Posted on 12/04/2005 9:29:29 AM PST by Sweetjustusnow
Thanks to a congressional earmark, an open-borders advocacy group that pushes for driver’s licenses, free in-state tuition and healthcare for illegal aliens and bilingual requirements for state agencies and ballots is slated to get $4 million in new taxpayer money to add to the more than $30 million it has received from various federal agencies since 1996.
The National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Spanish for “the race,” will get its latest grant through an appropriations bill passed by Congress on November 18. The Joint Explanatory Statement of HR 3058, available on the House’s Rules Committee website lists 1,100 plus earmarks in the bill, including La Raza’s grant under the Housing and Urban Development Department’s Self-Help and Assisted Ownership Programs. Under this account La Raza will receive four times as much as the Special Olympics, which won a $1-million earmark.
La Raza is the nation’s largest Hispanic advocacy organization. It was adamantly opposed to the REAL ID Act, which will prevent states from issuing driver’s licenses to illegal aliens if they want them to be usable for federal purposes. It is also opposed to the CLEAR Act, which would grant state and local law enforcement agencies that wish to do so the authority to enforce federal immigration laws.
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The Capital Research Center (CRC), which rates public interest groups on a scale of 1 to 8, with 1 equaling “radical left” and 8 equaling “free market right,” gave La Raza a rating of 2, the same rating it gave People for the American Way and NARAL Pro-Choice America. CRC reports that La Raza’s net assets totaled nearly $52 million in 2003.
La Raza Senior Vice President Charles Kamasaki explained in an e-mail that his group typically gets government grants three different ways: The largest awards probably come from competitive bidding processes for grants and contracts said Kamasaki. But other grants include congressional earmarks—such as the one in this year’s Housing appropriation—and discretionary funds allocated from agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which have all provided tax dollars to NCLR.
NCLR also employs an appropriations lobbyist who works to secure federal earmarks for the group. Tax forms available from CRC also reveal that La Raza spends about $1 million per year on lobbyists, fundraising and web design.
The $4-million grant in this year’s housing bill, which is the fifth in a series of similar congressional earmarks, wasn’t expected, Kamaski said. “This was a somewhat unusual year in that this earmark was not specifically requested,” he explained. He also said the funding is targeted primarily toward a La Raza subsidiary that has made over $40 million in loans to NCLR affiliates and other community based groups such as charter school facilities, heath clinics, day-care centers and affordable housing developments.
One person who would like to know how La Raza’s $4-million earmark got into the bill is Rep. Charlie Norwood (R.-Ga.) who, with Rep. Pete Sessions (R.-Tex.), sponsors the CLEAR Act. Jennifer Hing, communication director for Rep. Joe Knollenberg (R.-Mich.) who is chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that handled the bill, said the Senate inserted the earmark.
Norwood said he was told the money was stricken from the House version of the bill because NCLR has not used the money for housing they received last year. “But no matter what they did or didn’t do last year, we ought not to send taxpayer’s money to people who absolutely advocate perhaps using that money for this country not to follow the law of the land and not to secure our country’s borders,” he said. Said Norwood: “It sounds like they have a sugar-daddy in the Senate.”
One possible culprit is Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) who sits on the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that handled the bill carrying the earmark. In 2001, Reid sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee requesting $5 million for La Raza’s housing programs. That same year Reid also received NCLR’s Capital Award for “his commitment to advance legislation priorities of the Latino Community.” In gratitude, Reid told NCLR, “La Raza is like the biblical David, fighting all these Goliaths.”
Reid’s office did not respond to calls asking whether he inserted or even supported the earmark.
Despite the significant federal assistance La Raza has received, Cecilia Munoz, the group’s vice president for policy, has rebuked the Bush Administration for not catering to the needs of immigrants. “We all know there is a wing of the Republican Party that will never like anything that treats immigrants well,” she said in June. “Any attempt by the President to move in the direction of those folks is going to be viewed as hostile to the Latino community.”
Commenting on the irony that a Republican-controlled Congress would send to a Republican President a spending bill that included a multi-million-dollar subsidy for a left-wing group, a GOP aide told Human Events: “We Republicans excel at funding or otherwise supporting our political adversaries.”
