Posted on 01/25/2006 5:33:48 PM PST by RWR8189
WASHINGTON -- Congressional Democrats announced today that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa will deliver the party's Spanish-language response to next week's State of the Union address
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine will deliver the Democratic response in English from the governor's mansion in Richmond, Va., while Villaraigosa will do so in Spanish from his office in Los Angeles City Hall, said Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California.
The annual presidential address, before a joint session of Congress and a national audience, gives the chief executive the opportunity to lay out his agenda for the coming year.
Bush's speech will begin at 6 p.m. PST; the Democratic response generally begins about an hour later. The mayor's comments will be carried on Spanish-language networks.
This will be the third consecutive year that Democrats have offered a Spanish language response to Bush's speech.
Two years ago, Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico delivered the first such response. Last year, it was jointly given by then Rep. Robert Menendez, now a senator from New Jersey, and Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico.
Bush began editing drafts of his speech yesterday. He is expected to propose an array of new initiatives, including allowing Americans to take tax deductions on more of their out-of-pocket medical expenses.
"We are proud to have Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa delivering the Spanish language response this year," Reid and Pelosi said in a joint statement issued in both languages.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Are we in occupied territory or something?
Many are starting to wonder.
It's only fair. Osama gave the Arab-language rebuttal already.
then "zir coward ee" read poetry, wonder what that was all about?
What with tens of millions of illegals, pretty much, yeah.
I am sure all those running around bashing Riordan -- a previous great mayor of LA -- as RINO, RINO, are now very happy with Villaraigosa. Also, obviously he has higher ambitions, governor of CA comes to mind as next step and use that as springboard for the presidency.
Villaraigosa got elected, because as usual, the conservatives are "too pure" to bother to vote. In the previous election they couldn't vote for the candidate supported by Riordan, so we got Hahn and then Villaraigosa. Of course, maybe this was what they really wanted.
I am sure they'll be happier with Villaraigosa, Angelides or Al Gore as CA governors, than they are with Arnold.
We must give the Dems. overwhelming defeats in 06!
The article gives the time of the speech, but not the DAY. Hello!?! McFly!?!
How long of a rebuttal can it be? Saying "Bush es el-stupdio" won't take very long.
But, but, but, YOU SAID THAT ELECTING MODERATES WAS AN INCREMENTAL STEP TOWARD ELECTING CONSERVATIVES!!! It didn't work that way, FO, because RINOs maintain liberal policies that manufacture more Democrats.
Lessee... Christopher was the last Republican mayor of San Franpsycho, Davis follows Wilson, Villaraigosa follows Riordan and Hahn, Democrats ran San Diego into the ground after Wilson... no pattern there! By contrast, after Pat Brown there was Reagan and after Jerry Brown came the Duke. Conservatives follow liberals because the public is desperate to clean up the mess the liberals make. When the "moderates" make a mess (as their liberal policies must) people elect liberals to "fix it," except that they make it worse. See?
OTOH, it was the corruption endemic to RINOs that was the principal reason Hahn was booted. Let that be a warning to you, FO, because at the rate he's going, Arnold isn't far behind no matter what conservatives do.
BTW, you DO know that one of the reasons the Power Crisis was so expensive is that Riordan's boys at the DWP were gouging the State worse than any private company? Such an honest "moderate," (NOT).
Villaraigosa got elected, because as usual, the conservatives are "too pure" to bother to vote.
Villaraigosa got elected, because Hahn got caught red handed. To posit that conservatives were the difference belies the enormous margin by which Tony MeChA won.
In the previous election they couldn't vote for the candidate supported by Riordan, so we got Hahn and then Villaraigosa. Of course, maybe this was what they really wanted.
Is this some kind of twisted bedtime fantasy of yours?
Sheesh.
What do they want from this votes? Studies show that more than half who speak Spanish are not even citizens, so they are not supposed to be voting, unless the dems have other plans, but that could be a wasted effort, because "about two-thirds of illegal aliens lack a high school diploma" or if they are after the mayors LA vote, 53 percent of the city’s adult population—3.8 million people—are functionally illiterate, so none of these people are going to ever be able to read a ballot anyhow. Yet the dems will still try, even dead people can’t read and that has never stopped them before.
http://www.freedomalliance.org/view_article.php?a_id=642
http://www.vdare.com/rubenstein/la_literacy.htm
>>Villaraigosa got elected, because as usual, the conservatives are "too pure" to bother to vote. In the previous election they couldn't vote for the candidate supported by Riordan, so we got Hahn and then Villaraigosa.
Huh? Are you makin' this up on the fly?
Riordan supported Villaraigosa in 2001 and 2005.
Confirming yet again, that a RINO would rather see a leftist elected than a conservative, as both Bill Simon and Tom McClintock can attest.
The Mayor who has presided over LA moving up to become the Murder Capitol of the U.S...and they're...mmm...proud.
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