Warren Claimed Indian Heritage for the State of Texas Bar

[applegrove]

Warren Claimed Indian Heritage for the State of Texas Bar

https://politicalwire.com/2019/02/05/warren-claimed-indian-heritage-for-the-state-of-texas-bar/

February 5, 2019 at 7:27 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 184 Comments

"SNIP....

Using an open records request during a general inquiry, the Washington Post obtained Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) registration card for the State Bar of Texas, providing a previously undisclosed example of Warren identifying as an “American Indian.”

“Warren filled out the card by hand in neat blue ink and signed it. Dated April 1986, it is the first document to surface showing Warren making the claim in her own handwriting. Her office didn’t dispute its authenticity.”

....SNIP"

[EveHammond13]

1. notice how the media never vetted trump like this prior to the election

it reveals a lot

[dalton99a]

4. +1.

[uponit7771]

5. +1

[Apollyonus]

7. They never vetted Bernie either

except NY Daily News where Bernie badly flunked in the interview.

[at140]

31. Bernie is not the enemy, aim your fire at Trump. nt

[NewJeffCT]

14. A lot of the Trump corruption was out there before the election

it got lost in the multiple daily Trump scandals that were going to be the straw that broke the camel's back, and Hillary's emails.

[EveHammond13]

15. exactly. all of the mob stuff, the sex assaults.... plenty was out there.

they let Michael Cohen bully and cow them into dumping stories on it

[Judi Lynn]

30. Absolutely right. Thanks. n/t

[riversedge]

2. She was told by her family she was. I know Repugs will hit her on this--it almost is as bad as

Hillary and emails. They will continue. It is so wrong. so wrong.

[gratuitous]

3. And Warren has American Indian heritage

Still haven't detected the controversy here. Did she get some kind of preference? Or was the question a way for the Bar to track the ethnic diversity of its members? Maybe if I multiplied the magnifying power of an electron microscope by the Hubble Telescope, I could see why this is such a hobbyhorse for conservawhackos?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

18. +1000

”hobbyhorse conservawhackos”


We all need to start using this!

[Apollyonus]

6. Let's all pile up on all candidates

so one messianic candidates path is cleared.

[ornotna]

22. It's annoying, isn't it

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211779810#post7

[Apollyonus]

25. ty for keeping abreast of my posts

[ornotna]

28. Happy to help

[ecstatic]

27. Actually, we have no choice. Our standard is now "zero tolerance,"

which means we have to vet the hell out of everyone during the primaries.

[applegrove]

8. When you are a young adult, and have little history of your own, you borrow

from your ancestors. Family stories get passed down and you believe them and internalize them. My grandfather and his distant cousin got to thinking they were descendant from a family that was in the French court: Sully. When I went to France I stopped in at thei city house that was still named after them and I think had my picture taken there. It was only when I did genealogy and followed the family and name way back almost a 700 years in England that I realized it was in no way true. Some good came out of it. When my grandfather stopped in Paris during the occupation by the allies during and/or after WWII, he looked up the family name and found someone by that name who were struggling. He gave them some money. Sometimes the family stories totally compute when you do research on them. I've had that happen too. And am now trying to verify one such myth a little further. The basics of it match exactly so far as can be proved on a baptismal certificate. The story is true up to that point. I need more information on the rest of the story. Point is if you are called to the bar and fill out a card you are at the point in your life where you are still buying into the story of one branch or another. And you identify with that. You are the base of the tree. Then you get married and have kids and your children are the focus of all the stories for a generation. Then when you suddenly have time because your kids are almost grown you take a second older look at your history. With adult eyes. And compare notes. And maybe do a little genealogy using more modern resources.

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. I was told my great grandmother was a Roma healer.

Was it true? I have no idea. Makes for a good story though.

[applegrove]

13. It is amazing what you can get on databases these days. I got a baptismal

document from Scotland in 20 minutes. Why don't you suss it out? It is fun if you are patient.

[leftyladyfrommo]

17. I followed it back as far as my grandmother.

I don't even know their names or where they lived. My grandfather came over from Germany. He ended up the town drunk. Left my grandmother and lived in a shack outside of town. No one ever talked about him. I think that was the side the Roma came from. If she really existed it would have been in Europe.

Everyone else is Scots Irish. One uncle rode with Quantrill. It is a real mish mash. But no Native Americans I don't think.

[applegrove]

19. Interesting. I wonder if there are DNA markers for them. I know when I did

a DNA test on my dad it came back that we had come from central Asia back 35,000 years ago so we are cousins.

[marylandblue]

9. Sorry, it's going to kill her. Moral: DO NOT give an inch to Trump.

It's amazing something so small can take a good candidate down. Only Pelosi has beaten him so far. She didn't give an inch.

[superpatriotman]

12. There's our candidate then

I’d be for Nancy

[marylandblue]

16. Too bad she isn't running. Maybe she can teach Trump-taming classes.

[rusty fender]

20. It'll kill her campaign only if

we Democratic Party members allow it to kill her campaign. There were DUers falling all over themselves to plead for a second chance for Northham, but will they give Warren the benefit of the doubt on this?

And should something so significant as her answer on this form derail her candidacy, for fuck’s sake?

[marylandblue]

26. No it shouldn't matter at all, but Trump poisoned the well for her.

If she were the nominee, we'll be talking about DNA tests like we talked about emails in 2016.

You know what we won't be talking about? Trump used to pretend he was Swedish. That's how Warren should have responded. But it's too late now.

[Baltimike]

10. So? nt

[theboss]

21. This reeks of oppo research from another 2020 candidate

Trump has been picking at the scab for years, but there is no reason for a Republican to drop this knowledge today.

[bigtree]

23. Trump defrauded thousands with his fake school

...used charity money to buy a painting of himself.

[ecstatic]

24. I think she should step aside.

The situation has spiraled, and back in the 80s she was a republican. Her presence will be missed but thankfully we have a robust field of lifelong democrats.

[renate]

29. this shows that her belief in her heritage was sincere

It's not like she got extra credit or cookies for being Native American. She believed it to be true and so that's the statement she made.