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Senator Craig shouted down at feisty forum on immigration
The Times-News ^ | August 23, 2006

Posted on 08/23/2006 2:43:28 PM PDT by Shermy

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- A town hall meeting with Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, dissolved into angry shouts and walkouts when Craig began discussing the controversial issue of immigration.

"I am sick of listening to these lies," one woman said, interrupting Craig as she left the Tuesday meeting, the Coeur d'Alene Press reported.

Stan Hess, candidate for the North Idaho College Board of Trustees, screamed at Craig as others booed. Before leaving, Hess yelled at a woman, his face inches from hers, as several people tried to separate them.

Craig planned eight town hall meetings in three days during a swing through northern Idaho that ends Thursday.

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He's promoting a plan that would allow some of the 12 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S. to apply for citizenship if they meet certain requirements, including having been in the country at least two years and having paid taxes.

"The reality is that there are 2.5 million jobs here that Americans won't do," Craig told the 60 people at the Coeur d'Alene meeting. "For 20 years, immigration laws have failed. We know there's a problem and we're working on it. The first step is securing the border and we're doing that."

Craig asked people to listen to the proposal, but some said they wanted illegal immigrants deported immediately. Others said Craig wasn't doing his job.

The senator is accustomed to spirited town hall meetings, said his spokesman, Sid Smith.

"It's fair to say it was pretty confrontational and at some point looked like it was about to get kind of ugly," Smith told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "But we weren't really thinking about calling the police. I was there and talked to all our staff who were there, and they agreed it was ugly, but not that ugly.

"It certainly isn't the first time it's been a very spirited and emotional town hall meeting," Smith said. "I would say (Craig) wasn't surprised or disappointed in that."

Craig also held town hall meetings in Sandpoint and Bonners Ferry on Tuesday, which Smith said were more subdued.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Idaho
KEYWORDS: 109th; 2006; aliens; bordersecurity; bushamnesty; illegalaliens; immigrantlist; invasionusa; larrycraig; openborders; rino; rinos; senaterinos
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To: Shermy

Craig is an f'ing sellout. He's finished in this state.


21 posted on 08/23/2006 2:54:13 PM PDT by Noumenon (Liberals: America's domestic enemies. Treat them as such.)
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To: Shermy
Vote his a$$ out.

This kind of guy is the problem.

22 posted on 08/23/2006 2:54:31 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: Shermy
You'd be surprised what jobs people are willing to do, especially if they don't have to pay taxes.
23 posted on 08/23/2006 2:54:55 PM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: Shermy

I grew up in Idaho in the 50's, great place. Craig is a RINO.


24 posted on 08/23/2006 2:55:03 PM PDT by Little Bill (A 37%'r, a Red Spot on a Blue State, rats are evil.)
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To: randog
The reality is that there are 2.5 million jobs here that Americans won't do

So if we make them Americans, then the problem isn't solved is it?

25 posted on 08/23/2006 2:55:04 PM PDT by Lekker 1 (("Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau" - I. Fisher, Yale Econ Prof, 1929))
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To: Shermy

The good Senator should revel in democracy at work.


26 posted on 08/23/2006 2:55:05 PM PDT by x1stcav (I always thought he was a Murthaf*cker.)
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To: Shermy
"The reality is that there are 2.5 million jobs here that Americans won't do,"

This is a vicious and damnable lie, which makes those who tell it LIARS!
27 posted on 08/23/2006 2:55:13 PM PDT by rottndog (WOOF!!!)
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To: Shermy

Craig should talk to the Texas border sheriffs who see first-hand what kind of scum is entering the country from south of the border.


28 posted on 08/23/2006 2:55:23 PM PDT by Prince Charles
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To: Shermy
"The reality is that there are 2.5 million jobs here that Americans won't do,"

BS. We have plenty of able-bodied people on welfare, living off street-crime, and in taxpayer-funded worthless educational programs, to do all those jobs. End the hand-outs, and end the tolerance of career criminals. When people have no food to eat, and no shelter, and will be arrested and imprisoned if they commit crimes, nearly all of the will magically become willing to the jobs that they're currently refusing to do. Why does this guy think the Mexicans are willing to do these jobs? Special genes?

