Fred was very questionable due to his relationship with Howard baker.
Now, Fred seems to have added another RINO “open borders” whacko to his entourage and I won’t vote for him.
A pox on RINO and “open borders” proponents.
Kindly read what Fred wrote and said about “open borders” in my last post on this thread.
It appears Abraham has been more than a little involved in immigration policy. Keeps some interesting company, so ‘bi-partisan’. This is basically the same group that wrote the recent amnesty bill.
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/ITFIAF/members.php
Convened by he Migration Policy Institute
Task Force Members
Co-Chairs
Co-Chair Spencer Abraham
Spencer Abraham is the Chairman and CEO of the Abraham Group, LLC. From 2001 to 2005, he served as the tenth Secretary of Energy. Prior to becoming Secretary of Energy, Mr. Abraham represented Michigan in the US Senate from 1995 to 2001. He served on the Budget, Commerce, Science and Transportation, Judiciary, and Small Business Committees. Secretary Abraham was a key Senate leader on such issues as technology, manufacturing, and immigration, having served as Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration as well as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Manufacturing and Competitiveness. As a US Senator, Mr. Abraham was a forceful voice for the business community and free enterprise. Mr. Abraham endorsed policies and practices that promoted and enhanced America’s competitiveness and global leadership. Among other things, Mr. Abraham led the support on free trade [snip]
Co-Chair Lee Hamilton
Director Doris Meissner
Congressman Howard Berman
Oscar A. Chacón has been Director of Enlaces América, a project of the Chicago-based Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights, since August 2001. Enlaces América is dedicated to the empowerment of Latino immigrant organizations in the United States
Thomas J. Donohue- Chamber of Commerce
Fernando Garcia is Founding Director of the Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR)
Jeff Flake
Tamar Jacoby
Edward Kennedy
John McCain
Janet Murguía is the President and CEO of the National Council of La Raza.
Leon Panetta
Since they began immigrating to the United States over a century ago, Arab Americans have offered the Republican Party dedicated, dynamic leaders.
Spencer Abraham, currently Secretary of Energy, formerly represented Michigan in the U.S. Senate and served as co-chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee from 1991 to 1993.
n the heart of the nation’s capital, Arab Americans have also made a mark in shaping local and national politics. Khaled Saffuri, founder of the Islamic Free Market Institute, continues to serve as an advisor to the Bush Administration,
“The future of the Islamic Free Market Institute will no doubt reach new heights under Saffuri’s strong leadership. “ Sen. Spencer Abraham, Michigan
The Foundation of the Islamic Free Market Institute
Out of a strong desire to involve the Muslim community in the American political process, Khaled Saffuri, a veteran political insider, founded the Islamic Free Market Institute in 1998. In the previous ten years, he had built an unparalleled record of commitment to the Muslim community. This has included: establishing the American Task Force for Bosnia (ATFB) in 1992; spearheading the first official celebration of Ramadan, hosted by First Lady Hillary Clinton; and serving as a director for Government Affairs for the American Muslim Council (AMC).
http://www.islamicinstitute.org/aboutus.htm
About the institute...co Founder was GROVER NORQUIST. Khaled Saffuri was very involved with some Terrorist organizations.
By David Horowitz:
[snip]It is with a heavy heart therefore, that I am posting this article, which is the most complete documentation extant of Grover Norquist’s activities in behalf of the Islamist Fifth Column. I have confronted Grover about these issues and have talked to others who have done likewise. But it has been left to Frank Gaffney and a few others, including Daniel Pipes and Steven Emerson, to make the case and to suffer the inevitable recriminations that have followed earlier disclosures of some aspects of this story.
Up to now, the controversy over these charges has been dismissed or swept under the rug, as a clash of personalities or the product of one of those intra-bureaucratic feuds so familiar to the Washington scene. Unfortunately, this is wishful thinking. The reality is much more serious. No one reading this document to its bitter end will confuse its claims and confirming evidence with those of a political cat fight. On the basis of the evidence assembled here, it seems beyond dispute that Grover Norquist has formed alliances with prominent Islamic radicals who have ties to the Saudis and to Libya and to Palestine Islamic Jihad, and who are now under indictment by U.S. authorities. Equally troubling is that the arrests of these individuals and their exposure as agents of terrorism have not resulted in noticeable second thoughts on Grover’s part or any meaningful effort to dissociate himself from his unsavory friends.
As Frank Gaffney’s article recounts, Grover’s own Islamic Institute was initially financed by one of the most notorious of these operatives, Abdurahman Alamoudi, a supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah who told the Annual Convention of the Islamic Association of Palestine in 1996, “If we are outside this country we can say ‘Oh, Allah destroy America.’ But once we are here, our mission in this country is to change it.” Grover appointed Alamoudi’s deputy, Khaled Saffuri to head his own organization. Together they gained access to the White House for Alamoudi and Sami al-Arian and others with similar agendas who used their cachet to spread Islamist influence to the American military and the prison system and the universities and the political arena with untold consequences for the nation.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readarticle.asp?ID=11209