IREY URGES MURTHA TO SUPPORT ENGLISH BALLOTS

Diana Irey campaign web site ^ | July 13, 2006 | Diana Irey

[WeDontKnowJack]

IREY URGES MURTHA TO SUPPORT ENGLISH BALLOTS

(MONONGAHELA, July 13) – Washington County Commissioner and Pennsylvania 12th district Republican Congressional nominee Diana Irey –- anticipating today’s House floor vote on extension of the Voting Rights Act –- today released the following statement:

“Jack Murtha has an opportunity today to stand up for the ideal of America as the Melting Pot –- he can, during consideration of the extension of the Voting Rights Act, vote in favor of the amendment offered by Rep. Steve King of Iowa, to remove the mandate for multilingual ballots, and reaffirm the primacy of English as the language that unites us.

“The voters of our congressional district will see today whether Jack Murtha believes it is right to force states and local governments to print ballots in languages other than English -– an unfunded mandate that burdens local taxpayers, divides our country, and increases the opportunities for voter error and fraud.

“If ever there was a vote that could be called a ‘no-brainer,’ this is it. Only U.S. citizens are allowed to vote; and our current immigration law mandates that immigrants need to be able to demonstrate an ability to read and understand English before they can become naturalized U.S. citizens. If only citizens can vote, and immigrants are already required to learn English before they can become citizens, why should we require the production of multilingual ballots?

“Jack Murtha can do the right thing today by voting for the King Amendment, and I urge him to do so.”

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[WeDontKnowJack]

Now she's gotten to the point where she's anticipating votes on the House floor and laying out ahead of time where she stands, even as she challenges Murtha to join her. Good stuff!

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Over here ping...

[roaddog727]

“If ever there was a vote that could be called a ‘no-brainer,’ this is it. Only U.S. citizens are allowed to vote; and our current immigration law mandates that immigrants need to be able to demonstrate an ability to read and understand English before they can become naturalized U.S. citizens. If only citizens can vote, and immigrants are already required to learn English before they can become citizens, why should we require the production of multilingual ballots? "

Excellent syllogism which demonstrates good logical thinking.

[wolfcreek]

Murtha doesn't care, he think America's horrible.

[navysealdad]

Do you remember Jack Murtha "The conscience of the House"

Original Copy of Jack Anderson Murtha Article August 6, 1980
Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune ^ | August 6, 1980 | Jack Anderson

Jack Anderson Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune, Wednesday, August 6, 1980

Excerpts

"I want to deal with you guys awhile before I make any transactions at all, period," he told them, "After we've done some business, well, then I might change my mind."

Still, he wanted them to understand that he was the best man in Congress the sheik could acquire "I'm going to tell you this, if anybody can do it, I'm not BS-ing you fellows, I can get it done my way," he boasted "There's no question about it."

"All at once," he said, "some dumb (expletive deleted) would go start talking eight years from now about the whole thing and say (expletive deleted), this happened. Then in order to get immunity so he doesn't go to jail, he starts talking and fingering people. So the (SOB) falls apart."

"You give us the banks where you want the money deposited," offered one of the bagmen.

"All right," agreed Murtha "How much money are we talking about?"

"Well, you tell me"

"Well, let me find out what is a reasonable figure that will get their attention," said Murtha, "because there are a couple of banks that have really done me some favors in the past, and I'd like to put some money in."

Later Murtha asked again how much the sheik might be willing to deposit in a bank the congressman would designate. "Oh," said Amoroso, "I think a million dollars." The figure aroused new enthusiasm in Murtha.

Murtha emphasized again how influential he was "I'll be quite honest with you," he confided "I've got as much influence in that (expletive deleted) Congress with the leadership and the White House as anybody in Congress. I went to the ball game with the President. There were three of us me, Tip (Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill) and that was it. So I've got as much influence, and I know as much about the (expletive deleted) workings--you're not going to have any trouble."

[Grendel9]

Sharp Little Lady! This one is
sure to rile up some Americans!
Are they going to spend mega-bucks
printing the ballots in Chinese,
Russian, Polish, Japanese, et al?
or only English and Spanish...
ASSuming every voter is at least
capable of one of those two languages!?

[rightinthemiddle]

I might have to make another contribution to her campaign.

[WeDontKnowJack]

UPDATE: The U.S. House just voted down the King Amendment by voice vote. Congressman King immediately moved to have the vote be recorded by roll call, but the Rule on the bill didn't allow for roll call votes -- so we'll never know how Murtha voted.

[Just A Nobody]

Ping!

[petercooper]

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[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[trooprally]

What a Moron!!
Thanks for the ping.
[Mrs T]

[Just A Nobody]

Indeed!

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[bmwcyle]

You are just short of MiaT on your post.

[AuH2ORepublican]

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"UPDATE: The U.S. House just voted down the King Amendment by voice vote. Congressman King immediately moved to have the vote be recorded by roll call, but the Rule on the bill didn't allow for roll call votes -- so we'll never know how Murtha voted."

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Actually, they did have a recorded vote, and Murtha voted AGAINST Congressman King's very commonsensical amendment:

"The amendment that would have extended the act for a decade, rather than the 25 years in the bill, was rejected 288-134. The proposal to strike requirements in the law that ballots in districts with large populations of non-English speakers be printed in other languages failed 238-185."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/13/AR2006071300369.html

Rollcall vote for amendment to eliminate bilingual-ballots requirement: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2006/roll372.xml

[Coop]

A ping to and thanks to AuH2O for Murtha vote above.

Ms. Irey did a nice job calling him out on this.

[Coop]

And I'll apologize for likely repeating information to you, but I'm just getting back from a mini vacation and still wading through mounds of posts. I'd prefer you get this info twice than not at all! From her campaign:

Diana Irey to appear on Hannity & Colmes on Friday, July 14th, 9:00 EDT

I have not heard if she's scheduled for a specific segment of the one-hour show. Here's wishing her well.

[rlmorel]

Thanks, Coop.

[Txsleuth]

Hmmmmm... Pence, Sensenbrenner both voted NO on that vote with Murtha.