Posted on 07/16/2004 2:07:37 PM PDT by John Jorsett
On the Los Angeles based John and Ken show yesterday (Thursday), Shawn Moran, spokesman for Local 1613 of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing Border Agents, reported that Congressman Joe Baca (D- Ontario, Fontana) accused members of his union of being associated with hate groups, acted to have the union disciplined, and threatened them with "Congressional action." Here are Moran's words(slightly edited by me to eliminate the host's distracting interjections):
Basically the situation with Mr. Baca is one of our union representatives, a guy by the name of Stan Gallagher -- he's our chief union representative -- exercised his right to petition the government and wrote to the Southern California Congressmen and women, and stated his position on illegal immigration. He was very upset that Mr. Baca and people like Representative Solis [Hilda L. Solis, D-CA] were in favor of stopping these sweeps that have occurred over the past month. So what he did, he sent these letters and he got a call from a man named David I believe it's Ferrera, he's I think he's the legislative director of chief of staff for Mr. Baca. He asked Mr. Gallagher to call him. So he gave him a call and talked to him, and he immediately accused our local of being associated with hate groups, that our president Joe Dassaro is associated with hate groups, and that we basically need to shut our mouths. This is Baca's #1 guy.When Mr. Gallagher sent another letter to Representative Solis, which contained no threats, no language except that he was upset with illegal immigration and wanted something done about it ... well, apparently they're collaborating now, because Mr. Gallagher sent the letter to Solis, and David Ferrera from Baca's office called back and said that Mr. Gallagher and our union must have an irrational bias and that we're all associated with the same hate group, and that Congressional action is going to be taken against our union. And just recently Mr. Baca ... [interruption by hosts excised] this is what we're spending tax dollars on - attacking Border Patrol Agents who are out doing their job, who are out there defending America, while the only thing that Baca is defending against is sitting n the beltway traffic at night. [Host asks what members of congress are coming to defense of Border Patrol] The only person who has expressed interest in it is Tom Tancredo ... Baca is trying to get our union disciplined by the AFL-CIO, by the American Federation of Government Employees. I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't discipline our union, our executive board, our president, because theses people, these labor unions -- the national ones -- they depend on the Democrats to get their agenda pushed through. We're a thorn in their side, we've always been a thorn in their side. We're a mostly Republican union, [although] we don't get suport from anybody [referring to how the Republican members of Congress don't defend them] ... The thing that really amazes me is that they sit here and just blindly accuse two hard-working, long-standing Border Patrol Agents of being part of a hate group, of being biased. They don't do their research. They don't realize that our union president here in San Diego is of Hispanic descent. They don't realize that Mr. Gallagher is married to a lawfully-admitted permanent resident ... It amazes me that they're using our tax dollars to attack a Border Patrol union.
This kind of garbage gets my blood boiling, particularly in that none of the local Republicans will do squat to support these agents. I was a bit dubious about the John and Ken effort to oust a prominent SoCal Republican to make an example of him/her on the illegal alien issue, but I'm beginning to lean the other direction because of their spineless pandering to Hispanics on this.
None of these people should be in Congress, or for that matter be in the country. Their loyalty and nationality is with the enemy "nation" next door.
Electing them to the United States Congress is about on a par with having Arafat in the Knesset.
It is time we started a letter campaign or something. I'm willing to do something but I don't know what.
Isn't "Baca" Japanese for stupid?
Start with a letter to your member of congress. I've written to mine, although Susan Davis is a Democrat and therefore unlikely to do anything more than write me some platitude-soaked line of crappola in return. They operate on the principle that silence implies consent, and I'm not going to give them any excuse to think I'm in any way on board.
I think "foolish" is closer. I put these people down more as "collaborators" than fools.
In the meantime, would Baca consider this article a threat if I mailed it to him?
NM police, Border Patrol shine at event
July 16, 2004
The New Mexico [State Police] officers won first and El Paso Border Patrol agents got second at an interagency pistol shooting competition in Fabens on Saturday, officials said this week.Customs and Border Protection shooters took third place.
Individual winners were Sean Vasquez of Customs and Border Protection, first; James Carrell of the Border Patrol, second; and Robert Orr of the Texas Department of Public Safety, third.
You mean you are leaning toward supporting the anti-Bush AFL-CIO?
http://www.nbpc.net/
Is Baca's brother or relative a Sheriff?
I thought I read another thread about illegals and the name jumped out at me.
Start by going to the union website. It has a "BushWatch" button which points to their anti-Bush view.
also "insane/mad" or "insanity/madness"
it implies something a trifle stronger, something more fundamentally wrong, than does the English "foolish"
just DAMN!
I'm not surprised. Basically, the Democrats ARE the party of 9/10. And Joe Baca's hostility to the Border Guards proves it.
If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell ...
oh. arg. ick. agh!
"...particularly in that none of the local Republicans will do squat to support these agents...."
Or any other conservative cause it seems these days, After GWB I am through with them. They are no better than the Rat party.
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