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Top GOP donors tell party to legalize illegal immigrants
The Washington Times ^ | 7-30-2013

Posted on 07/30/2013 11:11:46 AM PDT by markomalley

Nearly a hundred top Republican officials sent a letter to the House GOP on Tuesday urging lawmakers to pass a bill that legalizes illegal immigrants, arguing that the current system is already allowing them to stay and so it makes sense to register them and bring them into the system.

The donors, led by former Bush administration Cabinet officials Carlos Gutierrez and Spencer Abraham, also said that immigrants are potential Republican voters who can be won over — if the party can be seen as welcoming to immigrants.

“Doing nothing is de facto amnesty. We need to take control of whom we let in our country and we need to make sure everybody plays by the same rules,” the donors said in their letter.

They aimed their pitch at House Republicans, who are trying to figure out a way forward and find themselves trapped between angry rank-and-file voters who say legalizing illegal immigrants amounts to amnesty, and party elites and donors who say the GOP cannot survive nationally without embracing legalization as part of a strategy to win over Hispanic voters.

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 113th; 2013; aliens; amnesty; carlosgutierrez; gutierrez; illegals; lobbyists; potentialdemocrats; potentialrepublicans; shamnesty; spencerabraham; stupidparty; undocumenteddems; unregistereddems; wronganswer; wrongissue
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Lets send them packing!

Republicans have stepped on my last nerve!

SEEYA!


81 posted on 07/30/2013 3:42:18 PM PDT by Taxman (So that the beautiful pressure does not diminish!)
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To: markomalley

Are these the
“parity donors” who give to both sides.

this is a bs story.


82 posted on 07/30/2013 3:53:41 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: markomalley
Nearly a hundred top Republican officials sent a letter to the House GOP on Tuesday

I'd like to see that list........

83 posted on 07/30/2013 4:05:10 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (')
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To: Hot Tabasco

Time for the Freedom Party...inside the GOP...we pick a candidate to run against the RINO..we always split the vote..


84 posted on 07/30/2013 6:55:40 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Bigg Red

Just think of everything you buy everyday and it and its finished product, i.e, lettuce, tomatoes, fast-food hamburgers, chicken, all that. Landscaping and remodeling companies. Target.


85 posted on 07/30/2013 7:05:03 PM PDT by txhurl ('The DOG ate my homework. That homework, too. ALL my homework. OK?' - POSHITUS)
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To: Zhang Fei

I also noticed alot of Utah groups including Romney connections....

Romney would have knifed us in the Back......

No more Mormons for me,....They are Rinos.

Getting rich on the backs of illegals.


86 posted on 07/30/2013 8:19:52 PM PDT by LtKerst
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To: stephenjohnbanker

A person has to believe a ‘new world order’ suits the Bush crowd very much. USA oil is not part of this/that.


87 posted on 07/30/2013 8:35:14 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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To: jimbo123

Pennsylvania’s own Bob Asher and Tom Ridge are on the list I see......


88 posted on 07/30/2013 9:23:32 PM PDT by Nextrush (A BALANCED BUDGET NOW AND PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN ARE AT THE TOP OF MY LIST)
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To: Hot Tabasco

See post #40 with all the names like “Karl Rove” and many, many more......


89 posted on 07/30/2013 9:25:10 PM PDT by Nextrush (A BALANCED BUDGET NOW AND PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN ARE AT THE TOP OF MY LIST)
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To: Bigg Red

Overstock AND Melaleuca. Nice knowing ‘em. Final straw.


90 posted on 07/30/2013 9:30:25 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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To: markomalley

I guess the RNC no longer needs donations from their FORMER base. They can manage to survive with $$ from the Amnesty lovers/Traitors...like Karl Rove, Dan Quayle, Carlos Gutierrez, et al.


91 posted on 07/30/2013 9:34:41 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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To: markomalley
They are faced with a choice between conservatives and illegals. They're making their choice...time for a conservative party, as the GOP ain't it.

It's not surprising - in Texas, I'm faced with the fact that the two biggest donors to Republicans, well one of them is dead now, but the two biggest donors to the Republicans were a home builder and a grocery store chain owner, and it was crystal clear to a lot of us why our Governor and legislature was so friendly to an amnesty/guest worker program, the Dream stuff, etc. The home builder is dead, so it remains to be seen how that will influence things.
92 posted on 07/30/2013 11:29:14 PM PDT by af_vet_rr
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To: jimbo123

Look at the names of traitorous RINOS, on that list, including business folks, (of course).

Standing out for all to see: Karl Rove.


93 posted on 07/31/2013 2:22:17 AM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: markomalley

Do nothing until Republicans control the Congress. And I mean conservatives Republicans.


94 posted on 07/31/2013 2:26:43 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: markomalley

“The donors, led by former Bush administration Cabinet officials Carlos Gutierrez and Spencer Abraham, also said that immigrants are potential Republican voters who can be won over — if the party can be seen as welcoming to immigrants.”

Bullshit. They will never vote in large numbers for Repubs. Maybe these idiots can tell us how the level of Hispanic support for George H.W. Bush rocketed “up” to 31% in 1988 (Reagan got 37% in ‘84), just two years after the passage of the 1986 amnesty.

Hispanics generally like big-government programs, such as Obamacare. No amount if destructive pandering will win them over.


95 posted on 07/31/2013 2:36:13 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Coming Soon to An Election Near You: Sarah Palin’s Right Wing ‘Freedom Party’”

That can’t come soon enough. Though I think migrating to an already-existing organization like the Constitution Party would be more effective. The infrastructure already is in place.


96 posted on 07/31/2013 2:40:13 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: markomalley

The GOP is dead anyways. There’s precious few leaders with cojones and the ones who do would fit in perfectly with a Freedom Party.


97 posted on 07/31/2013 3:50:20 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Gaffer

The reason the defacto amnesty argument can be made is because the federal government from top to bottom has been refusing to do its job to protect our borders.

In a way, it’s like someone not paying their mortgage or rent for several months, then telling the bank or the landlord, “Under the present system, we already have a mortgage/rent free arrangement.”

Duh.


98 posted on 07/31/2013 3:53:55 AM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
Bush.......the gift that keeps on giving.

Ever since the Country Club Rockefeller Republicans shoved Poppy onto Renauldus Magnus' ticket in 1980.

99 posted on 07/31/2013 4:11:58 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
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To: markomalley

The GOP may have to get smaller before it ever gets bigger.


100 posted on 07/31/2013 4:12:33 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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