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Diane Humetewa
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Barack Obama, the first black President (discounting Bill Clinton), is getting ready to fire the first Native American ever to serve as a U.S. Attorney in the country's history.
Diane Humetewa, U.S. Attorney in Phoenix, was put in place by President George W. Bush. Humetewa replaced the fired Paul Charlton. Charlton was one of eight U.S. Attorney's fired by the Bush Administration. For some reason, the firings brought the ire of the democrats on Capitol Hill. It was the aforementioned Bill Clinton who fired all 93 U.S. Attorney's when he took office in 1993. Not a word of opposition was uttered at this unprecendented move.
Last week, President Obama fired the Inspector General overseeing the Americorps program. Gerald Walpin was removed from that position by Obama for daring to do his job. Walpin issued a report showing financial abuse by Sacramento mayor and Obama supporter Kevin Johnson (yes, K.J. of Phoenix Suns fame). Walpin's report indicated Johnson had misappropriated funds desiganted for federal education grants for personal use. Johnson's abuse was discovered over a three year period from 2004 to 2007 and totaled more than $400,000. Johnson has agreed to repay that money. But, now, Walpin is looking for a new job for doing his old one.
And, so, for a liberal media that had a crazed obsession for seeking out corruption in the Bush Administration, i.e. the U.S. Attorney firings, they have taken little if any notice of this obvious political hachet job on the AmeriCorp IG.
Of course, there will be no mention whatsoever of Humetewa losing her position either.
In the world of liberal journalism, Obama is not only "above the world - and sort of God," he is above reproach and never to be examined with a critical eye.
Comments
Please save us from the damage Obama and a one party system can do to this country.
The MSM is a joke!
Rightly said and why hasn't the Arizona media picked up on this?
The president can fire any or all of the I. S. Attorneys. However, firing Humetewa illustrates the true reality of Obama's concern for the Native Americans.
I'm a Native lawyer. Diane may be Native, but she has doen very little to actually change the extraordinary levels of violence (often committed by non-Indians). Obama should and will appoint more Natives as US attorneys, but not McCain cronies. Rather ones that really will take the necessary steps to bring real change.
Your opinion piece simpy forgets that it is not all about the individual's background, whether religious, ethnic, racial or tribal affiliation. As Justice Marshall famously stated when asked on the day he stepped down from SCOTUS whether he thought an African American should replace him: (I paraphrase) doesn't matter if its a white snake or a black snake, they both bite. His point is that it is far more important who it is and how they will decide cases than whether they are white, black, Native or Non-Indian. His replacement has proved how true this sentiment is with his decades of tearing down the fundamnetal human and civil rights we use to take for granted.
I'm a Cherokee and I've watched Ms. Humetewa career on the bench. This op-ed pieceis just another Republican hack job. Yes, it is the right of every President to appoint those who will carry out the President's agenda. Clearly, Mr. Obama wants Native Americans who are more than a "brown" face. Unfortunately, Republicans will never understand the nuances of Constitutional law, much less its practice. Obviously, Mr. Estrada's biases just go to prove that point.
Dianne is NOT the 1st Native American to be US Atty--see Dist of South Dakota's Phil Hogen, an Oglala Lakota, who served in the 1990's!
Sorry to hear that Diane may have to go back being just another attorney in the U.S. Attorney's office but President Obama does have the right to appoint whoever he wants. What no president has the right to do is to fire attorneys just because they have a difference of opinion over how cases should be handled. Paul Charlton was working hard to address law enforcement in Arizona tribal communities, which led to his firing. I don't know about the other gentleman, but he's probably not of Obama's party, and again, the president has the right to hire and fire these positions. You're entitled to your opinion but you should not present this as a straight news piece, but simply an opinion piece.
Oh yeah, what Lakora Reality says is also correct, she's not the first Native U.S. Attorney--she's actually the third or fourth. But this is what happens when you have non-journalists trying to be journalists, they can't get their facts straight.
Bush replaced some of the US attorneys you would have thought the world was coming to an end Obama is doing it and it's OK.
Diane is a joke just like her sister and father, her father and sister both are messing up the hopi people here on the rez, her father's a council member and her sister work in the tribal secretary's off, just because Diane Humetewa is in high position, seems to give them the right to not listen the their onw people HOPI, and her sister and father are A-Holes
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