Posted on 02/23/2007 5:22:51 AM PST by areafiftyone
COLUMBIA - Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter on Thursday named an S.C. adviser who boasted about telling an illegal immigrant worried about an abused child to "get back to Mexico."
At a news conference at the Statehouse, Horry County Auditor Lois Eargle talked up her hard-line stance on illegal immigrants.
The former county GOP chairwoman said an illegal immigrant with three children came to her office this week asking for free legal help for an abused child.
"I told her the best thing for her to do was to get back to Mexico," Eargle said.
Hunter, a California congressman who is considered a long-shot to win the White House, said if a fence were not built along the Mexican border by 2009, as president he would ensure it was "built start to finish in six months."
Damn. Guiliani would have made her an honorary citizen in his "sanctuary city".
Good Job Lois.
We certainly need to get control of our borders and put an end to the illegal infiltration problem, but I question whether refusing to help an abused child will get us any closer to that end. So far, I like what I see from Duncan Hunter, especially considering the other candidates, but will enlisting the help of someone like this help him overcome his huge name recognition deficit?
Just wondering...
Is this all you got? Not nearly enough to overcome "Rudy Juliannie's" bad choices.
It's a hit piece by the AP. Notice it quoted just a snippet. Nothing else about her qualifications, history, why she supports Hunter, nothing about what Hunter said at the press conference, nothing but typical AP silliness.
Lois Eargle is running?
Let me look for some info on her.
M. Lois Eargle of Conway has held the position of Horry County Auditor since 1993. Active in politics and civic affairs, Eargle served four terms in the South Carolina House of Representatives and was a member of the South Carolina Highway Commission. She is president of the South Carolina Association of Countywide Elected Executives and chairman emeritus of the Horry County Republican Party. She has served as an officer of many civic and charitable groups in the region, including the March of Dimes and the Horry County Shelter Home. She has served on the board of visitors of Clemson University and the Medical University of South Carolina. Eargle is a graduate of the University of South Carolina's Institute of Government.
We really like Duncan Hunter. He is a Reagan type Conservative.
I think Duncan Hunter is serving a very useful purpose here.
He will drive hard "to-the-right" in this campaign - and as a result,
force the others to answer or defend their own positions.
That's what it's all about - state your position - defend it -
see how the public reacts - and then watch the other candidates adjust (or not).
Um this is about Duncan Hunter. This was probably his big announcement yesterday. What is your problem? I'm not responsible for the way this was written. Talk to the editor. And also why don't you look up the lady and find out about her. I did. check my post.
Why are you posting a Rudy picture on a Duncan Hunter thread? I don't post Rudy pictures on this thread nor do I go on and bash Hunter. Grow Up! This has nothing to do with Rudy.
"Is this all you got? Not nearly enough to overcome "Rudy Juliannie's" bad choices."
Hunter is pro-life. Giuliani is pro-choice. That's all I need.
An illegal immigrant with 3 children, asking for FREE legal help - sounds like she is really adept at working the system. This crap has to stop somewhere. It's the same thing with them abusing the emergency rooms. How many have had to be shut down - because the illegals are bankrupting the system? They will do the same to every institution in this country.
I admire this politician - sounds like SHE has balls.
The Illegal-Alien Crime Wave
By Heather MacDonald, City Journal, January 14, 2004 (FrontPageMag.com)
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New York conveniently forgot the 1996 federal ban on sanctuary laws until a gang of five Mexicans—four of them illegal—abducted and brutally raped a 42-year-old mother of two near some railroad tracks in Queens. The NYPD had already arrested three of the illegal aliens numerous times for such crimes as assault, attempted robbery, criminal trespass, illegal gun possession, and drug offenses. The department had never notified the INS. Immigration politics have similarly harmed New York. Former mayor Rudolph Giuliani sued all the way up to the Supreme Court to defend the city’s sanctuary policy against a 1996 federal law decreeing that cities could not prohibit their employees from cooperating with the INS. Oh yeah? said Giuliani; just watch me. The INS, he claimed, with what turned out to be grotesque irony, only aims to “terrorize people.” Though he lost in court, he remained defiant to the end. On September 5, 2001, his handpicked charter-revision committee ruled that New York could still require that its employees keep immigration information confidential to preserve trust between immigrants and government. Six days later, several visa-overstayers participated in the most devastating attack on the city and the country in history.
Rudy would have given her a high paying City job
Hah! You've made your position clear. You are doing the work of Rudy's crew - digging up dirt against anyone who dares oppose him.
Good lord - chill out and engage in the conversation - quit crying.
LOL. Oh no. It's another posting policeman.
Sounds like this woman is a fine, upstanding citizen, who is active in many groups that help people down on their luck. There had to be something more than this article is saying to make such a person tell an illegal criminal to go back to Mexico. Sounds like it was the straw that broke the camel's back - OR - this illegal was a plant, trying to set the lady up.
The media seems to be getting a little worried about Hunter, must cut him down now.
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