Posted on 06/19/2008 6:33:29 PM PDT by the anti-liberal
Last night, John McCain met with a carefully screened group of Chicago-area Latino voters. The town hall was closed to the media. Several readers e-mailed an eyewitness account of the event. Here’s an excerpt:
I was one of the 150 people at the Drake Hotel in Downtown Chicago Wednesday night who came to hear John MC Cain speak to Illinois Hispanics.
I had e-mail in my request to attend after seeing an article in the news paper announcing this event.
This is what i received……….
We are pleased to confirm your invitation to attend the “Hispanic Voices Reception” with Republican Presidential candidate John McCain. The event will take place on June 18, 2008, at The Drake Hotel, 140 E. Walton Place, Chicago, Illinois, in the Drake Room.
A volunteer will call you in the next couple of days to give you a “unique event ID number.” You will need that number along with photo identification at the registration table in order to access the event. Doors open for the event promptly at 7:30 PM. Please come early, though, to get through security.
During the reception, Senator John McCain will be fielding questions from the audience. We ask that you be respectful during the question-and-answer session even if your opinions differ from those being shared. Please dress in business-casual attire.
You may park at The Drake Hotel for $30; valet parking is also provided at the hotel for $45. If you are traveling from the suburbs, limited seating is available on the bus leaving from Aurora. To reserve a seat for the bus, please contact us on our hotline number or by e-mail. For your own directions to the event, please click here.
For questions regarding the event, please call our hotline number at 630-801-0043 or e-mail us at McVolunteers@yahoo.com.
Both Senator John McCain and I look forward to meeting you next Wednesday.
Face to Face with John McCain!
“Hispanic Voices Reception”
Wednesday, June 18, 2008, starting at 7:30 PM
The Drake Room The Drake Hotel 140 E Walton Place Chicago, IL 60611
You are invited to hear John McCain address Illinois Hispanics!
If you have any questions, please contact: Gabriela Wyatt or Julie Brady at McVolunteers@yahoo.com Or call the event hot-line (630) 801-0043 _________________________________________________________
…..Personally as an Original Minuteman who attended the Historic Minuteman Border Watch in 2005 on the Arizona/ Mexico border and returni[n]g 2 more times for a tour of duty along our southern Border, I was especially looking forward to what John Mc Cain would say about illegal immigration.
This was a NO MEDIA ALLOWED EVENT! That is why I am reporting back to you, all of you folks who have fought so hard with your phone calls to Washington D.C. last summer, shutting down the Washington DC switch board and defeating the AMNESTY BILL. I am reporting back to you those of you who work tirelessly in your local cities and towns trying to get some public elected official to care and enforce the rule of law.
I was told by my friend and fellow Hispanic Marianne Davies who is on the board of “You Don’t Speak for Me” that John Mc Cain has been going across the country having “PRIVATE” meetings with Hispanics.
Although the [invitation] said we would be able to ask questions, that “question ” time with John McCain never happened. That was ok with me, I never had the intention of asking a question, I knew exactly the kind of open borders crowd I was with.
John McCain’s favorite words of the evening were Comprehensive Immigration Reform. But he started out first of all saying if he is gonna win the Presidential election he will need the support of the Latino community.
He said ” My state has been enriched by the Hispanic culture in Arizona.”
Then John McCain asked a question “Did you know this? I bet some of you did not know that Spanish was spoken in Arizona before English” …Loud cheers from the audience. (Ok John McCain What is your AZTLAN POINT?)
Then he said “I want to have some straight talk about our relationship with Mexico,our closest neighbor and dearest friend” He talked about the Mexican President fighting the drug cartels.
Then John McCain aid the exact thing I came to hear, he said “I was proud to work for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and If I am elected President I assure you that in 2009 I will ask Congress to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” (The crowd goes wild) “It is a Federal Responsibility” he said and continued ” we also need a temporary guest worker program”
He then told a story about a day laborer who got picked up this morning, worked all day and then never got paid…We have no Federal Policy, we cannot allow this to happen, he said, He repeated I assure you that I will work for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
John McCain talked about a debate he was in about enforcing the law and he says that the “other side had a lot of “Rhetoric” “you know what I am talking about!” he said…
Yeah, we know what he’s talking about. All too well.
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Related: Tipster Edgar M. sends an English translation of an article from Diario Libre touting McCain’s promise to renew his shamnesty push for the “undocumented:”
New York - The Republican candidate for the White House, Senator John McCain, promised that if he wins, a day after he is sworn in as a new president of the United States, he will pressure Congress to enact a law immediately in favor of immigration reform.
The candidate that appears today eight points behind his Democrat rival Barack Obama, did the pronouncement in an interview that he granted to the Hispanic newspaper La Opinion in Los Angeles…
McCain said that it is completely false that [he] has abandoned his original commitment to fight for reform for the more than 12 million undocumented immigrants that reside in the United States and that includes the failed proposal of President Bush, to secure the borders first.
