Posted on 10/01/2011 8:55:43 AM PDT by Clairity
His aides believe that his decade of experience as a border-state governor bolsters his credibility on immigration and border security.
He said he vetoed a Texas bill that would have given illegal immigrants driver's licenses, helped pass a bill requiring voter identification at the polls, spent $400 million on security measures to help secure the state’s border with Mexico, and strongly opposed granting amnesty to people who illegally entered the United States.
"I'm a governor. I don't have the pleasure of standing on the stage and criticizing," Perry said. "I have to deal with these issues."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Gilchrist’s “schtick” is MONEY. You pay, he plays. And he plays damn dirty.
http://www.mmdnewswire.com/huckabee-campaigner-and-
minuteman-threatening-e-mail-scandal-2738.html
Huckabee Campaigner and Minuteman threatening e-mail Scandal
The Huckabee campaign faces national scandal today, as recent e-mails sent by Minuteman Co-Founder and Huckabee campaign member Jim Gilchrist are released that threaten to malign another leader with false accusations of child molestation, pedophilia, embezzlement, and thievery!
The e-mail threat was received by Brook Young of the organization Immigration Watchdog, who is one of the 84 leaders who signed an open letter opposing the Gilchrist endorsement of Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
Jim Gilchrist has endorsed Mike Huckabee and has been traveling on the Huckabee campaign media bus across Iowa making speeches of support at Huckabee’s side, at campaign press conferences and events. Gilchrist has also been on numerous talk radio shows promoting the Huckabee campaign as a highly visible part of the campaign in the national media.
“It is completely outrageous that a person so highly involved with the Huckabee campaign is sending e-mails threatening to malign an opposing organization leader with false accusations of child molestation,” says William Gheen of ALIPAC. “Huckabee and Gilchrist need to explain why a Presidential campaign is involved in these kinds of documented threats and vile mud slinging.”
The e-mail from Gilchrist, which threatens to malign Brook Young is on full display at ImmigrationWatchdog.com and ALIPAC.us
http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=5482
Mr. Gilchrist also sent out an “article” or press release to the Minuteman Project national e-mail list last night that contains many supposed quotes by Mike Huckabee that appear to answer all criticisms of the Huckabee immigration plan and record. The author is listed as “Perry Emerson, for Jim Gilchrist” yet initial research can find no proof that a Perry Emerson works for Jim Gilchrist or the Minuteman Project. The name only shows up on articles released by Minuteman Project, which contain topics that are attacks on others.
Google searches on the alleged quotes by Mike Huckabee, such as “I would make it my first act as president to pardon agents Ramos and Compean” show no results other than the Gilchrist release. The Huckabee campaign can provide no written evidence that Huckabee made these comments.
Copy of Gilchrist Release
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-96732.html
“Official campaign statements on important matters like immigration should be made directly by the campaign and not by proxy,” says William Gheen. “We will continue to look for evidence that Perry Emerson actually exists. If Mr. Gilchrist is putting out official statements under a false name and citing statements Huckabee did not make, then ‘Houston we have a problem.’”
ALIPAC is calling on the Huckabee campaign to officially confirm or deny the authenticity of the claims made in the Minuteman Project release and to clarify if Mr. Gilchrist is acting on behalf of the Huckabee campaign in his threats to spread false rumors of a graphic nature about organizations that oppose the Presidential campaign of Mike Huckabee.
William Gheen has notified ALIPAC activists and allied leaders about this situation through a letter titled, “The Madness of Jim Gilchrist” which is also found at www.alipac.us
CONTACT: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, press@alipac.us, (866) 329-3999
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Paid for by Americans for Legal Immigration
Post Office Box 30966, Raleigh, NC 27622-0966
Tel: (919) 787-6009 Toll Free: (866) 329-3999
FEC ID: C00405878
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Whoa!
Palin's position is pretty much identical to Perry. Are you Anti-Palin as well as Anti-Perry?
