabeth Warren figured out pretty quickly how to game the system.
Fortunately, it takes more than a long-dead bud on the family tree to get elected to the US Senate.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/elizabeth_warren_fraudster_XFsYakQBffFwy0COlwWHPP#ixzz1uBseDAbO
Gotta love that tactic. If you even question it, you're sexist, lol.
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:D
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BWAA HAHAHAHAA
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HARVARD NATIVE AMERICAN PROGRAM: WARREN NEVER PARTICIPATED IN EVENTS
Breitbart ^ | 5/7/2012 | JOEL B. POLLAK
Shelly Lowe, executive director of Harvard University's Native American Program (HUNAP), told Breitbart News today that U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren had not, to her knowledge, participated in the program's events while Warren was a professor at Harvard.
Last week, Warren explained that she had listed herself as Native American "in the hopes that it might mean that I would be invited to a luncheon, a group something that might happen with people who are like I am." However, she had not been involved in HUNAP, the most obvious avenue for meeting fellow Native American faculty and students.
Warren, who is the Democratic challenger to incumbent Republican Scott Brown, claims that she has a great-great-great-grandmother who was Cherokee. That claim has yet to be substantiated by evidence beyond family lore, and Warren herself has no formal tribal membership.
She had listed herself as Native American in the 1980s, but stopped doing so in the mid-1990s, claiming that she never encountered others with similar backgrounds: "Nothing like that ever happened, that was clearly not the use for it and so I stopped checking it off."
HUNAP is a visible presence at Harvard, a university whose 17th-century charter dedicates the school "to the education of the English and Indian youth of this country."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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Report: Elizabeth Warren’s ancestor may have … rounded up Cherokee for Trail of Tears
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/05/08/report-elizabeth-warrens-ancestor-may-have-rounded-up-cherokees-for-trail-of-tears/ ^
Posted on May 8, 2012 8:31:34 PM EDT by chessplayer
Out: Elizabeth Warren, Native American. In: Elizabeth Warren, Jacksonian Democrat.
Man, in hindsight it’s a good thing she didn’t attend the annual Harvard Powwow yesterday after all, huh? Awwwk-ward.
"As I pointed out in my article here on Sunday, no evidence supports this claim [that her great-great-great grandmother was Cherokee]. O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford had no Cherokee heritage, was listed as “white” in the Census of 1860, and was most likely half Swedish and half English, Scottish, or German, or some combination thereof. (Note, the actual 1894 marriage license makes no claim of Cherokee ancestry.)"
"But the most stunning discovery about the life of O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford is that her husband, Ms. Warren’s great-great-great grandfather, was apparently a member of the Tennessee Militia who rounded up Cherokees from their family homes in the Southeastern United States and herded them into government-built stockades in what was then called Ross’s Landing (now Chattanooga), Tennessee—the point of origin for the horrific Trail of Tears, which began in January, 1837."
"This new information about Ms. Warren’s true heritage came as a direct result of a lead provided to me by William Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection, who in turn had received the information from one of his readers. Jacobson, who has questioned Warren’s explanation for her law faculty listing, calls this discovery “the ultimate and cruelest irony” of the Warren Cherokee saga."
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i vageuly remember somethign like that from college, reading it on an application. It's either 1/8 or 1/16... but i'm pretty sure it's only 1/16. I thought at the time I was surprised it was so little. i'm too lazy to google.
It's 1/8 if you want to use it for minority status as a general contractor.
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It's 1/8 if you want to use it for minority status as a general contractor.
cool. i dunno what the college standard is.
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ELIZABETH WARREN DANCES WITH LIES
AnnCoulter.com ^ | May 9, 2012 | Ann Coulter
Posted on May 9, 2012 9:37:40 PM EDT by Clintonfatigued
Elizabeth Warren, who also goes by her Indian name, "Lies on Race Box," is in big heap-um trouble. The earnest, reform-minded liberal running for Senate against Scott Brown, R-Mass., lied about being part-Cherokee to get a job at Harvard.
Harvard took full advantage of Warren's lie, bragging to The Harvard Crimson about her minority status during one of the near-constant student protests over insufficient "diversity" in the faculty. Warren also listed herself as an Indian in law school faculty directories and, just last month, said, "I am very proud of my Native American heritage."
Except, oops, she has no more evidence that she's an Indian than that buffoon out of Colorado, Ward Churchill.
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
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Second law school touted Elizabeth Warren's Cherokee status...
Political Intelligence-boston.com ^ | 05/10/2012 5:13 PM | Noah Bierman, Globe Staff
Posted on Thursday, May 10, 2012 5:20:06 PM by Internet Walnut
A second law school, the University of Pennsylvania, has touted Elizabeth Warren as a minority faculty member in an official school publication, according to an online document obtained by the Globe.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
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Elizabeth Warren Is Getting Destroyed More For Calling Herself A Native American (Fauxcahontas)
Business Insider ^ | 05/15/2012 | Grace Wyler
Posted on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 9:28:56 AM by SeekAndFind
The controversy over Elizabeth Warren's claim to Native American ancestry shows no signs of dying down, and is now threatening to derail her campaign for Republican Scott Brown's Massachusetts Senate seat.
Politico reporter Maggie Haberman has now uncovered Pa 1997 piece from the Fordham Law Review that refers to Warren as "the first woman of color" hired by Harvard Law School.
The piece cites as its source Harvard Law spokesman Michael Chmura, the same spokesman who bragged about Warren's Native American heritage to the Harvard Crimson in 1996.
Warren has so far dismissed the story, which first surfaced when the Boston Herald uncovered the Crimson article. She has said that she did not know Harvard was billing her as a minority professor, although identified herself as a minority on law professor listings until around 1995, and was also identified as a minority faculty member when she worked at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Brown campaign has seized the story, and is demanding that Warren release her law school personnel records to show whether her minority background had anything to do with her hiring.
“The question here is not about Elizabeth Warren’s credentials, so much as it is about Elizabeth Warren’s integrity and truthfulness and willingness to be transparent,’’ Brown's campaign manager Jim Barnett told reporters yesterday.
Conservatives have also demanded that proof that Warren is 1/32 Cherokee, as she claims.
Breitbart.com has turned the issue into a cause célèbre, publishing almost daily stories that claim debunk Warren's ancestry, including one alleging that one of Warren's forebearers actually rounded up Cherokees for the Trail of Tears.
Warren's response hasn't helped quell the firestorm. Despite first denying that she knew anything about the minority listing, she now repeatedly claims to be "proud" of her Native American heritage
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
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‘Pow wow’ factor: Elizabeth Warren touted native roots in ’84 cookbook
Boston Herald ^ | May 17, 2012 | Hillary Chabot
Posted on May 17, 2012 5:59:44 AM EDT by billorites
Elizabeth Warren was touting her claim of Cherokee heritage as early as 1984, according to a cookbook titled “Pow Wow Chow” edited by her cousin that includes Warren’s recipes for a savory crab omelet and spicy barbecued beans.
The cookbook, edited by Warren’s cousin Candy Rowsey, is a compilation of “special recipes passed down through the Five Tribes families,” according to the introduction in a copy obtained by the Herald.
Warren, who has been under fire for claiming Indian lineage despite a lack of documentation, is identified as “Elizabeth Warren, Cherokee” under each of five recipes she contributes in the cookbook, published in 1984 by the Five Civilized Tribes Museum located in Muskogee. Warren is not listed as an official member of the Cherokee tribe and she has been unable thus far to document her claim of any Native American heritage.
She offered a recipe on herbed tomatoes, touting them as a “great accompaniment to a plain meat and potatoes meal!” She also included a crab with tomato mayonnaise dressing dish and a Mexican oatmeal soup that included oats, onions, tomatoes and chicken broth.
“The soup sounds weird, but everyone who tries it, loves it!” Warren wrote.
“These are all recipes passed down through family members,” said Martha Griffin, a former volunteer and patron of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum who was friends with Warren’s late cousin. Griffin, who has several recipes of her own in the book, didn’t remember the contributions from Warren.
The cookbook also includes a recipe for a sweet “burnt sugar cake” that appears to have been submitted by Warren’s mother. Another, “grandmother’s peach cobbler,” appears above the names of Warren’s two children.
Warren’s campaign did not respond to multiple requests for comment last night.
News of Warren’s Cherokee recipes comes as outraged members of the tribe — including a Warren supporter — demanded she release her employment records following reports that she has no documentation to prove her Native American ancestry.
Steve Russell, an enrolled Cherokee who lives in Texas and said he supports Warren, said he just wants to make sure the Senate candidate didn’t mention her roots when applying to jobs.
“If I were her I would release those employment documents,” said Russell. “I guess she thinks because she doesn’t have to release them then no one will care, but I guarantee you Indians care, and I care.”
Said Twila Barnes, a Cherokee genealogist: “She needs to admit the truth. There is no documentation showing that she has Cherokee ancestry. She needs to come clean and release her employment records.”
Barnes also called the cookbook “silly.”
