“The initiative passed by a 59 to 41 margin.
Besides calling Wilson and other Prop.187 supporters racist and anti-Latino, immigrant rights groups claimed that the Governor exaggerated the fiscal burden of illegal immigrants on state taxpayers. They implied that the taxes paid by illegals more than covered the services they received.
Subsequent research has since confirmed Gov. Wilson’s claims to the contrary.”
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Ah, yes, and WHO was right in the front fighting Prop 187 with this ‘tax’ bs? None other than GROVER NORQUIST, and other so called ‘conservatives’.
[snip]Working closely with Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute, Cesar Conda (former domestic advisor to Dick Cheney) circulated a statement against Prop. 187 of California in the nineties.
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Grover Norquist. He was co author of Gingrich’s ‘contract with America’ and the force behind Bush’s ‘comprehensive immigration reform’. Along with other signatories, he managed to destroy California’s Prop. 187 to control illegal immigration. Newt Gingrich describes Norquist as “the most innovative, creative, courageous and entrepreneurial leader of the anti-tax efforts and of conservative grassroots activism in America . . . He has truly made a difference and truly changed American history.”
Where you find Gingrich, you will find Norquist and be saddled with more cheap labor ‘trade’ agreements like Nafta, Gatt, and any give away to any 3rd world sewer they choose. And where you find them both, you will likely find Karl Rove. Count on it! Rove, Norquist, Gingrich...the 3 headed Trojan horse of the GOP.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=Prop.+187
Sorry
So Cesar Conda wrote against Prop 187.
I don’t like being this way, but I have come to the place where if I see a Hispanic name in or near the seats of power, I check them out.
Sounds like Cheney was allowing the wrong guy to advise him.