Monday, November 04, 2002

Let's talk about some real "race-baiting," or at least its equivalent. Drudge publishes a big headline saying that Pryor had an illegal immigrant do some housecleaning for him. The woman doesn't even speak English! he trumpeted for all to see. The Moonie Times publishes an article, headlined "Pryor admits hiring immigrant." My god! An immigrant. Finally, we have the punchline to the story from the Pryor campaign:


LITTLE ROCK, AR - Early Monday morning the Mark Pryor for U.S. Senate campaign obtained a sworn affidavit from Hortencia Osorio stating that while working for the Pryor family she was a legal resident of the United States and provided documentation to the Pryor family proving such.


The next paragraph includes a phone number taken off Osorio's caller ID which is the number of the person who called offering her money for the story. I won't post it in case I have any excitable readers, but the number is of the president of the DeQueen Rotary club, as anyone adept with google can discover on their own.

UPDATE: Now they're pushing the tax question. If they paid her over $1300 over the course of a year, hey may have a wee problem. Otherwise, he doesn't.