“Cherokees don’t even traditionally have powwows,” she said.
Warren has said she learned of her heritage through “family lore,” but the campaign and genealogists have been unable to provide conclusive proof of any Indian roots.
Warren listed herself as a minority on a law school directory from 1986 to 1995, and both Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania touted her as a minority hire.
Representatives from both institutions said Warren’s minority status played no role in her hire.
“In spite of conclusive evidence to the contrary, the story continues to circulate that Elizabeth Warren enjoyed some kind of affirmative action leg-up in her hiring as a full professor by the Harvard Law School. The innuendo is false,” Harvard Law professor Charles Fried, who helped recruit Warren, said in a statement yesterday.
“I can state categorically that the subject of her Native American ancestry never once was mentioned.”
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Elizabeth Warren’s goose is cooked No morsel of truth in her Indian identity
Boston Herald ^
Posted on Friday, May 18, 2012 11:31:49 AM by outpostinmass2
If I might make one suggestion before the updated version of the “Pow Wow Chow” cookbook is released: Next time, Liz, hold the mayo.
Even if you were 1/1000th Native American — which you’re not — and even if Cherokees did hold pow wows — which Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes told the Herald yesterday they don’t — even then, your contribution to authentic teepee cuisine is “Crab With Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing?”
Why didn’t you throw in Tuna Casserole and Some Twinkies while you’re at it?
Like her recipe (“serve salad with remaining mayo on the side”), everything about Liz Warren screams “I’m white!”
In fact, I doubt you know anyone who is more “white” than Professor Pow Wow Chow. Her blond hair, her blue eyes, her pale, freckled skin, her wealth, her white-collar job at a “white-kid” Ivy League college, her liberal-suburbs-white-lady politics — Liz Warren is a walking, talking tribute to “Guilty, Affluent White People Who Listen To NPR” American culture.
Which is why it’s so offensively shocking to read report after report about Warren as a “woman of color.” That’s the exact phrase used 15 years ago in an in-depth article from the Fordham University Law Review about minority women in academia: “Harvard Law School hired its first woman of color, Elizabeth Warren, in 1995.”
And she’s got the cookbook to prove it!
Nobody cares that Liz Warren is not really 1/32nd or 1/64th Native American. What’s off-putting is that Warren is so clearly not a minority member in any meaningful sense of the word.
When this article and others were published describing Warren this way, she should have objected. She should have corrected the record on behalf of those Americans who have truly suffered because of their race. But instead she spent her career, as she put it, “checking the box.”
Here’s the reaction to Warren’s self-serving box-checking from “Polly’s Granddaughter,” a Cherokee Indian and genealogist in an open letter to Harvard Law’s “first woman of color”:
“You say you only ‘checked the box’ in an attempt to meet others like you, but that doesn’t make sense. If one is claiming to be Cherokee and wants to meet other Cherokees, they don’t ‘check a box’ on a job application or in a directory for their profession! They go to where Cherokees are.”
“You are from Oklahoma!” (emphasis in original)
Polly’s Granddaughter is absolutely right. As I’ve written previously, my mom was born in Oklahoma, and her great-grandmother, Nancy Hill, was a Cherokee from the Oklahoma territories. I also attended college in Tulsa, Okla. Meeting Indians in Oklahoma is as easy as knocking on a neighbor’s door and saying “Hi, wanna come over for some crab-and-mayonnaise salad?”
Being from Oklahoma also means there’s a good chance Warren also encountered anti-Indian prejudice first-hand. I only lived there a few years, and I did. I ran into some Okies who spoke about Native Americans the way the worst Southern whites talked about black Americans.
Those are the Native Americans the phrase “person of color” is intended for, not “Former member of ABBA” look-alike Liz Warren.
She knows this. She’s known it her whole life. Yet she’s chosen to play the role of suffering minority member, thereby making a mockery of the real suffering of others
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The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit today as Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr released evidence that appears to confirm Ms. Warren may have plagiarized at least three of the five recipes she submitted to the 1984 Pow Wow Chow cookbook edited by her cousin Candy Rowsey.
Two of the possibly plagiarized recipes, said in the Pow Wow Chow cookbook to have been passed down through generations of Oklahoma Native American members of the Cherokee tribe, are described in a New York Times News Service story as originating at Le Pavilion, a fabulously expensive French restaurant in Manhattan. The dishes were said to be particular favorites of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Cole Porter.
The two recipes, "Cold Omelets with Crab Meat" and "Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing," appear in an article titled “Cold Omelets with Crab Meat,” written by Pierre Franey of the New York Times News Service that was published in the August 22, 1979 edition of the Virgin Islands Daily News, a copy of which can be seen here.
Ms. Warren’s 1984 recipe for Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing is a word-for-word copy of Mr. Franey’s 1979 recipe.
Mrs. Warren’s 1984 recipe for Cold Omelets with Crab Meat contains all four of the ingredients listed in Mr. Franey’s 1979 recipe in the exact same portion but lists five additional ingredients. More significantly, her instructions are virtually a word for word copy of Mr. Franey’s instructions from this 1979 article. Both instructions specify the use of a “seven inch Teflon pan.” The 1984 Pow Wow Chow recipe reads:
Use a small omelet pan, or, preferably, a seven-inch Teflon pan. Heat about one-half teaspoon butter in the pan. Add about one-third cup of the egg mixture. Let cook until firm and lightly brown on the bottom, stirring quickly with a fork until the omelet starts to set. When set slip a large pancake turner under the omelet starts to set. When set, slip a large pancake turner under the omelet and turn it quickly to the other side. Let cook about five seconds. Remember, you want to produce a flat omelet, not a typical folded omelet. Turn the omelets out flat onto a sheet of was paper. Continue making omelets until all the egg mixture is used.
Ms. Warren’s instructions are word-for-word copies of Mr. Franey’s 1979 instructions for this recipe, with one exception. Ms. Warren says, “Let cook until firm and lightly brown…” and Mr. Franey says “Let cook until firm and lightly browned…” [emphasis added]
Mr. Franey elaborates in this 1979 article on the origins of the recipe:
When I was chef at Le Pavilion it enjoyed a considerable esteem in America, and the owner, Henri Soule, had one particular specialty that he would ask to have prepared for his pet customers. The dish was a great favorite of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Cole Porter. It is a delicate and interesting creation, especially good for summer dining. It consists of small omelets, flavored with herbs and bits of tomato, served cold with a crab meat filling…This is not the usual oval-shaped omelet rolled over a filling and served hot. It is a flat omelet that is cooked like a pancake and turned over once on the skillet, then served cold. [emphasis added]
Mr. Franey does not suggest that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor enjoyed Cold Omelets with Crab Meat due to any claim on their behalf of Cherokee ancestry, though it is true that the Duchess was American born.
The third potentially plagiarized recipe, "Herbed Tomatoes," appears to be copied from this 1959 recipe from Better Homes and Garden.
Ms. Warren ‘s campaign has not commented on the suggestion that she may have plagiarized her recipe contributions to the Pow Wow Chow cookbook. Sales of the Pow Wow Chow have heated up on Amazon since this controversy began, vaulting from a lowly 1.2 million ranking book to number 11,289 early this morning.
Michael Patrick Leahy is a Breitbart News contributor, Editor of Broadside Books’ Voices of the Tea Party e-book series, and author of Covenant of Liberty: The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/18/did-elizabeth-warren-plagiarize-pow-wow-chow-recipes
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Another taxing problem for Elizabeth Warren
Boston Herald ^ | 5-25-12 | Howie Carr
If there’s any politician that infuriates me more than a carpetbaggin’, recipe-stealing fake Indian, it’s one that unloads her imported BMW 528i just before announcing her candidacy, and then doesn’t even bother to pay the automobile excise tax on her campaign’s new Ford Escape.
Yes, Comrade Warren, I’m talking about you.
A BMW — how tenured Harvard Law is it? She’d owned it since early 2000, but it had to go. After all, she’s a “fight-ah,” as her new TV ad says. So adios BMW and hello used 2008 Ford — hybrid, of course — which is registered to her teepee on Linnaean Street in Cambridge under Elizabeth for MA Inc.
For someone who wants to raise taxes on everybody, she certainly seems allergic to paying her own. Refuses to pay at the voluntary higher state income tax rate, and now totally blows off the auto excise tax for five weeks now and counting. When we first checked with the city of Cambridge on Monday, she owed $68.12 in overdue excise taxes.
As of yesterday, it was up to $68.19 — the city charges a 2-cent a day late fee. Seems pretty usurious to me, like J.P. Morgan.
Granny, you’re a 1 percenter’s 1 percenter. You have $10 million in your campaign account. Who do you think you are, John Kerry, or Tim Geithner, or Charlie Rangel, or Tom Daschle ...
I almost forgot, taxes are for the little people, not the Beautiful People.
The campaign called last night to report that, after receiving Herald inquiries, the excise bill has been paid.
Meanwhile, what I found most interesting in the new Suffolk poll numbers was not the Warren-Scott Brown dead heat, but the fact that 49 percent of the electorate still believes that this fraud has Native-American blood.
