Roy Blunt Flees Questions About Alleged Employment Of Illegal Immigrant (VIDEO)

Roy Blunt, Missouri's GOP Senate candidate, didn't take kindly to being asked by a reporter recently about allegations that he had employed an illegal immigrant more than 20 years ago.

In the face of Democratic accusations that Blunt had hired an undocumented Nicaraguan woman in 1990 to do work for his wife at the time, a Missouri reporter asked the Senate hopeful at a Kansas City event to answer some questions regarding the matter.

Here's the dialogue between reporter Michael Mahoney and Blunt, from Fired Up Missouri:

MICHAEL MAHONEY: Did you know this woman you wrote the letter for, or not?

BLUNT: What a -- You know, that's just such nonsense, Mike, and you know it. And it's desperation politics on their side. And, uh, these issues are bigger than that. We put a statement on that at the time. It was accurate at the time. You can go back and read it.

MAHONEY: Did you know her or not?

BLUNT: We put a statement on that at the time. And it's exactly accurate. You read it, and you know what it says.

Blunt's campaign has been consistent with this type of rhetoric. It has mounted a full denial tour, despite claims by the housekeeper, a Nicaraguan woman named Dora Narvaez, as well as a decades-old letter written by then-Missouri Secretary of State Blunt to then-INS chief Gene McNary on behalf of Narvaez, that would suggest otherwise.

"I don't know if I ever met the woman," Blunt told a St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board during an interview.

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Comments

[edgarcaycedoc]

05:32 PM on 10/28/2010

Let's see. She was born on March 5,1983, raised by both parents, and was referred to me by Chicken Food Slicing Company. Yes. She grew up south of the Rio Grande, but it was in a part of the south where the US used to control the local populace with their military, so in a way that makes her American. She has impeccable taste when cleaning my house. "But . . . No . . . I never met her.

[Jerry Vasquez]

04:45 PM on 10/28/2010

I see pattern forming here, when pressed on an issue republicans run and hide. It worked for
their idol R. Reagan. At least to his credit he didn't stomp on the reporter or have his security
detail make a faux arrest. Obviously missing for the play book is the page that says the truth
makes the best policy.

[apogee2perogee]

04:00 PM on 10/28/2010

Blunt has been a serial liar this campaign season. He also asserted that Robin Carnahan had supported various national legislative agendas, characterizing her as a rubber stamp for President Obama. The truth is that she was actually in office here in Missouri, as Secretary of State.

Blunt has also been receiving campaign ad support by American Crossroads GPS. If you don't know about American Crossroads GPS, they are "a 527 organization that has promised to spend $50 million to help members of the Republican Party win elections. Its president is Steven J. Law, a former United States Deputy Secretary of Labor for President George W. Bush. Advisers to the group include Senior Advisor and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and former Republican National Convention (RNC) chairman Ed Gillespie. The group has over $30 million committed to it. Nearly all of the group's funding has come from billionaires.

I want the billionaires out of our governance and out of the political advocacy business.

[imusintheevening]

03:41 PM on 10/28/2010

Another republican hypocrite, wow what a surprise.

[AirForce Vet]

03:27 PM on 10/28/2010

Well Blunt, you say that Missouri has lost many jobs and that’s possibly true. The question should be, who was at the stern all that time when the jobs were being lost? I don’t think it was Robin Carnahan. There’re some strong winds in Missouri and the biggest gust of wind, would be you.

Legislation Blunt voted for:

1. HR 6095 (Emigration Law Enforcement)
2. HR 6061 (Secure Fence Act)
3. HR 418 (Real ID Act)

Legislation Blunt voted against:

1. You've given yourself pay raises while voting against extending unemployment benefits
2. S 181, HR 11, 12, 1338 ( Women issues of Employment Discrimination Law Amendments)
3. HR 2 (Children Health Insurance Program Reauthorization)
4. HR 6331 (Medicare Bill)
5. HR 1031 (Establish the Office of Congressional Ethics)
6. HR 6003 (Reauthorization of Amtrak)
7. HR 1913 (Hate Crime Expansion)
8. HR 1592 (Local Law Enforcement Hate Crime Prevention Act)
9. HR 6074 (Bill that would make it illegal for foreign states to enter into agreements with groups or persons who limit the production or control the price of oil natural gas, etc.
10. HR 6346 (Price Gauging Prevention Act)
11. HR 2462 (Bill that limits operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, permanent military bases and expanding the GI Bill
12. HR 5036 (Voting System Changes)
13. HR 1905 (District of Columbia Voting Rights Act)

Legislation Blunt didn’t even vote:

1. HR 5175 (Campaign Finance Disclosure Requirements)

http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=418

[MIZZOU-DMCRT-PLEXICO]

03:53 PM on 10/28/2010

So f & f AirForce Vet..thank you for the info friend!

