The Hemingway Report

Thursday, March 15, 2018

If it were a movie call it...Crazy in California

Undocumented immigrant appointed to statewide post in California

California state Sen. Kevin de León announced the appointment of an undocumented immigrant to advise the California Student Aid Commission. (Getty Images)

The Senate Rules Committee in California has appointed the first undocumented immigrant to a statewide post.

Lizbeth Mateo, 33, a Mexican-born attorney and immigrant rights activist who came to the U.S. with her parents at age 14, will serve on a committee that advises the California Student Aid Commission, the Sacramento Bee reported Wednesday.

Mateo will assist in developing ways to help “low-income or underserved communities” (aka illegals) receive information about college entry, according to the office of Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León.

“While undocumented students have become more visible in our state, they remain underrepresented in places where decisions that affect them are being made,” Mateo said.

De León called Mateo “a courageous, determined and intelligent young woman who at great personal risk has dedicated herself to fight for those seeking their rightful place in this country.

“While Donald Trump fixates on walls, California will continue to concentrate on opportunities,” de León said in a news release.

Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Hillary Clinton in India: US did not 'deserve' Trump presidency

Clinton blamed a litany of reasons for her defeat among them voters (aka deplorables) who 'didn’t like black people getting rights' or women getting jobs.

Which is funny because women are getting jobs and black unemployment now is the lowest in history.

This is what happened shortly after she made some more asinine statements in India.

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Karma... ain't it great?

The visual of a Clinton presidency is enough to turn my stomach! Is this walking, lying, two-legged disaster revving up for a third run?

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Hillary Clinton told an audience in India that the United States did not "deserve" Donald Trump's presidency and these are "perilous times."

The 2016 Democratic presidential candidate spoke over the weekend at a conference in Mumbai.

Clinton said the Republican president has "quite an affinity for dictators" and said Trump "really likes their authoritarian posturing and behavior." But she said she thinks it's "more than that" with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia.

Clinton was critical of the reality campaign tactics of her opponent and questioned whether she should have provided more entertainment to voters who responded to Trump's brash style.

She also believes former FBI director James Comey's Oct. 28, 2016, letter to Congress about her private email server cost her support from white women voters.

The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.

If they had...

Monday, March 12, 2018

"Pocahontas" refuses to take DNA test to prove Native American heritage

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Elizabeth Warren batted down calls for her to take a DNA test to prove her Native American heritage in an interview that aired Sunday.

“I know who I am. And never used it for anything. Never got any benefit from it anywhere,” Warren said of her ancestry on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

The Massachusetts Democrat has been under increased pressure to provide evidence of her Native American roots, with President Trump repeatedly mocking her as “Pocahontas” as recently as Saturday.

An editorial this month in Massachusetts’s Berkshire Eagle urged Warren to buy a DNA test for $99 to resolve the issue once and for all.

“All the senator needs to do is spit into a tube, wait a few weeks and get her answer,” the paper said.

Asked whether she’d take an ancestry test, Warren said she wants to hold onto the folklore of her parents’ love story.

The real 'folklore' is her Native American history.

“My mother and daddy were born and raised in Oklahoma,” Warren said. “My daddy first saw my mother when they were both teenagers. He fell in love with this tall, quiet girl who played the piano. Head over heels. But his family was bitterly opposed to their relationship because she was part Native American. They eventually eloped.”

She said her parents survived the Great Depression and other hardships as they raised her and her three brothers.

“That’s the story that my brothers and I all learned from our mom and our dad, from our grandparents,” Warren said. “It’s a part of me and nobody’s going to take that part of me away.”

But Warren’s story has come under scrutiny for relying on family lore rather than official tribal documentation of Native American heritage.

As Trump continues to use a “racial slur” against her, she’ll continue to use the opportunity to urge the federal government to put more resources toward helping tribes, including to combat sexual violence.

“This is a group that is being injured every single day,” Warren said. “We need to bring some attention to it and we need to put some resources on it.”

Also Sunday, Warren denied she intends to challenge Trump in 2020.

“I am not running for president of the United States,” she said.

Warren said she also is concerned that Trump’s lack of staffing and expertise at the State Department could undercut his planned meeting with North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un.

“I am very worried that they’re going to take advantage of him,” Warren said.