Posted on 07/05/2007 10:00:16 AM PDT by SwinneySwitch
Edited on 07/05/2007 10:03:11 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
The ingredients for a huge voter turnout seemed to be there: skyrocketing crime, an administration rocked by fraud allegations and a growing populace seeking a political voice.
And for the first time, immigrants from the Mexican state of Michoacan are eligible to vote in their home state's gubernatorial election from thousands of miles away -- the sheer novelty ought to have generated some interest, activists figured.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
Life's a beech!
ping
Why would they register to vote THERE when they are HERE and trying to get away from THERE because it’s sux to be THERE?...................
Thank you for excerpting in the first place. My decision to excerpt further was a judgement call. Play on, sorry.
Some “fight” these people have. If they were really interested in effecting change in Mexico, they’d go back there and vote. They just want to have their cake and eat it too.
Well said.
I don’t know if it is true, but I heard there are more Michoacanos in the US that in Michoacan. I am in Baja California Norte (state below California USA) and there is a state election here Aug. 5, so I suspect today is the 30 day deadline before the election to register. My guess is that in Michoacan there is one party domination, only the northern states, such as Baja, there actually is competition between parties. PAN (the “conservative” party in Mexico) does well in the states adjoining the US, but I would never mistake PAN for the Republicans (as constituted by its base, not its Chamber of Commerce and Jon Kyl contingent).
>If they were really interested in effecting change in Mexico, they’d go back there and vote.<
Don’t be surprised if we read in a few months that Mexico is providing free transportation to the US border for all citizens.
Michoacán de Chicago ping!
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They’re honest, bless them! Why would the illegals vote there when they can vote here?!
De nada!
Turnabout is fair play.
So I plan to register there to vote by absentee ballot, which, by Mexico’s own logic, is my right as a US citizen.
Trouble is, I don’t speak Spanish, and neither did my four Jewish grandparents who immigrated to the US from Eastern Europe before the turn of the last century.
You think they’ll send me the registration form in English? If not, can I sue for discrimination?
No, demand it in Hebrew.
Well, i would. But I don't speak Hebrew either. Actually, Jews from Russia and Eastern Europe of my grandparents' generation spoke Yiddish -- but outside of a few choice words like "schmuck" I don't speak that either.
As a proud Native American, I only speak my native language, which is, of course, English.
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