I have been thinking a lot about this conflict between the rising sentiment among the populaton against amnesty and a path to citizenship on the one hand and this queston of donors on the other. So I have begun, with the aid of my far more savvy son-in-law, who has experience in the Silicon Valley. to put together a blog on it. You can see a few early bits by using the Google search engine to go to keep-the-republic.blogspot.com, which reflects the name of our old U.S.Defense-American Victory web site. I find it difficult to see why this is not the most vulnerable spot in the armor of our present ruler wannabe. You seem to be a TExan. Itwould be interesting to know what you think.
I find it difficult to see why this is not the most vulnerable spot in the armor of our present ruler wannabe. You seem to be a TExan. Itwould be interesting to know what you think.
It is the most vulnerable spot in our armor, so to speak. We do a lot of things here that encourages illegal immigration, or perhaps we don't discourage it, depending on your point of view. Because so many are coming in, it ties up border/security resources that could be better spent on making sure certain members of the Religion of Peace aren't crossing the border or bringing God only knows what across.
As for the donor question, and by the way, it's not just Perry, and in many cases, the donors are donating to both sides at the same time, it's easy. In Texas, there are/were (now that Bob Perry has passed away) some incredibly wealthy folks who are home builders (Bob Perry being the prime example), and people in the grocery/produce business (Charles Butt) who ostensibly benefit in some way from such labor.
In my view, the Republicans and Democrats who favor amnesty (or a guest worker program like Perry and Bush/McCain/Keneedy/etc.), are doing so at the behest of their donors. If you are a large business that relies on unskilled labor such as homebuilding and agriculture, some kind of large-scale amnesty is going to help you, because it will flood the market with
legal unskilled labor which will help depress labor costs.
This is why things like this happen:
Top business leaders try to derail Texas ‘sanctuary cities’ bill:
Two of Texas’ most powerful business leaders have mounted a late-hour push to derail an anti-illegal-immigration bill in the Legislature’s special session.
Houston homebuilder Bob Perry and HEB/Central Market grocery chieftain Charles Butt applied pressure Thursday to members of a House panel to block the “sanctuary cities” measure that would let police officers ask anyone they stop about their residency status.
The Senate-passed bill faces a crucial hearing Monday before the House State Affairs Committee. The special session must end by Wednesday night.
On Thursday, Austin superlobbyist Neal “Buddy” Jones Jr. of HillCo Partners, which represents Perry Homes and HEB, urged committee members not to pass the bill.
“Just want to tell you that Charles Butt and Bob Perry have asked me to call every member of State Affairs and ask them not to pass the sanctuary city bill,” Jones wrote in an email to Rep. Pete Gallego, D-Alpine. House Democrats released the email to The Dallas Morning News.
“They think it is very bad for Texas,” Jones said, encouraging Gallego, an opponent of the bill, to inform his committee colleagues “that these two giants of Texas business are concerned that this is taking Texas in the wrong direction.”
It's also why things like this happen:
Hon. Rick Perry, Governor of Texas at 2010 NCLR Annual Conference
Although in that video, I don't think Rick Perry is there because of his donors, I think that what you see is what you get - he likes the La Raza folks (who apparently include some Aggies going by the whoops) and they like him. But with Perry, you do have to ask what his donors get out of it when something happens.