Gonzales emerging as Bush’s creation

[mwb970]

by Andrew Zajac (March 18, 2007)

The story is indeed impressive. Gonzales’ parents, Pablo and Maria, met as migrant farmworkers in Texas and settled in Humble, a town north of Houston. Pablo Gonzales worked in construction and later as a maintenance man. He was a hard drinker but a good provider, the story goes, who, with two brothers, built a two-bedroom house in which he raised Alberto and seven other children. The reality, however, as reflected in public records and interviews, is grittier and more tragic. Gonzales’ family members have repeatedly stumbled, creating a bleak counterpoint to his dazzling rise to become the nation’s first Hispanic attorney general.

Gonzales’ father was arrested for drunken driving five times in 17 years, covering much of Gonzales’ childhood and adolescence. Pablo Gonzales died in an industrial accident in 1982 when Gonzales was at Harvard Law School. A younger brother, Rene Gonzales, died under mysterious circumstances in 1980. In 1991, the same year Alberto Gonzales became one of the first Hispanic partners at the white shoe Houston law firm of Vinson & Elkins, his younger sister Theresa pleaded guilty to possession of cocaine with intent to deliver. Nine years later, while Gonzales was on the Texas Supreme Court, his mother and another brother signed over their houses to a bail bondsman to raise bail for Theresa after she was charged with the same offense.

Most of these details did not arise in his Senate confirmation hearings, even though they might reasonably have been thought to affect his views about crime, drug and alcohol policy, and sentencing — all issues overseen or influenced by an attorney general.

Their omissions illustrate the remarkable extent to which Gonzales, 51, has managed to control the telling of his life story and the impenetrability of his outwardly mild and friendly manner. They are also a function of Gonzales’ peculiar rise to power, an official whose career in government, first in Texas and then in Washington, has been under the protective wing of a single man. Since 1995, Gonzales has worked exclusively in jobs given to him by George W. Bush.

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Gonzo's family sounds like the Twerp's - filled with losers.

[saigon68]

1. The Chimpanzee's Monster

After the novel was adapted to film, the monster became best known in popular imagination as "Frankenstein". However this was incongruous with the original novel — Frankenstein was the name of the creature's creator, and not the monster itself.

[frogcycle]

2. he reminds me of

the "mafia mouthpiece" lawyers of legend - owned by the capo, their sole role is to find ways to keep "the feds" out of "the families business"

[hippiechick]

4. Bingo!

He was the one, afterall, who did everything humanly possibly to clean up any evidence of Georgie's DUI .... Goddess knows what other skeletons he's buried ... :scared:

[Parisle]

7. You are completely right,...

--- That is precisely his function in the Bush machine.

[izzie]

3. I can see why the man likes Bush but I do not understand any of

this loyalty to a man over the rules of the Country. It is like the army. First and even in Bush's case it is the constitution not a man we are loyal to. West Point even has a Corner where they point this out to the men who go there. I guess this has been a battle since the country came in to being. I sure it must be hard if your job comes from one man.

[PDittie]

5. Bush made him, and he can break him

Sort of explains why the Constitution is so shreddable.

[roseBudd]

6. I imagine that Alberto worships at the altar of W much like Miers & those traits are very endearing

to a man like the chimp