Posted on 01/30/2017 6:54:14 PM PST by beaversmom
With all the immigration uproar going on by the left, and some of other political stripes, because Trump simply wants to protect Americans and the values that have made our country great and get a handle on who is coming here, I thought I would look up some of Richard Lamm's talks.
Unfortunately, there's not that much out there of length and good technical quality that I could find in a cursory search, but this was a pretty good one in content of what was being said and quality of the clip that I came across.
Former three-term governor of Colorado, Richard Lamm, is a Democrat, and a lot of his ideas are born out of that line of thinking, but he's very right about immigration.
In this talk that I have linked, he is mostly confronting immigration from a sustainability argument, but as his famous speech entitled "I Have a plan to destroy America" (see below for the transcript) illustrates his reasoning about "too much" immigration encompasses more than how are we going to have enough natural resources for everyone.
Is this the same Governor Lamm who once said that “Old people have a duty to die and get out of the way?”
This is what I just pulled up on Amazon:
Mexifornia: A State of Becoming Hardcover – July 25, 2003
https://www.amazon.com/Mexifornia-Becoming-Victor-Davis-Hanson/dp/1893554732
I’m sure you already know the answer so why are you asking?
Thank you so much for this post. I had a conversation with him when he ran for his first term. And voted for him. Wow, have Demoncrats changed since back then! And so have I for that matter.
Was looking for this article but was spelling his name Lamb.
Because Lamm was a Democrat back in the 1980s. I’m checking to see if he is still alive and if so, why is he talking like a conservative now?
I see. I think he’s always been the type that thinks through things for himself and isn’t one to be lockstep with the left on every issue.
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