Peace

[AirForce Vet]

04:17 PM on 10/28/2010

Back at you Mizzou-Dmcrt-Plexico, you have been fanned.

[characterfirst]

04:05 PM on 10/28/2010

Air Force Vet forgot to disclose that Blunt voted for the Iraq War and tax cuts for the wealthy, but Blunt the c**t never served to defend his rights and freedoms.

What do you call two hundred Congress critters at the bottom of the Potomac? A great start.

[wooper]

02:58 PM on 10/28/2010

Why couldn't he have just hired some young white girl to do the work? Oh..what's that...she would have wanted too much money? But I thought the illegals were taking jobs Americans wanted?

What's that?...Oh, Americans want the jobs but not for below minimum wages. Oh, I get it now. He is like many American businesses that hire illegals...they are looking for cheap labor.

And that is why Republicans talk about doing something about illegal immigration, but will never do anything about it. If they did, the money from American businesses to these politicians would dry up.

America...what a country.

[MIZZOU-DMCRT-PLEXICO]

02:53 PM on 10/28/2010

Ok mod's, I'm sorry. I'll play nice..I promise!!

Peace

[barney123]

02:52 PM on 10/28/2010

Well, that's a lot of gosh dang hog-swallin blamerky if I do say so myself. I just got one question, did his halo slide forward or backward as he was trying to not answer questions? Keep stuffin that money in your pockets, you ungrateful government worker.

[MIZZOU-DMCRT-PLEXICO]

02:55 PM on 10/28/2010

By the looks of that pic of him...looks like he stuff'd it in his.......

[Gneirre]

03:29 PM on 10/28/2010

Hey, hey, hey....you said you would play nice now (tee, hee, hee, hee)

*totally agree.

[hmmmmmer]

02:51 PM on 10/28/2010

What is the countries obsession with hypocrites? How is it that people are voting for hate, division and lies?

[Gneirre]

03:30 PM on 10/28/2010

Because most Americans love hate, division, and lies.

[apogee2perogee]

02:51 PM on 10/28/2010

Blunt has been telling more lies in his campaign commercials, of course. The biggest whopper has been accusing his opponents brother of accepting money from Washington for a windfarm project. Never mind that the project is the fourth constructed by Carnahan, but the first to receive tax credits. Never mind that the application process needs no enfluence. Here is a quote from the St. Louis Today article, linked below: "The upfront payments to Lost Creek, a $300-million-plus project, and various other projects aren't awarded competitively but on the basis of meeting various criteria. For instance, companies were required to submit accredited designs and start building by the end of this year. Energy Department officials described the process as automatic; the Treasury Department is required to issue the payments to those who qualify within 60 days of application."

"Treasury has no discretionary authority in this," said Treasury spokeswoman Sandra Salstrom.

And to play into the meme shared by the Tea Party and the Republicans, Blunt actually claims that the tax credits created zero jobs, even tho' the windfarm is under construction and producing power.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_7b43f06e-153c-5382-8e78-c032e0aea048.html

I'm an independent and have never associated myself with either party, principally because I think they have too much power. None-the-less, I'll not vote for a single R this November because they are all telling lies in unison and refuse to detail their legislative intentions.

[livefreeinAmerica]

03:42 PM on 10/28/2010

I appreicate your conviction(s) to do the right (correct) thing this election cycle.

[Vivadems]

02:42 PM on 10/28/2010

Roy Blunt's kids learned at an early age that if the help did not obey all their orders they would threaten to call Immigration and have those little people deported.

[Vivadems]

02:38 PM on 10/28/2010

Roy Blunt: I did not hire her she hired me.

[Vivadems]

02:38 PM on 10/28/2010

This is a situation similar to that of Alaska criminal Joe Miller, RepubliKlans always deny until they are caught red handed and then they blame the liberal media or whatever else comes to their little brains.

[Vivadems]

02:33 PM on 10/28/2010

Roy Blunt, when we tell you to follow the principals of the RepubliKlan party, that's meant for you not for us.

[Vivadems]

02:32 PM on 10/28/2010

Roy Blunt: I always adhere to the principals of the RepubliKlan party, when hiring staff for our household we make sure that they are illegal undocumented workers, so that we can pay them less than minimum wage and if they complain we threaten them with deportation.