Posted on 07/22/2010 6:55:11 AM PDT by La Lydia
The two candidates running for the 9th Congressional district seat in Virginia have found something they can agree on: the controversial Arizona law aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration. U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher, the Democrat incumbent, and state Del. Morgan Griffith, the Republican challenger, both oppose the federal government’s decision to file a lawsuit against the state to prevent the law from taking effect.
In a recent letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, Boucher expressed his “strong opposition to file suit in United States District Court against the State of Arizona challenging the validity of the Arizona state law which empowers law enforcement officials from within the state to determine the immigration status of individuals who are stopped by the police for other reasons."
“In my view, the Arizona statute is entirely appropriate, and the federal government should take no steps to prevent the implementation. I very much regret [Attorney General Holder’s] decision in this matter and encourage [him] to seek the dismissal of the lawsuit that is now pending,” Boucher said in the letter.
Following a vicious political fight over the bill, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican, signed it into law in April...Meanwhile, some polls, including one from the Pew Center for the People and the Press, found that 59 percent of the public support the legislation, while 32 percent oppose it.
The issue is pertinent in Virginia and in the 9th District, where Boucher is squaring off against Griffith, the majority leader in the Virginia House of Delegates.
On Wednesday, Griffith told Virginia Statehouse News that he agreed with the Democrat’s position, but he also suggested that the incumbent’s support is too little, too late.
“Anybody who’s taken a look at this knows the federal government had failed over 30 years in coming up with an immigration policy that has protected our borders — Robert Boucher has been a part of the problem, but at least he is taking a position to help to make changes,” he said.
The 9th District incumbent in a press release this week repeated his criticism of the Department of Justice's opposition to the Arizona law, which would require immigrants to carry legal identification and allow police to check the ID of suspected individuals at routine traffic stops....
Attorneys general from nine states, including Virginia, have filed briefs in support of the Arizona law...During the past few years, state legislatures have increasingly turned the spotlight on illegal immigration. Since 2006, 5,000 bills have been introduced, 752 laws enacted, and 257 resolutions have been adopted across the nation, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures...
La - they may be feeling the heat but we can’t let them get away with posing as a conservative dim. We MUST continue to remind the common voter just how commie, red, controlling and spend thrift these dims and rhinos are and never let them get away with the lies...
Gird your loins for Webb and Warner cause they will give us all whip lash to the right when they are up again...
In my opinion, Warner never hid what he was, or depicted himself as anything other than a card-carrying liberal. Webb is the one who makes me want to puke with his posing.
Agree with Webb but you might want to look back on the campaign of Warner for both gov and senate...hardly a card-carrying lib...
His record as governor stamped him as a card-carrying lib, despite how he tried to campaign. The idiots in Northern Virginia (mostly bailed-out libs from Maryland and DC) elected him.
As thought the dem isn’t lying like a dollar watch!
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