Posted on 05/12/2007 5:49:39 PM PDT by devane617
Early voters in Farmers Branch strongly favored an ordinance that would make the city the first in the nation to prohibit landlords from renting apartments to most illegal immigrants, according to results released Saturday evening by Dallas County election officials. In early voting, 76.3 percent of voters approved Ordinance 2903, while 23.7 were against. None of the results from Saturday's voting at the city's 18 precincts had been released.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
I suspect they are fearing problems...
5 of 18 precints reporting 70.51% in favor.
Victory BUMP!
Sad part about this bottom feeding, race baiter known as Garcia is that he and his LULAC goons probably have some red diaper doper baby judge/laywer ready to slap an injunction on the ordinance banning the renting of apartments to ILLEGALS.
Keep the faith Farmers Branch... you're taking care of bidness with authority (70%+ from what I'm seeing in the latest poll returns).
The drive by media will bury the story and we will hear nothing about it by sunday morning.
Monday it will be gone.
An alien in the country who is an illegal is not “immigrating”.
They are here to steal GDP.
Some activist judge will end up throwing the ordinance out, bank on it.
I suspect this will happen Monday, possibly tomorrow.
They should have included a ban on the ACLU from filing law suits against the city.
5 of 18 Precincts Completely Reporting | ![]() ![]() |
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Percent | Votes | |||
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For the Ordinance |
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70.51% | 3,512 | |
Against the Ordinance |
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29.49% | 1,469 | |
4,981 |
Those who’d like to see the ordinance survive the inevitable litigation can make a contribution on the city of Farmers Branch website,
http://www.farmersbranch.info/Communication/Legal%20Defense%20Fund%20Donate.html
Reason judge gave was some bs about Citigroup not notifying the defendant in Spanish that he had to show up to defend himself in court.
I'm sure Mr. Spanish speaker had no problem filling in the credit card application or whipping out the card to pay for stuff here in the U.S.A. I guess this thief thought Citigroup had a $15,000 "gift" bank account all set up just for him and that it wasn't expected that he had to pay the bill.
12 of 18 reporting 68.11% in favor.
That's essentially what the Escondido, CA ordinance did. It operated under the theory that committing the federal offense of harboring an alien made you unfit to hold a business license. Farmers Branch is taking pretty much the same approach.
Escondido ran into trouble with one of Barbara Boxer's favorite judges, who put a hold on enforcement and scheduled it for hearing. The ACLU routinely files these things as civil rights actions, because the 'private attorney general' provision of the civil rights act allows them to collect attorneys fees if they win it. They then proceed to run up the bill as fast as they can, with an idea of bankrupting the city and forcing them to settle the action. Farmers Branch is unique in that they're familiar with that tactic, and have volunteered to spend whatever it takes to fight for the ordinance.
An interesting aside, Farmers Branch is currently defending a lawsuit over a city ordinance that makes it illegal to allow large numbers of empty flower pots to accumulate on your front porch. The plaintiff is claiming that restriction is racist.
Choice | Early Voting in Person | Early Voting by Mail | Election Day | Prov EV/ED | Election Day ADA | Total | Percent |
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For the Ordinance | 2,604 | 41 | 1,173 | 0 | 0 | 3,818 | 68.11 % |
Against the Ordinance | 819 | 2 | 967 | 0 | 0 | 1,788 | 31.89 % |
only 68% well then CNN and NBC will be reporting it was close since they did not get the 75% needed to reach a statistical 3/4 of the population.
(/s)
(note for those in rio linda: 3/4 is irrelevant just a spin joke)
Fabulous!
18 of 18 reporting 67.64% in favor. the prop wins by a giant margin...the people have spoken. you should hear the local news...interviewing the immigrants...they say “it is a federal problem cities should not be involved.” George Bush should feel good about this. they know the feds will not touch them.
The facinating thing is these are the same people who demand the federal government impose some regulation or control.
These are also the same people who demand the local authorities abide by federal prison population limitations.
The facinating thing is these are the same people who demand the federal government impose some regulation or control.
These are also the same people who demand the local authorities abide by federal prison population limitations.
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