Brian Sandoval, the GOP candidate for Governor of Nevada, is joining Meg Whitman in the ranks of uber-hypocrite:
Channel 2 News in Nevada reported Monday night that a woman has stepped forward saying that the family of Republican Brian Sandoval, who is challenging Democrat Rory Reid for Nevada’s governorship, hired her to be a housekeeper while she was undocumented. (She and her family have since obtained citizenship.) The woman, Anna Padilla, said she stopped working for the Sandovals in July 1997.
Padilla said that while she was initially happy to see Sandoval running, she was disappointed to hear his stance on immigration and now no longer supports anyone in the gubernatorial race. “In the time I worked with him, he supported me,” said Padilla. “Now he says he does not support Latinos that are already here?”
Whitman and Sandoval aren’t the first “tough, anti-immigrant candidates” to be caught in this. Remember Mitt Romney’s landscapers? I’m sure there are many other candidates out there that have also engaged in the practice of “do what I say, not what I preach” when it comes to undocumented workers, and I wouldn’t be shocked if we heard of another one or two in the three weeks left in this election cycle. It also shows you why Republicans oppose one of the best ways to fix the immigration problem; strong sanctions against the employers. They know that they would end up being fined more too if caught.