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With Thursday's California Supreme Court ruling regarding same sex marriage, we can expect a resurrection of one of the most shopworn political epiteths: San Francisco values. GOP Rep. Sam Graves unveiled an ad this week using the money phrase to disparage his Democratic challenger Kay Barnes, aka the "Big City Mayor" (formerly that is, of Kansas City.) Barnes' sin: She attended a fundraiser thrown by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and she shares Pelosi's "San Francisco Values." You know what that means. Or at least what it is supposed to mean. Nevertheless, you've GOT to see Graves' commercial only to check...

STEIN REPORT XXXXX Thursday, March 13 2003 11:37:01 ET XXXXX REP. GRAVES INTRODUCES IMMIGRATION TIME OUT BILL “Rep. Sam Graves announced Wednesday a plan to temporarily halt immigration to the United States, igniting intense criticism from groups representing the immigrant community,” the Kansas City Star reports. “We find we have a country where we have 8 million illegals amongst us, where we have 314,000 ordered deported by courts that can't be found, 1,000 al-Qaida operatives and sympathizers in the country somewhere, and we have no idea what they're doing," said FAIR spokesman David Ray.