2008 GOP Primary Straw Poll Results

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That's what I'm trying to find out too.

"I'm out for a little while. Back in about an hour."

No! You aren't allowed to stay away that long!! ;^)

I am number 11564!!! on the draft Fred petition.

I hope Thompson has changed his views on outsourcing/immigration. His record was pretty bad in that regard, but better than some.

Fred Thompson/Numbers USA/Immigration profile Lifetime grade "C" http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=TN&VIPID=743

Voted in 1996 to continue chain migration But Sen. Thompson helped kill the reform by voting with the 80-20 majority against the amendment. Sen. Thompson's vote helped continue a level of immigration that the Census Bureau projects will result in a doubled U.S. population in the next century.

Voted to strip legal reforms from 1996 bill Sen. Thompson helped defeat legal immigration reform when he voted for Senator Spencer Abraham's amendment to remove the legal immigration reforms from S.1664, the Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996. This vote effectively killed any chance of Congress considering the Jordon Commission recommendations on easing legal immigration levels.

Voted in favor of chain migration in 1996 Sen. Thompson voted in 1996 against the Feinstein Amendment to S.1664. The Feinstein Amendment would have reduced annual admission of spouses and minor children of citizens to 480,000 and significantly reduced annual limits other categories of chain migration such as parents of citizens and adult unmarried children of citizens. By voting against the Feinstein Amendment, Sen. Thompson voted in favor of a system of chain migration that has been the primary reason for annual immigration levels snowballing from less than 300,000 in 1965 to around a million today. In 1996 the bi-partisan Barbara Jordan Commission recommended doing away with the adult relative categories (begun only in the 1950s) in order to lessen wage depression among lower-paid American workers. The Feinstein Amendment attempted to carry out that recommendation. The Feinstein Amendment would have had an overall impact of reducing U.S. population growth by about 1.2 million over 10 years, but it was defeated by a vote of 26 to 74.

Sen. Thompson has taken no action to reduce major numbers in all categories.

Importing Specific Foreign Workers Voted for a foreign worker bill with no anti-fraud measures in 2000. Sen.Thompson voted for S.2045, the Abraham foreign worker bill to nearly triple the number of foreign high-tech workers.

As Committee member, produced H-1B doubling bill in 1998 Sen. Thompson was a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that created the Abraham H-1B doubling bill in 1998, S.1723. He voted with the 12-6 majority to send the bill to the floor of the Senate without safeguards for American workers.

Nearly doubled H-1B foreign high-tech workers in 1998 Sen. Thompson helped the Senate pass S.1723 in a 78-20 vote. Enacted into law, it increased by nearly 150,000 the number of foreign workers high-tech American companies could hire over the next three years. Although the foreign workers receive temporary visas for up to six years, most historically have found ways to stay permanently in this country. Sen. Thompson voted for more foreign workers even though U.S. high tech workers over the age of 50 were suffering 17% unemployment and U.S. firms were laying off thousands of workers at the time.

Voted in committee against including worker safeguards in H-1B bill in 1998 Sen. Thompson joined 9 of his Senate colleagues to keep employee safeguards from inclusion in S.1723. A Kennedy-Feinstein Amendment would have accomplished two important goals: ensuring no American was laid off or displaced prior to hiring an H1B employee; and, that employers demonstrate they had previously taken timely and effective steps to hire a qualified American.

Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998 Before the Senate passed the H-1B doubling bill (S.1723), Sen. Thompson had an opportunity to vote for a measure requiring U.S. firms to check a box on a form attesting that they had first sought an American worker for the job. Sen. Thompson voted against that, joining those who said the requirement would give government too much authority over corporations’ right to hire whomever they please from whatever country.

Voted to allow firms to lay off Americans to make room for foreign workers in 1998 Before the Senate passed the H-1B doubling bill(S.1723), Sen. Thompson had an opportunity to vote for a Kennedy amendment that would have prohibited U.S. firms from using temporary foreign workers to replace Americans. Sen. Thompson opposed that protection. Citizenship for Illegal Alien Babies Sen. Thompson has taken no action to reduce the rewarding of illegal immigration by giving citizenship to anchor babies.

Voted to grant amnesty to close to one million illegal aliens from Nicaragua and Cuba in 1997 Sen. Thompson voted to grant legal status to Nicaraguans and Cubans who had lived in the United States illegally since 1995, along with their spouses and minor unmarried children. The overall ten year impact of this legislation will be the addition of some 967,000 people to U.S. population.

In 1996, removed higher fines for businesses which hire illegal aliens Sen. Thompson, in committee consideration of S.1664 protected businesses from having to pay higher fines when they are caught hiring illegal aliens. Under the idea that current fines were not enough of a deterrent against businesses cutting their labor costs by hiring illegal aliens, the Senate immigration subcommittee approved higher fines. Various study commissions have found that the willingness of U.S. businesses to hire illegal aliens is the No. 1 incentive for foreign workers to become illegal aliens here. But Sen. Thompson voted with a 10-8 majority in the Judiciary Committee to remove the higher fines from the 1996 legislation against illegal immigration.

Tried to kill voluntary pilot programs for workplace verification in 1996 Sen. Thompson voted IN FAVOR of the Abraham Amendment to S.1664. He was part of a coalition of pro-business conservatives and liberal civil libertarians who tried to use the amendment to kill the establishment of voluntary pilot programs in high-immigration states. The programs were intended to assist employers in verifying whether people they had just hired had the legal right to work in this country. Such verification is considered by many experts to be an essential tool for withdrawing the job magnet from illegal aliens. The verification system established by S.1664 did not involve an ID card. Rather it provided that when new workers wrote down their Social Security number on an application, employers could phone into a national verification system to help assure that the number was a real number and belonged to the person giving it. In earlier smaller pilot programs, businesses had hailed the verification system for making it easier for them to avoid hiring illegal aliens. Sen. Thompson was unsuccessful in stopping the voluntary verification system. The Senate tabled the by a 54-46 vote.

Hunters immigration record:

http://www.house.gov/hunter/border1.html

Not another Fred Thompson rah rah thread! It's painful to watch so many of my fellow Freepers wash down the liberal drain. Not many of us true and sensible Republicans left, are there? GO DUNCAN HUNTER!!!

The fact that "none" got more votes than McCain is pretty funny!!!

I'm supporting Duncan Hunter too but you think Thompson is a liberal? Why?

One of the things that bother me about Fred Thompson is that he might tap his buddy for VP.

On the contrary, GOP Strawpolls has been pretty reflective of the mood of R primary voters lately. Until FT was put in, Giuliani I believe was either 1st or second. This is good news for the FT folks, they have for the most part made a good case for there candidate without flaming.

Like I have said before though, if he is to run he needs to make his mind up by early summer, no later then the 4th of July IMO to be able to garner the necessary support and money. I suspect by labor day most of the 5% and below candidates will have dropped out which will leave a vacum for conservative support which thus far has been fragmented in which Thompson could fill. I am 100% rudybot for now, but if Thompson enters the race with a killer platform I would probably switch camps.

Anyone got any polls matching FT against hil or obama?

I found the error and fixed it. The link will work correctly the next time it's posted here. Thanks for the heads up, eastrider.

I signed it but they took my name off for some reason.