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Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

Common Sense — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:48:42 -0000

Mr Hoyt advocates widespread disregard for the rule of law. Apparently that also includes his own using of the 501(c)3 not-for-profit charitible status of his Blagojevich-funded ICIRR for thinly veiled political purposes.

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

Rich Miller — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:42:51 -0000

Common Sense, it appears you have neither.

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

Common Sense — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:41:10 -0000

It appears Ms Pulidos political policy views actually reflect mainstream American values. Her position on immigration reflects the views of an overwhelming majority of Americans of all political persuasions. She is a strong supporter of the US Constitution and the protections it provides for our God-given rights. Those enumerated rights include the RIGHT TO LIFE.

If you want to criticize her for standing up for the rule of law and our constitution, that reflects more on you than on her. She has something that is precious today: intellectual honesty and the courage to stand by what is right. It is no surprise that leftists would attack a conservative latina and try to marginalize her for being "off the reservation" and not towing the (marxist) party line of Saul Alinsky and fellow travelers.

It should come as no surprise that her campaign finds its greatest support among seniors, veterans groups, Chicago Policemen and Chicago Firemen. Her endorsements include Maricopa County, AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Lake County, IL Sheriff Mark Curran, Jr. These individuals witness the real impacts of illegal immigration on America. They see firsthand the disproportionate carnage on our highways and streets by unlicensed, uninsured illegals. They see our overcrowded jails and prisons filled with illegal alien gangs incarcerated for violent crimes against our citizens. These are real impacts for them every day.

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

Voice of reason — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:19:36 -0000

Oh no, "Bubs" is off the campaign. Well that's the first good news Pulido's had.

Unfortunately, the Cook GOP has no "volunteers, signs and grassroots support" to give. Roupas is clueless.

I'm not real excited about Pulido's campaign myself, and that district is unwinnable for any Republican right now anyway.

But she's far from the nuttiest candidate the GOP's ever fielded in Illinois.

I think you'll find many more bats in Topinka's belfry for example, and much crazier quotes. Like remember when Judy said her rolling pin was an assault weapon?

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

Bubs — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:03:16 -0000

I will not support Ms. Pulido at all if she stands by rhe statements above, and several others that are not even on here. I suspect she knows exactly which ones.

I hope the relevant GOP Chairmen will do the same.

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

mover631 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:13:17 -0000

why delete the questions? Who pays for their rallies? who pays for the buses?

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I'm Just Saying — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:08:30 -0000

Okay, I was looking at the Excellent CQ Politics District by District break down of the 08 Election and http://innovation.cq.com/at... I pulled the Obama V. McCain numbers for IL-5, Obama pulled 73%, I wish you guys lots of luck, that and a miracle, you'll need both to win this one :)

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

Rich Miller — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:59:13 -0000

===you canâ€™t take one posting from maybe 100 on a subject and say you understand the topic or what the conversation had turned into. Rich I am surprised you donâ€™t realize that!===

We get plenty of posts here where conversations go all over the place. I would've deleted every one of those comments if she tried to make them here.

I understand perfectly well. I'm surprised you think I'm stupid.

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

Joshua Hoyt — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:37:31 -0000

Hi, this is the Joshua Hoyt, who as an individual and voter in the 5th CD, challenged Ms. Pulido's candidacy. And now you know why!

I was trying to spare the voters Ms. Pulido's unhinged rants, and the GOP the shame of having to claim her as one of their own. At least now everyone knows just how odd this lady is.

Pity she stayed on the ballot. She filed 702 signatures, but had only 369 valid ones... However the R's in my district are so weak she only needed 319. So now we have to let the voters end this farce and send her back to wherever Mr. Oberweis is now.

p.s. NOONE likes illegal immigration, which is why some of us are working so hard to find actual solutions, instead of spouting rhetoric and hate.

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

mover631 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:45:25 -0000

This stuff came out when the guy from ICIRR(The postings on free republic) challenged the signatures. Anyone here knows you have to read the whole posting to know what roseanna was writing about, you can't take one posting from maybe 100 on a subject and say you understand the topic or what the conversation had turned into. Rich I am surprised you don't realize that!
This was all put out by Joshua Hoyte in the primary down to the very Free Republic posting we are talking about here.

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

lake county democrat — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:07:51 -0000

Professor Carol Swain's website: http://www.carolmswain.net/

THough I don't have links, there were studies out of, as I recall, U of California Berkely supporting the Proposition 11 balot initiative in California showing that the costs of illegal immigration on the state substantially outweighed the benefits (in taxes, etc.) For more cites I would dig up Nick Kristof and Paul Krugman's NY Time columns from the period when this was a hot political topic (I think their recent archives are free, but not certain).

