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HYPOCRISY ALLEGATIONS: 'PROBLEMAS' FOR DAN PATRICK (Texas Lt Gov Race)
Breitbart Texas ^ | 2/18/14 | BRANDON DARBY AND BOB PRICE

Posted on 02/19/2014 6:10:52 AM PST by jimbo123

Less than 24-hours after Texas State Senator Dan Patrick released a video asserting his opposition to illegal immigration, the candidate for Texas Lt. Governor stands accused of having hired four illegal aliens in a bar he previously owned. Earlier today Sen. Patrick told the Weatherford Democrat he is proud to wear the title of toughest guy on immigration running for any state office. On Patrick’s campaign website he describes himself as “Dan Patrick Border Champion”.

Now Dan Patrick stands accused by his formerly illegal alien, now U.S. Citizen, former employee of not only hiring him and three other illegal immigrants, but hiring them with false documents and even allegedly offering to sneak one of them back from the Texas/Mexico border, past inland security checkpoints.

In a Dallas Morning News report, “Miguel “Mike” Andrade, 48, of Missouri City, told The Dallas Morning News and Houston’s KTRK-TV that he, his cousin and two other men from Mexico worked at one of Patrick’s five sports bars that operated in the Houston area until 1986.”

At that time, there were no penalties involved in hiring someone in this residing in the U.S. illegally according to the report.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amnesty; danpatrick; texas
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1 posted on 02/19/2014 6:10:52 AM PST by jimbo123
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Most politicians are dumb-asses. They read what's in front of them, and repeat the platitudes their aide tell them will get votes, but behind the $100 haircut and $10,00 smile, they can't think further than their self-absorbed narcissism will let them.
2 posted on 02/19/2014 6:20:17 AM PST by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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Let us see... a mexican citizen that is here illegally is lying about a man that is running for public office in a State that he and his brethren dream of making into mexico again. Not buying it... the whore that abandoned her husband and children does not deserve to be elected and this man does!


3 posted on 02/19/2014 6:24:38 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: jimbo123

I thought this was the Governors race... sorry.


4 posted on 02/19/2014 6:25:52 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: jimbo123
Patrick's an idiot to think that this would not come out and be used against him, especially given his stance on the issue. This is not a case of hiring a landscape service, say, who then employs illegals. This is nearly impossible to avoid in TX. Here, he was the direct employer and enabler.

This

... his formerly illegal alien, now U.S. Citizen, former employee ...

is a real problem.

5 posted on 02/19/2014 6:29:22 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor)
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To: LibLieSlayer
I thought this was the Governors race... sorry.

LT Gov. In TX, its maybe more important.

6 posted on 02/19/2014 6:30:42 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Typical Karl Rove hit for Dewhurst. But Patrick should have fessed up earlier.


7 posted on 02/19/2014 6:33:58 AM PST by jimbo123
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I was ready to say he’s through, but then look at the date . . . 1986. The whole immigration climate was completely different back then, and DP has had plenty of chance to legitimately mature on the issue. No particular problem with the foreign former illegal, as he complied with the ‘86 law designed specifically to deal with folks like him.

Main problem would be if he really did conspire with the Mexican to have him re-enter illegally.


8 posted on 02/19/2014 6:35:57 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("We are not sluts."--Sandra Fluke)
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Karl Rove and the GOP-e need Dewhurst to win. I think this hit by Rove indicates Dewhurst might not be polling high enough for the runoff. Or they would have held it back until the runoff.


9 posted on 02/19/2014 6:38:44 AM PST by jimbo123
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Typical Karl Rove hit for Dewhurst. But Patrick should have fessed up earlier.

If he was smart, he might even have got way out in front of this by making an issue of how hard it is to not employ illegals in TX because of the weak enforcement. A stretch, but better than the position he's in now.

10 posted on 02/19/2014 6:39:55 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor)
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I think this hit by Rove indicates Dewhurst might not be polling high enough for the runoff.

I think Dewhurst's political career is over. Cruz and the drunken phone call to the Allen police finished him off. He's stale bread, a wilted tomato, last week's news.

11 posted on 02/19/2014 6:43:19 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor)
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Doesn’t matter to me, I’m voting for Jerry Patterson for Lt. Governor.


12 posted on 02/19/2014 6:46:13 AM PST by 38special (For real, y'all.)
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...the whore that abandoned her husband and children.."

That's hardly the inclusive, tolerant language we have come to expect from today's Republican Party!


13 posted on 02/19/2014 6:51:50 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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Karl Rove and the GOP-e need Dewhurst to win.

I don't doubt it. And if the hiring happened in 2006 instead of 1986 I'd say Patrick was dead meat. As it is, it makes for a crappy headline. I didn't even know that Dewhurst was trying to make a comeback. Nice way to make a living I guess, and Lt. Gov. is reputedly extremely important in Texas compared to most other states.
14 posted on 02/19/2014 6:53:52 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("We are not sluts."--Sandra Fluke)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Good to know!


15 posted on 02/19/2014 7:11:29 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: Fightin Whitey

That is easy... I am not a republican... not any longer. ;-)


16 posted on 02/19/2014 7:12:28 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: jimbo123

They had to go back to 1986 to find this???

The country was way different back then, and Reagan granted amnesty (he said it was one of his biggest mistakes)


17 posted on 02/19/2014 7:24:43 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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Patrick supported Dewhurst against Cruz.

Patrick is the candidate who has lied about the other candidates on illegal immigration.

I've never been a fan of Dan Patrick.

18 posted on 02/19/2014 7:26:11 AM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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This isn't Rove's doing.

If you had read the article you would have seen that Jerry Patterson hired a PI who found the former employee. It is in retaliation of Patrick lying about the other candidates on illegals.

Patterson had called Patrick a "pathological liar."

19 posted on 02/19/2014 7:31:02 AM PST by lonestar (It takes a village of idiots to elect a village idiot.)
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Nothing against the guy, but this is disturbing. He's the midpoint in the transformation of Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham.


20 posted on 02/19/2014 7:35:53 AM PST by dangus
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