Forty-nine percent — now we know the moonbat baseline in Massachusetts. And to think that they call themselves “reality-based.”
Of course, the other way for Granny’s moonbats to deal with this fiasco is to just flat-out lie. That was the M.O. that Melrose state Sen. Katherine Clark used this week on Sgt. Schultz’s show on MSNBC.
Even Ed Schultz was calling out Pinocchio-hontas, so listen to how Sen. Clark tried to parry his thrusts about Warren’s forked-tongue ancestry.
“It’s been demonstrated by some of the research that’s been done, in fact, that there are records that support that claim.”
Really? Like what? Even the Globe had to confess (in a belated, buried correction) that there is “no documentation.” Sen. Clark, what is your source, the “Pow Wow Chow” cookbook?
Repeated calls to Sen. Clark were not returned.
As for you, Comrade Granny, I know, you’re cheap. You’re a liberal. But after all, it’s for the children
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Boston Globe: Documents “raise further questions” about Warren’s story on ancestry
Hot Air ^ | 5/25/12 | Ed Morrissey
Elizabeth Warren might have hoped to scare off more media inquiries into her claims of Native American ancestry as a career boost yesterday, but today’s front page of the Boston Globe makes it clear the problem isn’t going away — and in fact might get worse. Warren has insisted that she only cited her supposed Cherokee ancestry once at Harvard to meet others like herself, even though there is no evidence she took steps to socialize among other Native Americans at Harvard. A Globe review of documentation suggests that Harvard and/or Warren repeatedly made those claims, and that even if Warren had believed herself to be 1/32nd Cherokee, she wouldn’t have met the definition for inclusion
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The credibility of Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren took another hit today as Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr released evidence that appears to confirm Ms. Warren may have plagiarized at least three of the five recipes she submitted to the 1984 Pow Wow Chow cookbook edited by her cousin Candy Rowsey.
Two of the possibly plagiarized recipes, said in the Pow Wow Chow cookbook to have been passed down through generations of Oklahoma Native American members of the Cherokee tribe, are described in a New York Times News Service story as originating at Le Pavilion, a fabulously expensive French restaurant in Manhattan. The dishes were said to be particular favorites of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Cole Porter.
The two recipes, "Cold Omelets with Crab Meat" and "Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing," appear in an article titled “Cold Omelets with Crab Meat,” written by Pierre Franey of the New York Times News Service that was published in the August 22, 1979 edition of the Virgin Islands Daily News, a copy of which can be seen here.
Ms. Warren’s 1984 recipe for Crab with Tomato Mayonnaise Dressing is a word-for-word copy of Mr. Franey’s 1979 recipe.
Mrs. Warren’s 1984 recipe for Cold Omelets with Crab Meat contains all four of the ingredients listed in Mr. Franey’s 1979 recipe in the exact same portion but lists five additional ingredients. More significantly, her instructions are virtually a word for word copy of Mr. Franey’s instructions from this 1979 article. Both instructions specify the use of a “seven inch Teflon pan.” The 1984 Pow Wow Chow recipe reads:
Use a small omelet pan, or, preferably, a seven-inch Teflon pan. Heat about one-half teaspoon butter in the pan. Add about one-third cup of the egg mixture. Let cook until firm and lightly brown on the bottom, stirring quickly with a fork until the omelet starts to set. When set slip a large pancake turner under the omelet starts to set. When set, slip a large pancake turner under the omelet and turn it quickly to the other side. Let cook about five seconds. Remember, you want to produce a flat omelet, not a typical folded omelet. Turn the omelets out flat onto a sheet of was paper. Continue making omelets until all the egg mixture is used.
Ms. Warren’s instructions are word-for-word copies of Mr. Franey’s 1979 instructions for this recipe, with one exception. Ms. Warren says, “Let cook until firm and lightly brown…” and Mr. Franey says “Let cook until firm and lightly browned…” [emphasis added]
Mr. Franey elaborates in this 1979 article on the origins of the recipe:
When I was chef at Le Pavilion it enjoyed a considerable esteem in America, and the owner, Henri Soule, had one particular specialty that he would ask to have prepared for his pet customers. The dish was a great favorite of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and Cole Porter. It is a delicate and interesting creation, especially good for summer dining. It consists of small omelets, flavored with herbs and bits of tomato, served cold with a crab meat filling…This is not the usual oval-shaped omelet rolled over a filling and served hot. It is a flat omelet that is cooked like a pancake and turned over once on the skillet, then served cold. [emphasis added]
Mr. Franey does not suggest that the Duke and Duchess of Windsor enjoyed Cold Omelets with Crab Meat due to any claim on their behalf of Cherokee ancestry, though it is true that the Duchess was American born.
The third potentially plagiarized recipe, "Herbed Tomatoes," appears to be copied from this 1959 recipe from Better Homes and Garden.
Ms. Warren ‘s campaign has not commented on the suggestion that she may have plagiarized her recipe contributions to the Pow Wow Chow cookbook. Sales of the Pow Wow Chow have heated up on Amazon since this controversy began, vaulting from a lowly 1.2 million ranking book to number 11,289 early this morning.
Michael Patrick Leahy is a Breitbart News contributor, Editor of Broadside Books’ Voices of the Tea Party e-book series, and author of Covenant of Liberty: The Ideological Origins of the Tea Party Movement
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/18/did-elizabeth-warren-plagiarize-pow-wow-chow-recipes
LOL - nobody except Breitbart seems to care about her omelet recipe
Polls show she's neck in neck with Scott Brown so it seems potential voters don't give a shit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/elizabeth-warren-draws-even-in-latest-poll-of-massachusetts-senate-race/2012/05/24/gJQAAnG3nU_story.html
Breitbart is going to have to find a way to tie her to Ayers or Wright or start pretending she was born in Kenya
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/25/elizabeth-warren-identified-as-woman-of-color-in-1993-publication
dduuuhhoooooo!!!!!
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LOL - nobody except Breitbart seems to care about her omelet recipe
Polls show she's neck in neck with Scott Brown so it seems potential voters don't give a shit
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/elizabeth-warren-draws-even-in-latest-poll-of-massachusetts-senate-race/2012/05/24/gJQAAnG3nU_story.html
Breitbart is going to have to find a way to tie her to Ayers or Wright or start pretending she was born in Kenya
LOL - THAT IS IN MASS WHICH IS THE HARD LEFT STATE IN THE NATION!
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LOL - THAT IS IN MASS WHICH IS THE HARD LEFT STATE IN THE NATION!
and in regards to this particular election they are the only people that matter
why don't you start a thread about how Elizabeth Warren told her literary agent that she was born in Kenya
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and in regards to this particular election they are the only people that matter
why don't you start a thread about how Elizabeth Warren told her literary agent that she was born in Kenya
Don't have to - she already told them she is a native american indian.
She is like most typical leftist frauds and charlatans who have to make up composites of themselves to hide their true selves.
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Elizabeth Warren stonewalling
Posted: May 24, 2012 3:16 PM EDT Updated: May 24, 2012 5:22 PM EDT
BROOKLINE (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) – Elizabeth Warren is stonewalling questions about whether or not she is a member of a minority group.
Warren says she learned she is part Cherokee from 'family lore.' She has also come under fire for a minority listing in a law school directory, and for two schools, Harvard Law and the University of Pennsylvania touting her as a minority hire.
At an appearance in Brookline, her first in more than a week, Warren would not answer questions about the issue. She has not produced any documents to show for it, and critics say she should show some proof.
"We believe that Ms. Warren just needs to come clean and admit that she has no evidence," Twila Barnes, a Cherokee genealogist and historian told FOX 25.
A new Suffolk University poll shows the Cherokee issue has not hurt Warren in the polls. She's in a dead heat with Senator Scott Brown.
Brown spokesman Colin Reed released a statement on Thursday, reading, "In the absence of any facts, Elizabeth Warren continues to claim she is a Native American minority. She needs to stop stonewalling and finally produce the records from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard that will show whether or not she or these schools benefited in any way from this false information about her ancestry."
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Elizabeth Warren stonewalling
Posted: May 24, 2012 3:16 PM EDT Updated: May 24, 2012 5:22 PM EDT
BROOKLINE (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) – Elizabeth Warren is stonewalling questions about whether or not she is a member of a minority group.
Warren says she learned she is part Cherokee from 'family lore.' She has also come under fire for a minority listing in a law school directory, and for two schools, Harvard Law and the University of Pennsylvania touting her as a minority hire.
At an appearance in Brookline, her first in more than a week, Warren would not answer questions about the issue. She has not produced any documents to show for it, and critics say she should show some proof.
"We believe that Ms. Warren just needs to come clean and admit that she has no evidence," Twila Barnes, a Cherokee genealogist and historian told FOX 25.
A new Suffolk University poll shows the Cherokee issue has not hurt Warren in the polls. She's in a dead heat with Senator Scott Brown.
