and a minute...but I won't go there!
Posted on 04/27/2006 5:47:53 PM PDT by calcowgirl
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Some Democratic state lawmakers are planning to walk off the job Monday - just as millions of others around the country are expected to - in support of immigrants' rights.
The Democratic-controlled Senate, on a party-line vote, approved a resolution supporting the May 1 "Great American Boycott 2006," which supporters say will serve as a warning to Congress to avoid punitive immigration reform.
Organizers believe the boycott, in which large numbers of students also are expected to participate, will show just how vital immigrants are to America's major cities and the nation's economy.
"These immigrants are fighting to embrace this nation," said Sen. Richard Alarcon, D-Van Nuys. "What a good time this is when people can express their anger, their frustration, desires, hopes and dreams, all for the purpose of becoming American. That's a good thing."
Republicans voted unanimously against the resolution, saying it encourages lawlessness.
"The Legislature should not be encouraging students to leave school," said Southern California Sen. Dave Cox. "And, it's irresponsible to recommend to people they leave their jobs, especially when many can lose those jobs, whether they obtained them illegally or not."
Earlier this week, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, an immigrant from Austria, implored people to avoid the boycott.
"There are only downsides," he said. "It's bad for workers because some of them will get fired. It's bad for people who they work for because they will not have the workers scheduled to do the job. And it's bad for children if they don't go to school. The way you show that you can become a great contribution to this country and state is by going to school and being responsible."
The resolution to support the boycott isn't supported by all Democrats. Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, D-Los Angeles, called on immigrants to stay on the job unless they get their employers' permission, and for children to stay in school. He refused to take up the Senate resolution, and allowed his chambers' own resolution, which would have called on Congress to support immigrants' rights, to die.
Still, Nunez plans on flying down to Los Angeles to take part in marches, after he checks in at the Assembly Monday morning. Members are supposed to be at the Capitol on session days, which are Mondays and Thursdays.
"When you're with thousands of your constituents and you're talking about the very issues at the forefront of their concerns," said Steve Maviglio, Nunez's deputy chief of staff, "I think you're being an effective legislator."
Dick Ackerman, the Senate Republican minority leader from Tustin, said lawmakers should set an example by showing up to work.
"They should be prepared to do the state's work," he said. "A boycott is not taking care of the state's work."
Sen. Tom Torlakson, D-Antioch, voted in favor of the resolution, but called on parents to urge their children to stay in school.
Teachers should use the boycott as a way to "discuss the value, the history, the conflicts and the enrichment of our society that has come about with the waves of immigration in our time," said Torlakson, a former educator. "But we should also urge students to stay in school to underscore the value of education and use it as an opportunity to learn in a school setting."
But, Sen. Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, who authored the resolution, said the boycott will be part of history that will one day be recounted in classrooms across the country.
"It's one day out of 365, out of their lives," she said, "for immigrants to peacefully tell the country that we matter, we want justice."
Rallies are planned for Monday in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Oakland, Concord and other cities.
Okay, I could get REALLY bad and say something about those men, and a minute...but I won't go there!
Too bad for the feminazis that most women still like having the door opened for them!
In my neighborhood, it's like 99 foreigners out of every 100 residents.
Too many foreigners! It's making me crayzay!
What we need is a national state of emergency re immigration: legal and illegal. Stop all of it and then sort it out. We've seen the reports of the backlogs at USCIS, amidst the fraud allegations against at least 500 of their employees.
Legal immigrant doesn't necessarily mean American loyalty anymore.
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa *covering my virgin ears, nah-nah-nah-nah-nahhhhhhhhh*
LOL! I loved him. He was so funny. : )
Yeah, they can leave those REAL men for US!
haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
tee hee!
Savage was good tonight. Maybe he changed his meds.
But seriously, he's the only one who will speak plainly about what it is and what needs to be done.
Period.
Yep - he offered good solutions tonight. I like Lou Dobbs too but don't get to catch him that often.
I am cable-deprived so don't get to see Lou Dobbs.
I've been reading some of the transcripts since Just Piper has been posting them on the other thread.
DUmocrat Commies are behind this little "uprising":
Communist Party USA's 2006 Immigrant Rights Club Education Guide
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1622973/posts
Oh, good, I'll have to look up the transcripts - thanks!
Actually, she gets them off the CNN website...
They sure are. Many of the school teachers of these DUmmy legislators walking out next Monday, were and are commies.
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