Thursday, March 21, 2013

Johnny kicks off mayoral campaign by repeating a lie

From the Daily News:

City Controller John Liu officially kicked off his mayoral bid Sunday by touting that he worked in a sweatshop as a child - a biographical claim the Daily News debunked years ago.

Speaking to supporters from the steps of City Hall, Liu pitched as cherished fact his childhood work alongside his mother in a sweatshop — but his parents said during the Democrat’s 2009 campaign for controller that their son's version of history was incorrect.

"My dad took a job far beneath what he had had in Taiwan," Liu said Sunday. "My mom spent years in a sweatshop, where I often had to pitch in to make ends meet."

Four years ago, The News investigated Liu's “sweatshop” story — his campaign had run ads featuring bleak factory scenes — and learned from his mother, Jamy Liu, that she never worked in a sweatshop.

She said she mostly worked from her Flushing, Queens, home on a knitting machine and that her son would help her, getting paid 25 cents for every ball he spun on a yarn-spinning tool.

John Liu’s father, a banker named Joseph who owned the middle-class home where his son was raised, confirmed in 2009 that his wife never worked in a sweatshop and neither did their son.

After The News broke the story, Liu acknowledged it was an exaggeration, telling the newspaper’s editorial board that he bought candy with the money his mother gave him for helping her.

From the NY Observer:







Anonymous said...

He's never known how to tell the truth.

Anonymous said...

So long, Johnny. A disgrace to this city.

Anonymous said...

Once a Liu, always a lie.

The Flushing Phantom said...

John Liu isn't kicking off anything.

His political career has already been kicked into the gutter. He will never become mayor.

Liu is just whistling as he walks the graveyard.

Asians hate to lose face...
so Johnny is maintaining his bravado attitude until the end...which is very near.

Anonymous said...

All Liu-specific nonsense aside, "home work" was far, far more odious than sweatshop work - it is often tied to piece-rate payment, rather than hourly wages, and workers, and their families, may be exposed to hazardous contaminants and conditions... as for Liu, my god! his own mamma says he's a liar, liar, pants on fire.

Anonymous said...

He thinks he can run things like back home in his savage nation. He might be able to fool the other animals in little shanghai there, but outside that enclave, the media is not state run.

Anonymous said...

This is NOT a run for Mayor, in my view.

This is a campaign to raise donations, and thereby, matching funds to pay for lawyers in his campaign corruption case.

This should be a crime. No politician should be permitted to use campaign money to pay lawyers. That is clearly a recipe for a crooked campaign.

As to the idea of paying lawyers with "penny-one" of matching funds...that should net a politician life in jail. It's not what matching funds were ever intended to do. It’s immoral, unethical and should be a serious felony.

John Liu has ZERO shot at being mayor and in my view he has disgraced his culture, not enhanced it. That's a shame as there is a great and honorable history of the Chinese people and it is great when honest people step forward and show honor.

Anonymous said...

Why he think we in Hawaii?

Anonymous said...

Thomson:Quinn::Obama:Hillary, says all the big money

Anonymous said...

Somebody ought to kick this puny ponce in the ass...lose a shoe up there!