Brown spokesman Colin Reed released a statement on Thursday, reading, "In the absence of any facts, Elizabeth Warren continues to claim she is a Native American minority. She needs to stop stonewalling and finally produce the records from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard that will show whether or not she or these schools benefited in any way from this false information about her ancestry."
and just like Ayers, Rev Wright, flag pins and birth certificates, no matter how much you right wing idiot piss and moan the voters don't seem to give shit yet you just keep beating the same dead horse.
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and just like Ayers, Rev Wright, flag pins and birth certificates, no matter how much you right wing idiot piss and moan the voters don't seem to give shit yet you just keep beating the same dead horse.
What's that say about the voters?
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What's that say about the voters?
it's says they don't care about nonsense that the Repubs seem to want to make issues about
I personally can't stand Warren but it's got nothing to do with her pancake recipe or whethers she's got any Indian blood or not
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it's says they don't care about nonsense that the Repubs seem to want to make issues about
I personally can't stand Warren but it's got nothing to do with her pancake recipe or whethers she's got any Indian blood or not
No one cares, eh? Is that why the leftist Boston Globe has even waded into the investigation?
You and Cherokee Liz have a lot in common as you both like pulling "facts" out of thin air.
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No one cares, eh? Is that why the leftist Boston Globe has even waded into the investigation?
You and Cherokee Liz have a lot in common as you both like pulling "facts" out of thin air.
The polls seem to indicate that voters don't care
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and just like Ayers, Rev Wright, flag pins and birth certificates, no matter how much you right wing idiot piss and moan the voters don't seem to give shit yet you just keep beating the same dead horse.
That's the point of campaigning and rallying for your canadate. People get out there and she'd light on the truth, and it may sway some voters that way. He's just exercising his right to free speech, and voice his opiniOns on the subject, to give an unbiased(well,not really ) view on the subject. It's called democracy, spread some.
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That's the point of campaigning and rallying for your canadate. People get out there and she'd light on the truth, and it may sway some voters that way. He's just exercising his right to free speech, and voice his opiniOns on the subject, to give an unbiased(well,not really ) view on the subject. It's called democracy, spread some.
when I did I ever say I had an issue with free speech
If the Repubs think their current strategy is working then more power to them
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Elizabeth Warren challenged by Cherokee group (demand truth)
Politico ^ | 5/30/12 | MJ LEE
Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 5:57:11 AM by Libloather
Elizabeth Warren challenged by Cherokee group
By MJ LEE | 5/30/12 3:07 PM EDT Updated: 5/30/12 9:47 PM EDT
A group of Cherokees have organized and launched a website disputing Elizabeth Warren’s claims to Native American heritage.
Some 150 people purporting to be “concerned” members and descendants of three Cherokee tribes have put up a new website called “Cherokees Demand Truth From Elizabeth Warren.”
The group is demanding that the Massachusetts Senate candidate come clean about her heritage – a topic that has dominated media coverage of Warren’s bid again incumbent Republican Sen. Scott Brown ever since it was revealed that the Harvard law professor was previously listed as having ethnic minority status.
“You claim to be Cherokee. You forget, it isn’t who you claim, but instead, who claims you. We don’t claim you!” a banner splashed across the top of the group’s website reads. The group argues that Warren has made “false claims of Cherokee ancestry,” and that it is bothered by those who “fraudulently” claim Cherokee heritage.
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Awesome.
November is coming. All of these scumbags like ghettobama, warren, et al are going to be ousted.
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Warren says she told schools of heritage
Boston Globe ^
Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 8:58:13 AM by outpostinmass2
Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren acknowledged for the first time late Wednesday night that she told Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania that she was Native American, but she continued to insist that race played no role in her recruitment.
“At some point after I was hired by them, I . . . provided that information to the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard,’’ she said in a statement issued by her campaign. “My Native American heritage is part of who I am, I’m proud of it and I have been open about it.’’
Warren’s statement is her first acknowledgment that she identified herself as Native American to the Ivy League schools. While she has said she identified herself as a minority in a legal directory, she has carefully avoided any suggestion during the last month that she took further actions to promote her purported heritage.
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another leftist lying sack of sanctimonious shit exposed.
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Gov. Patrick steps in as Elizabeth Warren stonewalls ancestry questions
FOX 25 Boston ^ | FOX 25 Boston
Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 7:47:36 AM by pietraynor
SOMERVILLE (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren received a boost on Wednesday from none other than Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick.
Gov. Patrick, Warren, and grassroots supporters met on Wednesday at her campaign headquarters in Somerville just days before Democrats head to Springfield for the party's nominating convention.
Warren has endured a rough few weeks following controversy regarding her Native American ancestry. At the event, Gov. Patrick stepped in and responded to a question about Warren's ancestry from FOX 25's Sharman Sacchetti.
In part, Gov. Patrick replied, "On behalf of the people of the Commonwealth, we don't care about that subject."
Sharman Sacchetti also asked if Warren could say whether or not she, or any of her schools, filled out federal forms claiming minority status. Warren responded by explaining why she chose to enter the race
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Elizabeth Warren Faces 5 Years in Jail for Faking Minority Status
Federal Criminal Code ^ | various | Nameless Federal Bureaucrat(s)
Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 12:35:25 PM by FormerACLUmember
Elizabeth Warren faces 5 years in jail and a fine for her fake minority status, used to get jobs and tenure.
Federal law provides in 18 U.S. Code § 1001:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully–
(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact;
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or
(3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry;
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both. If the matter relates to an offense under chapter 109A, 109B, 110, or 117, or section 1591, then the term of imprisonment imposed under this section shall be not more than 8 years.
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Elizabeth Warren: I was the first nursing mother to take the bar exam in New Jersey, you know
Hot Air ^ | 5/30/2012 | Allah Pundit
Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:14:35 AM by IbJensen
Via Legal Insurrection. As you might expect, New Jersey bar administrators have no idea what she’s talking about. Maybe she meant to say she’s the first fake Native American nursing mother to take the bar exam in New Jersey?
Because that might well be true.
“I was the first nursing mother to take a bar exam in the state of New Jersey,” Warren told an audience at the Chicago Humanities Festival in 2011, in a video posted on the CHF website. When asked how Warren knows that, her campaign said: “Elizabeth was making a point about the very serious challenges she faced as a working mom — from taking an all-day bar exam when she was still breast-feeding, to finding work as a lawyer that would accommodate a mom with two small children.”
Winnie Comfort of the New Jersey Judiciary, which administers that state’s bar exam, said there’s no way to verify Warren’s claim. Comfort said women have been taking the New Jersey bar exam since 1895, but she’s not aware their nursing habits were ever tracked.
Elsewhere in 0/32 Cherokee news, Legal Insurrection also notes the appearance of a bold new band of truthtellers — “Cherokees Demand Truth from Elizabeth Warren,” led by the same Cherokee genealogist who called Warren out two weeks ago. 156 members and counting:
Many wonder why we Cherokees are so insistent on Elizabeth Warren coming clean about her false claims of Cherokee ancestry. This is not a political issue to us. We don’t care if Elizabeth Warren is a Democrat, Republican, or an Independent. We do care, though, if she goes around claiming to be Cherokee and has tried to benefit from that claim. Some people might not realize there are only three federally recognized Cherokee tribes in the United States, but there are more than 200 groups who fraudulently claim to be Cherokee tribes. While the federally recognized tribes have very specific criteria their members must meet in order to be enrolled or registered, there is no consistent criterion for membership into the fraudulent groups. Many members of these fraudulent groups base their claim of Cherokee ancestry on the same thing Ms. Warren bases hers on…family lore…
We have researched Ms. Warren’s ancestry in the line she claims to be Cherokee through, as well as researched the collateral lines connected to that family. There is absolutely no indication of her having anything other than Caucasian ancestors. Though Ms. Warren’s ancestors did move into the areas that later became Oklahoma, they arrived at the same time many other non-Indian families arrived – when the land was going to be opened up and they thought they could get free or cheap land from the Indians. Ms. Warren’s ancestors were not Cherokees and neither is she. We, as Cherokees, cannot allow Ms. Warren to continue on with her false claims. If we allow someone as high profile as her to get away with it, then everyone else will expect a free pass as well.
Warren’s camp insists that she’s done talking about this and so far voters have shrugged at the storyline, but it’s not over yet. Go read Michael Patrick Leahy’s attempt to sort through the timeline at Harvard Law on Warren’s hiring and when members of the faculty might have learned of her “minority” status. An interesting contrast: Robert Clark, the former dean of HLS, says he was told by members of his own family that he was part Choctaw but he never thought to claim that status professionally because he never verified it. Quote: “It was just family lore, and more importantly, I had no identification whatsoever with the Choctaw community.” Go figure that a law professor might insist on hard evidence before asserting a professional credential.
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Elizabeth Warren Faces 5 Years in Jail for Faking Minority Status
Federal Criminal Code ^ | various | Nameless Federal Bureaucrat(s)
Posted on Thursday, May 31, 2012 12:35:25 PM by FormerACLUmember
Elizabeth Warren faces 5 years in jail and a fine for her fake minority status, used to get jobs and tenure.
