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...weeks, a respected woman with a high-profile career watched her reputation shredded by a brutal vetting process. Unlike Baird, Wood had broken no laws; the dilemma for the Clinton Administration was that the circumstances faintly echoed the previous case. While Baird admitted flouting the law by hiring two illegal immigrants and failing to pay taxes for them, Wood insisted she was innocent of any wrongdoing. When she had first employed an undocumented Trinidadian baby-sitter in 1986 for her son Ben, the law allowed citizens to hire illegal aliens. Moreover, Wood said she had paid all the requisite taxes...
...White House announced Monday that this new standard will also affect nominees for 1,100 positions in the Clinton Administration. That this decision was based on political expediency is clear from two facts. First, the standard applies only to appointees requiring Senate approval. Anyone Clinton can hire without oversight will not be asked about a "Zoe Baird problem...
...personally will be disappointed if they just hire all right-wing women," Koh said...
...those who don't and get away with it. Baird's story of the difficulty of finding safe, reliable child care might have won her the sympathy of millions of parents who face the same predicament. But when a couple with a net worth of more than $2 million hire not only an undocumented nanny but a driver as well, when they fail to pay the Social Security and workers' compensation taxes they owe, when a topflight corporate lawyer married to a renowned Yale law professor blames their troubles on "bad legal advice," the sympathy hardens into fury. As consumer...
...else's plight. "This is a crowd that doesn't have the stature to demand sacrifice," says Kevin Phillips, author of the new book Boiling Point: Republicans, Democrats and the Decline of Middle Class Prosperity. "These are people who spent Vietnam in Oxford; they are $500,000 lawyers who hire illegal immigrants as baby-sitters; they are hotshot lobbyists. This group has no understanding of the kind of sacrifices made every day by the $26,000-a-year couple in Peoria, Illinois. They don't speak the language of the older generation that fought in World...