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Jake Tapper Grills Gillibrand About Old Mailer She Sent
Townhall.com ^ | January 21, 2019 | Cortney O'Brien

Posted on 01/21/2019 5:41:44 PM PST by Kaslin

You'll hear Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) rejecting President Trump's border security proposals these days, but about a decade ago, she was singing a different tune.

During her 2008 campaign for Congress, Gillibrand bragged in a mailer how she had called for the deportations of illegal immigrants. The ad also highlighted her opposition to illegals getting drivers licenses, a boost in the number of border agents, fines on companies who hired illegal immigrants, expanding the E-Verify programs for employers, and other now-unheard-of policy stances from a Democrat.

Here's the mailer @jaketapper cited, from my story on Thursday. https://t.co/DHKJeiHVig pic.twitter.com/4p39Frxq9G— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) January 20, 2019

CNN's Jake Tapper asked her to please explain her change of heart. Considering that Gillibrand is now in the business of calling Trump's policies "racist," he wondered whether those policies were racist when she supported them.

NEW: On @CNNSotu, Kirsten Gillibrand was asked about the mailer I reported on her office sent out bragging about her votes to increase and speed up deportations of undocumented immigrants.

"I did not think about suffering in other people's lives," Gillibrand said. pic.twitter.com/ee9yePjDNZ— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) January 20, 2019

"They certainly weren't empathetic and they were not kind," Gillibrand said of her past comments. "And I did not think about suffering in other people's lives." 

Since then, she explained, she's tried to correct her approach to immigration by traveling throughout New York to meet with families affected by such policies. She also met with immigration advocates and afterwards the senator "realized" that the things she had said were unacceptable. She said from now on she'd "fight" for families who are suffering in her state.

I predict Gillibrand will have to answer these questions about her flip-flopping stance on immigration again as her campaign for president gets underway.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; buildthefence; daca; democrats; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; dreamact; dreamers; gillibrand; illegalimmigration; jaketapper; kirstengillibrand; mediawingofthednc; newyork; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine
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To: RooRoobird20

Gillibrand is being treated like a rock star by Iowa Dems, even more than Obama was.

She’s likely to be a major force after Iowa and New Hampshire.

A strong showing in S. Carolina and she’ll be the odds-on favorite.


21 posted on 01/21/2019 8:01:53 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: jjotto

That would be very racist of the Rats to prefer Gillibrand over Skanky Kamala and Spartacus Jazz Hands.


22 posted on 01/21/2019 8:09:06 PM PST by RooRoobird20 ("Democrats haven't been this angry since Republicans freed the slaves."the rest were)
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To: Kaslin

She’s worried about suffering yet she wants Americans to suffer the burden of millions of illegal aliens?

What a fraud she is but that’s redundant... She’s a liberal.


23 posted on 01/21/2019 8:24:52 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: lizma2
Think there gonna go full Beto i.e. Bammy 2.0

I don't think so. They're going to go with a black female. Probably Michelle O. But it could also be that Harris creep.

They don't have anyone who could possibly defeat Trump... That is, if he sticks to his guns and doesn't capitulate to the dems.

24 posted on 01/21/2019 8:29:38 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: jjotto

No chance.


25 posted on 01/21/2019 8:37:06 PM PST by arrogantsob (See "Chaos and Mayhem" at Amazon.com)
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To: Kaslin

“I was for it before I was against it...blah...blah...”


26 posted on 01/21/2019 9:00:15 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Kaslin

Gillibrand’s campaign for president just ended whether she knows it or not. Jake Tapper, on orders from his Deep State bosses, just branded her a racist and now she’s going to be forced to do a mea culpa on her past support for stronger immigration laws. Game over Kirsten. All the white candidates except for the fake Mexican Beto are gonna be driven from the race. Uncle Joe is next.


27 posted on 01/21/2019 9:31:35 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: JohnBrowdie
The reason every Senator is bought is because they are such a good deal, they come cheap. I can't think of one who is clean.

They do what they're donors want for 4 years and track back to their base for other 2 - we see it happen again and again.

Believing a Senator is on the side of their constituents or state is a quick way to end up disillusioned.

I'm sure I'm not telling you anything you did not already know

28 posted on 01/21/2019 10:15:41 PM PST by datricker (Cut Taxes Repeal ACA Deport DACA - Americans First, Build the Wall, Lock her up MAGA!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
IOW, he pretended to take a hard line but actually just had her on his show so she could spin her two-faced hypocrisy.

29 posted on 01/21/2019 10:23:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Kaslin

>>>And I did not think about suffering in other people’s lives.”<<<

You mean like the Families who have had their Mothers, Fathers and Children Murdered by Illegal Invaders?


30 posted on 01/21/2019 10:26:05 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Democracy, two Wolves and one Sheep deciding what's for Dinner.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

The made it pretty obvious they intend to anoint KH - unless Clinton steps in, in which case they will discard her like used toilet paper.


31 posted on 01/21/2019 10:53:13 PM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: RooRoobird20

Not when the elections, primary and general, are going to be rigged in her favor.


32 posted on 01/21/2019 10:53:58 PM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: Kaslin

She’s lost weight....she is serious


33 posted on 01/21/2019 10:59:22 PM PST by wardaddy (I don’t care that you’re not a racist......when the shooting starts it won’t matter what yo)
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To: thoughtomator

clinton. lol. people have that loser chick on the brain; she’s behind every tree, and lurking in every shadow.


34 posted on 01/21/2019 11:15:20 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: JohnBrowdie

And yet there’s no candidate that could survive against her, should she choose to be the nominee. She would destroy each and every one of them, and we all know she can.


35 posted on 01/21/2019 11:18:26 PM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: thoughtomator

we’ve had this argument before. it looks like we’re going to do it a lot.

you’re still delusional. the dems washed their hands of that spectacular loser after she lost to (what they would say is) the most flawed candidate in history. electorally, she lost to neophyte obama, she lost to trump — the only person she beat in presidential politics of any kind was doddering old bernie what’s-his-face. she’s an 80 year old empty sack, pal.

next cycle, the dems are going younger, and either female or a “person of color”, as they like to say . . . KH is all three, AND an immigrant, which is top of their happy list this season.


36 posted on 01/21/2019 11:25:34 PM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: JohnBrowdie

I just don’t think Clinton seizing the nomination will be voluntary on the part of many Democrats, no more than McCain being the GOP nominee in 2008 was voluntary on the part of Republicans. It’ll be a nasty brawl and she’ll be the only survivor.


37 posted on 01/21/2019 11:27:27 PM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: TADSLOS
Jake Tapper Grilled Gillibrand About Old Mailer She Sent Bragging About Her Hardline Immigration Stance how she had

<><> called for the deportations of illegal immigrants.

<><>highlighted her opposition to illegals getting drivers licenses,

<><> called for a boost in the number of border agents,

<><> supported fines on companies who hired illegal immigrants,

<><> demanded expanded E-Verify programs for employers,

<><> and other now-unheard-of policy stances from a Democrat.

38 posted on 01/22/2019 1:46:00 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: CaptainK

You think she is going to get far enough to where she’s debating Trump? I say no way.


39 posted on 01/22/2019 2:05:21 AM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: JohnBrowdie

They didn’t tell her voters that along with an “empty dress” they were getting “an empty head”.


40 posted on 01/22/2019 2:43:11 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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