Federal law provides in 18 U.S. Code § 1001:
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully–
(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact;
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation; or
(3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry;
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or both. If the matter relates to an offense under chapter 109A, 109B, 110, or 117, or section 1591, then the term of imprisonment imposed under this section shall be not more than 8 years.
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statute of limitations for such a paperwork crime?
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Many wonder why we Cherokees are so insistent on Elizabeth Warren coming clean about her false claims of Cherokee ancestry. This is not a political issue to us. We don’t care if Elizabeth Warren is a Democrat, Republican, or an Independent. We do care, though, if she goes around claiming to be Cherokee and has tried to benefit from that claim. Some people might not realize there are only three federally recognized Cherokee tribes in the United States, but there are more than 200 groups who fraudulently claim to be Cherokee tribes. While the federally recognized tribes have very specific criteria their members must meet in order to be enrolled or registered, there is no consistent criterion for membership into the fraudulent groups. Many members of these fraudulent groups base their claim of Cherokee ancestry on the same thing Ms. Warren bases hers on…family lore.
Though some might argue Ms. Warren is only one individual and therefore her claim cannot possibly cause harm to the Cherokee people, we would remind you that each of the fraudulent Cherokee groups are made up of individuals. Alone, none of these people would be harmful, but together, they are. In 2010, one fraudulent Cherokee group planned a march on Washington DC in an attempt to have the federal recognition of the three legitimate Cherokee tribes removed because those three tribes would not allow fakes to enroll or register with them. Like Warren, these individuals believe that family lore is all that should be required to claim Cherokee ancestry. 1987, a fraudulent Cherokee group in Ohio stood over the graves of the repatriated remains of Indians, while pretending to be Indians themselves. Like Warren and her contributions to the Pow Wow Chow cookbook, those fake Indians bastardized our traditions by doing things that were not representative of true Cherokee culture. From 2002-2005, a fraudulent Cherokee group in Arkansas, along with several school districts, was involved in defrauding the US government out of monies intended for real Indian students. Like Warren in her “checking the box” to further her career, these people did the exact same thing, “checked the box”, in order to try to benefit from it.
We have researched Ms. Warren’s ancestry in the line she claims to be Cherokee through, as well as researched the collateral lines connected to that family. There is absolutely no indication of her having anything other than Caucasian ancestors. Though Ms. Warren’s ancestors did move into the areas that later became Oklahoma, they arrived at the same time many other non-Indian families arrived – when the land was going to be opened up and they thought they could get free or cheap land from the Indians. Ms. Warren’s ancestors were not Cherokees and neither is she. We, as Cherokees, cannot allow Ms. Warren to continue on with her false claims. If we allow someone as high profile as her to get away with it, then everyone else will expect a free pass as well.
The authentic Cherokee tribes are made up of descendants of those listed on either the Dawes or Baker Rolls. Those rolls include the names of citizens who stayed with their nations; helped clear and farm their nations' land; helped build their nations' businesses and schools; participated in their nations' governments; and defended their nations in times of war and unrest. Through their loyalty to their nations, those Cherokee citizens paid the price for their descendants to have the right to call themselves Cherokee today. No one else has that right; not the individual walking down the street, not the members of the fraudulent tribes and certainly not a person who is running for the United States Congress. It is time for Ms. Warren to come clean and tell the truth. Until she does, we will not be silenced.
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Warren demands an apology from opponent in heritage controversy
The Hill ^ | 5/31/12 | Justin Sink
Posted on June 1, 2012 5:21:14 AM EDT by Libloather
Warren demands an apology from opponent in heritage controversy
By Justin Sink - 05/31/12 02:55 PM ET
Elizabeth Warren demanded an apology from Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.) Thursday after she said the lawmaker suggested she should not have taken her parent's claims of Native American ancestry at face value.
At a campaign stop in Springfield, Mass., Thursday, Brown urged Warren "to tell the truth and answer the questions you guys are asking."
"My mom and dad have told me a lot of things too, but it’s not accurate. You know, you have to, especially in these type of things, when you’re checking a box and you’re getting benefits that are entitled to people who need them and who historically have been discriminated upon, and you have others relying on those representations, it is a problem," Brown added.
That statement quickly drew fire from the Warren campaign, which issued a statement accusing Brown of attacking the Senate challenger's parents and arguing they should not be "fair game."
“Scott Brown’s comments about my parents are totally out of line. I resent him questioning their honesty. My mother and father are not here to defend themselves and should be off limits. Don and Pauline Herring are not fair game and Scott Brown should apologize," Warren said.
The Brown campaign quickly dismissed Warren's call for an apology Thursday afternoon.
“This is the second time Elizabeth Warren has made this pathetic and baseless accusation in an attempt to escape personal responsibility for spending five weeks misleading the press and the public. With so many new questions piling up, she would be wise to come clean, stop the stonewalling and tell the truth, rather than making up frivolous and false attacks against Scott Brown," said Brown spokesman Colin Reed.
Warren revealed to the Boston Globe on Wednesday that she told both Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, where she previously taught, that she had Cherokee ancestry. Republicans have questioned that assertion, and Warren has not provided documentation that she has Native American ancestors aside from asserting repeatedly that her parents had told her as much.
“As I have confirmed before,” Warren said in the statement to the Globe, “I let people know about my Native American heritage in a national directory of law school personnel. At some point after I was hired by them, I also provided that information to the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. My Native American heritage is part of who I am, I’m proud of it and I have been open about it.”
The spat should keep the story, a nagging embarrassment for the Warren campaign, in the news longer. In her statement to the Globe, Warren argued voters were not concerned about the issue, despite the deepening media attention to the issue.
"The people of Massachusetts are concerned about their jobs, the future for their kids, and the security of retirement. It’s past time we moved on to the important issues facing middle class families in Massachusetts," Warren said.
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Warren camp seeks to ease concerns over ancestry questions
Boston Globe ^ | June 1, 2012 | Stephanie Ebbert
Posted on Friday, June 01, 2012 8:13:52 AM by billorites
A day after Elizabeth Warren acknowledged that she told two Ivy League schools she was Native American, her campaign began scrambling to allay the concerns of supporters about her handling of the issue, while political observers questioned why she’d let the incendiary issue smolder for so long.
A senior staffer on the campaign, meanwhile, said the Warren team was not even aware that she’d been listed as Native American in any official capacity before the news broke last month, because researchers hired to scrub their own candidate’s background for biographical details that might erupt had failed to unearth that the law professor began identifying herself as a Native American about 25 years ago.
In an e-mail to supporters on Thursday, Warren sought to explain why she couldn’t back up claims that she is a Native American with proof of ancestry - a federal requirement when universities report their diversity data - and tried to rally her base by characterizing the backlash as a Republican-fueled personal attack.
“What kid asks their grandparents for legal documentation to go along with their family stories?’’ Warren wrote. “But that’s not good enough for Scott Brown and the Republican Party. For several weeks now, they have orchestrated an attack against my family, my job qualifications, and my character.’’
Her comments prompted the candidates’ most personal war of words to date as the incumbent, Republican Senator Scott Brown, at an event in Worcester, quipped: “My mom and dad have told me a lot of things too, but they’re not always accurate.’’
Warren was incensed. “My mother and father are not here to defend themselves and should be off limits. Don and Pauline Herring are not fair game and Scott Brown should apologize,’’ she said in a statement. Brown’s campaign called the accusation...
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lol @ this issue being what we're talking about.
nobody wants to discuss Scott RINO Brown. Vote 41. LMAO.
of course, if youre kneepadding romney now as a 'severe conservative', you probably believe the same about Scoot brown.
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lol @ this issue being what we're talking about.
nobody wants to discuss Scott RINO Brown. Vote 41. LMAO.
of course, if youre kneepadding romney now as a 'severe conservative', you probably believe the same about Scoot brown.
Very simple TOOL BOX
You have a choice to make between two bad options.
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Very simple TOOL BOX
You have a choice to make between two bad options.
why settle for that all of the time?
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why settle for that all of the time?
as opposed to what? Sitting on my ass eating doritoes watching MSNBC and not showing up to vote?
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Exclusive: Eloped? Elizabeth Warren's Parents Married in Religious Ceremony
breitbart.com ^ | 6/1/12 | Michael Patrick Leahy
Posted on Friday, June 01, 2012 1:25:46 PM by ColdOne
Last night, in an interview with the Boston Globe, Elizabeth Warren claimed that her parents were forced to elope because her father’s family objected to her mother’s Native American heritage:
"In the 1930s, when my parents got married, these were hard issues,’’ Warren said. “My father’s family so objected to my mother’s Native American heritage that my mother told me they had to elope. [emphasis added]
Breitbart News has obtained a copy of what it believes to be Warrens' parents’ marriage certificate from Hughes County, Oklahoma, dated January 4, 1932. The marriage took place in Holdenville, Oklahoma, the county seat, located approximately 14 miles from Wetumpka, Oklahoma, which both the 21-year-old groom, Donald J. Herring, and 19-year-old bride, Pauline Reed, declared as their residence.
