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Posted on 11/24/2005 11:19:10 AM PST by CounterCounterCulture
Associated Press
SANTA ANA, Calif. - Petitions used for the 2003 recall of a Latino Santa Ana school trustee should have been printed in Spanish as well as English, an appellate court has ruled.
The trustee, Nativio V. Lopez, had come under fire for seeking exemptions to the state's English-only instruction requirements and was partly blamed for the district's lack of new school construction. He was recalled by 71 percent of voters.
The decision Wednesday by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals could be used to force election officials throughout the state to require multiple-language petitions for ballot issues, voting-rights advocates said.
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Life is not fair. Live with it.
Very clever!
I went to the K-Mart here in Lodi. The signs were only in Spanish. Can I sue?
If you can't speak and read English you should have no right to vote.
Those judges are enemies of the Republic.
ROTFLMAO !!
BTTT
Let me see if I have this right, it CA there is some way to negatively sign a petition? You could sign a petition in some way that would reduce the number of signatures?
By not printing Spanish language petitions, the recall group made it tougher to get the signaures. How can the court object to that?
From a column by Larry Elder:
Nativo V. Lopez is a former school trustee in Santa Ana, California. He heads up the Mexican American Political Association and Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana. Born in the United States and christened Larry Lopez, he changed his name to Nativo to stress his Mexican roots.
Like many so-called Hispanic leaders, Lopez readily whips out the race card. Of the proposal to put special marks in California drivers' licenses for illegal aliens, Lopez said such a designation would make illegals the "Jews of Nazi Germany in California," or the "new black slaves."
Lopez equates the term "illegal alien" to racial or religious epithets like "nigger" and "kike." (He also seems to constantly find himself in trouble.
California Attorney General Bill Lockyer threatened to revoke the non-profit status of Lopez's Hermandad organization for failing to file an IRS tax return or submit a state renewal fee since 1993.)
Santa Ana voters elected Lopez to the school district in 1996. He adamantly opposed Proposition 227 (the proposition that ended bilingual education in California), and vigorously resisted its implementation. Parents accused Lopez of refusing to implement the proposition, and campaigning for parents to sign waivers to keep their kids in Spanish language classes.
This so angered voters in the school district, they recalled Lopez two years ago by an embarrassing vote of over 70%. Lopez lost in every precinct, even the poor, heavily Hispanic ones.
A Santa Ana dentist born in Mexico told the Los Angeles Times why he voted to recall Lopez: "You don't come to the United States and say, 'I'd like to live in a city that looks like Mexico,'" said Arturo Lomelli. "You want nice things. You don't get them with a Nativo Lopez."
After his crushing defeat, Lopez,, of course, whipped out the race card again. "This recall wasn't just about Nativo Lopez" he declared, "It was to keep our people in check." Fortunately, voters saw it differently.
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AMEN
"In declining states the leadership intuitively choses the most harmful course of action."-A Great Historian 1888
I thought that to vote you had to be a citizen.
I thought that to be a citizen you had to either be born here, or be naturalized.
I thought that to be a naturalized citizen that one of the requirements was to either graduate from high school (assuming you that you were legally in the country) or to take a test in English.
Am I mistaken?
In other words, indirectly, at least, in order to be a citizen one must be able to speak English.
One would either be born and raised here, or enter the country as a child and then graduate from high school, or come later as an adult and take a test in English.
Is this correct, or am I missing something?
And if - indirectly at least - English was in this sense unofficially "required" (sort of) to become a citizen,
then why should ballots and petitions need to be in Spanish.
What am I missing here? Please help me.
I can't wait until this gets to the "Roberts Court." This will get B*tch slapped down. It might even be the end to multiple-language ballots, etc.
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