PING!!!
Posted on 04/15/2006 3:33:14 PM PDT by SandRat
As he steered his Straight Talk Express across the United States in recent weeks, Republican Sen. John McCain has tried to stay a-head of the immigration issue. But Friday the immigration issue delivered 36 or so heads to his Phoenix office — heads of lettuce, that is.
McCain has been getting skewered in the media for comments earlier this month to a union group in Washington, D.C., that immigrants are taking jobs no one else wants, and offered them $50 an hour to pick lettuce in the Arizona sun for a summer, suggesting they couldn't do it.
The senator didn't stick around long enough to process any applications, despite several offers to take him up on his offer from the audience.
So Friday more than three dozen demonstrators showed up at his office, many carrying lettuce picker applications in one hand, and a head of lettuce in the other to show they could do the job.
McCain was not on hand to greet them, but somehow it's probably not the kind of green he was hoping to collect for his budding presidential bid.
A diamond in the trash? Nope
Searching for a way to advance their cause of the garbage fee, Councilwomen Nina Trasoff and Karin Uhlich set their sights on giving relief to snowbirds who pay the garbage fee when they're out of town because they don't want to turn off their water and kill their plants that are on a drip system.
Uhlich's "intelligent growth" subcommittee considered a $4 reduction for the snowbirds who are in dire financial straits, owning two houses and all.
The only problem was it left the rest of the ratepayers — 30 percent of whom could qualify for financial assistance — to pick up the tab for those two-house-owning snowbirds who are stretched so thin.
Not such a winning issue for the two populists who campaigned hard that the $14-a-month fee disproportionately hurt the poor. They quietly let the issue die.
Break-in won't end immigrant focus
It would be understandable if Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Harris made getting tough on crime a part of his campaign, what with his Scottsdale campaign office getting broken into and all last week.
Harris pledged, in a press release, to work with police to track down the "ruthless criminals" and "bring them to justice."
He said it appeared nothing was taken during the break-in, but someone had turned on and accessed his computer.
But Harris said he won't be deterred by the burglary and "will continue to argue for a tougher approach on illegal immigration."
Small steps for Rio Nuevo
The city's Rio Nuevo bill — which would inject an extra $1 billion into the city's Downtown — that is stuck in the Senate made it past the Senate's Rules Committee this week.
Although bills that are constitutional usually sail through the committee, the city had a tough time getting it on the committee's agenda. But now it has passed.
Onto the Senate floor it goes.
Senator John McCain has finally revealed himself in his
contempt for his fellow Americans:
He is a Ted Kennedyeque Liberal CommunistCrat !
No way is he going to be our next president !
For 50 dollars an hour, working say: 8 hours a day, 5 days a week = 2000 dollars a week !
Hell, I would make a run for Arizona for wages like that !
Yep but his pal Swimmer would then hit you with you are self employed so your tax obligation is at that level and you must payer higher SS, your own medical, your own unemployement and make the appropriate party and union dues contribution so....... you are now working at oh let's just say........ $1.35 an hour for 8 hours work.
It has to be that way since if you work all year picking lettuce traveling around the country you'd be in the wealthy category making over $100,000 a year.
Too bad they can't send him used toilet paper.
Pickup driving gun rack rebel flag waving didn't work well either...............
Oh well he could have made a melon joke at a naacp meeting.....
out in front of his Phoenix office yesterday!
I hope to see Juan McCain out of office forever. Treachery cannot be allowed to succeed.
I hold my head every time that RINO speaks.
Over the commode.
And no taxes withheld, because you damn sure know the wetbacks aren't paying any.
Oh really - McPain? Then please EXPLAIN to me why I have American BORN young (and old) men stopping by my house on practically a daily basis seeking work when they see either my husband or I working on the house or out in the field??????????
Lettuce pray that this low-life, comtemptible, little man is wiped out early in the primary season.
I emailed McCains office Sandrat i'm still waiting for my application for a 50 dollar an hour job.
I doubt i get a reply though ...
This is a collection of news bites regarding Arizona politics; the first deals with a lettuce protest in front of John McCain's Phoenix offices.
hehehehehehe --- taking a bite out of the lettuce knut McPain? hehehehehehehe
That would be great!!! And then I hope the good folks of Arizona would wake up and retire him.........the man is as dangerous as Ted Kennedy and Joe Biden.
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