2020 Democratic Presidential Nominees

Shooshmoo said:

The Globe examined hundreds of documents, many of them never before available, and reached out to all 52 of the law professors who are still living and were eligible to be in that Pound Hall room at Harvard Law School. Some are Warren’s allies. Others are not. Thirty-one agreed to talk to the Globe — including the law professor who was, at the time, in charge of recruiting minority faculty. Most said they were unaware of her claims to Native American heritage and all but one of the 31 said those claims were not discussed as part of her hire. One professor told the Globe he is unsure whether her heritage came up, but is certain that, if it did, it had no bearing on his vote on Warren’s appointment."

"That previously undisclosed report reveals that the hiring committee at Penn, where Warren worked from 1987 to 1995, viewed her as a white female applicant. Moreover, the committee went to some pains to explain on this form why she was selected over several minorities to fill a faculty position. The Globe also reviewed, for the first time, a Harvard University human resources form showing that Warren first listed her ethnicity as Native American nearly five months after she started her tenured position at Harvard and 2½ years after she was there as a visiting professor and first offered the job."

"The Globe reviewed a never-before-reported 10-page faculty equal opportunity compliance statement form filled out by Penn’s law school’s affirmative action officer and the dean in April 1987. The form described the extensive efforts the school made to find a black, Hispanic, Asian, or American Indian candidate for the commercial law position Warren had landed.

The document, which was shared with the Globe by Stephen Burbank, a law professor at Penn who kept it for three decades in a box with other personnel files, concludes that Warren was the best for the job despite being, as they put it, “white.” Burbank was, at the time, a member of the appointments committee and on a subcommittee charged with reviewing all minority prospects."

"The form includes a written defense for the decision. “The members of the appointments committee, in discussing the appointment of Elizabeth Warren with external referees, specifically asked whether there were any minority candidates of equal or better stature,” according to a paragraph on the form. “None of the persons indicated that there was an equal or better minority candidate.”

"One area that 30 of the 31 professors interviewed by the Globe agreed on: There was no talk about her Native American claims during the meetings over her appointment. One professor emeritus, Lloyd Weinreb, said he believes her Native American ancestry was discussed. But, in an e-mail he questioned his own recollection: “I am not sure enough for you to rely on me,” he wrote.

Perhaps most telling was the role of Randall Kennedy, a law professor who was on the Harvard appointments committee at the time, and was in charge of recruiting minority candidates.

“She was not on the radar screen at all in terms of a racial minority hire,” Kennedy told the Globe. “It was just not an issue. I can’t remember anybody ever mentioning her in this context.”

Warren’s personnel file from Harvard shows that her ethnic status was first marked in the Harvard human resources system as Native American in November 1995. That’s more than four months after she started her position, and two years and nine months after she was offered the job.

“It tells me that we did not know. Or nobody had told us,” said Upson, who reviewed the forms at a Cambridge coffee shop."

https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2018/09/01/did-claiming-native-american-heritage-actually-help-elizabeth-warren-get-ahead-but-complicated/wUZZcrKKEOUv5Spnb7IO0K/story.html

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Highland Deac said:

Meanwhile, this morning our illustrious POTUS approvingly tweeted a comment from a supporter that he is "the greatest president for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world...the Jewish people in Israel love him like he's the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second Coming of God." But Warren once said she had Native American ancestry, and it turned out not to be true! #burnheratthestake

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WFcatamount22 said:

Why does what Trump said have anything to do with determining the best Democrat in the primary?

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DDA said:

Good investigative reporting and facts like this don’t sway republicans anymore. They just stick to a narrative like gorilla glue because it’s harder to admit they’re wrong than to stay the easy course and believe the narrative created by republicans and furthered by Donald fucking Trump. They’d have to admit defeat and in today’s GOP that gets your ass kicked out.

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DDA said:

Good investigative reporting and facts like this don’t sway republicans anymore. They just stick to a narrative like gorilla glue because it’s harder to admit they’re wrong than to stay the easy course and believe the narrative created by republicans and furthered by Donald fucking Trump. They’d have to admit defeat and in today’s GOP that gets your ass kicked out.

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birdman said:

Jews are all about the second coming of the Messiah.

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DDA said:

Good investigative reporting and facts like this don’t sway republicans anymore. They just stick to a narrative like gorilla glue because it’s harder to admit they’re wrong than to stay the easy course and believe the narrative created by republicans and furthered by Donald fucking Trump. They’d have to admit defeat and in today’s GOP that gets your ass kicked out.

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RJKarl said:

No we're not. There hasn't been a first coming yet.

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BiffTannen said:

Why did they only talk to 2/3 of the professors ? Seems fishy.

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Highland Deac said:

Because it's rather absurd to be slamming any Democrat while more or less completely ignoring what Trump does and says on a daily basis. Any Democrat would be superior to Trump, but I get the sense in reading this board from time to time that there are some posters who don't believe that. It's therefore worth pointing out occasionally that whatever the flaws of any of the Democratic candidates, they're still vastly better than the current GOP alternative.

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RJKarl said:

No we're not. There hasn't been a first coming yet.

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Junebug said:

Good job in proving false something I never claimed. Now go comb your hair.

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Wakeforest22890 said:

Those are the only ones who chose to talk to the Globe. They asked everyone alive and in the room where she was discussed and that's who they got.

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RJKarl said:

Dems calling for the virtual immediate elimination of all private insurance may drive a core group of Dem voters away - union members. They have given up thousands per year in salary for top level insurance. Warren and others need to show specifically how this will work.

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