Posted on 06/10/2008 9:26:13 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
SAN DIEGO – Presidential candidate Barack Obama will travel to San Diego next month to join opponent John McCain in speaking at the annual convention of the National Council of La Raza, the nation's largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization.
Both senators are expected to address immigration and other issues pertinent to Latino voters, NCLR President Janet Murguía said during a visit to San Diego promoting the convention. Obama's plans were announced yesterday; McCain had agreed earlier to address the convention. The fact that both candidates will attend “speaks to a number of things, not only to the importance of the Latino vote, but also to the importance of this region and this state,” Murguía said during a news conference.
Afterward, Murguía said she expects a historic turnout of Latino voters in November, many to counter what they see as anti-immigrant political rhetoric, but also drawn by issues such as the foreclosure crisis and health care.
On the immigration front, both senators have supported changes that immigrant advocates see as favorable. McCain once championed a temporary worker program but has since shied away from that stance.
“Senator McCain will be in an interesting position,” Murguía said yesterday, regarding his appearance at the convention. “I think people will be interested to see where he still is on immigration.”
More than 20,000 people are expected to attend the convention July 12-15 at the San Diego Convention Center. Attendees will range from community leaders and elected officials, including speakers such as San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, to members of corporations, philanthropies and academic institutions.
The convention will also feature a two-day “Latino Expo USA” with more than 250 exhibits, a health fair and a home ownership fair. Numerous workshops will be open to the public, including a naturalization clinic July 12 for legal residents wishing to become U.S. citizens, and a July 13 clinic that will offer pro bono legal and financial advice to families facing foreclosure.
Other convention highlights include a town hall meeting on health care reform and an event honoring Latinos in the military.
The National Council of La Raza, which is celebrating its 40th year, last held its convention in San Diego in 2000.
The nefarious THEM.
Guess the choices are, we lose LA or the whole southwest. ;^)
When I think it can’t get worse....I just don’t know what to do in November....
“Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me:
.....here lie we under the spreading chestnut tree”
“Senator McCain will be in an interesting position ... I think people will be interested to see where he still is on immigration.”
We know where he is on — ILLEGAL! — immigration.
He’s ready to give those people that have worked hard to become American citizens, a slap in the face.
http://dontspeakforme.org/ourstory.html
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In Juan McStain’s world,
Christian Conservatives = BAD
Racist Mexican Marxists = GOOD
And, then what?
the infowarrior
Why is McCain pandering to a racist organization?
Obama’s speech to La Raza:
(La Raza (The Race), Largest Hispanic organization in the U.S.
Lobbies for racial preferences, bilingual education, stricter hate crimes laws, mass immigration, and amnesty for illegal aliens )
Obama said the recent Senate immigration debate “was both ugly and racist in a way we haven’t see since the struggle for civil rights.”...
Obama told La Raza that the mass protests lately for “immigration rights” of Mexicans is equal in greatness to the civil rights protests of the past!
Omama supports La Raza’s, the “DREAM Act,” which would mandate states to offer in-state tuition rates to illegal aliens — thus providing them with benefits not available to U.S. citizens from other states.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070723/NATION/107230063/1001
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1870205/posts
http://www.miamiherald.com/campaign08/story/201957.html
“I will stand with the Muslims and protect them..” Obama. Barack Obama
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm
WATCH OBAMA PIMP ILLEGAL ALIENS:
Obama! Obama! Obama1
“I walked the walk, I talked the talk” “I marched for 10 thousand “immigrants”. GAG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEITOQfKVmo
Get the facts on the life and career of Barack Obama
that the media covers up:
http://www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm
CHECK THIS OUT, PEOPLE:
http://immigrationcounters.com/
[www.texasborderregulators.org]
The Heritage Foundation ^ | 10/25/06 | Robert Rector
The National Academy of Sciences has estimated that each immigrant without a high school degree will cost U.S. taxpayers, on average, $89,000 over the course of his or her lifetime.[3] This is a net cost above the value of any taxes the immi*grant will pay and does not include the cost of educating the immigrant’s children, which U.S. taxpayers would also heavily subsidize. In this way, the roughly six million legal immigrants without a high school diploma will impose a net cost of around a half-trillion dollars on U.S. taxpayers over their lifetimes
Crime Statisitcs
95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix are for illegal aliens.
86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque are for illegal aliens.
75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix and Albuquerque are illegal aliens.
24.9% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
40.1% of all inmates in Arizona detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
48.2% of all inmates in New Mexico detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
29% (630,000) convicted illegal alien felons fill our state and federal prisons at a cost of $1.6 billion annually.
53% plus of all investigated burglaries reported in California, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Texas are perpetrated by illegal aliens.
50% plus of all gang members in Los Angeles are illegal aliens from south of the border.
71% plus of all apprehended cars stolen in 2005 in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and California were stolen by Illegal aliens or “transport coyotes”.
47% of cited/stopped drivers in California have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 47%, 92% are illegal aliens.
63% of cited/stopped drivers in Arizona have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 63%, 97% are illegal aliens.
66% of cited/stopped drivers in New Mexico have no license, no insurance and no registration for the vehicle. Of that 66%, 98% are illegal.
Birth Statistics
380,000 plus “anchor babies” were born in the U.S. in 2005 to illegal alien parents, making 380,000 babies automatically U.S.citizens.
97.2% of all costs incurred from those births were paid by the American taxpayers.
66% plus of all births in California are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
Last Updated ( Friday, 20 July 2007 )
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“The press and RINO states who think that their 1% of the population has a right to vote first as if it is some sort of gauge. Primary dates should be set after the main election and based on per capita Republicans who vote. That way the larger Republican states like Texas, Florida ( still ), and southern conservative states go first and if those states trend left the vote can be moved.”
Not a perfect system but better than the one we have letting NH and Iowa start the momentum.
This just in...
....Bob Barr, today, received more pledges from voters increasingly angered by positions taken by the other liberal running for President: John McCain. Barr is closely trailed by the ever-popular Mickey Mouse.
What politician wouldn't? They are growing - we are shrinking.
Yuck!
Anyone willing to speak to that group of uber-racists does not deserve a vote from any true American Patriot (and won’t get mine).
La Raza = “The Race”, and they don’t mean like a marathon...
McQueeg really plans to try to get elected by totally pi$$ing on the conservative base.
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