Arab-Americans organize to influence elections

Newsday ^ | December 13, 2003 | MIKE SCHNEIDER - AP

[yonif]

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Jim Bajalia has always voted for Republican presidential candidates. The second-generation Palestinian-American was an enthusiastic College Republican at Florida State University, and he once explained to former Democratic President Jimmy Carter during an airplane encounter why he never voted for him.

But President Bush's policies in Iraq and Israel, and local and state politicians' insensitivity to Arab-American concerns, have sorely tested Bajalia's political loyalty. He believes it's time Arab-Americans flex their political muscle.

"We have the political wherewithal and knowledge to make sure politicians are more sensitive to our issues," said Bajalia, 42, who runs a retail liquidation business in Jacksonville.

[cmsgop]

I'm guessing they won't vote for Lieberman....

[knak]

grrrr

[Ex-Dem]

Nader, perhaps?

[Federalist 78]

Arab-Americans organize to influence elections:

TV News, Rich People Now Control Political Speech, Analysts Say

Now it all makes sense.

[Cindy]

ARTICLE SNIPPET: ""We have the political wherewithal and knowledge to make sure politicians are more sensitive to our issues," said Bajalia, 42, who runs a retail liquidation business in Jacksonville."

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[river rat]

Isn't it amazing!

Folks leave their native lands, where their "cultural beliefs and practices" turned the place into an unlivable third world dump...

They come to America --- for all the benefits and opportunity, and the first thing they want to do is to implement the same "cultural beliefs and practices" here that had such disasterious results in the homelands..

One of the clearest signs of insanity, it to repeat the same action and expect a different result....

You have to ask yourself....how many Easter baskets are these folks going to be allowed to take a dump in, before folks get fed up and put them straight?



Semper Fi

[gr8eman]

Sounds like what all the yankees are doing in the south!

[winker]

Hard to believe that a Vote could be the ultimate WMD; but it certainly could provide the mechanism to our nation's destruction. Voting Blocks are not well thought out in the electorial process that we tout here in America! Most real natural born citizens could care less to get registered to vote but the TERRORISTS are signaling their intentions to storm the polls and to stack the deck in favor of liberals and socialists. If this does not move you to action or shock you into reality nothing will. We have to meet this challenge with equal force to defeat liberalism and activism designed to change the political landscape.

[uncbob]

Well maybe the Jewish voters will all vote GOP as a backlash but don't bet on it

[river rat]

Exactly.

My daughter and her family, left California and "went home" to raise her children..

They have a nice place, north of Atlanta in a high end Golf Course and Lakeside walled community....

I did not meet more that couple native southerners in that neighborhood..

Most everyone else in the neighborhood - was born north of the Mason/Dixon, or out of the country...

I was stunned.

Semper Fi

[Mike Darancette]

They will collect millions and half will go to terrorists.