Posted on 11/07/2013 11:20:50 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Advocates of immigration reform are calling on their House Republicans allies to adopt Tea Party tactics to force party leaders to bring legislation to the floor by the end of the year.
A week after hailing a trio of Republicans for signing on to a comprehensive immigration bill, liberal advocates turned up the heat on two of them and vowed to campaign for their defeat if they didn’t do more to pressure Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio).
“Lovely as it is that three Republicans have put their names on H.R. 15, that’s not nearly enough,” said Tom Snyder, the immigration campaign director at the AFL-CIO. He was referring to House immigration legislation introduced by Democrats that is modeled on the bipartisan Senate bill that passed in June.
Snyder and other advocates held a press conference Thursday to announce actions, including television ads, targeting nine House Republicans that hail from swing districts with a significant share of Latino voters. Two of those lawmakers, Reps. Jeff Denham (Calif.) and David Valadao (Calif.), won praise from immigration reformers last week when they endorsed the House Democratic bill.
A third Republican co-sponsor, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.), is not a target of the lobbying effort because she is not as politically vulnerable and has long supported immigration reform, the advocates said.
The three Republicans supporters are well short of the party majority that Boehner has said is needed before any immigration legislation is brought to the floor. But Snyder pointed to the success in September of “a few dozen determined Tea Party Republicans” in forcing party leaders to back a government shutdown that they initially tried to resist.
“We need them to create something similar,” Snyder said. “It’s great that they co-sponsored, but the work doesn’t stop there. We have to have results, and the Tea Party shutdown is a perfect example of what we want to get to in that it wasn’t a majority of Republicans who wanted to shut down, it was a small group of Tea Party Republicans who organized their colleagues.
“That’s what we want Denham and Valadao to do,” he added.
The groups behind the effort have dubbed it the “Cost of Inaction” campaign, and it is a shift toward a campaign posture for Democratic-aligned groups like the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union.
“The groups here are going to be throwing down in a whole new way,” said Frank Sharry, a leading immigration reform advocate and the executive director of America’s Voice.
The other seven Republicans they are targeting are Reps. Buck McKeon (Calif.), Gary Miller (Calif.), Scott Tipton (Colo.), Mike Coffman (Colo.), Daniel Webster (Fla.), Steve Pearce (N.M.) and Joe Heck (Nev.).
The group plans to hold events in those lawmakers' districts and organize activists to make direct contact with their constituents.
House GOP leaders have not announced plans to vote on any immigration proposals, and with just a few weeks left in the 2013 legislative schedule, a vote this year is unlikely.
For “some” Americans, the SUBSTANCE matters MORE THAN THE TACTICS!!!!!
It constantly amazes me now out of touch these elitist are, they continue to think of the TEA Party as a group of politicians.
Idiot elitist people are TEA not politicians. Political office holders are whores. they sell themselves to the highest bidder to get reelected. They have principles. When a politico shows up with gonads and principles they, the whores, run from the light and fight the principled ones.
There is not one RINO who has support from anyone on the right except there big money sugar daddies.
Start a TEA Party like movement for amnesty
Chick Fil A's 'short notice' event showcased that dems were UNABLE to field 2 gays in each city... even knowing the press would show up at the 'appointed time' at the correct outlet to cover them. The reality of our power vs the illusion of their support became obvious that day. If the GOP could create a 'tea party' type organization, they would. They can't. They can't because their ideas are almost as old, elitist, and out of touch as Democrat ideas.
Your comments were wonderful ... and you write better. Thanks...
The AFL-CIO is hoping to unionize all the illegals that would become citizens. They also realize that the new citizens would vote primarily Democrat, and the ones that do not join unions will become dependent on foodstamps, AFDC, Section 8, and Medicaid.
Rand Paul’s immigration speech[but he’s not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
03.19.13 | Hon Sen Rand Paul (KY)
Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg
...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Let’s start that conversation by acknowledging we aren’t going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Why Not. It worked before.
Operation “Wetback.”
Read it here:
http://www.csmonitor.com/1993/0825/25062.html
I get chills down the spine when I consider what COULD happen if the right person (conservative leader) would emerge for that group. I sincerely believe there is an immense (tens of millions) silent base that is now and has been watching for some time. All they need is the right person to rally around. I watched Dr. Ben Carson on Fox the other day. Before he started talking I called my wife into the living room. I told her, this is one of the Brilliant minds of our time. Everything this guy says is poetic, prophetic and inspiring. He did not disappoint.
Think back to that Chik-Fil-A crowd. I don't recall anyone ever telling me to go to a Chik-Fil-A. I just heard what had happened and decided to go to make a point. Then I saw the lines and got a little choked up.
The GOP has no idea what they have or what the CONSERVATIVE base is capable of. I would bet that MOST (75% even) of the middle class is actually the very silent but very willing conservative constituents that would move the country if inspired. Ben Carson as President and Cruz as Vice President is who I would volunteer for.
This is the time for watching. When the time for action comes, we’ll be ready.
Jail time?! He should be so lucky!
This is the future of the country we're talking about. We're talking about a one-party "people's republic" for the next 200 years -- and all the evils that Orwell predicted in 1984.
The 'Rats are already talking up "one-party rule" in the chattering-class watering holes. "Would it be so bad? We'd get so much done!"
Yeah. Death camps, pogroms, the KGB everywhere.
They just wrote it that way because somebody didn’t know how to spell “Valerie Jarrett”.
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