Posted on 07/08/2006 9:55:48 PM PDT by FairOpinion
One of the largest Latino organizations in the country will host a former president and a top Bush adviser today at a conference in Los Angeles. The National Council of La Raza, a civil rights group, will open the conference with remarks by former President Bill Clinton who is expected to lead the morning panel.
The four-day conference also will be attended by President Bush's top adviser Karl Rove, who is expected to speak at a Tuesday lunch with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina will attend the conference as well.
"We are seeing the fastest growing community in the United States and it's found its voice in the millions who marched and rallied for the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform -- and the political potential it has,'' said Lisa Navarrege, vice president of the national council. "It should be no secret that both political parties are reaching out to our community.''
"It's not in the best interest of the parties to ignore the growing Latino population,'' she said.
The conference, which began in 1976, is the largest event of the year among the Latino community. Former presidential candidates, senators and congressional leaders, and even foreign dignitaries, have attended in the past, Navarrege said.
The National Council of La Raza was given $15.2 million in federal grants last year and is considered by many Washington insiders to be one of the most powerful Latino lobbying groups in the country.
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I'm sure there were more. Those were just the earmarks from the main appropriations bills for the year in question.
Note that all of the dollars were marked NBR (no budget request) and "C" (items added in conference). No paper trail for who requested the funding. Sweet, huh?
Our government has become totally unaccountable.
And the Bush-bots (I used to be one) just turn a blind eye.
I had forgotten about it until you mentioned it. $15 million? UGH!
I guess that's acceptable now that they are a "civil rights" group. /s
Oh, wonderful. Prior to the Clinton administration, white supremacy was dying a slow, natural death. Now, after eight years of Clintonista affirmative action, 9/11, and the rise of La Raza, the Kook Klux Klan and the Neo-Ratzis are back in force.
If the government isn't going to stand up against the drug gangs and the illegals, the citizens are- and it's not going to be all touchy-feely and rainbow flags. It'll be terror by night. Personally, I prefer that the government do it's job.
The governor teaches English to illegal immigrants.
"Now repeat after me - - - 'I'll be back.' very good, children."
"Note that all of the dollars were marked NBR (no budget request) and "C" (items added in conference). No paper trail for who requested the funding. Sweet, huh? "
Yeah, I gues that if you lived in Moscow 30 years ago, and were under the tutelage and thumb of Breznev and the Politboro, it would be sweet : )
And all of a sudden in 2005 they get $15.2 million after getting fairly nominal sums since 2000?
You were far too intelligent not to see what has transpired.
"Personally, I prefer that the government do it's job."
Good Lord! Don't we all!
"I would love to out the specific traitor (s) who, every year, run this little con game for La Raza. There will be a special place reserved in hell for these swine. I would very much like to find their names"
If you ever find out, please FReepmail me.
Paying an enemy big money to flog you..............highly masochistic, is it not?
The cynic in me wants to say...
"It takes a lot of money to fund those demonstrations supporting amnesty and against HR4437. "
And what other happy event occurred in 2005? The formation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership, which appears to be an expansion of NAFTA. The push is on and its our own government pushing.
http://www.spp.gov/
I doubt anyone will ever know. I found this description of the earmarking process in an LA Times article in May (about Ken Calvert):
And the process traditionally occurs behind closed doors, without public notice or hearings. Spokespeople for the House Appropriations and Transportation committees, for instance, refuse to provide information on lawmakers' earmark requests or their justifications for projects. As a result, an individual lawmaker quietly can obtain funding to help constituents, interest groups, lobbyists or even themselves.
Paying an enemy big money to flog you..............highly masochistic, is it not?Retarded, too!
I know. I know (sigh).
Series, I like your homepage. It's refreshing to see more businessmen on this site.
If we could get the rest to understand simple Economics.
---The cynic in me wants to say...
"It takes a lot of money to fund those demonstrations supporting amnesty and against HR4437. "---
You know that in Czarist Russia, for example, many of the members of the revolutionary parties were actually on the czarist payroll, supposedly as informants.
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