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Senator Mel Martinez' support for Crimmigrants

Posted by KWillS on Saturday, May 19, 2007 9:17:09 AM
 My letter to Republican Party Chairman Senator Mel Martinez of Florida.
Quote from Orlando-Sentinel:
``If we don't pass this bill, nobody that is in the shadows today will come out of the shadows and be accounted for,'' Martinez, a U.S. senator from Florida, told about 60 state party leaders wrapping up a three-day RNC meeting here."

Senator: Your logic paraphrased:  If we don't give in to terrorists demands, they won't come out of the shadows and be accounted for, either.  We should just give up.  Truth, justice and the American Way is just a slogan that sells comic books.

Dear Senator Martinez,
  Comments you made in the Orlando-Sentinel prompted this letter.
  Enjoy your title while it lasts, I won't vote for you again if any immigration bill with amnesty in it passes.  In fact I will vote for the Democrat running against you to ensure your ouster.  When does 1 vote equal two votes?  When the vote that was cast for you is now cast against you.  Now it will take two votes to overcome my  vote against you.  The most dastardly man in American history is Benedict Arnold.  Revolutionaries thought that they could depend on him to lead the fight for justice for America and he sold them out.  The blood of patriots is on his hands to this day.  I prefer to know who my enemies are and if they are in the opposition's camp I can rely that their aims are counter to mine.
  It is a criminal act to cross the US border without documentation and you are aiding and abetting criminals.  Let's call them Crimmigrants.  What criminals will you supprt next?  Murder is already on your list.  I've read media reports that estimate 12 murders a day are committed by illegal aliens in the US.  So is vehicular manslaughter, a young boy was just killed in the Tampa area by a drunk crimmigrant who rear ended the SUV he was in and pushed him and his mother into a moving train.  The car exploded in flames.  Two girls in Virgina Beach were killed by a drunk driving crimmigrant.  If they weren't here that wouldn't have happened. 
  How much money does it cost to do your website in Spanish?  Great that the Senate is so electronically savvy.  Why don't you automate your election contribution process too so that we know who is contributing to Senate election campaigns.  We all know it's so the contributions can be hidden until after the election.  In fact electronic data is printed and submitted in hardcopy to the FEC and then scanned in to slow the processing of the information.
Irate in Tampa.
Ken Shepherd
Lutz, FL
P.S. What is the recall process for a US Senator?  I am researching that now.
P.P.S.  I am posting this on my blog on townhall.com, it's called Rightmind.  The title will be Senator Mel Martinez support for crimmigrants.
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Black like me? Barak Obama (BO) and school choice

Posted by KWillS on Friday, May 18, 2007 3:28:17 PM
 Public schools were not suitable for Barak Hussein Obama according to his parent's choices, but private schools apparently were very good to him, first in Indonesia (grades 1-4) and then at the exclusive Punahou (grades 5-12) private school in Hawaii.  So school choice was very good for Obama.  In fact you could argue it was fundamental in his 'clean' and 'articulate' bearing, to quote Senator Biden.  It prepared him for acceptance to Occidental College, Columbia University and later Harvard Law.
  School choice is favored by over 80% of black Americans.  Democrats aren't listening.  Teachers Unions give 90+% of political contributions to Democrats.  This eliminates any possibility of choice for parents who know their kids are 'shackled' to failing schools.  As the former head of the NEA said, "When students start paying union dues, we'll look out for the interests of students."  The message to blacks is, private schools for us and failing public schools for you.  Did the KKK come up with this system?  Sure seems like it to me.

Annual tuition for Punahou attendance in 2006-2007 school year is $14,275.  Wow!  That's $11,000 more a year than tuition costs to attend college in Florida.  In fact room and board and tuition is less than that in Florida.  So if BO started this year his cost for the next 8 years would be $114,000+ not counting annual tuition escalations.  Yes, he has endured the typical black American experience...well maybe not.  Occidental College targeted the top 10% of graduates when they recruited me and I presume the same was true when BO applied and was accepted.
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First 3 Black Senators Republicans

Posted by KWillS on Friday, May 18, 2007 3:07:14 PM
Thanks to the Senate for providing the following facts.  Let's see in 231 years the Democrats
have elected 2 blacks to the Senate.  The Grand Ole Party has elected 3 in the 154 years the Republican party has existed they have elected 3.  Of course since slavery, (abolition being a key plank in the GOP's formation), ended despite Democrat efforts to keep it, it's clear why there have been more Rs than Ds in the Senate's black history. 

