Immigration Top Issue for Idaho Republican (Robert Vasquez)

Voters in Idaho head to the polls Tuesday for a primary that includes a congressional bid by a commissioner who once sought to have his county declared a disaster area because of an influx of illegal immigrants.

In the nation's only other primary, former Clinton administration official Bill Halter faces three Democratic opponents in the Arkansas lieutenant governor's race.

In Idaho, Canyon County Commissioner Robert Vasquez, who is the grandson of Mexican immigrants, also tried to bill the Mexican government $2 million for public services to immigrants and filed an unsuccessful lawsuit accusing employers of conspiring to hire illegal workers.

I'm supporting Bill Sali.

Bill's a conservative hero with a record across the board that any patriot could be proud of.

Robert is a one-trick pony who's wrong on a whole bunch of important issues. The way he filled out the Gem State questionaire was a disgrace, I'm sorry to say. Supports human cloning and fetal stem cell research. Refuses to rein in out of control judges. Unresponsive on tax reform. Shoot, he won't even do something so simple as sign Grover's no new taxes pledge.

Sali's running just a few points ahead of leftist Sheila Sorensen anyway, with everyone else far back in the dust.

Everyone who votes for Robert is simply empowering a woman who even voted for partial birth abortions.

Bill Sali is as solidly conservative as anyone we now have in Congress. He's been tested in the fires of the legislative process for 18 years. He's got the guts and a proven record of fighting without fear or favor for our cause.

He's going to make a great addition to the Republican Study Group and the Immigration Caucus.

Wow. I just had to go back and read the Gem State questionaire again.

Vasquez is "undecided" on whether we should teach that our rights are a gift of God, not government.

That's a hit against the most fundamental principles that underlie our form of government.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

"Self-evident" to the founders, but not to Robert Vasquez...

Bummer.

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