Posted on 03/14/2010 7:32:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In a midterm election year when angry voters are turning on Democrats and turning out at Tea Party protests, California Republicans are talking up volatile issues that have historically resonated in hard times, including getting tough on environmental regulations and undocumented immigrants and their children.
California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, who is challenging front-runner Meg Whitman for his party's gubernatorial nomination, was the most vivid example of the lengths to which candidates will stretch to win the party's right flank. He called for an end to all taxpayer-funded services to undocumented immigrants, including denying their children public education and health care.
"We're just out of money ... and one of the reasons the state's in trouble is because of illegal immigration," said Poizner, who argued California spends up to $10 billion annually on services for illegal immigrants.
Poizner also urged changing the welfare system to reduce available benefits from a period of five years to two - and children, he said, should be included in that cutoff.
The statements were greeted with alarm in the Latino community, where a news report on Univision - the largest Spanish language network - characterized Poizner's statements as the beginning of "a frontal war against our community."
And even a Tea Party favorite, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore of Irvine, a conservative rival of Fiorina for the U.S. Senate nomination, said he's convinced that in these tough economic times, voters want candidates to focus on "massive growth in government, massive deficit spending - and creating jobs the old-fashioned way, not by borrowing from the government."
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“California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, who is challenging front-runner Meg Whitman for his party’s gubernatorial nomination, was the most vivid example of the lengths to which candidates will stretch to win the party’s right flank. He called for an end to all taxpayer-funded services to undocumented immigrants, including denying their children public education and health care. “
20 years late.
20 billion dollars short.
No kiddin.
The SF Chronicle rails against what it calls...”the lengths to which candidates will stretch to win the party’s right flank.” Yeah. For example really EXTREME stuff like following the friggin’ LAW about illegal aliens!! Pretty gruesome that right wing, ain’t it!!
Yeah baby, the jig is up! Go home!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_187_(1994)
California cannot be fixed IMHO b/c illegal aliens are voting in state elections. This is what the dims have planned for the rest of the country.
I saw what the CA GOP was capable of after Prop 187 went away. Yeah, they talk tough, but that’s about all they do. Damn, we should have cloned Reagan when we had the chance.
Whenever these articles from the Chronicle and Gate are posted, I always go over there and read the comments. Invariably, the vast majority sound like this board - and yet the Democrats are consistently re-elected. IMO, it just shows what an organized political machine can do, especially in the face of a weak opposition.
Excuse me .. with a DEMOCRAT STATE HOUSE - what the heck are people expecting.
And .. then you have the unions representing all the STATE EMPLOYEES - when the heck are we going to put a stop to THAT ..??
Having a repub Gov may not get the state out of trouble, because we’re still stuck with all those dems in the state house. The real secret will be prying the dems out of Sacramento.
“The real secret will be prying the dems out of Sacramento.”
SWAT teams??
Well .. I think we usually VOTE .. but with the dems running things today .. who knows!
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