Posted on 08/04/2011 9:38:42 AM PDT by montag813
Edited on 08/04/2011 9:54:18 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
by John Hill Stand With Arizona
You have to hand it to Gov. Susana Martinez (R-NM): she does NOT back down. This tough former D.A. seems to have inherited her tenacity from her father - a former Sheriff and boxer who won three straight Golden Gloves titles in the 1950s. Her adversaries underestimate her at their peril.
And when her Democrat adversaries blocked her fight to stop issuing drivers' licenses to illegal aliens last Winter, she tried again in March. SWA members turned out tons of phone calls and emails, and remarkably Martinez managed to pass it through the House on March 4. But Senate Democrats then quietly killed the the bill late on a Friday night on March 19th. They thought the matter was closed for the year, as is usually the case. But Susana Martinez is not your "usual" politician.
New Mexico is one of only two states that grants driver's licenses to people regardless of immigration status. The law - created in 2003 under her predecessor, Democrat Bill Richardson - has made New Mexico a magnet for illegal aliens who want to receive a valid United States ID and travel freely around the country, Martinez noted. Thus this disgraceful law not only rewards illegal aliens, but also gives potential terrorists an easy gateway to establish themselves in ANY state to help plan an attack.
And Martinez is determined to put a stop to it. "I will continue to fight to fulfill the promises I made to New Mexicans," she said after the bill's defeat. And fight she did.
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Thanks sickoflibs.
NO to the train ride. but each night we’d drive up to near where the train ride ends and watch as nearly two thousand Elk would come out of the tree line and go in the green grass valley to eat.
Never saw anything like it.
see my 39
And I agree that she's done more good in her tenure than Bubba's flunky did in eight years misgoverning that state.
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