Posted on 02/28/2014 1:23:49 PM PST by jimbo123
A Republican hopeful for the U.S. Senate who used a racial slur to describe undocumented immigrants has defended the language as normal in South Texas.
Chris Mapp, a Port O'Connor businessman, stood by his comments that wetbacks should be shot by ranchers and that President Barack Obama is a socialist son of a bitch remarks that have created a national stir among both parties.
That kind of rhetoric is discouraging from anybody, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said during a visit to a San Antonio charter school Friday. I recognize this is a free country but that's not the sort of way to gain people's confidence that you care about them and you want to represent their concerns in the halls of Congress.
Mapp, 53, first made the remarks at an editorial board meeting with the Dallas Morning News last week, but told the San Antonio Express-News on Friday that using the derogatory term for Mexican immigrants is as normal as breathing air in South Texas.
(Excerpt) Read more at mysanantonio.com ...
Wonder what Cornyn thinks about Operation Wetback.
“The correct term is undocumented Democrats.”
Illegal alien democrat criminals!
Maybe HD needs to swim across the Rio G
“Wetback” has nothing to do with race. It has to do with somebody’s immigration status. Just another ploy by the party of race baiters.
“Mexico is the United States third-largest trading partner.
Might be but Mexico charges 100% duty on all US products on the mainland and 50% duty to Baja and we don’t charge hardly anything on their products coming here.
We should charge 100% for all their products until they drop their duty.
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um... hey Cornyn...here's a news flash for you!! you can't represent someone who is here illegally !
Their representatives are in Mexico!
I have nothing against Hispanics, I am just sick and tired of those who are invading our country in the millions and overwhelming out system and depressing wages for your REAL constituents! you know! the people who actually VOTE for you!
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You don't live in Texas do you? This is just one of the stories on-line about what Texas Ranchers face, chosen at random for expediency. Things are much worse now.
In Texas, nearly 8,200 farms and ranches back up to the Mexican border.
The men and women who live and work on those properties say theyre under attack from the same drug cartels blamed for thousands of murders in Mexico.
Its a war, make no mistake about it, Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples said. And its happening on American soil.
Texas farmers and ranchers produce more cotton and more cattle than any other state, so Staples is concerned this war could eventually impact our food supply, and calls it a threat to our national security.
Farmers and ranchers are being run off their own property by armed terrorists showing up and telling them they have to leave their land, Staples said.
Excerpt from:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/03/03/americas-war-texas-farmers-attack-mexican-border/
Do you have a link for that claim? Doesn't sound NAFTA friendly...
Well, I don’t say wetback-I say mojado, and that is a pejorative-but I can say it because my ancestry is latino...
Was this Mapp guy a serious candidate before he said these things?
Newsflash, Cornball: you're not supposed to be representing the concerns of illegal aliens in the halls of Congress. Try representing the citizenry for a change. This kind of attitude is why we want you OUT.
“Would have been better if he had not used such language; but, now that he has, his best bet is to do what the Democrats do wallow in it, say it again and again, and stay on the offensive no matter what. Weve got to stop running away every time the RINOS stamp their feet.”
Excellent.
I’m sick of seeing conservatives grovel everytime the leftists demand an apology.
Ike also called the D-Day invasion “the Great Crusade.”
“an invasive species of primates?”
Bump.
There are probably more people who agree with what he said than many may think.
Thieving Bastards is true to form!
Funny the only shot fired was the one Mapp put in his foot.
What is wrong about using proper names instead of made-up names? ILLEGAL immigrants from Mexico were called 'wetbacks' for ages. Now people get their panties in a knot about that. And it is ILLEGAL to enter without documentation, my house or my country. So I can't shoot someone invading my house? Really? And by extension I can't shoot someone invading my country? Really? Men do what men have to do, whether defending their home or their country. People who do not understand this are in the way of civilization and culture and there are consequences.
This guy is going to give Cornyn the poseur a run. Aks yourself why that is.
I dont think Mapp is trying to get into second place. If it does get him in to second place at least force a runoff good for him.
There probably is 10 or 20% who might vote for him based on this and get the challengers totals above 50%.
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