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In reply to the discussion: Trump may dump Spicer, considering Fox host as spokesperson: report [View all]karynnj
(59,504 posts)25. Looked at Wikipedia after seeing your post - she is a lawyer and ex-wife of Gavin Newsom!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_Guilfoyle
Her education is actually impressive:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_Guilfoyle
Given her own background, my question is how did she become not just a Republican, but a Fox News personality:
Having looked, I am embarrassed that so many here immediately defined her by her looks. Her credentials are pretty impressive. I have not seen her on Fox, which I do not watch, so I have no idea what her positions are. I do wonder what drove her to where she is politically today.
Her education is actually impressive:
Education[edit]
Guilfoyle graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Davis, and received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1994. While in law school, she interned at the San Francisco district attorney's office. She also modeled for local department stores, including Macy's, and modeled Victoria's Secret lingerie in a bridal magazine.[6]
She also studied at Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland. While there, she published research in international children's rights and European Economic Community law.[7]
Law career[edit]
After law school, Guilfoyle briefly worked as a prosecutor in San Francisco, but lost her job in 1996 when Terence Hallinan was elected District Attorney and fired fourteen of the city's prosecutors.[8]
Guilfoyle then spent four years in Los Angeles as a Deputy District Attorney, working on adult and juvenile cases, including narcotics, domestic violence, kidnapping, robbery, arson, sexual assault and homicide cases. She received several awards at the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, including Prosecutor of the Month.[7]
In 2000, Guilfoyle was re-hired by Hallinan in the San Francisco District Attorneys Office, where she served as an Assistant District Attorney from 2000 to 2004. While Assistant D.A., she and lead prosecutor James Hammer earned a conviction in the 2002 case People v. Noel and Knoller, a second-degree murder trial involving a dog mauling that received international attention.[9][10]
As of 2008, she was a member of La Raza Lawyers Association[11]
Guilfoyle graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Davis, and received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 1994. While in law school, she interned at the San Francisco district attorney's office. She also modeled for local department stores, including Macy's, and modeled Victoria's Secret lingerie in a bridal magazine.[6]
She also studied at Trinity College, Dublin in Ireland. While there, she published research in international children's rights and European Economic Community law.[7]
Law career[edit]
After law school, Guilfoyle briefly worked as a prosecutor in San Francisco, but lost her job in 1996 when Terence Hallinan was elected District Attorney and fired fourteen of the city's prosecutors.[8]
Guilfoyle then spent four years in Los Angeles as a Deputy District Attorney, working on adult and juvenile cases, including narcotics, domestic violence, kidnapping, robbery, arson, sexual assault and homicide cases. She received several awards at the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, including Prosecutor of the Month.[7]
In 2000, Guilfoyle was re-hired by Hallinan in the San Francisco District Attorneys Office, where she served as an Assistant District Attorney from 2000 to 2004. While Assistant D.A., she and lead prosecutor James Hammer earned a conviction in the 2002 case People v. Noel and Knoller, a second-degree murder trial involving a dog mauling that received international attention.[9][10]
As of 2008, she was a member of La Raza Lawyers Association[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberly_Guilfoyle
Given her own background, my question is how did she become not just a Republican, but a Fox News personality:
Guilfoyle was born in San Francisco to a Puerto Rican mother and an Irish father. She grew up in the Mission District and Westlake and is a graduate of Mercy High School. Guilfoyle's mother, Mercedes, taught special education, and died of leukemia when Guilfoyle was eleven. "My mother was just everything to me, I loved her so much, I always wanted to be around her. I loved how I saw people react to her. She was a warm woman who worked in education with people with emotional challenges. I got my sense of giving back and how when you have many blessings, pay it forward," Guilfoyle said in a 2015 interview. [3]
Her father, Tony, was born in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, and came to the U.S. at the age of 20. After serving 4 years in the US Army, he took up work in the construction trades. He later became a real estate investor and a close advisor to Mayor Newsom, until his death in 2008. Known as the "Godfather" in inner political circles his mantra was "For The People".
Her father, Tony, was born in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, and came to the U.S. at the age of 20. After serving 4 years in the US Army, he took up work in the construction trades. He later became a real estate investor and a close advisor to Mayor Newsom, until his death in 2008. Known as the "Godfather" in inner political circles his mantra was "For The People".
Having looked, I am embarrassed that so many here immediately defined her by her looks. Her credentials are pretty impressive. I have not seen her on Fox, which I do not watch, so I have no idea what her positions are. I do wonder what drove her to where she is politically today.
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Trump may dump Spicer, considering Fox host as spokesperson: report [View all]
Julian Englis
May 2017
OP
As usual, the little boy blames everybody else for taking away his all-day sucker.
pangaia
May 2017
#1
Considering whos the Whitehouse spokesmans boss I know the perfect replacement
cstanleytech
May 2017
#7
Seems he blames his chief of staff and his communications director and spokesman for how he is seen
karynnj
May 2017
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karynnj
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cstanleytech
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He put on one hell of an acting job then, wonder what happened to cause him to stop as surely
cstanleytech
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True and thats a huge danger because it causes him to live in a bubble and he seems unable or
cstanleytech
May 2017
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I have to admit, at one time and kind of 'wallowed in the latrine...' I guess one might say.
pangaia
May 2017
#50
Looked at Wikipedia after seeing your post - she is a lawyer and ex-wife of Gavin Newsom!
karynnj
May 2017
#25
I guess he didn't like that dark haired woman who stood in for Spicer one day. nt
Honeycombe8
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Can we expect an end to the constant right wing insistance that government needs to be run
maddiemom
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One thing deliberately forgotten by people saying gubmnt should be run like a business
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Fox is already a propaganda mill for Trump. Might as well bring them into the press briefing room.
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