Posted on 07/12/2006 9:58:45 AM PDT by radar101
White House political strategist Karl Rove touted "shared values" of faith and family and reiterated President Bush's support of broad immigration reform in a Los Angeles address Tuesday to one of the nation's largest Latino civil rights organizations
ut he drew scattered boos when he highlighted Bush's recent approval of $1.9 billion in funding for more border security, including deployment of National Guard troops, and was disrupted twice by hecklers who unfurled antiwar and anti-Bush banners.
Cecilia Munoz, La Raza vice president, said she was "encouraged" by Rove's remarks in support of broad immigration reform at a time when a wing of his party is pushing what she sees as a punitive approach focused on cracking down on illegal immigrants."The Latino vote is up for grabs, but it won't be up for grabs if the Republican Party continues to paint itself as a party of xenophobia."
The Rev. Jesse Jackson stressed the need to focus on common interests of worker rights, while Stewart Kwoh of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles described his center's efforts to mobilize low-income parents of all races for better education.
John Mack, a former Los Angeles Urban League president who heads the city's Police Commission, criticized African Americans who blame Latino immigrants for taking their jobs, calling such allegations "regrettable, unfortunate and factually incorrect."
"We have to get past the scapegoat mentality," he said
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Please add "BARF ALERT." Thanks.
i agree with Rove here to an extent... he chose the wrong crowd to address though.. :\
I would like to share with Mr. Rove the results of the current FR presidential poll.
Top White House adviser Karl Rove traveled to Los Angeles this week to pay homage to the anti-immigration enforcement lobbying group for Latinos: the National Council of La Raza.
"La Raza" is Spanish for "The Race."
It's bad enough the White House lent its prestige to The Race's annual conference. But did you know the Bush administration has forked over millions of federal tax dollars directly to The Race?
According to GOP Rep. Charlie Norwood of Georgia, The Race snapped up $15.2 million in federal grants last year alone and more than $30 million since 1996. Undisclosed amounts went to get-out-the-vote efforts supporting La Raza political positions. The U.S. Department of Education funneled nearly $8 million in taxpayer grants to the group for a nationwide charter schools initiative.
Among The Race's most infamous government-funded charter schools is La Academia Semillas del Pubelo, the Los Angeles public school that teaches "Aztec math" (ancient dot math is the new math) and the Mexican indigenous language of "Nahuatl." The ethnic separatist principal of the school, Marcos Aguilar, told a sympathetic UCLA interviewer:
"We don't want to drink from a White water fountain, we have our own wells and our natural reservoirs and our way of collecting rain in our aqueducts. We don't need a White water fountain…We are not interested in what they have because we have so much more and because the world is so much larger. And ultimately the White way, the American way, the neo liberal, capitalist way of life will eventually lead to our own destruction." [Excerpt]
That just cracks me up.
For Rove to even attend this racist rally is a disgrace.
They are pandering like ya just can't believe. At least we know he's going to the mat with this issue which means a Meirs Moment in the future should he persist.
Are you trying to admit something, Karl?
I totally agree. This is up there with hildebeast smooching Arafat.
Did he tell them to clean up their neighborhoods?
Rove had a Sister Soulja moment and he blew it. The speech he should have given:
Amigos and Amiga’s: Today I come at the request of the President of the United States to inform you that the time has come when the United States of America will begin to defend its borders against those who are being dispelled from Mexico because of failed socialist policies and lack of educational opportunities as well as Islamo Fascists who want to use our open borders to murder Americans including Latino Americans.
The policy will be that we will build a wall with the most modern technology possible from the Gulf of Mexico to California it will be manned by a combination of U.S. Army personnel and border patrol with orders to fight the Coyotes who prey on the Mexican people and to return their human cargo.
We will require Mexico to reform its economic and educational system by placing an embargo on all legal immigration from Mexico until these reforms are in place. We will not place economic sanctions on Mexico because this would place their socialist economy and oligarch government in even worse condition than it already is.
As for those who are illegal and already in the United States we will have a two fold policy. We will crackdown on all employees who hire illegals. We will prosecute anyone who has hired an illegal alien in the United States with penalties of fines and jail time for offenders. We will deport any worker found on the property or in the employ of those employers.
Finally a word about assimilation, the days of people living in the United States and not becoming part of the greatness that is the United States are over. Mexicans who want to balkanize themselves into little portions of American cities do themselves or the nation no service. All schools will be in English, they will teach the history of the United States of America, the culture of being an American. Multiculturalism is a curse on all people living in America, making them unable to advance in the most opportunistic society ever created. Those who don't assimilate will always be mowing lawns and cleaning pools, I'm sure La Raza doesn't want that.
And finally, you lost the Mexican-American War, as the moonbats say, Move-On. Mucho gracias and viva Estados Unidos.
