Ms. Gonsalves made a campaign contribution to a liberal candidate for New York City Comptroller.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services – January 2017 – Present.
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration – April 2016 – January 2017.
Office of Personnel Management – July 2014 – April 2016.
United States Postal Service – April 2005 – July2014.
According to her LinkedIn page, Ms. Gonsalves volunteered with the Legal Aid Society in the late 1990’s. It is described in her profile as a “Civil Rights and Social Action” group.
In 1998 (notably, during Ms. Gonsalves’ time as a volunteer), City Journal described this organization as follows:
The Legal Aid Society, over much of its120-year history, gained a distinguished reputation for representing indigent clients. But in recent years the organization has strayed from its core brief and has become a dogged—and effective—commando force for the expansion of the welfare state.
In so doing, Legal Aid diverts resources from the defense of impoverished suspects to a politicized struggle, through class-action lawsuits, for greater entitlements for broad groups of non-defendants: inmates, homeless folks, and public-aid recipients. And what is beginning to irk at least some members of the city's legal establishment is that the society's class-action machine is bankrolled by the city's richest law firms, which make annual tax-deductible contributions that can top $100,000 each, while the rest of us pick up the final tab in the form of increased taxes.
Legal Aid has argued for an increase in the basic welfare grant; succeeded in forcing the city to provide housing on demand, without proof of need; and fought against the workfare requirements of last year's federal welfare-reform law. Today, Legal Aid is stalling a sorely needed provision of the modest rent-control reform that requires tenants to pay rent into an escrow account while pursuing complaints against their landlords. Recently, too, the society took the side of two welfare recipients who wanted to skip mandatory electronic fingerprinting because of a bizarre professed belief that it would "put the mark of the devil" on them.
Ms. Gonsalves’s volunteer work with a left-wing organization such as the Legal Aid Society further calls into question whether she will faithfully execute the policies of a conservative administration.
As noted in the partisan activities section above, Ms. Gonzalves made a donation to former New York City (and later State) Comptroller Alan Hevesi. In the early 2010’s, Mr. Hevesi served a term in federal prison on corruption charges. Mr. Hevesi’s prison term followed his public disgrace following his removal from office on separate corruption charges in 2006. Mr. Hevesi also had a long history of zealous abortion advocacy (including taxpayer funding) long before his corruption became known.
To donate to a politician that is both corrupt and left-wing calls into question both Ms. Gonsalves’ judgement and her political values. Thus, her trustworthiness in a conservative administration is suspect.
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