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Bruce told to leave podium over remark about Mexican workers (Colorado)
Greeley Tribune ^ | 4/21/08 | Associated Press

Posted on 04/21/2008 1:03:54 PM PDT by NorCoGOP

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1 posted on 04/21/2008 1:03:54 PM PDT by NorCoGOP
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To: NorCoGOP

You can only say things like that if you are a Democrap!


2 posted on 04/21/2008 1:05:20 PM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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To: NorCoGOP

Sounds like he never learned how to play well with others.


3 posted on 04/21/2008 1:05:59 PM PDT by VRWCmember
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To: NorCoGOP

So, did anyone offer any evidence that what he said was not true?

I thought not........


4 posted on 04/21/2008 1:06:45 PM PDT by G-Bear (Religiously, five times a day, I turn my back on Mecca and fart!)
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To: NorCoGOP; george76
bump

5 posted on 04/21/2008 1:06:57 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
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To: NorCoGOP

Isn’t that what they’re called in Mexico?


6 posted on 04/21/2008 1:07:00 PM PDT by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: NorCoGOP

What a dope! Now instead of focusing on the issue, the libs have something to whine about and be victimized. Some people just shouldn’t be put in front of a mic where they can really mess it up.


7 posted on 04/21/2008 1:07:35 PM PDT by MovementConservative (John Roberts and Sam Alito.... Thank you GWB)
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To: NorCoGOP

This guy was already developing an international reputation as a grandstanding idiot before his latest remarks.


8 posted on 04/21/2008 1:11:03 PM PDT by HAL9000 ("If someone who has access to the press says something over and over again, people believe it"- B.C.)
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To: NorCoGOP

How dare he speak the truth! Everyone knows that illegal alians are far better educated than we Americans. That’s why they have all the good jobs!


9 posted on 04/21/2008 1:11:56 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: NorCoGOP

I don’t get it. His definition was very descriptive and true. Most illegals are uneducated and they are peaseants.


10 posted on 04/21/2008 1:12:10 PM PDT by caisson71 (Times change, values don't.)
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To: NorCoGOP

Yes, this is the kind of thing that happens with zero tolerance of other people’s ideas. Illiterate peasants are just that and if most illegals are then what is the harm is telling he truth and what is the harm in saying it even if it is not the truth, the traditional thing is to give an opposing point of view not deny the speaker time to talk. Dems are for enslaving us, if you can’t see that you can’t see anything.


11 posted on 04/21/2008 1:13:00 PM PDT by calex59
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To: NorCoGOP

This guy has been a loose canon right from the start. Right or wrong on this one latest issue is irrelevent because of his past and inflamatory words. He is doing harm to an already weakening GOP in Colorado with his antics. If it were up to me, he’d be gone today. It doesn’t take long when you listen to him talk before a wide range of questions come to mind, not the least of which is: is this really the best guy Colo. Springs can find to represent them?


12 posted on 04/21/2008 1:13:35 PM PDT by mad puppy (Never have I felt so politically radical and I swear I didn't move an inch.)
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To: NorCoGOP
By and large illegal aliens ARE illiterate peasants!

Of course we aren't supposed to say or even think of such things.

13 posted on 04/21/2008 1:13:36 PM PDT by KoRn (CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
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To: wolfcreek
Isn’t that what they’re called in Mexico?

On construction work throughout Latin Ameirca, the word used for laborers was peones. 

It must have been how he said it...

14 posted on 04/21/2008 1:14:50 PM PDT by expat_panama
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To: NorCoGOP
The real story is that CO and AZ are scrambling to implement some type of guest worker program to go along with their get-tuff-on-illegals policy.

Like duhhhhhhh.

15 posted on 04/21/2008 1:15:29 PM PDT by Ben Ficklin
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You’re not supposed to use insulting words. He could have said “under-schooled” working class???


16 posted on 04/21/2008 1:16:23 PM PDT by zip.com
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To: G-Bear
Mexico's literacy rate in 91%, and for the age group that most illegal immigrants fall into (16-45) more like 95%.

Only 18% of the Mexican population is engaged in agriculture as their occupation.

Therefore his characterization of illegal Mexican immigrants as "illiterate peasants" is not really accurate.

17 posted on 04/21/2008 1:16:34 PM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: NorCoGOP

Back to sensitivity training for him. They are not “illiterate peasants”, they are “reading challenged, nomadic, non-property owners”


18 posted on 04/21/2008 1:16:56 PM PDT by infantrywhooah
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To: NorCoGOP
He became the first Colorado lawmaker censured by the House after he kicked a newspaper photographer for taking his picture during a prayer.

I Think I LIKE this guy!

19 posted on 04/21/2008 1:18:31 PM PDT by NRA1995 (Bill Clinton: HILLARY!'s other big ass)
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To: NorCoGOP

Bruce is one tough cookie. He gave us TABOR, the Taxpayer Bill Of Rights, that bans tax increases or new taxes without voter approval!

Saying what he said as a representative of the people is out of line. I have no love for illegal aliens but our government must always be polite and dignified even when declaring war. I love Bruce and his ideas but he needs to represent the people with tact.


20 posted on 04/21/2008 1:18:59 PM PDT by CodeToad
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