Posted on 09/04/2007 10:36:38 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The nation's largest Hispanic civil rights organization is warning it may move its 2009 convention from Kansas City because of a controversial city park board member. The National Council of La Raza is already looking at other cities after the appointment of Frances Semler, an anti-illegal immigration activist, said Janet Murguia, La Raza's president.
City Councilmembers have also heard concerns from members of the NAACP, which is expected to hold its 2010 convention in Kansas City. The city hasn't heard directly from officials of the national organization. Losing two national conventions could hurt the city's image and cost the local economy about $15 million, city officials said.
"Hopefully we can work it out," said City Councilwoman Melba Curls.
Mayor Mark Funkhouser appointed Semler to the Parks and Recreation Board of Commissioners in June causing a stir in the local Hispanic community. Semler is a member of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps and has taken a strong stance against illegal immigration and suggested a moratorium on legal immigration.
Murguia told Funkhouser in a telephone conversation last week that the conference will be held elsewhere if Semler doesn't step down.
"It is very troubling that we would be in a position to reconsider but in fact we are," Murguoa said during a trip to Kansas City.
To make the move, La Raza would have to pay the city as much as $70,000 for failing to meet its hotel-room guarantee, she said.
Murguia said she has been in discussions with leaders from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who she says have the same concerns. The six-day NAACP convention would bring more than 10,000 people with an expected economic impact of $9 million.
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Have a couple concerts to make up for it...
[waving merrily at “La Raza”...]
Buh-bye!
Don’t let the screen door hit you where the good Lord split you!
A.A.C.
NAACP - interested in seeing our laws enforced? Bah-hah-hah-hah-hah-haaaah!
It seems like extortion to me. I don’t get these “groups.”
To make the move, La Raza would have to pay the city as much as $70,000 for failing to meet its hotel-room guarantee, she said.
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Har har.
“Murguia told Funkhouser in a telephone conversation last week that the conference will be held elsewhere if Semler doesn’t step down.”
Who says the Minutemen aren’t effective? Let La Raza peddle their hate somewhere else, say, Tijuana.
Is that a threat or a promise?
Why would any AMERICAN city play host to a convention of the Viva La Reconquista crowd of pro-Mexico malcontents?
The Race wants to pull out?
Can this organization possibly be anymore racist?
“Doesn’t the NAACP have an interest in seeing that our laws are enforced?”
The NAACP has an interest in diluting the number of white voters as much as possible. Never mind that the number one source of conflict for black americans in the southwest are hispanics. To the NAACP, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
good riddance to this bunch of filthy racists and even worse this gang of hoodlums supports illegal criminals. May they all rot in the racist pit.
This is confusing to me as well. Surely the majority of blacks are not in favor of illegal immigration.
amenaza vacía
The whole Minuteman issue came up right after Funkhouser appointed her. The mayor, to his credit, has stood behind Semler and has steadfastly refused to ask for her resignation.
Why would the city be involved here? Is this event scheduled to be held at a city-owned venue?
“Why would any AMERICAN city play host to a convention of the Viva La Reconquista crowd of pro-Mexico malcontents?”
I think this is what happens when too many think the prospect of more dollars is the only worthwhile consideration.
Business setting the agenda as it too often does these days, particularly concerning illegal aliens.
“Why would the city be involved here? Is this event scheduled to be held at a city-owned venue?”
Because every city of any size aggressively pursues the convention and tourist dollars, apparently with no regard for the mission of said convention.
Be sure to call your congresscritters and tell them to OPPOSE HR.1999, which would give MILLIONS of Federal dollars to La Raza, to distribute in their “communities”. These so-called communities include large numbers of illegals, in addition to their core membership of anti-American “reconquistas” that believe and preach the seizure of the American Southwest by Mexico.
Fine with me. Let them pull all the way back to Mexico City.
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