GOP candidate for senate called racist

UPI ^ | 2-25-04

[Indy Pendance]

CHICAGO, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- Immigrant rights advocates are ripping a pair of provocative campaign ads from Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Oberweis as racist and fallacious.

In his ads, Oberweis warns the nation is being overrun by illegal immigrants.

"Illegal aliens are coming here to take American workers' jobs, drive down wages and take advantage of government benefits such as free health care, and you pay," the wealthy dairy operator says in one of the spots.

"How many? Ten thousand illegal aliens a day. Enough to fill Soldier Field every single week." (Soldier Field is the stadium where the Chicago Bears play.)

Advocates for immigrant rights were swift to criticize the ads as racist.

"It is men like this gentleman who continue to project the old Archie Bunker mentality. Those stats are prostituted and fabricated," said state Rep. William Delgado, D-Chicago.

"They're very irresponsible."

[Indy Pendance]

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[Old Sarge]

He might as well quit now. Once the race card is on the table, it trumps any issue you bring up.

[justshutupandtakeit]

But he didn't say they weren't TRUE.

[HEY4QDEMS]

Soldier Field is the stadium where the Chicago Bears play

You call that playing !?!?

[HEY4QDEMS]

Soldier Field is the stadium where the Chicago Bears play

You call that playing !?!?

[jscd3]

Advocates for immigrant rights were swift to criticize the ads as racist

Yawn. They probably accuse the guy of being in favor of tax cuts for the rich as well.

The left really needs to get some new writers...

[lilylangtree]

The man is correctamundo. Too bad I'm not in Chicago I'd vote for him.

[ought-six]

Ummmm...what race? I never knew illegal immigrants were a race, since they come in all flavors.

[Lurker]

Dr. Kathuria is getting my vote in the primary next month.

Pro-life and pro-2nd. That's good enough for me.

L

[johnb838]

Hmmm... makes it kind of racist to say it's racist doesnt' it?

[goldstategop]

Sure. Say you're against illegal immigration and you're automatically a "racist."

[Shermy]

"Illegal aliens are coming here to take American workers' jobs,"

True.

drive down wages

That's not their purpose, but the purpose of the immigration industry undermining immigration laws and altering them.

and take advantage of government benefits such as free health care,

True, why wouldn't they?

and you pay

True again.

[highnoon]

>Advocates for immigrant rights <

What a sham. Why are there even advocates for criminal aliens anyway? ¡Cierre el infierno para arriba!

[prion]

Those stats are prostituted and fabricated

Prostituted? What does that mean?

[uncitizen]

You can tell just by his name that Oberweis is racist.

[JohnnyZ]

Immigrant rights advocates are ripping a pair of provocative campaign ads from Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jim Oberweis as racist and fallacious.

He's not racist. He didn't even care about illegal immigration at all until he started this campaign, when he also went from being a pro-abortion moderate to claiming to be a pro-life conservative.

[Our man in washington]

When I hear the left call someone a "racist", my brain translates it to "The left just announced it lost an argument with someone."

[Ohioan]

Good! He has got the public's attention. Now let's have a full, frank and open debate!

See Immigration & The American Future.

William Flax