The poor, Latina woman who rose up out of abject poverty? Well, not quite:
…Sotomayor did not live her entire childhood in a housing project in the South Bronx — she spent most of her teenage years in a middle-class neighborhood, attending private school and winning scholarships to Princeton and then Yale.
And Sotomayor’s life and lifestyle after law school largely resemble the background of many lawyers who rise to powerful positions in Washington.
She climbed her way up through New York’s Democratic power structure boosted by its ultimate brokers over those years — Gov. Mario Cuomo, Mayor Ed Koch, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan and District Attorney Robert Morgenthau. That’s the access of a partner in a corporate law firm, not a kid from the South Bronx.
She now earns more than $200,000 a year and owns a condominium in Greenwich Village, a neighborhood of million-dollar-plus homes. Her brother, Dr. Juan Sotomayor, is a physician in North Syracuse, N.Y., whose practice doesn’t accept Medicaid or Medicare — programs for the poor and elderly — according to its Web site.
In other words – he family was a bit down on its luck early on, but swiftly moved out of that and Sotomayor lived a life indistinguishable from any other middle class American…and now lives the life of a rich liberal…this is someone who is supposed to have some sort of keen insight into the problems of, say, poor immigrants in south central Los Angeles? I’d put my experience of that area as much better than hers – I know that area and have immense respect for those immigrants and their children…not all of whom, by a long shot, Mexican…who are working so hard to climb out of genuinely desperate poverty. Given Sotomayer’s racist views on who would be a better judge of a case coming out of that area, I’m out of the mix…just too white and too male, I guess. The only thing I have going for me is truth and facts and other such trivial nonsense…
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