Did Palin publicly say the AZ law wouldn't work in Texas?
Did Palin offer in-state tuition for illegals?
Did Palin dismiss eVerify?
Did Palin continually blame the feds for immigration problems in Alaska then turn around and shoot down any state ideas to control the problem?
Did Palin call those who don't agree with giving illegals a free ride heartless?
Sorry, honey, but Perry is alone in the wilderness on this, which is why the other candidates are taking him on.
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Other than her statement to Univision where she supported amnesty and a path to citizenship, I haven’t seen Palin take any position on any of those issues. As far as I can tell, she has been carefully avoiding taking a position. I suspect that her positions are fairly similar to Perry’s. Do you have any quotes from Palin on those issues?
Then you need to do more research, as her positions SINCE that interview have been posted over and over and over again on FR.
Gilchrist’s “schtick” is MONEY. You pay, he plays. And he plays damn dirty.
http://www.mmdnewswire.com/huckabee-campaigner-and-
minuteman-threatening-e-mail-scandal-2738.htmlHuckabee Campaigner and Minuteman threatening e-mail Scandal
The Huckabee campaign faces national scandal today, as recent e-mails sent by Minuteman Co-Founder and Huckabee campaign member Jim Gilchrist are released that threaten to malign another leader with false accusations of child molestation, pedophilia, embezzlement, and thievery!The e-mail threat was received by Brook Young of the organization Immigration Watchdog, who is one of the 84 leaders who signed an open letter opposing the Gilchrist endorsement of Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
Jim Gilchrist has endorsed Mike Huckabee and has been traveling on the Huckabee campaign media bus across Iowa making speeches of support at Huckabee’s side, at campaign press conferences and events. Gilchrist has also been on numerous talk radio shows promoting the Huckabee campaign as a highly visible part of the campaign in the national media.
“It is completely outrageous that a person so highly involved with the Huckabee campaign is sending e-mails threatening to malign an opposing organization leader with false accusations of child molestation,” says William Gheen of ALIPAC. “Huckabee and Gilchrist need to explain why a Presidential campaign is involved in these kinds of documented threats and vile mud slinging.”
The e-mail from Gilchrist, which threatens to malign Brook Young is on full display at ImmigrationWatchdog.com and ALIPAC.us
http://www.immigrationwatchdog.com/?p=5482
Mr. Gilchrist also sent out an “article” or press release to the Minuteman Project national e-mail list last night that contains many supposed quotes by Mike Huckabee that appear to answer all criticisms of the Huckabee immigration plan and record. The author is listed as “Perry Emerson, for Jim Gilchrist” yet initial research can find no proof that a Perry Emerson works for Jim Gilchrist or the Minuteman Project. The name only shows up on articles released by Minuteman Project, which contain topics that are attacks on others.
Google searches on the alleged quotes by Mike Huckabee, such as “I would make it my first act as president to pardon agents Ramos and Compean” show no results other than the Gilchrist release. The Huckabee campaign can provide no written evidence that Huckabee made these comments.
Copy of Gilchrist Release
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-96732.html“Official campaign statements on important matters like immigration should be made directly by the campaign and not by proxy,” says William Gheen. “We will continue to look for evidence that Perry Emerson actually exists. If Mr. Gilchrist is putting out official statements under a false name and citing statements Huckabee did not make, then ‘Houston we have a problem.’”
ALIPAC is calling on the Huckabee campaign to officially confirm or deny the authenticity of the claims made in the Minuteman Project release and to clarify if Mr. Gilchrist is acting on behalf of the Huckabee campaign in his threats to spread false rumors of a graphic nature about organizations that oppose the Presidential campaign of Mike Huckabee.
