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.
Herndon is full of Blue Dog demos. Here's the Election data from 2005:
.............J W Kilgore(R)........T M Kaine(D)
Herndon #1...... 40.2%.................57.5%
Herndon #2...... 37.3%.................60.4%
Herndon #3...... 38.3%.................60.0%
Even the voter turnout was higher than usual!
For anyone who thinks the Republican Party will nominate a conservative,
I have two words.
Bob Dole.
They would rather see the Witch in the White House,
than an anti-globalist conservative.
Because her agenda, or her husbands, is their agenda.
The "wrong group" they are pandering to that I am referring to are the illegal aliens :)
"Hopefully, they won't start sending out return envelopes where you have to put a stamp on it."
If they do, just put the mailing address as the return address and toss it in a curbside mailbox with no postage. Since that is the only address on the envelope, the post office will return it to them postage due.
At least, I think this works.
Oh, okay, never mind. :)
That's already happening. Chris Cannon I hear is in trouble again in his Utah primary and this time he stands an even better chance of getting tossed. We need to start getting rid of these open border clowns.
Sounds like someone else we know. John McCain maybe...?
With the WOT, making tax cuts permanent and needing to drill and refine our own energy, there is more than enough for him to be working on.
I see his lips flappin', I'm just not seein' much positive action.
susie
MANANA VOTAREMOS!
"TODAY YOU MARCH, BUT TOMORROW WE VOTE!!!
"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."
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.
Things for the ping onyx....so true!!
Thanks.
I guess there a few liberals out there who still have some brain cells not destroyed by the liberal brain virus.
Good news!
This needs to be sent to every city council and mayor in Americam who have rolled out the welcome carpet, funded by our tax $'s, for Illegal Aliens.
Too cool!
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