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Grex Storage Item 47: Another nominee goes down in flames [linked]
Entered by ajax on Mon Mar 13 02:10:48 UTC 1995:

  Another presidential nominee just got "nannygated."  This time it's a
CIA director nominee who failed to pay taxes for their house help.  It
sure happens a lot lately!  Leon Panetta, the white house chief of staff,
said it's all the fault of the media's "tabloid atmosphere."  What do
people here think about knocking out nominees because of tax fraud?

4 responses total.

#1 of 4 by tnt on Mon Mar 13 04:42:11 1995:

 I wish the nominees would be charged with the crimes they're alleged to
have committed.
 
  But you're wrong about the circumstances involving the retired AF 
general.

#2 of 4 by ajax on Mon Mar 13 06:40:08 1995:

Ahso, I only heard a brief blurb about it on the news...what's the real scoop?

#3 of 4 by tnt on Mon Mar 13 23:41:32 1995:

 It seems like you formed some opinions in #0, but now you're saying that
you just "heard a brief blurb" about the situation?!

  Anyway, apparently what happened is that the general got this person
a work-visa or something like that to enter the U.S. under the guise that 
he'd be employed by the general's family.

        The guy got into the U.S. but apparently never did do any work for
the general.

  Panetta might be blaming the media, but he ought to be blaming his own
office & staff, as well as the general, who in this case apparently 'forgot'
about the matter until well after his nomination, AND the WHite House
publicizing the general as being a great nominee, etc.

#4 of 4 by ajax on Tue Mar 14 07:50:27 1995:

  Yep, I've formed opins about nominee ousting prior to this incident,
but the last two Sundays I didn't get a paper (grr, that's a topic
for agora's Swift Kick item!), so I don't know much about this one.
It sounds like a similar story to past ones, dealing with immigrant
employees.  So it wasn't tax fraud; it's another type of wrongdoing.
 
  The nomination process definitely seems tougher than it used to be,
maybe because the legislative branch control has often been opposite to
the executive branch or fairly evenly split in the last couple decades.
 
  On the other hand, where do they get these nominees?  It's really
remarkable that so many have problems like this.  Blaming the media is
among the sillier excuses I've heard.  Both parties use the media to
advance their agenda, so blaming the GOP would hit a little closer.
Closer still would be blaming the white house for not checking the guy
out, and to really hit home would be to lay blame on nominees who (a)
do something controversial and (b) forget to mention it.  The media is
way down there in the blame chain.

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