You're going to pay for it all.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8173/north_american_community_approach_to_security.html
Will Jorge II sign it??
And then it would follow, using your logic, that all blacks are great basketball players and all Jews excel at finances???
This is the kind of BS that fuels the fires of racism.
Without all this anti-white activism, there would be no white supremacist backlash, and the KKK and Neo-Nazis would have continued to lose members and slowly go the way of the dinosaurs.
Now, it's the liberals' anti-white racism and divisiveness that are pushing us towards a race war.
Call me softhearted, but I care about the lives of all the hispanics and blacks that are going to die if this idiocy gets out of hand.
Can we get the DNC to pony up some $$ for Aryan Nation or Christian Identity? That would make it fair.
Or maybe give Resistance Records the same tax-exempt status and government support that PBS has.
"The U.S. Congress should also merge the U.S.-Mexican and U.S.-Canadian interparliamentary groups into a single “North American Parliamentary Group.” A third institution should be a “Permanent Tribunal on Trade and Investment.” NAFTA established ad hoc dispute panels, but it has become difficult to find experts who do not have a conflict of interest to arbitrate conflicts. A permanent court would permit the accumulation of precedent and lay the groundwork for North American business law."
I knew NAFTA was no good, but it now appears that it is simply a cog in the overall scheme to create a North American socialist pie. Bush and his cronies won't be harmed as they control the natural resources(money and power) in just a few families. Nice work, George!
Amazing. CW II ping.
Phyllis Schlafly has Jorge's number.
her exellent summary is here.
http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2005/july05/05-07-13.html
Notice where Jorge was when he called the Minutemen "Vigilantees."
He was snuggling with Fox and Martin.
This is from their web page. Fascinating. Interlocking: Clinton Administration, State Universities, Disney Corporation, Dem Congress critters.
Who are NCLR’s leaders?
NCLR President Janet Murguia has emerged as a key figure among the next generation of leaders in the Latino community. She began her career in Washington, DC as legislative counsel to former Kansas Congressman Jim Slattery, serving for seven years. She then worked at the White House in various capacities from 1994 to 2000, ultimately as deputy assistant to President Clinton and deputy director of legislative affairs, serving as a senior White House liaison to Congress. Prior to joining NCLR, she was the Executive Vice Chancellor for University Relations at the University of Kansas, overseeing the university's internal and external relations with the public, including governmental and public affairs, and coordinating the university's strategic planning and marketing efforts.
Murguia has served on the National Council of La Raza’s Board of Directors and on the Kauffman Foundation Youth Development Board. She is currently a Board member of the Independent Sector, a coalition of leading nonprofits, foundations, and corporations committed to connecting, informing, and advocating on behalf of the nonprofit and philanthropic community. She also serves on the Board of Trustees for YouthFriends, a nationally recognized school-based mentoring effort. Recently, Hispanic magazine selected Murguia for its annual list of "100 Top Latinas" for the second consecutive year. Additionally, she was named by Hispanic Business magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential Hispanics" and as one of "80 Elite Hispanic Women."
The NCLR Board Chair is Mónica Lozano, Publisher and CEO of La Opinión, the nation's largest Spanish-language daily which is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. Under her direction, La Opinión has entered into important strategic partnerships with key media companies, nonprofits, government, and private business. These efforts have included a program to inform one million Latino parents about education issues, the development and statewide distribution of annual health-related supplements, an outreach campaign on the Cal-Grants program on behalf of the State of California, and a series of seminars for small business owners.
She serves on the Board of Directors of the Walt Disney Company and Tenet Health Care Corporation. In 2001, she was appointed to the University of California Board of Regents, and has also served on the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern California since 1990. She sits on numerous nonprofit boards, including the California HealthCare Foundation.
bump ... this is insane
The GOP establishment is open-borders party. Plain and simple.
"The GOP establishment is open-borders party. Plain and simple."
Once I would have tried to argue against this point, but I just can't anymore. It is true. 100% true. But the Republican elites know that we as their base won't vote for the Democrats under any circumstanes so they don't feel like they need to be responsable to us at all. Such is the downside of our two-party system.
Who is Jorge?
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Like the pic.Good satire.
Arbusto.
Yep.
Just damn!
Bring it on already, before there is nothing left to save.
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