And the other part of the equation is ended all the disincentives to employers to hire legal workers. The minimum wages, workers' comp, unemployment, discrimination/harassment suits anytime they try to fire a lousy worker, the health insurance mandates -- all of it. When employers can hire legal workers for what the employer thinks they're worth, and fire them whenever they are no longer wanted or needed, many employers will eagerly do so. Government meddling has made it so expensive to hire legal workers, that some businesses simply can't afford to do it -- they have to use illegals or go out of business.

29 posted on 08/23/2006 2:55:43 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: ElkGroveDan

This clown is a LOSER. He is supposed to represent Veterans interests. WRONG, he has his own agenda. People of Idaho need to wake up!


30 posted on 08/23/2006 2:56:03 PM PDT by Doc Hunter
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To: RegulatorCountry

"Mr. Craig surely mislaid the memo from National, stating that this phrase tested poorly, and is to be replaced with "jobs that Americans aren't doing.""

Craig is using Bush's first version of that meme. another alteration was "jobs Americans aren't willing to do."


31 posted on 08/23/2006 2:56:47 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: Shermy
Too many "women" here. If a woman interrupted Craig and then Hess yelled at Craig, why was Hess screaming in a woman's face? 2 different or the same woman?
32 posted on 08/23/2006 2:57:46 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: Shermy
The reality is that there are 2.5 million jobs here that Americans won't do.

This is complete bull$hit.
But even if it were true, I would rather they go UNDONE rather than being used as an excuse to let these illegals run over the country.
33 posted on 08/23/2006 2:57:53 PM PDT by msnimje (What part of-- "DEATH TO AMERICA" --do the Democrats not understand?)
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To: Shermy
Craig (like many other "open borders" crowd) get their 2.5 M, etc. figures from Wall Street Journal Ed. Board and businesses that refuse to pay prevailing wages that Americans are accustomed to working for.

My opinion of the businesses who hire illegals are just plain anti-American.

They claim that "Americans just won't pay X dollars for lettuce, their homes or their lawns to be mowed. Why not give it a try - maybe, just maybe, like the price of gas, we will, when it is necessary.

Big business just desires to make more of a profit to please their investors - NOT to please the American People!

34 posted on 08/23/2006 2:58:20 PM PDT by zerosix (Native Sunflower)
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To: My2Cents

My guess is it died with adherence to the Constitution.


35 posted on 08/23/2006 2:58:38 PM PDT by thoughtomator (There is no "Islamofascism" - there is only Islam)
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To: Shermy
"The reality is that there are 2.5 million jobs here that Americans won't do," Craig told the 60 people at the Coeur d'Alene meeting.

"I am sick of listening to these lies," one woman said, interrupting Craig as she left the Tuesday meeting,

Me too, lady.

36 posted on 08/23/2006 2:58:41 PM PDT by L98Fiero (Evil is an exact science)
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To: HEY4QDEMS
You would be surprised at what jobs Americans will do if they get hungry enough.
37 posted on 08/23/2006 3:00:32 PM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: zerosix
They claim that "Americans just won't pay X dollars for lettuce, their homes or their lawns to be mowed. Why not give it a try - maybe, just maybe, like the price of gas, we will, when it is necessary.

This would be known as Free Market Capitalism, something I am more and more convinced that corporate America is opposed to.
38 posted on 08/23/2006 3:01:20 PM PDT by rottndog (WOOF!!!)
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To: L98Fiero

Term limits for everyone. Remember citizen government? Get off the stage Craig. Youve done enough to..er..for us.


39 posted on 08/23/2006 3:01:34 PM PDT by samadams2000
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To: Shermy

Good.

Everyone that lies and tries to devalue our laws and soveriegnty deserves to hear what Americans think of them.

We aren't stupid Senator.


40 posted on 08/23/2006 3:01:34 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)
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