Posted on 06/11/2014 8:33:38 PM PDT by EternalVigilance
Makes calls with Grover Norquist seeking conservative support
Sen. Rand Paul on Wednesday waded deeper into an issue that has proved perilous to some of his GOP colleagues, throwing his political weight behind an establishment lobby effort to get Congress to reform the country’s immigration system this year.
Mr. Paul, a libertarian-leaning Republican from Kentucky and possible 2016 presidential hopeful, participated in a telephone conference call to conservative and business leaders in favor of immigration reform in an effort brokered by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, The Washington Times has learned.
The business group, the Partnership for a New American Economy, immediately blasted an email Wednesday evening to supporters crowing that Mr. Paul had formally joined its pro-reform effort.
The timing of the call only heightened the potential stakes for Mr. Paul just one day after House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was shockingly ousted from office in the Virginia Republican primary in favor of a little-known college professor.
Tea party activists who whipped up a get-out-the-vote effort for Mr. Cantor’s opponent said they were motivated by the incumbent’s advocacy for immigration reform, actions on Obamacare and vote to raise the nation’s debt ceiling.
Mr. Cantor was the second high-profile Republican to suffer political damage by stepping forward on the immigration issue. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, another potential presidential contender, lost the support of his tea party base when he advocated a plan for immigration that some argued created a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
Mr. Paul, a longtime favorite of the tea party movement, has made it clear that he believes Congress needs the courage to enact immigration reform.
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Immigration reform is synonymous amnesty.
Amnesty is synonymous with immigration reform.
Hey, if we saved some of those jobs for Americans, then college graduates would be able to GET A JOB and then there wouldn’t be any college loan crisis to use as the excuse to undermine capitalism...
Manufactured crisis. It’s what Obama’s been doing ever since he moved to Chicago (if not before). See my post right before this one for more information about that.
I do not like the Chamber immigration plan
Open the border, let in a bunch of low skill workers, pay them minimum wage, beat them at work like rented mules, while the Citizens live off the immigrant labor?????
So Rand Paul is as kooky and as lost as his old man.
I think they pretty much ignore email. I am seriously thinking of sending him something snail mail.
“One ring to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them...”
Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Either we get Constitutional governance back so that power is never held in one place, or else we will watch leader after leader after leader fall to the power of “the ring”.
Faxes at least get read once by somebody in their office.
If you’re not his constituent they will throw away whatever you send him. Unless, maybe, if it’s campaign money. That’s the only input they care about.
Only if you’re their constituent. I was told by a staffer that the first thing they check for is if you’re a constituent. If you’ve got the wrong address or don’t say you’re a constituent, into the trash it goes. Or they may forward it to the person who supposedly represents you.
I have a lot of sympathy for the kids who are in the center of this gawdawful mess but it’s Obama who is at base endangering their lives. These folks in DC have no soul, none.
Think we need this cartoon on front page of Free Republic with Border Guards hands tied behind their backs and need to remove the wall since we don’t even have a fence!
Not one word by Paul, not one quote, nothing. Pure spin.
Somehow I doubt the head of his PAC made it all up.
But, if you really believe they’re making it up, you better get in touch with the Washington Times and have them retract the story.
And the head of Paul’s PAC to correct the record.
Taking everything at face value (which I don’t) all it says is that Paul took a phone call. Big deal.
It is a big deal when a sitting U.S. Senator works with the king of amnesty, Grover Norquist, to promote it.
But like I said, if it isn't true I'm sure we'll see the Senator calling for the Times to correct the record. Right?
In fact, since this story has been out since earlier today, and it’s almost tomorrow, surely there’s a correction from the Senator out there, if it isn’t true. Right?
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