“This reform will be a priority in my administration because it is a convincing federal responsibility”, added the contender of the Republican Party. “We will undertake immigration reform and on the day after my inauguration, I will ask Congress to reconsider it, although I believe that first we have to secure our borders, set in motion a plan for guest workers that works and to focus on the issue of the undocumented in a humane and compassionate way.”
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Related: Ed Morrissey’s liveblogging McCain’s townhall in St. Paul, Minn. Looks like immigration received only the most superficial treatment.
I am also CNN deprived and have never owned a TV to speak of. When I go to other peoples houses, I like watching the tube because I usually don’t.
All I really like to watch is Lou Dobbs!!
OMG!!! That is fantastic news!
I will let all my contacts know!
Who know’s....after being interviewed there, perhaps they will schedule you to be interviewed with Dobbs. Oh, and would love to see you get the chance to talk with Glenn Beck!
Thank you so much for the ping, but more importantly, for taking the opportunity to attend the meeting and report back to all of us!
Best of luck to you!
I am going on LOU DOBBS TODAY!!!!!!
There is a Change! Could you ping folks and let them know!!
I will be on at the top of the program!!!
I HAVE GOT TO GET READY!!!!!!!
MESSAGE FROM CHICAGOLADY! TURN ON THE TUBE! CNN!
I am going on LOU DOBBS TODAY!!!!!!
There is a Change! Could you ping folks and let them know!!
I will be on at the top of the program!!!
I HAVE GOT TO GET READY!!!!!!!
63 posted on Fri Jun 20 13:44:55 2008 by chicagolady
Wake Up America!!
I hope this burns McQueeg’s ass. I also hope America is listening.
Yep, and he’s still lying.
So, gee, the Manchurian Candidate was lying after all. No fence and an amnesty.
We have until early Sept. to help the GOP come to its senses about this nutjob.
Both McLoser and Obama are funded by George Soros and they stand for exactly the same things.
A “humane” way of treating the “undocumented” means an amnesty, my friends.
And he says this @sskissing message at a CLOSED door event for Hispanics only?
I have said for over four months that we need a new horse in this race.
There’s no way he can be trusted to secure our borders. And without secure borders, NOTHING else he promises means anything because it won’t matter anymore. This country will be toast.
A five year prisoner of the North Vietnamese/Communist Chinese/Russians is not to be trusted. Period.
At this point, even if he ditched Hernandez and declared a change in policy, we will know that he has two messages: one for us and one for them.
Which is sad, because we really need a viable choice to Marxism and racism (how about 'Americanism'?). We really need someone on the Right, but all we have are candidates from the Left.
bump
His answer? "It will never come to a vote, it'd never hit my desk"...."Senator, that wasn't my question, would you sign it? His answer? " It will never get to my desk."
In other words, the stubborn SOB revealed his TRUE intentions. Thereafter whenever he was with an anti-illegal crowd, he was one way, and when with another crowd he was all another way. NOW, he's gotten serious, serious enough to hold secret meetings.
There is no honor in this man, and there is no honor in voting for him. You can equivocate the alternatives, but you have living proof of this man's honor and only speculation and conjecture for the alternatives to him. I'll not vote for him, nor for Obama for that matter.
Give Bob Barr a good look!
Thanks!! for the ping...I needed good news!
Please give us an update, if you have time, as some of us don’t have cable (or won’t have the opportunity to watch).
Or whoever has the time, please let us know what happened.
McCain is the RINO global elitist sack of cow dung. He and Obama are going to screw over the US. Pick your poison, either way you are going to take it up the bungholio.
I despise McCain, he is everything I hate in a leader.
I wish we were ready to oust these POS, because otherwise we are dead meat.
Vote for one of these t*rds if you wish, ain’t nothing to be proud of.
I know of Bob Barr very well. He was the Congressman to a neighboring district from mine (Newt’s old district). Ordinarily, I’d have gone his way in a New York minute, but his contract work for the ACLU since his departure from Congress gave me some discomfort. I guess I’m stubborn, but he’s looking more and more like the alternative for me now. I just won’t vote for McCain or Obama. I don’t subscribe to the fear alternatives, the current McCain apologists are hawking now. I was in the military 68-76 so I know what liberals can do to the military but I also know that the training and attitude of our soldiers is the best, bar none - and they will survive.
Is he the gullible type?
“The MSM, imo, is exercising too much influence in deciding this election.”
Yup, MSM picked Obama and McCain by parading them in front of us, or slanting the news to favor them.
People don’t spend time researching, and deciding for themselves, so they just vote for the one they see the most on the boob tube.
We get the govt. we deserve.
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His public interaction in my knowledge of him were always above board. BUT, BUT....he did go to work for the ACLU after leaving Congress....maybe he got hungry and wanted the old life back...maybe he hung around the ALCU water cooler too long and got converted, I don't know... On second thought, I don't think I'd vote for him if he's succumbed to the Global Warming koolaid....I'll just vote for "none of the above"
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