Posted on 03/28/2010 7:25:40 PM PDT by chicagolady
With a loud but peaceful protest, more than 100 pro-immigration-reform and faith-based activists showed up unannounced at Republican National Committee headquarters March 22 and demanded a meeting with party chairman Michael Steele.
Their chanting, praying persistence resulted in Steele’s promise, delivered on the spot in a letter, to meet with representatives from the religious and other reform groups at the end of this month.
Their visit came fewer than 24 hours after 200,000 protesters gathered at the National Mall to press President Obama and Congress to act on a comprehensive immigration reform bill this year.
With a light rain falling, Joshua Hoyt, executive director for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant Refugee Rights, made his way into the RNC building with a few pastors and other protestors while the rest, representing constituencies across the country, stood outside chanting for the Republican Party to show support for their cause.
Nicaragua-born Manuel Rosales, an RNC deputy, served as a spokesperson for Republican officials with the protesters.
“I’m more an immigrant than you are,” Rosales joked to Hoyt to demonstrate his desire to accommodate the group’s wishes.
Hoyt related to Rosales and those who were kneeling and praying in the lobby that they had already tried to schedule a meeting but were unsuccessful in getting Steele’s attention.
(Excerpt) Read more at pontealdia.com ...
Illegal immigration Ping
So someone called Immigration and had the Nicaraguan arrested right????
What are the chances that those of us who are Tea Party protesters would ever be described in this way? The fact that it would be accurate notwithstanding of course. No, we're all just angry violent frothing at the mouth neocons looking to engage in serious violent acts, like voting!
Ping
You’ve got to be a real dopey Republican to believe that if you give the illegals their “amnesty”, they will vote for you. They are going to vote for whomever promises the most freebies.
LOL! You are right!
Only in Obama’s America.
He needs to show them what just happened to a very respected Cochise County, AZ rancher today - he was murdered, most probably by an illegal - and tell them that his one and only response is "Bite me."
I know, it ins't quite as succinct as "Nuts", but I'm sure it gets our point across.
Two Hundred Thousand and Mikey Steele caves, but Two Million and . . . nothing from the RNC.
Maybe at the next Tea Party Rally the entire group should march into Mr Steele’s office.
IF the GOP had ANY sense [which I doubt they do], they’d replace Mikey Steele with Sarah Palin and fire all of Mikey’s recruits, too.
200,000 my foot. Notice how the media inflates the special interests numbers. We get “dozens” in Searchlight, and they get 200,000 in D.C. Yeah, right........
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