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Top GOP donors tell party to legalize illegal immigrants
The Washington Times ^ | 7-30-2013

Posted on 07/30/2013 11:11:46 AM PDT by markomalley

Nearly a hundred top Republican officials sent a letter to the House GOP on Tuesday urging lawmakers to pass a bill that legalizes illegal immigrants, arguing that the current system is already allowing them to stay and so it makes sense to register them and bring them into the system.

The donors, led by former Bush administration Cabinet officials Carlos Gutierrez and Spencer Abraham, also said that immigrants are potential Republican voters who can be won over — if the party can be seen as welcoming to immigrants.

“Doing nothing is de facto amnesty. We need to take control of whom we let in our country and we need to make sure everybody plays by the same rules,” the donors said in their letter.

They aimed their pitch at House Republicans, who are trying to figure out a way forward and find themselves trapped between angry rank-and-file voters who say legalizing illegal immigrants amounts to amnesty, and party elites and donors who say the GOP cannot survive nationally without embracing legalization as part of a strategy to win over Hispanic voters.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 113th; 2013; aliens; amnesty; carlosgutierrez; gutierrez; illegals; lobbyists; potentialdemocrats; potentialrepublicans; shamnesty; spencerabraham; stupidparty; undocumenteddems; unregistereddems; wronganswer; wrongissue
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To: Buckeye McFrog
Money talks. Your voters walk (and form a third party)

That was my question. What will the GOP do for votes? The illegals aren't going to vote for them, and I'll never vote GOP again.

21 posted on 07/30/2013 11:37:23 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: henkster

Plus Ford, Nixon, Eisenhower, Rockefeller and Dewey before them . . .


22 posted on 07/30/2013 11:37:32 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: SharpRightTurn

“Rampant deficit spending and criminal values don’t end at the Rio Grande.”

or something like that.


23 posted on 07/30/2013 11:38:39 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: markomalley
We are no longer a Capitalist Representative Republic; we are now a Corporatist neo-Fascist government.

The corporations took over our government, and individual people be damned. Substandard health care, ubiquitous monitoring and invasion of privacy, lower standard of living for most and only the best for a select few.

This is all the bad parts of Capitalism (yes, there are a few) only on steroids. See, when you go too far down the coporatist path, you end up nearly with communism. Politics and economic systems are not linear, they are circular.

24 posted on 07/30/2013 11:39:02 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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To: markomalley

What good did the BIG DONORS do for us in 2012? As far as I’m concerned, if they sit out 2016, that makes it harder for some GOPe type to spend all that money attacking conservatives in the primaries.


25 posted on 07/30/2013 11:39:25 AM PDT by Maceman (Just say "NO" to tyranny.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I don’t care WHAT the big donors are represented by what lobbyists, there is NOTHING I can’t do without.

Lettuce, tomatoes, grapes, wine, chicken, citrus, I can live without ALL of it.


26 posted on 07/30/2013 11:40:58 AM PDT by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
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To: markomalley

I like Greg Gutfeld’s idea: give them Detroit.

If illegals can make that city work, they deserve to stay.


27 posted on 07/30/2013 11:44:50 AM PDT by freerepublicchat
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To: markomalley

The top donors are the RNC, I received a call for money from the RNC this morning and declined. I told them I consider myself a Republican but the party is abdoning me and the Conservatives. They said they needed money to pay for projects that would bring more Conservative voters to the party but couldn’t be more specific. I told him they just use the word conservative when talking to Conservatives when they are trying to raise money.


28 posted on 07/30/2013 11:44:55 AM PDT by duffee (NO poll tax, NO tax on firearms, ammunition or gun safes. NO gun free zones.)
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To: markomalley; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

Tokyo Rove, rich, liberal bastards and corporate scum lobby Republican congresscritters for amnesty.

PING!


29 posted on 07/30/2013 11:47:01 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I don't always vote, but when I do, I SURE AS HELL DON'T VOTE DEMOCRAT!)
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To: markomalley; stephenjohnbanker
The donors, led by former Bush administration Cabinet officials Carlos Gutierrez and Spencer Abraham . . .


30 posted on 07/30/2013 11:49:08 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (I don't always vote, but when I do, I SURE AS HELL DON'T VOTE DEMOCRAT!)
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To: txhurl

” don’t care WHAT the big donors are represented by what lobbyists, there is NOTHING I can’t do without.

Lettuce, tomatoes, grapes, wine, chicken, citrus, I can live without ALL of it.”

The difference in cost of one head of lettuce picked by an illegal at 8.00 an hour, and a union picker earning 15.00 an hour is 6 cents.

They LIE!


31 posted on 07/30/2013 11:52:51 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Dubya and Jeb are going all out once again for amnesy....its all they do.


32 posted on 07/30/2013 11:54:20 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
Legalizing illegal aliens would damage this country extensively. It would play into the hands of those who hate us and want to destroy us.
33 posted on 07/30/2013 11:56:43 AM PDT by Dante3
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To: markomalley

They’re afraid they’ll lose re-election if they vote against amnesty. But they’ll lose if they vote for amnesty because all the people they give amnesty to will vote for democrats. Guess which way they’ll vote.


34 posted on 07/30/2013 11:58:17 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican (If you vote for evil because you can't see evil, you ARE evil!)
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To: Dante3

” Legalizing illegal aliens would damage this country extensively.”

It would destroy it, under THIS proposed amnesty. With chain migration, we will have 100 million unskilled, illiterate slobs living here.


35 posted on 07/30/2013 11:59:26 AM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (K I L L T H E B I L L !!)
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To: markomalley
They can supply you rat bastards with perks and wealth but they can't supply you with a bed rock base... and we can supply you with 10’s of millions of votes... but if you allow these rich corporate tyrants to rule the day... we will send many of you home powerless and defeated.

LLS

36 posted on 07/30/2013 12:01:38 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

btt


37 posted on 07/30/2013 12:02:25 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I will be there and will fight as hard as I can... she and Levin just need to say NOW!

LLS


38 posted on 07/30/2013 12:02:46 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Capt. Tom

85% according to Gallup.


39 posted on 07/30/2013 12:04:23 PM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: markomalley
Boycott List at bottom of letter:






40 posted on 07/30/2013 12:11:57 PM PDT by jimbo123
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