Posted on 11/29/2006 10:12:22 AM PST by NapkinUser
Trash-talking about Miami has earned a Colorado congressman a rebuke from Florida's governor.
Don't mess with Miami.
That's the message Texas-born Florida Gov. Jeb Bush delivered Tuesday to fellow Republican, Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado, who dissed the governor's adopted hometown as a ''Third World country'' in recent remarks.
In a two-page letter, the governor, born in Midland, Texas, but claiming Miami as his home since 1981, used statistics -- citing high-scoring Hispanic students at Miami high schools and declining crime rates -- to tout the city.
''The bottom line is Miami is a wonderful city filled with diversity and heritage that we choose to celebrate, not insult,'' Bush said in the letter addressed to Tancredo's Washington office. ``Miami has been my home for years and I am looking forward to returning there in January.''
Tancredo, in response to Bush, held his ground and suggested that Miami's increasingly multiethnic population means the city is losing its ties to the United States.
''America, because of the many places, cultures, races, and religious origins of our citizenry, depends on a few things to hold us together. One is the English language,'' Tancredo said in an e-mail addressed to Bush. ``That is something that fewer and fewer Miamians share. Unfortunately fewer and fewer Miamians think of themselves as Americans.''
(Excerpt) Read more at miami.com ...
And Tancredo is the guy some freepers want to save the Conservative movement? Sheesh.
Lame Duck.
I just love to "celebrate" diversity. How about you?
Ugh.
LOL!
I just hope Jeb Bush won't run for president. His defense of illegal immigrants was sickening. I can't imagine his tacky wife as the first lady.
Nice to see someone saying the truth. I know Tancredo won't win, but he has my vote if he runs.
I agree. Miami is a cesspool. Tancredo told it like it is.
Once again, Cong Tancredo speaks to the truth and is criticised for his honesty. I've been to Florida many times. Nice state. Great weather. However, the last thing I'd ever do is move to Miami. In 50 years, the European culture that made America so great, will be in the minority. In 100 years, the America we've all come to love, will be gone.
I have gone through a whole airport experience in Miammi without hearing a word of English.
When I did contract work for Nukes, Miami was my favorite place to go to. I enjoyed my time there and had no problems, being Florida resident didn't hurt either. Compared to my time, stationed in Denver as compared to Miami...I rather be in Miami.
Tom...I can say the same about Denver that you said about Miami.
Guv: Explain the term "Open city". It's in your state, you should know.
Tancredo may have blew it with this one; he should have made clear he wasn't referring to anti-communist Cuban-Americans.
Tom is brutally accurate.
I imagine the Miami that Bush inhabits is pretty darn nice. I used to live in Miami, too. Moved away. 'Nuf said.
That idoit Tom wants drive the Cubans out so their is no Latinos left voting Republican.
I rented a car and drove all over the place. It *is* a third world country, no joke. I thought the hotel I picked would be OK. But it was a fenced fortress with a guard at the entrance to the parking lot. A scary place.
I think the "enforcement only" options presented by Tancredo and most around here are simplistic and have no chance of working in the long run. I think agressive assimilation as we did 100 years ago is the only hope, because it was demonstrated to work. But Tancredos right on this point. Miami is Third World.
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