Posted on 07/11/2010 6:54:52 PM PDT by kristinn
BOSTON — In a private meeting with White House officials this weekend, Democratic governors voiced deep anxiety about the Obama administration’s suit against Arizona’s new immigration law, worrying that it could cost a vulnerable Democratic Party in the fall elections.
While the weak economy dominated the official agenda at the summer meeting here of the National Governors Association, concern over immigration policy pervaded the closed-door session between Democratic governors and White House officials and simmered throughout the three-day event.
At the Democrats’ meeting on Saturday, some governors bemoaned the timing of the Justice Department lawsuit, according to two governors who spoke anonymously because the discussion was private.
“Universally the governors are saying, ‘We’ve got to talk about jobs,’ ” Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee, a Democrat, said in an interview. “And all of a sudden we have immigration going on.”
He added, “It is such a toxic subject, such an important time for Democrats.”
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“I might have chosen both a different tack and a different time,” said Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. of Colorado, a Democrat who was facing a tough fight for re-election and pulled out of the race earlier this year. “This is an issue that divides us politically, and I’m hopeful that their strategy doesn’t do that in a way that makes it more difficult for candidates to get elected, particularly in the West.”
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Immigration was not the only topic at the Saturday meeting between Democratic governors and two White House officials — Patrick Gaspard, Mr. Obama’s political director, and Cecilia Munoz, director of intergovernmental affairs. But several governors, including Christine Gregoire of Washington, said it was a particularly heated issue.
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The heart of the matter is that they are concerned with timing and appearances.
If they had been concerned with substance Barry O’Bozo would still be making his living skimming federal race based welfare programs at the street level in Chicago.
“It must suck to have a kamikaze leading your party.”
There’s a line in the article that says that the law “makes it a crime to be an illegal immigrant there.” Barry and Eric Holder are taking exception to that. These buffoons are practically sinking the Dems intentionally.
Patrick Gaspard: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Gaspard
Do these Goverors think that Obama cares about them or anything other than himself and his own agenda?
Cecilia Munoz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Mu%C3%B1oz
Now they are probably plotting strategy on how to steal the elections as they KNOW they can’t get reelected on their merits/platform.
Reading these resumes freaked me out.
Dedicated Marxist America Haters and Traitors
Ping!
Well, he has said he believes the country is moving in the right direction. Most folks are just too naive to realize he means precisely that...
Here’s a clue people. You do NOT regularize millions of illegal workers when you have 9% plus unemployment. How stupid are these dems anyway?
Maybe we should offer a $1,000,000 prize to anyone who can find one scintilla of difference between the CPUSA and the Democrats platform.
The "Congressional Progressive Caucus" must be targeted and destroyed as well their allies in the press and academia.
No holds barred, take no prisoners, name names and make these red bastards pay dearly for the consequences of nearly one hundred years of insidious and unrelenting attacks on capitalism and judeo-christian morality.
CPUSA And Obama Platforms Are Identical
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Of course it's a heated issue, and hopefully it'll become a lot more heated. Bush already put the nation through this contentious issue twice, trying to force something on the American people that 70%+ don't want. Now here is Obama with the same old crap and people are fed up with it.
But will voters really show what they think of this issue at the polls this year? With very few exceptions, they didn't after the 2006 amnesty push, and they didn't after the 2007 amnesty push. Amnesty pushers need to pay for it with a loss of their seats in Congress, or they'll never stop bringing this up, and they'll never insist that immigration laws be enforced.
although I am partial to this pic
If Obama’s agenda remains full speed ahead without attenuation by D-Govs et al this should make for a blood bath of an election this fall!
Saw where 95% of Americans voted that they support Arizona’s new immigration law...over 3 million votes! It was a MSNBC/U.S. News and World Reports poll.
You Dems need to be out there reminding everyone who took over healthcare.
You need to be reminding everyone who is raising taxes.
You need to be reminding everyone who is spending like drunken sailors.
You need to be touting a plan for Amnesty.
That’s the only way you’ll win in 2010. :)
Different time? Your boss thinks anytime's the right time to piss on America, Bill.
awesome, may I steal to post on my FB page??
And when the real unemployment figure is closer to 18%, it makes even less sense.
You can't steal something that is freely given. Please spread it far and wide.
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