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Marriage Certificate of Elizabeth Warren’s parents, Donald Herring and Pauline Reed
According to the document, the marriage was performed by Sidney H. Babcock, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church South of Holdensville, Oklahoma.
Typically, couples that elope do not marry in a church, or in their place of residence.
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Exclusive: Video Shows Elizabeth Warren Telling Tall Tale of 'Composite' Grandmother
breitbart.com ^ | 6/1/12 | Michael Patrick Leahy
Posted on June 1, 2012 7:44:55 PM EDT by ColdOne
A recently discovered video shows Elizabeth Warren telling another tall tale about her family. The day after she announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate, Democrat Elizabeth Warren told the convocation at the University of Massachusetts-Boston: "My grandmother drove a wagon in the land rush to settle territory out west. It was 1889, she was 15 years old…She lived to be 94, to see her youngest grandchild--that's me--graduate from college…". The only problem with this story is that it’s not true.
Warren's maternal grandmother died in 1969, the year before Warren graduated from college, and her paternal grandmother was only 2 years old in 1889.
The details:
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Elizabeth Warren, who has railed against predatory banks and heartless foreclosures, took part in about a dozen Oklahoma real estate deals that netted her and her family hefty profits through maneuvers such as “flipping” properties, records show.
A Herald review has found that the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate rapidly bought and sold homes herself, loaned money at high interest rates to relatives and purchased foreclosed properties at bargain prices.
Land records from Warren’s native Oklahoma City show the Harvard professor was active in the often topsy-turvy real estate market in the 1990s, including:
• Purchasing a foreclosed home at 2725 West Wilshire Boulevard from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for $61,000 in June 1993, then selling it in December 1994 for $95,000 — a 56 percent mark-up in just 18 months.
• Buying a house at 200 NW 16th St. for $30,000 in August 1993, then flipping it for $145,000 — a 383 percent gain after just five months.
• Lending one of her brothers money at 9.5 percent interest to buy a home at 1425 Classen Drive for $35,000 in August 2000. He sold the place three months later for $38,500 — a 10 percent gain in 75 days.
• Providing her brother with financing to buy a $25,000 house at 4301 NW 16th St. in 1994. He sold the property four years later for $42,000, a 68 percent increase.
• Giving her sister-in-law a mortgage in 1996 to buy a $31,000 home at 2621 NW 13th St. Three years later, the sister-in-law sold the place for $45,000 — a 45 percent boost in three years.
• Providing her brother with a loan in 1997 to buy 901 NW 22nd St. for $90,000. He sold it some two years later for $106,000 — an 18 percent increase.
• Giving her brother a mortgage to buy 3836 NW 12th St. in 1997 for $26,000. Nine years later, he unloaded the home for $45,000 — a 73 percent jump.
Herald columnist Howie Carr reported yesterday that Warren and her relatives also profited from two additional Oklahoma City foreclosures — in both cases showing triple-digit percentage gains.
Warren’s campaign issued a statement last night: “Elizabeth and (her husband) Bruce are fortunate to be in a position where they can help their family. They have been able to help relatives buy their homes and her nephew — a contractor — fix up houses.”
However, Warren and her family’s private investments don’t seem to square with her public statements about the latest real estate boom and bust.
“We are in the midst of one of the greatest economic crises in our country’s history — a crisis that began one lousy mortgage at a time,” the Democrat wrote on her campaign website, which also decries “a deregulated credit industry (that) squeezed families harder, hawking dangerous mortgages.”
http://bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1061136010
Lol!!!!!!!
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Elizabeth Warren Says She Will Be MA’s First Native American Senator – Cherokees Disagree (Video)
The Gateway Pundit ^ | June 3, 2012 | Jim Hoft
Posted on June 3, 2012 5:43:11 PM EDT by No One Special
Good grief. Democrat Elizabeth Warren told reporters this weekend that if elected she would be the first Native American Senator from Massachusetts.
Here's the video:
Elizabeth Warren: I Would Be MA's First Native American Senator - YouTube
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LOL!!!!
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Harsh Foreclosure Critic Elizabeth Warren Reportedly Made a Fortune…'Flipping' Foreclosed Homes
The Blaze ^ | 6/2/12 | Erica Ritz
Posted on June 3, 2012 1:27:44 PM EDT by Nachum
Elizabeth Warren has been plagued throughout her campaign for a Massachusetts Senate seat by what appear to fibs of her own creation.
It began when claimed to be Cherokee, because her “Papa” (pronounced “Papauw”) had high cheekbones, and there was “family lore.”
She reportedly rode that claim all the way to Harvard, where she was pronounced a “minority professor,” when in reality, a genealogist found she is a scant 1/32 Cherokee.
Now, the woman who claims to have created the “intellectual foundation” for Occupy Wall Street– notorious for its anti-foreclosure actions– is revealed to have made a small fortune flipping foreclosed homes in the 1990′s.
The Boston Herald, which uncovered the findings, explains:
Elizabeth Warren, who has railed against predatory banks and heartless foreclosures, took part in about a dozen Oklahoma real estate deals that netted her and her family hefty profits through maneuvers such as “flipping” properties, records show.
A Herald review has found that the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate rapidly bought and sold homes herself, loaned money at high interest rates to relatives and purchased foreclosed properties at bargain prices.
Land records from Warren’s native Oklahoma City show the Harvard professor was active in the often topsy-turvy real estate market in the 1990s, including:
• Purchasing a foreclosed home at 2725 West Wilshire Boulevard from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for $61,000 in June 1993, then selling it in December 1994 for $95,000 — a 56 percent mark-up in just 18 months.
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Black Ministers Blast Elizabeth Warren's Apparent Abuse of Affirmative Action
Breitbart News
Just days after the Democratic Party committed to Elizabeth Warren's floundering campaign for U.S. Senate in Massachusetts, black ministers are attacking Warren's perceived abuse of affirmative action policies to promote herself on the basis of dubious membership in a minority group, the Boston Globe reports. Warren's claims of Native American ancestry remain unproven--and many other claims about her family have been proven false.
The Globe reports:
“It is within bounds to raise the question of whether or not a white woman used the minority card for her professional advantage,” said [Rev. Eugene F.] Rivers.
“Ancestry is not the issue,” Rivers added, saying that Warren’s handling of the controversy raises questions beyond her heritage. “Did you tell the truth? Because you marketed yourself as the good-guy, straight-shooting-populist, representing-poor-people candidate.”
“Affirmative action — that issue becomes important because it points to who you are,” added the Rev. Jeffrey Brown, executive director of the TenPoint Coalition, who pointed to an assertion that she is 1/32 Cherokee. “I’m thinking to myself, if I was 1/32 white, or of European descent, would I be able to put on an application that I was white? And if you look at a picture of me, you see what I’m talking about. The question is not a trivial one, or one that can just be dismissed as a Republican tactic. And I say this as someone who campaigned for Martha Coakley and I’m independent in terms of my political status.”
Democrats are trying to dismiss concerns about Warren's claims by accusing Republicans of "race-baiting," aiming to prevent working-class whites from supporting her candidacy. But there is no more basis for that inflammatory claim than for Warren's claims of Cherokee (and now Delaware) heritage.
At stake is more than Warren's candidacy--namely, the reputation of Harvard University, the liberal bastion where she teaches law, also hangs in the balance:
The controversy also gains steam because it involves Harvard — an elite institution that represents the intellectual capital of the country and, to conservatives, the center of liberal idealism.
“Harvard as an institution, as part of Massachusetts’ self-image, is colossal,” said [Republican analyst Todd] Domke. “Whether people want to joke about it, criticize it, or exalt it, it’s still bigger than this Senate race in terms of the whole reputation of the state. It won’t go away because of that — because people feel there’s something a little scandalous about Harvard claiming diversity with a woman who is, according to her family lore, 31/32 Caucasian.”
www.breitbart.com
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Bingo.
Typical leftist scumbag lying whore gaming the system.
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Elizabeth Warren’s Cherokee Nation
By Francis Wilkinson Jun 4, 2012 10:06 AM ET
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-04/elizabeth-warren-s-cherokee-nation.html
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Elizabeth Warren, who on Saturday claimed the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate from Massachusetts, still has Indian trouble. Her claim to American Indian ancestry entered a new phase last week.
At first Warren said she learned that her employer, Harvard Law School, had cited her as a minority faculty member only after the Boston Herald informed her of it several weeks ago. Then last week she conceded that she herself had told Harvard that she was American Indian, though she said she told the university only after being hired.
Many Americans share, if not some Indian ancestry, at least what Warren has called "family lore" about Indian ancestry. What has given the story legs is its context. At elite institutions like Harvard, achieving racial diversity is both an ideal and a challenge. In such a highly competitive realm, certain racial designations not only lend cultural cachet to applicants for scarce places in the student body and faculty, but also market value, however inexact. Minorities can receive a leg up.
