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Poll says Virginia opposes publicly funded day laborer sites
WAVY TV.com ^ | September 12, 2005

Posted on 09/12/2005 6:51:36 AM PDT by Happy2BMe

Poll says Virginia opposes publicly funded day laborer sites

WASHINGTON The issue of immigration and sites for day laborers may play a big part in the Virginia governor's race. A Washington Post poll says 56 of voters don't think that taxpayers should fund centers where day laborers can assemble to look for work. When voters were asked about centers being used by workers in the country illegally, the poll says opposition was even stronger.

That view supports the one held by Republican Jerry Kilgore, who has said that he would opposed funding for the sites. Democrat Tim Kaine has said he will support decisions made by local officials.

The town of Herndon recently voted to establish a regulated site for day laborers on public land, but that decision quickly brought legal challenges from town residents.

The poll finds that a slight majority of northern Virginia residents support using public money for the centers.


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: daylaborers; herndon; illeals; issues; jerrykilgore; poll
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To: Corin Stormhands; Gabz

Opie just cracked me up talking about changing the system & breaking agendas by voting for an entrenched Republican that loves hiking taxes. You can't make this stuff up! :-D


21 posted on 09/12/2005 7:25:16 AM PDT by Coop (www.heroesandtraitors.org)
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To: Gabz

"IMO Russ Potts and his kind are the problem - not part of the solution."

Russ Potts is a crackpot - Vote Kilgore if you want this state to remain in the red column.


22 posted on 09/12/2005 7:35:41 AM PDT by Cathy
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To: Coop

I'll take the ribbing.

I just can't continue to vote for the parties in power. I'll vote Independent or Libertarian or Green for that matter. They won't win, but at least I won't be voting for the agenda that continues on and on and on.

Taxes, abortion, euthanasia, and other interesting non-issues keep the same politicians in power over and over and even when the politicians change, they still represent the same agenda.

I just can't see where this is going with either Kaine or Kilgore.

Our "GOP" Congress seems to have enacted nothing of the things that matter to people. Nothing. And the democrats are more the same. Taxes? That changes year to year, need to need.


23 posted on 09/12/2005 7:36:20 AM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Gabz

But Potts said he would defer his gas tax increase until after the refineries have recovered from Katrina, so it isn't all bad.

Potts/Byrne -- the true liberal ticket in Virginia.


24 posted on 09/12/2005 7:41:35 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Happy2BMe

Liberalism is a cancer that resides in our cities and threatens the rest of the country with its infection. We need to cut out the cancer to save the body.


25 posted on 09/12/2005 7:46:07 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (The alternative media is our Enigma machine.)
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To: TheForceOfOne
Sorry. The GOP is no longer a conservative party.

There has been more government spending and more government bureaucracy created in the past years than any other administration since F.D.R.

26 posted on 09/12/2005 7:50:06 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (Viva La MIGRA - LONG LIVE THE BORDER PATROL!)
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To: Happy2BMe
. . in the past five years . .
27 posted on 09/12/2005 7:50:56 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (Viva La MIGRA - LONG LIVE THE BORDER PATROL!)
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To: Coop; Corin Stormhands

Call me a one note person - but anyone proposing a nearly 3 fold increase in cigarette taxes - after already accomplishing a 3000% increase deserves nothing less than to be left in the dust.

And it's not really about cigarettes - it's the principle of it - that's an easy one, because most people don't smoke - but it also says to me that someone lese is next.

I have been an excise/sales tax opponent to a certain extent for most of my life and have no intention of changing.


28 posted on 09/12/2005 7:51:24 AM PDT by Gabz ((Chincoteague, VA) USSG Warning: portable sewing machines cause broken ankles)
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To: Happy2BMe

What, were they polling Arlington and Alexandria as "Northern Virginia"?


29 posted on 09/12/2005 7:52:47 AM PDT by angkor
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To: Cathy
Russ Potts is a crackpot

There is that, as well :)

30 posted on 09/12/2005 7:52:48 AM PDT by Gabz ((Chincoteague, VA) USSG Warning: portable sewing machines cause broken ankles)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
But Potts said he would defer his gas tax increase until after the refineries have recovered from Katrina, so it isn't all bad.

ROFL..........I caught that

31 posted on 09/12/2005 7:54:37 AM PDT by Gabz ((Chincoteague, VA) USSG Warning: portable sewing machines cause broken ankles)
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To: zek157
Would anyone want to live , or run a business next to one of these sites? I would suggest any city council that wants one place it next to city hall.

The first one proposed was to go right outside the WETA (aka PBS) office in Shirlington.

I think they relocated it to a "more appropriate" spot.

32 posted on 09/12/2005 7:55:06 AM PDT by angkor
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To: angkor

Looks like North Carolinians have more fight in them after all . .


33 posted on 09/12/2005 7:57:22 AM PDT by Happy2BMe (Viva La MIGRA - LONG LIVE THE BORDER PATROL!)
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To: OpusatFR
I'll vote Independent or Libertarian or Green for that matter.

You're voting for Potts the Republican.

34 posted on 09/12/2005 7:59:24 AM PDT by Coop (www.heroesandtraitors.org)
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To: OpusatFR; Coop; Gabz
They won't win, but at least I won't be voting for the agenda that continues on and on and on.

Fine, but come January 16, don't come cryin' to us, because WE will be the ones who have tried to make a difference.

Taxes, abortion, euthanasia, and other interesting non-issues keep the same politicians in power over and over and even when the politicians change, they still represent the same agenda.

I just can't see where this is going with either Kaine or Kilgore.

Then you aren't paying attention.

35 posted on 09/12/2005 8:05:10 AM PDT by Corin Stormhands (Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Reminds me of the same ol' folks (read: disgrunted Libertarians - is there any other kind?) who claimed there was no difference between Bush and Gore or Bush and Kerry.
[stifling yawn]
36 posted on 09/12/2005 8:13:30 AM PDT by Coop (www.heroesandtraitors.org)
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To: Corin Stormhands; OpusatFR; Coop

Nothing personal here, but anyone claiming that taxes are a non-issue has very little credibility with me.


37 posted on 09/12/2005 8:13:58 AM PDT by Gabz ((Chincoteague, VA) USSG Warning: portable sewing machines cause broken ankles)
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To: OpusatFR

Potts looks to be running to the left of Kaine on most issues.

Looks like Potts is taking votes away from Kaine.


38 posted on 09/12/2005 2:57:36 PM PDT by nvcdl
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To: Happy2BMe
There has been more government spending and more government bureaucracy created in the past years than any other administration since F.D.R.

The fact that the Dept. of Education not only still exists, but has been expanded in the last 4 years, makes me wonder. And you cannot deny the increases in non-defense, non-disaster-related spending.

"Conservative government" may very well be an oxymoron, but "big goverment Republican" seems redundant these days.
39 posted on 09/12/2005 7:41:34 PM PDT by Das Outsider ("Tabbâq spawns endless oblations...For the white togas of a modern Rome..." ~Q)
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