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Yes, and it is the planet Ferenginar where all ferengi orginate.
Ferengi couple
Posted on 10/18/2007 5:56:34 PM PDT by SandRat
BISBEE — Elizabeth Kucinich received a warm welcome when she visited Bisbee and Naco, Sonora, to discuss border policies, the war in Iraq and other issues related to the presidential campaign of her husband, Dennis, on Wednesday.
In Naco, Sonora, she met with Mayor Jose Lorenzo Villegas at El Maguey restaurant. She told him and nearly 50 other people in attendance that the leaders of the United States need to acknowledge Mexico as a partner in international relations.
“We need to cancel NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and we need to withdraw from the WTO (World Trade Organization),” she said. “Then, we can rewrite the trade agreements between America and Mexico so there are workers’ rights and human rights and environmental policy principles.”
The room erupted into a round of applause when she said her husband “recognizes there should not be a wall on the border,” and then added, “We remember what President Reagan said to Mikhail Gorbachev when he said take down that wall. We will do the same.”
Kucinich made similar comments earlier in the day during a speech to more than 100 people at City Park in Bisbee. She said NAFTA, which came into effect in 1994, is one of the causes of the immigration problem in the United States.
“The people are economic refugees in their own countries and are really trying to find a new life. They come to America with documentation or without and that is because they cannot feed their families back at home,” she said.
The visit was her first to Naco, Sonora. She visited Nogales, Sonora, in May and listened to hundreds of stories of illegal immigrants who were deported from the United States to Mexico.
Nearly all of the women she met there had been either raped in Mexico while trying to cross the border or had been abused on the U.S. side, she said during an interview.
“I find it very distressing that we are not seeing this as a humanitarian issue. It really is,” she said.
She said America needs to take a proper approach to the issue of immigration “by understanding not that we have to stem the flow of immigrants but we have to stem the cause of them leaving their country, which is economic poverty.”
“America is really going against itself when it goes against the immigrant community. America is a country of immigrants. We have to really recognize who we are and who we are in relation to the rest of the world,” she added.
Villegas told Kucinich that her husband is welcome to visit Naco, Sonora.
He said they should not be concerned about safety and he assured her that ample security would be available.
He said he hopes Dennis Kucinich will meet with the president of Mexico to work with him on the border issues.
Ronald R. Oertle, mayor of Bisbee, said he supports Kucinich because “he stands firm on his principles.”
“He does not put his finger up in the air and find out which way the political wind is blowing,” he said.
At City Park in Bisbee, members of the audience had displayed signs welcoming Kucinich and calling for an end to the war in Iraq. There were two 8-foot-tall signs reading “Impeach” and “Peace.”
Kucinich explained to them that her husband’s campaign slogan is “Strength Through Peace.”
“We understand that a strong America is an America that stands for peace. Not an America that easily runs itself into war and weakens its military by overextending itself in illegal occupations around the world,” she said.
“It is time for America to take a new direction.”
Herald/Review reporter Jonathon Shacat can be reached at 515-4693 or by e-mail at jonathon.shacat@bisbeereview.net.
No kiddin. I was there once and could smell them a mile before we got into town. It’s just the kind of funky, post-industrial, tourista town they like to colonize and then set up bead-stringing art shows and health food stores for the morons that come through. One can only hope that the honeycomb of mining tunnels in the region will collapse and take the town with it.
As far as I’m concerned Dennis Kucinich is coming from an entirely different planet, figuratively and possibly even literally...but when it comes to romance, dude is a mighty man.
LOL
I spent part of my younger years growing up in Bisbee, my dad grew up there (Late 20S THRU WWII) Last year we stopped by to vist some old family friends.
Too freaky - all artist studios, hippies and touristias.
We ate lunch in SV instead.....
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Yes, and it is the planet Ferenginar where all ferengi orginate.
Amazingly my wife and I just a few days ago traveled through Bisbee while on a trip that has taken us through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and now Utah. We wondered what kind of folks live in Bisbee. Beautiful town though.
Yes it is. I was there a few years ago in a bar having a beer. One of the locals (big dude and looked like a hippy) was offering to take the head off one of the other patrons in the bar. The other dude was trash talking Vietnam Vets. The big dude was a Vietnam Vet and pissed off big time.
What he said he would do with his head was definitely a felony and probably damn near impossible. It would have given a whole new meaning to the saying “pain in the ass.”
I lost my appetite.
We couldn’t even find a place to park. It sure did have the looks of a typical liberal, artsy-marxsy community.We just continued on to Tombstone. I don’t know if Wyatt Earp would have approved of Bisbee. Or Les
Moore.
HOT and STUPID is no way to go thru life young lady...
What event would one have to lose to win this idiot of a "trophy"?
no way...
Yep!
I'm not sure that "trophy" is the right word when the groom would need a step-stool to reach the mantle.
She’s hittable.
Dumba enough to marry that commie dwarf but hittable.
her physical features alone make her gene pool worthy.
You think dennis is weird - try this quote from Lizzie the Brit:
” This year marks the fifth anniversary of 9/11, a series of events that marked a day of awakening for the people of the world to the revelation of the very real and powerful forces at play in these times. Not falling prey to the black hole of 9/11 rhetoric which highlights the evil of otherness, rhetoric into which our lives have been sacrificed, together with our freedom and liberty. No, I am speaking of the forces at play within the depths of each of our hearts and the dark side of our souls traveling the shamanic journey into the underworld and the opportunity for our transformation into beings of light. “
Nah. She's a nutcase who found him. Answered an internet ad or some such thing.
Probably too much copper in the water supply.
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