Posted on 08/23/2006 2:43:28 PM PDT by Shermy
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) -- A town hall meeting with Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, dissolved into angry shouts and walkouts when Craig began discussing the controversial issue of immigration.
"I am sick of listening to these lies," one woman said, interrupting Craig as she left the Tuesday meeting, the Coeur d'Alene Press reported.
Stan Hess, candidate for the North Idaho College Board of Trustees, screamed at Craig as others booed. Before leaving, Hess yelled at a woman, his face inches from hers, as several people tried to separate them.
Craig planned eight town hall meetings in three days during a swing through northern Idaho that ends Thursday.
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He's promoting a plan that would allow some of the 12 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S. to apply for citizenship if they meet certain requirements, including having been in the country at least two years and having paid taxes.
"The reality is that there are 2.5 million jobs here that Americans won't do," Craig told the 60 people at the Coeur d'Alene meeting. "For 20 years, immigration laws have failed. We know there's a problem and we're working on it. The first step is securing the border and we're doing that."
Craig asked people to listen to the proposal, but some said they wanted illegal immigrants deported immediately. Others said Craig wasn't doing his job.
The senator is accustomed to spirited town hall meetings, said his spokesman, Sid Smith.
"It's fair to say it was pretty confrontational and at some point looked like it was about to get kind of ugly," Smith told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "But we weren't really thinking about calling the police. I was there and talked to all our staff who were there, and they agreed it was ugly, but not that ugly.
"It certainly isn't the first time it's been a very spirited and emotional town hall meeting," Smith said. "I would say (Craig) wasn't surprised or disappointed in that."
Craig also held town hall meetings in Sandpoint and Bonners Ferry on Tuesday, which Smith said were more subdued.
You are an utter disgrace to this forum.
Maybe he meant mestizo?
No where near the place, I tell ya! And there aren't any pictures to prove me wrong. heh ;-)
This guy a troll..joined a few months ago..
I've only driven through Idaho a number of times, but from the people I've talked to there, it's "Utah lite". And Utah is where rich businessmen like to give each other's kids the plush jobs, while they hire illegals to do the grunt work. It wouldn't surprise me that Idaho works the same way.
I may have mistakenly used the wrong term. My intention was not to offend, but just comment. Oh, and I have family members whom I dearly love who are of mixed ethnicity, as well as many friends who are of various ethnicities. Judge not, lest ye be judged - Walk in my shoes before you assume you know me.
Referring to me? Talk about judgemental.
Give no Senator quarter when he is in favor of the immigration scam. The less civility the better.
Senator Craig may be losing HIS job soon if he doesn't learn to LISTEN to the voters.
they have to use illegals or go out of business
And you are going to apply for a vegatable picker or janitorial job when?
If you got out a little more, you would have heard about the Arabs going to Mexico, learning to speak Spanish, and then paying to have themselves smuggled across the border.
...Torpedo the economy...
65 years ago we sent millions of skilled able-bodied men out of the country and the economy soared.
...there aren't enough people here to do the jobs that 11.5 million illegal immigrants are doing: ...
We've got millions of people to do those jobs; we just need to quit paying them not to do the jobs; after that they'll be begging to do those jobs they "won't do".
If I was broke and unemployed, I'd be applying for a vegetable picker or janitorial job "yesterday".
So Senator Craig what the hell are the other 9.5 million other illegals doing.
BINGO!!!
There are plenty out there, but IMO, some like you and Shermy only want the "correct" type of people to fill them, while berating the farmer or janitorial service owner for the evil of trying to provide food or janitorial services.
Who is acting like hillary?
"Civility in public debate remains dead and buried."
It remains quite alive thank you. This schmuck should have been tarred and feathered and dumped on the road outside of town.
Where the heck do you get the idea I only want the "correct" type of people to fill them?
I've done jobs like that in the past.
Have you ever "sanded sheetrock"? I have. Hated it. But I'd do it again if I had to.
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