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'We're all Angelenos' says L.A.'s Latino mayor
Reuters ^ | May 18, 2005 | Kevin Krolicki

Posted on 05/18/2005 4:26:12 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin

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To: StoneColdGOP

I saw a commercial today about Mexico being a great place to vacation. WTH????? I find that hard to believe seeing as how they've managed to trash California!


21 posted on 05/18/2005 4:53:29 PM PDT by TightyRighty
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To: Semper Paratus

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22 posted on 05/18/2005 4:56:12 PM PDT by AnnaZ (><>Hebrews 11<><)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Like Art Torres the chairman of the CA democratic party answwered when asked why he fights so hard for affirmative actions programs......."Because you whites are going to need them"! This is the end of CA as we once knew it and the beginning of Mexifornia.


23 posted on 05/18/2005 4:56:48 PM PDT by JarheadFromFlorida
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To: TightyRighty

Let the Great Gringo Purge begin! Any white person still living in southern Cal is nuts. That might be true for AZ too.


24 posted on 05/18/2005 4:57:55 PM PDT by Pete98 (After his defeat by the Son of God, Satan changed his name to Allah and started over.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
. . . the motive for the fighting was unclear . . .

And the new mayor will make sure it stays unclear.

25 posted on 05/18/2005 4:58:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

His history of bigotry and racism was played down so much that it was never revealed in this race at all.


26 posted on 05/18/2005 4:59:16 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: ambrose

Hard to believe but . . . the new boss is even further left.


27 posted on 05/18/2005 4:59:19 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: Argus
"The mayor is basically a cardboard cutout with an I Love LA sticker."

You may not believe this, but I ENVY you! The Mayor of Madison, WI (Dave Cieslewicz) is a leftie, but Madison is small by comparison (200,000) and he IS doing LOTS of damage. The liberal media here just fawns over him. Heck! He's (POLITICALLY CORRECT) "Person of the Year!" He wants to make Madison into a clone of Seattle, Washington. Do us a favor, Dave. Just move there!

28 posted on 05/18/2005 5:00:32 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
He should be great for a quote or two. Maybe not to V. Fox levels, but still lots of Freeper fun.

Oh, and I envision a race war -- maybe hot, probably cold. And whites and Asians will not be involved.

29 posted on 05/18/2005 5:01:50 PM PDT by AmishDude (Join the AmishDude fan club: "Very well put, AD. As usual." -- Howlin; "ROFL!" -- Dan from Michigan)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Just another idiotic LA Mayor.... glad I don't live there.


30 posted on 05/18/2005 5:05:12 PM PDT by antceecee
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To: Pete98
It's not just Southern California anymore! The longer it goes on the more irritated I get. I tried to enroll my daughter in preschool and was told I couldn't because they'll take low-income and non english speaking kids before they'd look at mine (I've since had an epiphany and have decided to homeschool). That just about leaves out ANY kid whose parents have been born and raised here.

Schools are failing around this state, billboard signs with Spanish written underneath are all over, stores and neighborhoods are junked. It's sickening! Deep breath in.......I'm starting to feel racist!

31 posted on 05/18/2005 5:07:02 PM PDT by TightyRighty
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To: LauraleeBraswell
I've found that Chinese immigrants still either give their children an Anglicized first name or a nickname.

It's practical. All of the different one-syllable names and different spellings of the one-syllable names are just impossible to remember for a Westerner.

32 posted on 05/18/2005 5:12:01 PM PDT by AmishDude (Join the AmishDude fan club: "Very well put, AD. As usual." -- Howlin; "ROFL!" -- Dan from Michigan)
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To: TightyRighty

"I saw a commercial today about Mexico being a great place to vacation. WTH????? I find that hard to believe seeing as how they've managed to trash California!"

Oh, Boy. Confession time, Tighty. I vacation in MX at least twice each year. Our friends have a time-share in Puerto Vallarta, and I really love it. My American dollars go a loooong way, the food is good, beer is cheap and people leave me the h#ll alone; my idea of the perfect vacation.

Sure, some of Mexico is a dump; I used to live 2 miles from the border in Imperial Beach, CA, (Tijuana) but I wouldn't give you a fresh flounder for Mexico City or Acapulco or Cancun or Cabo, but the lesser known costal areas are just gorgeous. Great beaches, scuba for DH, para-sailing and snorkeling for the kids, etc. Personally, I'd live there half the year if I could afford it. And any American with even a modest income could afford to live there...I've met many Americans that do.

It's either Alaska, Mexico or Hawaii for my Golden Years. I've still got 20 years to mull it over. Maybe by that time Mexico will be all the way up here in Wisconsin anyway, and the choice will be an easy one? :(


33 posted on 05/18/2005 5:13:23 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
As Hugh Hewitt says, great personality and he obviously can connect to a broad cross section of the Los Angeles public. Being a Democrat, he can be a terrific salesman for L.A. But his far side of the moon Leftist politics guarantee he will never become our State's next Governor.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
34 posted on 05/18/2005 5:16:12 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

LOL - well maybe you have to have lived out of California for awhile to enjoy the finer offerings of Mexico.


35 posted on 05/18/2005 5:20:57 PM PDT by TightyRighty
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To: TightyRighty

Well, I lived in CA in the 80's while my then-H was in the Navy.

After seeing someone knifed in the street right outside of our apartment (the cops were on it before I could dial) I was glad to get back to the midwest; that's for sure.


36 posted on 05/18/2005 5:27:54 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Pete98

Were OKAY here in San Diego....


37 posted on 05/18/2005 5:29:14 PM PDT by missyme (The Conclusion is:)
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To: Mister Baredog

Didn't graduate from UCLA either, from what I have read.


38 posted on 05/18/2005 5:29:18 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Wrong Mayor, north of the border we're Americans and speak English as the first Language... got It???


39 posted on 05/18/2005 5:30:31 PM PDT by winker
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I was in Madison a few weeks ago. I loved the fact that there were big "W"s everywhere. Including on the Kohl Center. I went running around town. You can run down one street and after the intersection would be an absolute mess of litter from a drunken party the night before. I'd never seen it so bad before and I'd been in many many college towns.

Madison's problem isn't the college students, it's the hangers-on. The people who never leave. Maybe they get a string of useless Master's degrees, maybe they just own an organic sandwich shop. They are the ones that make Madison (and Boulder and Ithaca) the wholesale pit of idiocy it is.

The reason they stay is partially the college environment, but it's also the pretty geography and the lack of opportunities (except for Milwaukee) in other urban areas of the state. The fact that Madison is the seat of state government doesn't help either.

40 posted on 05/18/2005 5:31:52 PM PDT by AmishDude (Join the AmishDude fan club: "Very well put, AD. As usual." -- Howlin; "ROFL!" -- Dan from Michigan)
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