William Gheen has notified ALIPAC activists and allied leaders about this situation through a letter titled, “The Madness of Jim Gilchrist” which is also found at www.alipac.us
CONTACT: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, press@alipac.us, (866) 329-3999
###
Paid for by Americans for Legal Immigration
Post Office Box 30966, Raleigh, NC 27622-0966
Tel: (919) 787-6009 Toll Free: (866) 329-3999
FEC ID: C00405878
And then tell us how they've worked out.
But don't go calling critics of your decisions "heartless".
If you can point to concrete positive results instead of abstract theories as to how you "intended" for them to work out, point to 'em.
When I seached on google for Sarah Palin's stance on immigration it came back with so many mixed messages it was impossible to tell what her position is.
Does she still support limited amnesty and a path to citizenship?
Show me one quote from Palin after 2008 where she has refudiated her interview with Univision.
I don’t know a bunch of back and forth among people who claim he said no she said no he said no she said, or didn’t say, as the case may be.
Here is the Gilchrist quote in describing Perry’s border stance. The words themselves. That’s all I have. The words themselves should be heard.
By the founder of the Minutemen, Jim Gilchrist. What he did or did not do or say or not say after founding Minutemen, I don’t know.
But you seem so god-like in your pronouncements from mt olympus, nevertheless, I don’t fear anyone when I simply post the words of the man who founded Minutemen:
“Of all the Republican candidates he’s [Perry] the one who stands out the most on wanting to deal with this issue [border security] and put it to bed and resolve the problems”
In your world everyone is evil personified who supports Rick Perry.
They all pay to play, or else are just stupid. You will advance anything against them you can. Doesn’t matter what it is.
You must destroy them.
I get it.
Then, there is Saint Sarah Palin. Anything for that cause. Anything. No limits.
We’ve come to understand, and we proceed accordingly.
As for myself, I would vote for Sarah Palin or Rick Perry.
I took Michele off my list when she pushed the meme that girls in Texas were forcibly injected with Gardasil and that Gardasil was implicated in causing retardation in a heretofore normal child because she said a mother came up to her claiming that.
I would have voted for Cain as well, until now I hear he was for Romney before and would support Romney now, but would not even support Perry against Obama. Now those are problems with him I didn’t know about before.
I will check further about Mr. Cain before finalizing my list of choices.
But against Obama, I will support our nominee even if I can’t stand them, and support our nominees for House and Senate.
Herman Cain has a good record on illegal immigration. He, well, he was involved with Burger King, and Godfather’s Pizza, had a talk show, lost a Senate primary.
On second thought, all Cain has is yakity yak. Perry has a real job.
Easy choice.
Perry doesn’t have an excuse for everything and you well know it.
E-verify is a joke. Let me know how much you enjoy it when you have to present your national id card the next time you apply for a job and they’ve mixed up your middle name with a guy on the terrorist watch list.
Clyde, can you post your immigration transcript from Greta? Jeff, I know you have some good links too.
Been there, done that:
VAN SUSTEREN: Nobody has done anything. I mean, or almost nothing.
PALIN: Because they've made it political and they haven't understood that unsecure borders isn't fair to anybody. It's not fair to American citizens who ware here legally, paying taxes, following the rules, doing all the things that an American citizen is expected to do. It's not fair to them. But it's not fair to the illegal aliens, either, here. They want to come pursue an American dream. Some of them do want to be here to work. But they're forever going to have to hide because, you know, government's going to crack down on them when (INAUDIBLE)
So they need to follow that path of legal citizenship, obviously. But these politicians, presidents in the past who have not secured the border, they've made it a political issue. They haven't wanted to tick off a potential base of Hispanic voters, so they haven't made the tough decisions. And that's no way to solve the problem. That's no way to solve any challenge in America, by ducking and hiding and creating division and making these partisan issues out of it.
“Did Palin called border fences silly?”
Dunno. I’ll check her Facebook page.
What I don't get is this slobbering love affair some have with illegal Mexicans. There is more there than meets the eye...they either have a business will all illegal labor...married to an illegal...something driving this obsession.
Exactly...he made it clear what his position would be.
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