Posted on 06/01/2016 4:48:05 PM PDT by mandaladon
In 1982, I sat in a phone tank at the top of a tall building in San Diego and bothered people to send money to Pete Wilson.
Can’t remember his first name but one of Gerald Ford’s boys stopped by, but I missed him.
I was good at it, but didn’t really enjoy it. It was satisfying to see Wilson beat Moonbeam.
I think Trump is figuring this out.
Today in Sacramento he cited statistics that show illigals get a $1,000.00 more a month in welfare benefits than citizens.
If he can get that message out to blacks he will get a lot of their votes.
And because illegals ignore a hundred other laws and don’t pay fees and insurance and taxes that Americans do they have a hell of a lot more free spending money available to them than the Americans who compete with them for jobs. It is not uncommon to see an illegal pull out a roll of cash fat enough to choke a horse.
I'm not saying that the proposition shouldn't have passed, just that she leaves out the reason why it's attacked now in her effort to present the a wholly positive picture with plenty of sarcasm for people who disagree with her.
I mentioned the "dynamic, changing system" to say that people need to be aware that measures like this serve as a rallying point for Democrats. It might still be necessary and important to pass the measure, but you can't assume that you're acting in a political vacuum without consequences.
“Ann’s looking at prop 187’s popularity twenty years ago and ignoring the fact that California’s now more Democrat than ever. I agree with her about the value of cutting off benefits to illegals, but she doesn’t give a complete picture of what’s going on.”
Ann has been pointing out the comparativly similar demo make up in the US today VS CA when prop 187 passed. Not that prop 187 would pass in CA today.
…”rallying point for Democrats”
It’s a flawed premise assuming all, or even a majority of dems are against restricting immigration and enforcing the law.
GWB was elected governor in 1994. I didn’t realize he got involved in CA matters that year too.
Yeah, Dubya showed his Mexico-first colors all the way back then. He flew out to California like Kemp and Bennett to side with the illegals against grassroots Californians.
And make no mistake, Prop 187 was a purely grassroots effort by little people. We had to fight the Republican establishment as much as we fought La Raza and the hard Left. It was my first education as to how the GOPe is the enemy of the average American.
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