Posted on 07/20/2005 8:28:43 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
Inquirer Staff Writer
Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean told the National Council of La Raza yesterday that he expected the Republican Party to "scapegoat immigrants" during the 2006 election campaign.
In a speech on the last day of the Hispanic advocacy organization's annual gathering, at the Convention Center, Dean said the GOP had tried to generate resentment against blacks in the 2002 elections through the issue of affirmative action and against gays last year by focusing on marriage.
"In 2006, it's going to be immigration," he said. "You wait and see."
As evidence, Dean cited Rep. Thomas G. Tancredo (R., Colo.), who has called for rounding up illegal immigrants and shipping them back home. He also referred to a bill sponsored by House Judiciary Chairman Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R., Wis.) that would make states verify individuals' immigration status before issuing them driver's licenses.
"I don't think the president is a bigot," Dean told reporters at the Convention Center. "But I wish he'd have the courage to stand up to the bigots in his own party."
Dean's Republican counterpart, Ken Mehlman, followed him to the rostrum and did not respond there. But later, he told reporters that the former Vermont governor's comments were "laughable."
Said Mehlman: "It sounds like a good political sound bite, but it's entirely belied by this president, this administration's record."
Mehlman noted that President Bush has created what the party chairman called "the most diverse administration in history," that Bush got more than 40 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2004, and that the party is striving to get a bigger share in the future.
"Your interests are our interests," he told his Hispanic audience during his speech. "Your cause is our cause."
Last month, when first attacked on the immigration issue by the Democratic chairman, Sensenbrenner called the allegations "outrageous" and Tancredo labeled Dean as being out of the political mainstream.
Mehlman did reply to one of the convention's previous speakers, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D, N.Y.). On Monday, she told the La Raza convention that the Bush administration was not doing enough for Hispanic families.
The Republican chairman pointed out that Bush has raised federal spending on education, a key concern of Hispanics, more than had the previous administration, headed by Clinton's husband.
Yep this is true... they are making a mistake thinking ALL Hispanics think the same. Of course they treat all minorities that way.
Howard Dean attacks Cong. Tancredo. Howard Dean supports rewarding illegal aliens with legal status.
All or nearly all of those who attack Cong. Tancredo at Free Republic support reqarding illegal aliens with legal status.
Do I see a pattern?
Of course, Howard Dean and all or nearly all of those who attack Cong. Tancredo at Free Republic don't want the word illegal alien used. They prefer to call an illegal alien an "immigrant."
And Dean is known for having absolutely no minorities on his staff and no minority support.
Do you mean the WASP ones who don't speak a word of spanish?
I never realized that I, as a member of that "3." category, was in such a "remaining," unreasonable few. Ha...
Those points clearly indicate that, for whoever wrote it, they are isolated within a certain closed socio-racial society. Which is not my experience of our United States.
No. I mean the true true neanderthal Stormfront type ones. We have two or three that occasionally come around FR.
I meant that there aren't that many neanderthal Stormfront types left in the country, as opposed to the assertion that the left makes that all conservatives are this way.
In other words, Tancredo wants our current immigration laws to be enforced.
I see. Coincidentally, your description also fits one or two open border apologists who stalk these threads.
From my own experience and what I can see and have read, I believe this is a very small group, probably statistically insignificant on the issues.
Yes.....all part of the same sick circle. When the 2 Stormfront.org types post something, then the 2 apologists capitalize on it and purport that it's characteristic of ALL anti-illegals, and the sick, twisted circle goes round and round, and the rest of us who are anti-illegal, anti-open borders and pro-ALL American citizens are left to pound our heads in frustration.
You are correct, but the left and the la raza crowd use them to falsely portray the Minutemen, anyone who speaks out against illegal immigration, etc.
And who are you referring to? If you are talking about the Republicans on FR, I have not seen any of us who support open borders.
Do you know what "open border" means? An open border is one that anyone can cross at any time without limitation. We have open borders between our states, counties and cities.
We do not have open borders between us and Canada or Mexico. We haven't had an open border with Mexico in nearly 100 years.
Calling Republicans the open border crowd makes a person appear to be uneducated at best.
Después que el reconquista sucede, los incultos serán los que no hablan inglés. Eso le incluye.
Why? We're not your servant. Your profile page says that you "hold no loyalty to any political party."
That's certainly your right as an American, but it's our right as a political party to exclude you from any consideration in the process of governing. We are a private organization, not a government agency.
Do you think that you have a right to be served by every church, regardless of whether you are a member?
Do you think that you have a right to walk into any private club and demand to be served?
Political parties are "members only."
Quit being a baby and grow the hell up. If you don't like what I have to say don't respond.
You obviously haven't heard about the Cornyn/Kyle bill filed yesterday.
¿Quién murió y le hizo reina?
Otra premisa defectuosa clásica de pantanoso. Una iglesia sólo afecta a sus parroquianos, pero un partido es implicado en el gobierno, que afecta todos si ellos son un miembro de ese partido o no.
What this country needs is an awakening of the cost of the freedoms Americans hold dear and how perilously close those precious jewels are from being stolen away from us right before our very eyes.
What I'm looking for is a "Pure American Patriot."
(They are the True Minority. Would you disagree?)
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