Candidates are strangely quiet as voices of immigrants grow

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 5/3/6 | Carla Marinucci

[SmithL]

During the rallies, Schwarzenegger left the state -- and neither Angelides nor Westly issued a statement --

In California, where the emotional nationwide debate over immigration came to life Monday when hundreds of thousands of people marched in the streets, the three leading candidates for governor have been surprisingly passive in the discussion over the role of immigrants -- despite their personal connections to the issue.

Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-born immigrant and naturalized American citizen. Democratic Controller Steve Westly is married and has two children with a China-born immigrant, Anita Yu, who arrived in this country as a child. And Democratic Treasurer Phil Angelides is the proud son and grandson of Greek immigrants who has received strong support during his political career from Greek Americans.

But during the race for the top office in a state that is home to the largest number of immigrants in the nation -- and an estimated 3 million illegal immigrants -- the Republican governor and his two leading Democratic opponents have avoided making dramatic moves to put them out front on the issue.

On Monday, the day of the immigration rallies, Schwarzenegger issued no formal message either to schoolchildren who marched instead of going to class or to forces opposed to illegal immigration who have urged him to tighten the borders and enforce the law.

Indeed, he left California late in the day to attend a National Football League owners' meeting in Dallas.

He wasn't alone in sidestepping the issue: neither Angelides nor Westly issued a statement or addressed any of the public rallies around the state.

[SmithL]

The Governor likes immigrants - legal immigrants. But then, he is one.

[stopem]

Let the illegals hang themselves by continually demonstrating waving their mexican flags and disrupting everyone's lives because they are demonstrating the very reasons we all want them deported immediately!!

Control the border for gosh sake, IF President Bush had not gone to war after 911 what would we Americans have thought about the administration?
Than why are they not controlling the illegal terroist freaks?

[oldbill]

You can fight back.

Check this thread
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1625695/posts
to see what the Town of Herndon did in yesterday's election.

P.S. This town went 60-40 for the Democrats (Kerry and Kaine), so there is a big message here for the RINOs in the Senate and at the White House.

[DumpsterDiver]

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[HiJinx]

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I guess the poly-tishuns finally figured who really counts at the ballot box. They've been embarassed by the supporters of the protests, folks like ANSWER and Arab terrorist organizations.

The last protests in the Phoenix area drew tens of thousands, and Tuesday's headline said that 'hundreds marched' in Phoenix on May Day. Tells ya' something, doesn't it?

[HiJinx]

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