The head of the Massachusetts Republican Party yesterday demanded Harvard University investigate faculty member and U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warrens claim to be a Native American minority professor. MassGOP Chairman Bob Maginn slammed Warrens claim as baseless and mocked her statements in response to the controversy over the past week.
Maginn said Warrens actions appear to constitute academic fraud and suggested Harvard consider disciplinary action.
The problem is that Ms. Warren is not a Native American, wrote Maginn, a Harvard alum. She is Caucasian. Despite her insistence that she is an American Indian based upon family lore and her observation that some in her family had high cheekbones like all the Indians do, she has failed to produce a single shred of evidence to substantiate her claim.
Maginn said Warrens actions potentially violate Harvards academic standards and the university is obligated to probe the Democrats actions.
By Harvards own Code and precedent, Ms. Warrens actions require an investigation, wrote Maginn.
Warren campaign officials referred to statements released last week by Harvard Law Professor Charles Fried, who sat on the panel that hired Warren in 1995, and former Harvard Law Dean Robert Clark.
Both defend Warrens credentials as the primary reason she was hired. Clark denied her heritage was a factor.
Warren listed herself as a minority professor in the Association of American Law Schools desk book from 1986-95 while teaching at the universities of Texas and Pennsylvania.
Poster Comment:
No wonder rat-boy loves her... she's a complete phony!