The story from Hot Air:
I’m surprised Gloria Allred didn’t wait two days to hold the press conference so that it’d be a true October surprise.
Well played, Democrats. Very well played.
Nicky Diaz, the household worker who alleges she was fired by Meg Whitman, the Republican nominee for California governor, after telling her that she was undocumented has recounted her version of what happened when she asked Whitman and her husband for help in June 2009…
I hate to disagree with Allahpundit here, but I have to say – very badly played, Democrats. Oh, I understand that this is a devastating little sound bite which will rock Whitman on her heels for at least a few days – in that, it is well played. But in the fact that it came out on September 29th rather than, say, October 25th…very badly played.
What it means is that the Democrats have done their internal polling and realize that they are losing the gubernatorial contest. This sort of bombshell is not the sort of thing you use if your candidate is well ahead…and not something you use if you’re running neck and neck with your opponent until the last week of the campaign. Using it now, more than a month before the vote, is a desperate ploy; an attempt to change the narrative in the hope that some how, some way, Whitman will self-destruct over it.
Now, perhaps Whitman will implode over it. Its clear that Ms. Diaz is a liar (she provided forged documents to Whitman when she took employment in 2000), but if it turns out – as some stories have alleged – that Whitman got the tip from the IRS in 2005 that Diaz was illegal, then the fact that Whitman didn’t fire her until 2009 will be extraordinarily bad news. I don’t think, in the end, it will be enough to hand victory to an aging, establishment liberal like Jerry Brown…but, it could. The lesson then would be to very carefully review all Republicans candidates…if they ever hired anyone of foreign birth, they’d better have gold plated proof of legal status.
But the larger picture is that the Democrats are losing, know it, and are getting desperate. Regardless of how this turns out for Whitman, its good news for Republicans.
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