False. McClintock wants to bring Prop 187 back to get a fair day in court. Schwarzenegger acknowledges that Prop 187 was defeated and wants to move on from it.
They don't want driver's licenses for immigrants.
False. McClintock and Schwarzenegger will uphold the current laws that allow legal immigrants (and legal nonresident aliens) to get drivers licenses. Illegal aliens don't deserve CA licenses.
They are against food.
False. As far as I can tell, every living human must eat.
They are against access to colleges and access to schools.
False. McClintock wants to shift money away from bureaucracy into the classrooms; he suggested the the money all go to classrooms and then be redistributed to the necessary bureacracy that can justify its own existence. He opposes tuition breaks for illegal aliens. Schwarzenegger also supports schools, and he will not cut education.
They are against the opportunity to organize labor unions.
False. McClintock supports the entire Bill of Rights, which includes the right to assemble peacefully, and he supports the Right to Work movement which allows unions to organize and bargain but would allow people the freedom not to join a union. Schwarzenegger was probably a member of the screenactors guild or somesuch actors union, so I don't think he would oppose the organization of unions, either, although I haven't heard him say anything about unions.
They are against so many of the values we have in our community.
False. Both espouse the need for a real balanced budget and fiscal reform, and both oppose partial-birth abortion. These values are widely-held in our community.
I think it's important to see who the enemy is... It's the Republican legislators, candidates, and officials who say that they don't want to solve our community's problems.
I can't say if Cruz really thinks that, but if he does, he's seriously delusional. The Democrats in the legislature and the executive office are committed to ruining the communities by writing and passing laws that break the backs of families and small businesses with taxes/fees, that discourage business development and real estate development in CA, that contribute to the moral decay in schools and communities, that neglect the needed roads/water/power upgrades, and that encourage the problems of socialism and dependency.
That they don't want children to go to school.
False. They want children to learn the basics in school without having to waste so much time on social engineering and moral decadence or so much money on bureacratic overhead waste.
That they don't want driver's licenses.
False. Most or all Republican legislators can drive and have licenses.... What was Cruz thinking?
On his membership in MEChA (Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan):
"When I was in that organization, we would run campaigns for student government. We wanted to gain access for all the kids in the area to attend college, to come and celebrate the diversity we had in the community. I think it's important, whether you're a student or a member of the community, that you fight for all the people. I think that's very positive.
QUESTION: What do you think of the MEChA slogan "For the race, everything. For those outside the race, nothing"?
All the students who were in the organization with me came to college, they graduated, they are raising their families, they are working. I think that, hopefully, the politics of those students who were protesting back then, I think their politics have grown - like mine."
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Well, give the guy a little credit, I guess. At least he doesn't try to deny that slogan meant anything, as other MEChA members have tried to do when defending him.
We certainly hope his politics are maturing, but his separatist talk about winning with Latins only doesn't seem frightfully encouraging.
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