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Billboard owner bars ad targeting McCain Arizona Republic, The (Phoenix, AZ) April 21, 2005 BILLBOARD OWNER BARS AD TARGETING MCCAIN Author: Jon Kamman, The Arizona Republic Edition: Final Chaser; Section: Front; Page: A13; Index Terms: ARIZONA; Estimated printed pages: 3 Article Text: A national organization that campaigns against illegal immigration wants to post a billboard in Phoenix to object to Sen. John McCain's stance, but the owner of the board has rejected the message as "bashing" the Arizona Republican. The ad, sponsored by ProjectUSA, would say: "Sen. John McCain supports amnesty for illegal aliens." Whether those words are factual depends...

I'm passing this along because, personally, I found it refreshing, because it's Friday, because it's April 15, and because, in spite of everything, the country is Robin and Dan, and worth fighting for, and even worth paying taxes for. Rancher skinhead attack on Bible college rumoredAnd other interesting first hand observations from a California Minutewoman By CRAIG NELSENProjectUSA director [Report provided by Robin Hvidston, Minutewoman and Real American] Hello! I am back from the border. The experience was awesome! I wish I could have stayed the full month. Below, is a report I made about the experience. I'm trying to...

      October 19, 2004 Issue 208   Iowa: Congressman fumes over public display of his recordLatino Division of Iowa Democratic Party pretty steamed, too By CRAIG NELSENProjectUSA directorPermanent link: http://projectusa.org/ezine/2004/10-19-boswell_blows_gasket.html AgJOBS Amnesty Congressman Leonard Boswell is co-sponsoring Chris Cannon's massive AgJOBS amnesty. AgJOBS not only puts illegal aliens on the path to citizenship, it allows them, as a final shafting of the American people, to access public money to pay the fees of the immigration lawyers who prepare their amnesty applications. Democratic Congressman Leonard Boswell arrived in Chariton, Iowa yesterday for a campaign rally and was greeted...

Upset by the message on ProjectUSA billboards in Kansas City, KS, a small group of race-identity activists held a news conference yesterday in front of one of them to complain and demand their removal. Tino Camacho, reports the Kansas City Star, president of the local chapter of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), called the billboards “racist.” "We want the people (ProjectUSA) held accountable because of all the fear that they have created," said Mr. Camacho. "This is very, very … insulting to our community.” A reporter for the Associated Press called ProjectUSA yesterday looking for a response...

...Last Tuesday was primary day in Arizona and Nevada, and we think the results deserve a little more national publicity because they revealed some useful political lessons. To wit: immigration doesn't win elections but the tax issue does. Two Arizona incumbents, Republicans Jim Kolbe and Jeff Flake, faced primary challenges resulting from their position on immigration. Both back sensible reform of our immigration system. Both support President Bush's call for a guest-worker program to match willing foreign workers with U.S. employers and draw illegal aliens out of the dangerous underground economy. And as a result of these views, Messrs. Kolbe...