Posted on 05/02/2006 6:45:49 PM PDT by kristinn
Voters in the town of Herndon, Virginia delivered a stunning rebuke today to elected officials who opened a taxpayer funded day labor center for illegal aliens in the town last year. Incumbent mayor Michael O'Reilly lost to Steven DeBenedittis while five of the six at-large town council seats went to candidates opposing the day labor center.
Town Council winners are Bill Tirrell, incumbent Dennis Husch, Connie Haines-Hutchison, Charlie Waddell and Dave Kirby.
Only one of three incumbents on the council who supported the day labor center won re-election, J. Harlan Reece. The other two who went down in defeat were Carol Bruce and Steven Mitchell. Day labor center supporter Jorge Rochac also lost.
With its proximity to Washington, D.C., Herndon has captured national attention as a focal point of the debate over border security and the millions of illegal aliens lving and working in communities all across the country.
The local election came one day after a nationwide protest and boycott effort in support of legalizing illegal aliens.
Turnout in the election was higher than in past years, at 26%. The margin of defeat for the incumbent mayor was 130 votes out of 2,596 votes cast.
The nearly clean sweep by candidates opposed to coddling illegal aliens with taxpayer funds should serve as a warning to incumbents everywhere.
soooooooooooooooo busted!
I ALMOST WANT TO CUT AND PASTE THAT!
It's copywritten. Sorry.
FOFL!
Lesson here for the politicians.
This mayor who was fired by the voters had aspirations for higher office and was using his pandering to the illegal aliens as the guaranteed way to the top.
He had the backing of unions, business leaders, Latino organizations, and all the local newspapers, from the Washington Post down to the little town weeklies.
He also had the endorsements of the ruling politicians in both parties who were similarly pandering to this presumedly huge voting block (Herndon was 26% Hispanic). The only thing he missed was the wishes of a big majority of the people, who threw him and his Council buddies out on their butts.
Let those Republican Senators in Washington take note - you could be next if you continue to ignore the will of the people. If you don't turn around, we can dump you - SI, SE PUEDE!!!!
Can we kick them out?
Si se puede!
This "was" a serious thread.
I think we need to depart for less serious threads.
duly noted. : )
A wall!
People jumping the wall!
Could it be? Are they returning from whence they came??? Oh wait. No wall.
Hey, very good! You noticed the wall!
Proof again that there are three boxes that protect America.. -The Ballot box, The Jury box, and the Cartridge box!!!
I'm beginning to care less about who gets elected than about PUNISHING YOU for your arrogant and treasonous malfeasance regarding this matter.
Hundreds of thousands of men have fought, killed and died for this country, and you just want to give it away !
SECURE THE BORDER OR YOU'RE FIRED !!!
This is way worse than Bush 41 reneging on "Read my lips"...IT'S POST 911...WE ARE AT WAR AND OUR BORDER IS WIDE FREAKING OPEN !!
<< kristinn
The nearly clean sweep by candidates opposed to coddling illegal aliens with taxpayer funds should serve as a warning to incumbents everywhere.
ARE YOU LISTENING WASHINGTON! >>
SSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
Don't wake the crooked bastards.
We'll get rid of them all as they sleep!
Illegal Immigrants Get Their Answer
May 02, 2006
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The May Day protests by activists for illegal immigrants have resulted in an utterly predictable backlash, according to the Washington Post. Voters have sent bricks to their Congressional representatives as donations for a border barrier, and even those who considered themselves liberals want the government to start rounding up illegals and send them packing:
While a series of marches focused much of the nation's attention on the plight of illegal immigrants, scores of other Americans quietly seethed. Now, with the same full-throated cry expressed by those in the country illegally, they are shouting back.Congressional leaders in Washington have gotten bricks in the mail from a group that advocates building a border fence, states in the West and South have drawn up tough anti-immigrant laws, and ordinary citizens, such as Janis McDonald of Pennsylvania, who considers herself a liberal, are not mincing words in expressing their displeasure.
"Send them back," McDonald said. "Build a damn wall and be done with it."
The anger invoked a word that immigrant organizers who opposed Monday's boycott feared: backlash. McDonald and other Americans were particularly disturbed by Monday's boycott and civil action, attended in large part by people who entered the country illegally and are now demanding rights enjoyed by U.S.-born citizens and immigrants who entered the country legally.
"How dare they," said McDonald, a research specialist for the University of Pittsburgh who said she voted for Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) in the 2004 presidential election. "If they are so active, why aren't they in Mexico City, why aren't they forcing their leaders there to deal with the quality of life? If you don't like it here, go home."
Why aren't they in Mexico City? Because the American government has turned a blind eye to its southern border, appeasing both the business community that wants to exploit cheap labor and the Mexican government that is only too happy to see young men go north rather than become political activists. The arrangement has emptied Mexico of its most ambitious workers, leaving behind an economic and political gap that enables corruption and stagnation. If the long-term solution to the immigration problem is the improvement of the Mexican economy, that solution will never come while its workers leave the nation by the hundreds of thousands.
Instead, they come here and get economically exploited by the business community, and then get exploited political activists with other axes to grind. International ANSWER, the prime mover behind yesterday's boycott, doesn't care for the illegals as much as they want shock troops for the revolution. Unfortunately for ANSWER, that agenda did not subtly work itself into the protests but instead erupted in Che Guevara t-shirts and demands for "one hemisphere". ANSWER tried to pass out enough American flags to cover its tracks, but the effort fell short -- and now Americans, both native-born and legally admitted, have become fed up with protests by its uninvited guests.
This is excellent!
Thank you for the ping.
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