Posted on 03/06/2007 3:59:32 PM PST by veronica
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter has dropped two top South Carolina advisers a week after they were appointed because of their inflammatory statements about immigrants and religious minorities.
Hunter spokesman Roy Tyler confirmed Thursday that former GOP lieutenant governor candidate Henry Jordan and Horry County Auditor Lois Eargle would no longer serve as campaign co-chairs.
Eargle said the California congressman's decision was disappointing.
"I am so disgusted with politicians who do not have the backbone to stand up for the concerns of the American people," Eargle said in a statement provided to The Associated Press.
Eargle, speaking Feb. 22 at a news conference, said an illegal immigrant with three children came to her office the day before asking for free legal help for an abused child.
"I told her the best thing for her to do was to get back to Mexico," Eargle said then.
Tyler said Thursday that those words "in 26 years of service would not cross Congressman Hunter's lips."
Exactly. Calling it free trade is just more manipulation of our language. Even Milton Freidman said Nafta was 'managed' trade, not free trade. Sorry, can't give you a link. I saw him on Cspan when the battle was going on over NAFTA. He was trying to exlain the reality to Dick Armey, for all the good it did.
No argument there!
WTH? The woman was abused by her boyfriend and wanted him out to do it again? She and her children might just be safer in Mexico and her boyfriend in jail. How much of this is truth? If Hunter fired them for this, I'm changing my mind about him.
Great.
Just what we need!--another "compassionate conservative"!
Don't put words in my mouth. What Duncan Hunter did was the right and decent thing to do. Would you prefer that he endorse and condone the cold heartless sentiment of his former staffer, Lois Eargle?
I don't think so.
He was correct to let them go. No one knows of all the statements someone has ever uttered, so he's not at fault there. He sure doesn't need someone going off half cocked that will make him look like a bigot, which is the point of this article being posted in the first place.
Hunter has worked for this country for 20& years to secure it, but he's done it with real compassion. He's even helped his brother put out water for 'migrants' in the desert. He realizes the current system is not good for the US and it doesn't help the aliens in the long run either. Mass illegal immigration is a loser all the way around.
But that won't stop proponents of open border globalism from trying to make him appear a bigot. Let's see if other candiates get rid of their undesirables.
Sounds to me like Hunter is a guy who will get rid of dead weight and trouble. I wish we could say the same for this administration.
It was posted on 3/1, but what the hell, everytime Giuliani utters a complete sentence it gets posted 15 times. No reason to change now.
There's more to this story, one of these people made a statement about muslims also. No one needs people who can't keep their biases to themselves being their spokesman.
"Jordan, who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1996 and last year, said he thinks Hunter did the right thing. Jordan said he didn’t want his comment disparaging Muslims and Buddhists, made while he was a state school board member in 1997, to hamper Hunter’s campaign."
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/politics/16813983.htm
This is simply not true.
The statement, in a nutshell, was completely inappropriate. Hunter vehemently opposes illegal immigration, but any politician who condones this statement is signing his political death warrant.
Hunter did the right thing, he got rid of a problem and he won't comment on it further if the MSM start playing games and try to make it an issue.
Oh no! Hunter makes a difficult choice!
He opposes these entangling trade agreements that put the U.S. at a disadvantage. Face it, we're being screwed on trade, but the real reason is because of our high and complicated tax code and heavy-handed regulatory environment. But these agreements also play a role too.
Why can't we just reduce tarriffs and taxes and avoid thousands of pages of extra-constitutional trade regulations masked as free trade? Or is that thinking too simply?"
In other words, DH is spineless.
Hunter did the right thing, he got rid of a problem and he won't comment on it further if the MSM start playing games and try to make it an issue.
In other words, DH is spineless.
I love how everyone gets caught up in the rhetoric. Hunter has built the only border fence in American, and in doing so he's tougher on illegal immigration than any hate spewing "conservative". You can talk all you want, but once again Hunter stays above the fray and gets the job done. Oh, and that 850 mile fence he passed in the Secure Fence Act, I guess that also means he's spineless. You'd much rather have him talk really mean and be discriminatory and get absolutely nothing done on the border issues.
And what would you have to say if he'd come out and said it didn't matter what they say and he was keeping them anyway?
"Not simply content with predicting disaster, some in Congress have put together legislation that would damage our ability to compete with our trading partners. Everyone talks about wanting a level playing field, but what Congress would be doing is putting American workers and industries on the field with one hand tied behind their backs. They call this a trade bill, but there's a lot in it that has nothing to do with trade.
"Yes, I want a trade bill, and we've been working with Congress in good faith to produce a bill that would open markets and improve America's competitiveness, but we must guard against enacting legislation that would reverse the gains of the past 5 years. The draft legislation does contain a number of important measures: It enhances our negotiating authority in the ongoing international trade talks, repeals the windfall profits tax, and creates a retraining program for workers who've been laid off. We strongly support these measures. But it also contains provisions that are unacceptable. I've made it very clear to Congress: I will veto this bill, and I am confident that my veto will be sustained. Then I'll work vigorously to secure responsible trade legislation and urge the congressional leadership to schedule prompt action on the new bill. As long as I'm President, we're going to keep traveling the road we're on, one of free and fair trade, record sustained growth, job creation, rising incomes, and technological leadership into the 21st century" (source).
LOL. Hunter has been on the front lines in the illegal alien debate. Just because he got rid of a couple of clowns doesn't mean he went soft. He won't apologize a million times like Sen. Allen, that's for sure.
In other words, DH is spineless.
Like I said, taking this action is irrelevant to Hunter's record. Call Hunter spineless all you want but his record speaks for itself.
That's what I said. Our taxes and regulations are impeding our trade advantage.
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