An Aside About the
Alleged Tweet Victim
Chao, 60, was the only cabinet member to serve throughout Bush's term, 2001-2009. She was born in Taiwan, immigrated to the U.S. in 1961, and married McConnell in 1993, but her official and unofficial biographies have no mention of her becoming a U.S. citizen.
Her service as Labor secretary, while not particularly [3]contentious[3], was widely praised by business leaders. Labor leaders tended to think the Labor secretary didn't do much to protect workers.
At least two General Accounting Office reports were critical of the Labor Dept. under her leadership, and a Congressional committee report found that Chao and other administration officials broke the law by campaigning for Republican candidates while they held public office. No enforcement action [4]was brought[4].
The tweet ends somewhat provocatively with "rense.com/general77/raci""
What's that about? Seems the Progress Kentucky people were linking [6]to a report[6] accusing Chao of "racist remarks about U.S. workers" in the July 1, 2007, edition of Parade Magazine that reported:
http://rense.com/general77/racist.htm
"American
employees must be punctual, dress appropriately and have good personal
hygiene," says Chao. "They need anger-management and
conflict-resolution skills, and they have to be able to accept direction. Too
many young people bristle when a supervisor asks them to do something."
Since American employees come in a variety of ethnicities, it's hard to see Chao's remarks as being racist. That characterization is about as fair as McConnell claiming that Democrats attacked his wife's ethnicity.
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