That's no doubt why Warren insists that she told Harvard of her (perhaps mythical) ancestry only after she'd been hired. She clearly doesn't want to be perceived as having benefited from affirmative action.
The Boston Globe reported that Warren claimed no minority status in applying to college or law school. Her application to Rutgers University Law School, which Warren attended, included the question: "Are you interested in applying for admission under the Program for Minority Group Students?" Warren answered, "No."
Yet at some point in the late 1980s, when she was teaching law at the University of Pennsylvania, Warren began listing herself as Native American in a legal directory. A recently-unearthed article from a 1997 Fordham Law Review describes Warren as the Harvard Law School faculty's "first woman of color."
Was Warren gaming the system to make herself more appealing to employers? The rules of racial preference are murky, but anyone in Warren's position would've understood that, all other things being equal, nonwhite status bestowed an advantage. Meanwhile, both Penn and Harvard seemed all too eager to claim credit for an extra dose of racial diversity on their faculties that, in reality, they lacked.
Fewer than 13 percent of American Indians have a bachelor’s degree, compared with almost 31 percent of whites. Median earnings among American Indians are roughly two-thirds those of whites. Penn, Harvard and other prominent schools have reason, beside historical injustice, to give qualified American Indian (or black or Hispanic) applicants a second look or even a modest helping hand. A commitment to fostering pluralism, and a breadth of experience and cultures, is central to their mission.
But opportunities for exploitation abound. National Public Radio reported that last year, before the Warren imbroglio, the Coalition of Bar Associations of Color passed a resolution condemning "fraudulent self-identification as Native American on applications for higher education." The practice, it said, had grown "pervasive." According to the coalition, between 1990 and 2000, about 2,500 Native American students graduated from accredited U.S. law schools. During that same period, the U.S. Census reported an increase of just 228 Native American lawyers nationwide. The disparity suggests that some graduates may have self-reported to the Census as one race, and to their law schools as another.
Definitions of who is and isn't a racial minority can be hard to pin down. Given rising inequality and declining social mobility, class-based criteria may soon make a more compelling claim on public policy than racial criteria.
Until then, Warren's political troubles are a cautionary tale for race-sensitive institutions in the Ivy League and elsewhere. Affirmative action has trouble enough from its enemies. It doesn't need friends who appear cynical and self-serving.
(Francis Wilkinson is a member of the Bloomberg View editorial board. Follow him on Twitter.)
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Column: Warren needs to apologize to Native Americans
By DeWayne Wickham
Updated 13h 44m ago
In a victory that has all the trappings of a political coronation, Elizabeth Warren emerged from Massachusetts' Democratic Party convention this weekend with enough support to avoid a primary battle for the right to seek the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Scott Brown.
Warren: Running for the U.S. Senate.
DeWayne Wickham USATODAY columnist
With the last-minute backing of Deval Patrick, the state's popular Democratic governor, Warren got the backing of 97.5% of the 3,500 delegates and thus prevented Marisa DeFranco, her only opponent, from having enough support to force a runoff election. But while her victory cleared the last hurdle she faced before competing for the Senate seat once held by liberal icon Edward Kennedy, it left a nagging issue unresolved.
For several years, Warren falsely identified herself as a Native American — a designation that raises serious questions about how such a misrepresentation might have advantaged her in obtaining a professorship at the Harvard Law School at a time when it was being attacked for its lack of diversity.
But when Brown attacked her claim, Democrats rallied their defense and Warren responded with a lot of feisty talk.
'Not backing down'
"If that's all you've got, Scott Brown, I'm ready. And let me be clear. I am not backing down. I didn't get in this race to fold up the first time I got punched," Warren said of her GOP opponent's non-stop efforts to keep this issue before voters.
Brown is a go-along-to-get-along Eastern Republican who kowtows to the GOP's right wing. His voting record ought to offend most Massachusetts voters, who are liberal. But his right-wing ideological rigidity could prove to be less of an issue for a decisive bloc of voters in the Bay State than Warren's identity crisis. Her assertion that family tales and the high cheekbones of some relatives led her to believe she had Native American blood coursing through her veins is laughable. That many Democrats, obsessed with unseating Brown, treat what she did as meaningless is lamentable.
Dogfight of an election
Democrats are in a real dogfight. President Obama, the top of their ticket in November, is in a neck-and-neck race with Mitt Romney, the GOP's White House candidate. And with 23 Democratic and just 10 Republican members of the U.S. Senate up for re-election this year, the GOP has a good chance of winning control of both houses of Congress because the party is expected to retain its solid majority in the House of Representatives.
The Massachusetts Senate race, considered a tossup, could be pivotal. The lingering specter of a white, liberal Democrat who claimed to be a minority in a job where that status could have enhanced her chances for promotion and tenure might decide the outcome of the battle for control of Congress.
That's why Warren must act quickly to put this issue behind her. She needs to apologize to Native Americans, whose struggles for opportunities she minimized by claiming from her position of prestige to be one of them. She should apologize to the supporters of affirmative action for undermining their efforts to bring real diversity to the faculty of Harvard's law school. And in a "come to Jesus" speech to the people of Massachusetts, Warren needs to offer them the kind of contrition that has eluded her when discussing this issue.
Only then, I think, will she be able to turn the focus from her misspeak to Brown's misdeeds in supporting so much of the GOP's right-wing agenda.
DeWayne Wickham writes on Tuesdays for USA TODAY.
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Dem Native American Harvard Alumnus Accuses Elizabeth Warren of “Ethnic Fraud”
Townhall.com ^ | June 11, 2012 | Daniel Doherty
Posted on June 11, 2012 10:54:21 PM EDT by Kaslin
As we reported last month, Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren -- for the first time -- admitted she explicitly told two Ivy League institutions she was an ethnic minority before securing employment as a professor. Since that time, however, she’s failed to renounce her “heritage” or provide a single shred of evidence corroborating the claim -- even though Native American groups have staged protests and demanded an apology. Now, as it happens, Harvard graduate Margo (Kickingbird) DeLaune and her son, Cole R. DeLaune, have penned a joint letter denouncing Elizabeth Warren's self-identifying claims.
Here’s an excerpt, via the Indian Country Media Network:
As an enrolled member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, 1981 alumna of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, veteran scholastic administrator, and lifelong Democrat, I am profoundly disturbed by the emergence of recent details concerning Harvard and one of its law school’s senior faculty members, Massachusetts senate candidate Elizabeth Warren. Over the course of the past month, facts have come to attention that leave little doubt that the HLS bureaucracy and Professor Warren perpetrated nothing less than ethnic fraud. The development of this saga has elicited a disappointing response from all parties involved and reflects not just a single offense of intellectual dishonesty but, rather, a broader and systemic racial masquerade rooted in egregious insensitivity. Media commentary from both polarities has failed to articulate the troubling implications involved in the deceit in which Harvard Law and one of its most prominent contemporary staffers have engaged for over a decade. I urge fellow Native alumni of Harvard, as well as all American Indians presently associated with any of the University’s schools, to denounce the conduct of HLS and Professor Warren.
The spectacle that has engulfed the contest between the liberal folk heroine and Senator Scott Brown illuminates a willful perversion and debasement of equal opportunity ideals, as well as a chance to see elements of critical race theory writ large.
Of course, abstractions favor the Warren camp. After all, what standards can arbitrate cultural authenticity? To parse the politics of self-determination is, at cursory glance, a presumptuous business at best, and Charles Fried, the faculty member who recruited Warren to Harvard, contends that claims to minority status played no part in her hiring.
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Perhaps, in the end, we should appreciate Professor Warren for revealing institutionalized deficiencies at our alma mater that may have otherwise remained unexamined. However, we should nevertheless hold her accountable for the damage she has wrought—by either crassly capitalizing on the plight of the American Indian or indulging in the fetishization of a frequently caricaturized minority group. We ask the fellow Native alumni of Harvard, as well as the University’s current Native students and staffers, to join in supporting Senator Brown. Because when Warren directly facilitates a corruption of equal opportunity philosophy and then disingenuously dismisses valid concerns about her behavior as attacks against her family, she demeans the bravery of our Native forebears who fought so valiantly to resist assimilation and to preserve our various ways of life.
The letter was reportedly distributed in an email to Harvard Native American graduates and the Harvard Law School faculty. Put simply, while it’s unclear how much the letter will impact the Massachusetts Senate election in November, it’s another indication that Native Americans across the country -- regardless of political ideology or party affiliation -- are growing increasingly outraged by Professor Warren’s past conduct.
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The Academic Scandal Elizabeth Warren and Harvard Don't Want You to Know About
by Michael Patrick Leahy
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/06/11/The-Academic-Scandal-Elizabeth-Warren-and-Harvard-Dont-Want-You-to-Know-About
In 1990, Rutgers Professor Philip Shuchman charged Elizabeth Warren, along with Teresa A. Sullivan (above), the President of University of Virginia who resigned unexpectedly yesterday, and Jay Westbrook, her two co-authors of the 1989 book, As We Forgive Our Debtors: Bankruptcy and Consumer Credit in America, with “scientific misconduct.” Within a few months, Warren’s friends and former colleagues at the University of Texas quickly completed an error-filled investigation.
