Posted on 05/22/2014 11:00:27 AM PDT by nickcarraway
In an exclusive interview with NBC 6, Congressman Joe Garcia tried to clear the air about a recent analogy he made regarding communism.
Rep. Joe Garcia told NBC 6 in an exclusive interview Wednesday that communism is "evil," as he tried to clarify a recent remark on communism that had sparked conservatives' ire.
The freshman Democratic congressman had said during a Google chat about immigration reform that "communism works." He distanced himself from the comment Wednesday, telling NBC 6's Adam Kuperstein he had tried to make an analogy that fell flat.
"Look, clearly I don’t believe it works," he said of communism, admitting he "could have been more articulate" in his analogy. "Clearly I know that this is a system of government that is evil," he added.
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Garcia said the point he had been trying to make with his remark Tuesday was that the U.S. government is spending billions of dollars on the border but is not solving underlying fundamental problems by failing to enact comprehensive immigration reform.
"What is clear is we have a broken immigration system," Garcia said.
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“Two of the safest cities in America, two of them are on the border with Mexico. And of course, the reason is we’ve proved that communism works. If you give everybody a good, government job, there’s no crime. But that isn’t what we should be doing on the border,” he said.
Official's Scathing Resignation: "Best of Luck Finding Some Schmuck" to Replace Me The line about communism works was seized upon by the conservative media and by Garcia’s GOP opponent Carlos Curbelo, whose campaign tweeted that the Republican "hates" communism.
Garcia is fighting for his political seat in the west Miami-Dade County Congressional district this fall.
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Damage control by an idiot.
Made no sense.
Eat more ear wax Joe.
What a jerk.
That wasn’t ear wax he was eating last week.
It was the last few nuggets of brain matter leaking out.
After 100+ million people died for an experiment..ya think?!
How is it clear that we have a broken immigration system? The only thing clear to me is that we don’t enforce our existing laws.
The first thing that comes spewing out is typically the inner being.
I believe the man’s a commie.
Pope is Catholic.
Bear lives in the woods.
Man-made Global Warming is a hoax.
More news as it happens...
El Paso is more dangerous than 73% of all cities in the US, according to FBI crime statistics. So, he didn’t even get that part right.
I’m so sick of hearing that we have a broken immigration system from these commie clowns. Our immigration system is fine. What is broken are the porous border that has allowed millions to completely bypass the immigration system and come in as they please, and enforcement of our illegal immigration laws. I’m also sick of the so called republicans not hammering on these facts every time one of these commie sympathizers opens his pie hole and a ridiculous statement such as the one this yo-yo made comes out.
UGGGGHHHH
Oh come on, the right people haven't been in charge!
And as for that 100MM: hey, if you want to make an omelet, you have to break a few eggs!
This from the ear wax eating clown after he stepped in it?
Yeah sure Joe!
All liberal rat bastages in congress should be hanged from a tree then fed to the fish.
Oops, let me clarify. I do in fact love puppies
Idiot is a true description here
Illegals and fast and furious... the government loophole of traitor selecrive enforcement and demanding more funding for control.
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