Are you listening members of Congress?
Are you listening Corporate America?
Do you really need an answer to that?
And don't hold you breath.
Posted on 05/03/2006 9:13:21 AM PDT by freespirited
Herndon voters yesterday unseated the mayor and two Town Council members who supported a bitterly debated day-labor center for immigrant workers in a contest that emerged as a mini-referendum on the turbulent national issue of illegal immigration.
Residents replaced the incumbents with challengers who immediately called for significant changes at the center. Some want to bar public funds from being spent on the facility or restrict it to workers living in the country legally. Others want it moved to an industrial site away from the residential neighborhood where it is located.
The labor center forced the western Fairfax County town into the national spotlight last summer as the immigration debate grew deeply contentious. Even though fewer than 3,000 people voted yesterday, advocates on both sides of the issue looked at the Herndon election as a test of public sentiment...
The council voted 5 to 2 last August to establish the center, but yesterday's vote created an apparent 6 to 1 majority in opposition. Steve J. DeBenedittis, 38, a health club operator and political newcomer, defeated Mayor Michael L. O'Reilly with 52 percent of the vote. Council members Carol A. Bruce and Steven D. Mitchell, who voted for the center, also were turned out of office. Jorge Rochac, a Salvadoran businessman who supported the center and was seeking to become the town's first Hispanic council member, also was defeated.
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I'll bet that our elected officials have noticed and are feverishly working on plans to have it both ways.
BTW, FAA Headquarters is in Herndon and is chock full of jihadists. Does Herndon and the rest of the nation need an influx of people whose identities can't be verified?
Republicans could be done this fall. And it won't be because of Iraq.
I hope this serves as a wake-up call for the looters in Congress........
two? There is a new party besides the Republicrats?..........
The only trouble is that the only opposition party is the one that created this problem in the first place.
Stranger things have happened at the polls. Clinton was elected twice.
"labor center" = union hall?
Awakening...slowly...finally...smelling the coffee...
Insurgent hall.
Are you listening members of Congress?
Are you listening Corporate America?
Do you really need an answer to that?
And don't hold you breath.
"The only trouble is that the only opposition party is the one that created this problem in the first place."
This may be true.
But sometimes people are so angry that they will just "vote out the bums" to get revenge.
Look who they are blaming for high gas prices.
Republicans are in DIRE trouble over this issue in my RED state.
Another wake up call for politicians. I remember seeing this on the news and I'm glad the people got rid of the traitors.
Uh, Bush has already been elected twice, it is the RINO congress critters I have in mind to eliminate.
Leave a message on her blog. I left one and it showed up right away. Let her have it.
Yeah, I left a comment on there too. Just what we needed, another retarded Minnesota liberal invading Virginia and then telling us how we do everything wrong.
I'm wondering if the MSM is going to pick up on this "emerging trend" like they did when the work center opened. Nah, I guess not.
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