I'm getting more and more disgusted every day at this administration on this issue. What a frigging joke.
My favorite line :)
Votes for sale! Votes for sale! Discount prices!
The fact is, they wave their own flag, they speak their own language, and have no desire to assimilate....and proven to be racist against white people....pandering is another word for "cowardly"
Then he opened his mouth to give his speech...And he went down from there...
"I support any time that a civilian wants to go and do the job that law enforcement cannot do," Schwarzenegger said in response to a question.
"I'm for that. I'm not for any harassment. I'm not for anyone carrying weapons. I'm not for any of that.
"But I have, for instance, in my house — for years and years and years — I've hired private security to take care of my house, because I felt that the police could not really cover every single house and protect the children and families."
State Treasurer Phil Angelides, Schwarzenegger's Democratic challenger in the November election, has tried to undercut his support among Latinos by citing the governor's support for the Minuteman group."
I think the conservatives trying to undo Rove's work aren't RINOs but just misguided.
A '60s Activist in the '70s Street Corner War: Sam Brown Leads VISTA Through Minefield of Pragmatic Idealism
NEAL R PIERCE. Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, Calif.:Sep 10, 1978. p. e5 (1 pp.)WASHINGTON--As director of ACTION, the government's volunteer agency that runs the domestic VISTA program and the now almost-venerable Peace Corps, onetime antiwar activist Sam Brown presides over a paid staff of 1,700, some 281,000 volunteers operating in 50 states and 64 foreign countries, and an annual budget of $204.6 million.
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By Washington power-game standards, Brown might consider his campaign to focus on grass-roots self-help efforts a winner. ACTION'S two major initiatives under President Carter's urban policy-an Urban Volunteer Corps and a Good Neighbor Fund-passed the Senate in July, well ahead of most elements of the Administration's program for the cities.
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Now, he is embarked on a new course for VISTA volunteers which is certain to cause controversy. Under the Nixon-Ford administrations, VISTA volunteers often ended up doing the work of social workers, librarians and other civil servants. But Brown wants them to be catalysts for change by organizing low-income groups and teaching them how to raise funds and fight for their own interests. VISTA workers are now helping tenant groups organize, assisting consumer food coops and demanding sewers and paved streets in minority neighborhoods. Some established forces in every community are bound to be offended by those activities.
Rep. Michel says it's wrong for government-sponsored volunteers to "tell people what's wrong with their lives and prod them into changes they don't really want." He has zeroed in on ACTION's $2 million in grants and volunteers for groups often identified with militant advocacy, such as the National Assn. of Neighborhoods, the National Council of La Raza, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives and the Ohio Public Interest Campaign.
Brown replies that community groups set their own priorities and then enlist the aid of VISTA volunteers. VISTA director Marge Tabankin, a protege of the late community organizer Saul Alinsky, says VISTA is "not parachuting young, middle-class kids in to tell the poor folks what to do. Fifty per cent of the volunteers are picked by the sponsor directly and usually come from the community."
Hours after Schwarzenegger's appearance with Latino supporters, the state's highest-ranking Latino Republican, Sen. Abel Maldonado of Santa Maria, questioned the governor's loyalty to Latinos."Our governor cares about one thing only, and that's Arnold Schwarzenegger," Maldonado said in a telephone interview requested by his staff.
Maldonado, who lost the Republican primary for state controller last month, said he was disappointed that the governor declined to support his candidacy.
At Schwarzenegger's request, Maldonado had sponsored a bill to raise the minimum wage, a move that irked conservatives in the primary. "I kind of felt like I got left holding the bag," Maldonado said.
I found it interesting, last night, that O'Reilly had no problem with the group calling themselves 'La Raza'.
Nor did I hear him criticize Rove for speaking to them.
The titans at the CRP reacted to an ungrateful cur as one would expect and didn't fall all over themselves to support his ridiculous plans so Abel got sour grapes.
And 'La Raza' is Spanish for...?
Before you sell your soul, read the fine print on the contract.
So he's hired UNARMED private security to take care of his mansions and protect his family? I don't believe it. Not for a minute.
Rove plays kissey face with one of the most racist organizations in the country(Tax Payer no less), now the President has abrogated his war powers to the supreme court, which made a ruling in direct contrast with legislation passed by the house that tied their hands on the matter.
What do we here from the president, yes massa...
Which I predicted. At 67 I will not have many opportunties to vote for another president, but damned if I will waste it on a "One Worlder" again.
Congress...crickets anyone.
Maybe the war will heat up in Israel and we will really see who the patriots are.
FYI -- the text I posted about Arnold supporting the Minutemen, in my post 20 is an excerpts from the LAT article posted on this thread. Go to the link and you will see it, in the middle of the article.
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