Ethnic Diversity in the Senate

Photograph of Senator Hiram Revels
Hiram Revels (R-MS)


African Americans:

Hiram R. Revels (R-Mississippi), 1870-71

Blanche K. Bruce (R-Mississippi), 1875-1881

Edward W. Brooke (R-Massachusetts), 1967-1979

Carol Moseley-Braun (D-Illinois), 1993-1999

Barack Obama (D-Illinois), 2005-
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First Woman Representative a Republican

Posted by KWillS on Friday, May 18, 2007 2:41:06 PM
 
The House History page notes that the First Woman representative was a Republican...I know it's in there somewhere...oh yeah, buried halfway down.

RANKIN, Jeannette, a Representative from Montana; born near Missoula, Missoula County, Mont., June 11, 1880; attended the public schools, and was graduated from the University of Montana at Missoula in 1902; student at the School of Philanthropy, New York City in 1908 and 1909; social worker in Seattle, Wash., in 1909; engaged in promoting the cause of woman suffrage in the State of Washington in 1910, in California in 1911, and in Montana 1912-1914; visited New Zealand in 1915 and worked as a seamstress in order to gain personal knowledge of social conditions; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1919); was the first woman to be elected to the United States House of Representatives; did not seek renomination in 1918, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Senator; was also an unsuccessful candidate on an independent ticket for election to the United States Senate; engaged in social work; elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943); was not a candidate for renomination in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; resumed lecturing and ranching; member, National Consumers League; field worker, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; member, National Council for Prevention of War; remained leader and lobbyist for peace and women’s rights until her death in Carmel, Calif., May 18, 1973; cremated; ashes scattered on ocean, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif.
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First Black Representative a Republican?

Posted by KWillS on Friday, May 18, 2007 2:24:36 PM
Hide the party affiliation!!  After Republicans abolished slavery.  President Lincoln was a Republican, he signed the Emancipation proclamation (freed slaves in the seceding states).  I bet more Republicans died in the civil war than any party.  Democrats died defending slavery, Republicans died ending it.

Again thanks to the fine folks at the House's webpage (Firsts Among Members):

http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/house_history/firsts_among_members.html
RAINEY, Joseph Hayne, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Georgetown, Georgetown County, S.C., June 21, 1832; received a limited schooling; followed the trade of barber until 1862, when upon being forced to work on the Confederate fortifications in Charleston, S.C., he escaped to the West Indies and remained there until the close of the war; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1868; member of the State senate in 1870 but resigned; elected as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the action of the House of Representatives in declaring the seat of B. Franklin Whittemore vacant and was the first black to be elected to the House of Representatives; reelected to the Forty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from December 12, 1870, to March 3, 1879; appointed internal-revenue agent of South Carolina on May 22, 1879, and served until July 15, 1881, when he resigned; engaged in banking and the brokerage business in Washington, D.C.; retired from all business activities in 1886, returned to Georgetown, S.C., and died there August 2, 1887; interment in the Baptist Cemetery.
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What does DNC stand for?

Posted by KWillS on Friday, May 18, 2007 2:12:36 PM
I thought DNC stood for Democrat National Congress, but since Harry and Nancy took over the reins in Congress, I think it also stands for Do Nothing Congress.  So, let's agree to say Democrat National Committee rather than DNC so that we don't confuse the two bodies.  When a San Francisco lefty takes over the House, even the players on her own team can't seem to agree with her.
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Gag me with a spoon? Pelosi's Gag rule ploy

Posted by KWillS on Friday, May 18, 2007 1:53:12 PM
'Today in history' on the House's website details the Gag rule.  Democrats gagging the opposition in order to limit debate about the abolition of slavery.  Democrats wanted to preserve slavery.  It's interesting that the political parties of those instituting the gag rule is buried in a hyperlink rather than being pronounced in the article.
  Now, Nancy Pelosi wants to gag the minority (and the majority) by changing House rules to limit debate on bills under consideration.  This is how a cabal operates not the US Congress.  Bill Clinton gave us a Republican Congress in 1994.  Pelosi will deliver the white house and at least the House to Republicans. 

The May 18th entry at this site:
http://clerk.house.gov/art_history/index.html

On this date, during the 24th Congress (1835–1837), the House of Representatives instituted the “gag rule.” In December 1835, Representative James Hammond of South Carolina demanded that anti-slavery petitions to the House of Representatives should not be received. Speaker James Polk of Tennessee referred the issue to a special committee to resolve the problem which tied up floor debate for weeks. Committee Chairman Henry L. Pinckney of South Carolina reported back that all petitions, memorials, or resolutions regarding slavery should automatically be tabled and that no further action be taken upon them. Representative John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts raised the first and most impassioned objections to the procedure. Adams shouted during the roll call vote, “I hold the resolution to be a direct violation of the Constitution of the United States.” For the next four Congresses, Adams fervently fought against the gag rule, declaring it a restriction on free speech. Despite his efforts, the House successfully reintroduced the gag rule each Congress until Adams finally mustered enough votes to repeal it on December 3, 1844.
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