This secret report was accepted by University of Texas President William Cunningham. For two decades, Warren and her co-authors have claimed in academic circles that this report--never before made public--exonerated them.
But the central charge made by Professor Shuchman was neither investigated nor refuted in this secret report. Shuchman cited four specific criticisms of the 1989 book. It is the fourth and last complaint upon which charges of scientific misconduct hang.
Professor Shuchman concluded his book review with this powerful allegation:
This book contains so much exaggeration, so many questionable ploys, and so many incorrect statements that it would be well to check the accuracy of their raw data, as old as it is. But the authors arranged matters so that they could not provide access to the computer printouts by case, with the corresponding bankruptcy court file numbers, this preventing any independent check of the raw data in the files from which they took their information.
In the footnote to this paragraph, Shuchman notes:
A common instance of misconduct in science occurs when “there [is] no way to verify whether or not [the] research was accurate.’ Woolf, Deception in Scientific Research, 29 Jurimetrics J. 67, 83 table 5 n.4 (1988).
The 1991 University of Texas secret report that “exonerated” Elizabeth Warren never asked this simple question:
Did the authors arrange matters so that they could not provide access to the computer printouts by case, with corresponding bankruptcy court file numbers, thus preventing any independent check of the raw data in the files from which they took their information?
Sullivan, Warren, and Westbrook deployed a research methodology that was apparently contrary to the methodology they stated they would use in their National Science Foundation (NSF) grant proposal, which financed their research. After they received their funding, they chose to apply “human subject safeguards” by removing identifying information (case number, petitioner name, and a subsequent “identifier” they added) from the raw data files used in the study--over 1,500 bankruptcy records, each one containing over 200 fields of information (such as assets, liabilities, homeownership, marital status, etc.) That change in methodology made their research data, in effect, unverifiable.
Documents obtained from the NSF suggest that the “human subject safeguard standards” that Warren, Sullivan, and Westbrook imposed on their data were never approved of by that agency, were not consistent with the law, and were never known to the NSF until after the book had been published and Shuchman’s complaint filed.
Twenty-two years later, Professor Shuchman’s charges of “scientific misconduct” against Elizabeth Warren and her co-authors remain publicly unanswered and unresolved. These unresolved charges associated with her first major book raise continue to raise questions that hang over Elizabeth Warren’s entire body of academic work.
The next three articles in this series will address the conduct of three institutions enmeshed in this scandal: The University of Texas, the National Science Foundation, and Harvard University.
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Uh Oh: Elizabeth Warren Refuses to Meet with 4 Cherokee Activists
Townhall.com ^ | June 18, 2012 | Daniel Doherty
Remember when the Boston Globe prematurely declared this political scandal over last May? Good times.
Four outraged Cherokee activists who say Elizabeth Warren’s campaign has ignored their emails and phone calls will trek to Boston this week in hopes they can force a meeting with the Democratic Senate candidate over her “offensive” Native American heritage claims.
“It’s almost becoming extremely offensive to us,” said Twila Barnes, a Cherokee genealogist who has researched Warren’s family tree. “We’re trying to get in contact and explain why her behavior hurts us and is offensive, and she totally ignores that. Like we don’t exist.”
Late last night, a Warren campaign official told the Herald that staffers will “connect” and “offer to have staff meet with them.”
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“We would like to see her look at the documentation and admit there’s no Indian ancestry there and then apologize,” Barnes saud. “Hear us. Acknowledge us. Know that she’s brought us into this. We didn’t bring ourselves into this. This whole trip was planned to get a meeting with her.”
Barnes said there is still no evidence, despite research conducted by her and other genealogists, to support Warren’s claim of Cherokee roots.
These four Cherokee activists aren’t the only Native Americans offended by Elizabeth Warren's ancestral claims. As we reported last week, an enraged Harvard University alumna named Margo (Kickingbird) DeLaune (who, by the way, belongs to the Kiowa tribe of Oklahoma and is a registered Democrat), penned a joint op-ed with her son criticizing the Senate candidate’s conduct and urging the Harvard community to hold her “accountable for the damage she has wrought.” And, incidentally, much like DeLaune’s crusade for truth and justice, these particular Cherokee activists’ aren’t motived by politics or partisanship, either.
Politics isn’t a motivator, Barnes insisted. One of the women is a registered Democrat, and the other three are left-leaning independents, said Barnes, who said she voted for President Obama in 2008.
In any case, it’s not surprising “Granny” Warren is hesitant to meet with these individuals – after all, she’s failed to produce one single shred of evidence corroborating her tenuous claim that she is “1/32” Cherokee. What’s baffling, however, is that she simply refuses to renounce her “heritage” or apologize for her actions (her grandfather’s “high cheek bones” notwithstanding) especially when it’s painfully evident her conduct has offended Native Americans across the United States. If -- if -- Elizabeth Warren does apologize at some point, it would seem to suggest that she is indeed guilty of academic fraud. On the other hand, if she continues to hide from the Native American community -- and evade their unwelcome questions -- the backlash is likely to be more pronounced.
In short, one thing is clear: Cherokee activists want her to apologize for committing (what they consider to be) academic and ethnic fraud; and they’re not going away until she does.
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Cherokee women to Elizabeth Warren: Stop ducking us!
boston herald ^ | June 19, 2012 | Chris Cassidy
Posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 4:21:02 PM by GQuagmire
On their first day in the Hub, a group of Cherokees hoping to confront Elizabeth Warren over her Native American heritage claims blasted the Democrat for trying to dismiss the ancestry controversy as a non-issue in the Bay State U.S. Senate race.
“Poverty, teen suicide, our health care system,” said Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes in an interview today with the Herald. “Those are issues and those are the people she stepped on and used to benefit and now she says it’s not an issue. Well, of course, to her it’s not an issue because she doesn’t want to address that she did this.”
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Elizabeth Warren’s embattled campaign: Cherokee tie found 5 generations ago
Cherokee tie found 5 generations ago
Desperately scrambling to validate Democrat Elizabeth Warren’s Native American heritage amid questions about whether she used her minority status to further her career, the Harvard Law professor’s campaign last night finally came up with what they claim is a Cherokee connection — her great-great-great-grandmother.
“She would be 1⁄32nd of Elizabeth Warren’s total ancestry,” noted genealogist Christopher Child said, referring to the candidate’s great-great-great-grandmother, O.C. Sarah Smith, who is listed on an Oklahoma marriage certificate as Cherokee. Smith is an ancestor on Warren’s mother’s side, Child said.
The missing link comes after Warren’s embattled campaign faced sharp questions about her Native American background in the wake of Herald stories that showed both Harvard Law School and Warren herself had touted her tribal lineage and claimed she was a member of a minority for years.
Warren’s shaken campaign faced another crisis yesterday when it was revealed that beginning in 1986 and continuing through 1995, Warren had listed herself as a minority professor in the Association of American Law Schools desk book, a directory of law professors from participating schools.
Warren had flatly denied that she ever touted her Native American background professionally.
Child — who originally could find no Native American lineage in Warren’s family when the Herald broke the story last Friday — said he uncovered a marriage certificate at 4 p.m. yesterday after fielding calls from countless media outlets and even Warren’s own campaign.
Child said he plans on further verifying the records today. “There is a possibility that their Native American ancestry could have been hidden at one point,” he said.
The campaign also hastily produced an undated newspaper clip last night from the Muskogee Sunday Phoenix detailing a “Mrs. James P. Rowsey” — who they said is Warren’s cousin — and her involvement with the Five Civilized Tribes Museum, which is dedicated to preserving Native American art.
“Mrs. James P. Rowsey was Elizabeth’s first cousin — shared the grandparents in question,” a campaign official said in the statement.'
Meanwhile, Warren’s camp issued statements from five faculty members at the four universities where she’s taught, including Harvard Law School and University of Pennsylvania, to knock down any suggestion she used her Native American background to get hired.
“To suggest that she needed some special advantage to be hired here or anywhere is just silly. She was hired for her great abilities as a teacher and a scholar. Her family tree had nothing to do with it,” wrote Jay Westbrook, chairman of the business law school at the University of Texas at Austin, who hired Warren.
Suzan Shown Harjo, a former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, expressed outrage yesterday after learning that Warren had identified herself as a Native American on law school records without documentation.
“If you believe you are these things then that’s fine and dandy, but that doesn’t give you the right to claim yourself as Native American,” said Harjo, who said Warren might have taken a job another Native American could have received.
http://bostonherald.com/news/us_politics/view.bg?&articleid=1061128421&format=&page=2&listingType=politics#articleFull
Ho-hum, just another leftist snake.
She shouldn't be able to run, if she claimed to be 1/16 of the false heritage 20 years ago.
Jeb Bush did it in 2009, claimed to be Hispanic.