WBBM picked up the story on Weller’s marriage to a genocidal General’s daughter.
A few things here.
First, the fact that she is his daughter isn’t a problem until one realizes she is the leader of his party in the Guatemalan Assembly and so her involvement isn’t simply that of a daughter, but of a key political aide.
Second, at a minimum this raises conflict of interest issues with his position on the International Affairs Committee. This woman is at odds with the Bush administration on human rights even.
Third, there is a moral conflict I can’t resolve and maybe it is just because I know so much about what this woman’s father did and what her party has been about, but to ignore that throws everything away in terms of Democracy and human rights. One can’t condemn Saddam and then say that a chief political lieutenant of a human rights disaster is irrelevant to one’s personal morality. If she had been some traditional Central American woman with no public policy role maybe that would be different, but this woman is a the leader of the damn party in the Guatemalan Assembly.