As I said, I am aware of one study that theorized illegal immigration was putting a strain on US Healthcare but did not find a substantial effect.

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

lake county democrat — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:04:02 -0000

Carl:

http://borjas.typepad.com/

If you scroll down just a little, you see he discusses on study (he co-did with two others) which says that the effect of illegal immigration from 1960 - present caused African-American unemployment to increase nearly 6%, and decreased African-American wages 2.5%.

It should also be noted that Cesar Chavez was an opponent of illegal immigration for the same reasons -- he knew how powerful business interests would use it to undermine labor power.

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lake county democrat — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:56:38 -0000

P.S. For the record, I'm not in favor of criminalizing illegal immigration, expodentially more raids or mass migrations. I am in favor of draconian penalties for employers of illegal immigrants and a system that gives U.S. citizens a real first shot at the alleged jobs that Americans won't do. Note that the politicians in both parties could have spent the last two years getting the employment verification system proposed in the last failed attempt at reform up and running (it was estimated that it would take two years had the bill passed) to get ready for whatever reform eventually passed.

Finally, a comment that may seem cruel but it's a cruel world: the status quo is not all that bad a deal for illegal immigrants. Ask someone in a Darfur refugee camp how they would like a chance to make what illegal immigrants here make, with emergency health care, education for their kids, and most importantly citizenship for their children born here. I'm just saying it's not immoral to take care of our poor first.

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

Carl Nyberg — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:55:52 -0000

lake county dem, can you provide a link to the research you claim definitively shows immigration hurts low-wage workers?

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lake county democrat — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:50:37 -0000

Rich, in response to "===some of the quotes he put up do not support that===

Are you referring to Mexicans as the new KKK, or Obama selling his race back into slavery, because Iâ€™m totally confused here."

1) As I wrote and maybe you missed, I said some of her comments were beyond the pale and that she was another Alan Keyes. That said, when the PRESIDENT OF MEXICO uses polite language to call African Americans a bunch of lazy you-know-whats (which was protested by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton but largely ignored in the mainstream media) and polls show some pretty deep racism among Latin Americans against African-Americans (which presumptively would be reflected by illegal immigrants from those nations) there are a few grains of truth in some of those statements ("will unleash real racism", "they hate blacks").

Rich, I guarantee you that if illegal immigration had the same effect on upper class jobs that the research shows it has on the working class and African-Americans in particular, half the pols out there would be Tom Tarcreno clones.

Again,

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

Recall Brendan Reilly — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:49:45 -0000

Just imagine the outrage if she used the word "retarded" to describe current immigration policy.

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

EmptySuitParade — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:49:02 -0000

It is only Monday and the Circular Firing Squad is fully engaged. Shoot, Aim, Ready
and we were worried the retired of ChopperJim might leaves short handed. It looks like we have found BrickHeadJoe's running mate.
Good Luck GOPS.

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

Bakersfield — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:41:09 -0000

this is exactly why I encouraged my GOP friends in the 5th to vote against this woman last month.

And for those who are blaming the GOP for putting her forward, remember that she won the votes of 800 people...I don't think the GOP deserves much of the blame for the votes of the extreme fringe.

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

Angry Republican — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:29:48 -0000

I think my handle says it all; and no I am NOT a RINO. We would have been better off having Rush Limbaugh run for this seat because he would get more votes than Pulido.

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

wordslinger — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:28:55 -0000

You know, the Illinois GOP really needs to take a public stand on this. They could use the fight as a rallying point for true conservative values party-building.

There are many examples in American history when a party had to take a stand to keep the extremes out.

One was the DFL in Minnesota, where the Humphreys, Mondales and Andersons successfully fought, sometimes mano a mano, like hell to expel the Communists, all the while backing Civil Rights and fighting the Birch/McCarthy GOP on other fronts.

Or, on the other hand, you could look at the Iowa GOP, where the Main Street GOP went like lambs to the slaughter when the Pat Robertson folks took over the state party.

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I'm not saying, I'm just sayin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:01:52 -0000

It's a three week old story, I'm not sure on that one, but does it negate her racist statements,

Oh we should forgive David Duke, he's kept his mouth shut for years :) (Well he's been in federal Prison) But at least his mouth was shut :)

wow, Lou Atsaves is right, here we go again blaming the Democrats for your problems.....

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

Louis G. Atsaves — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:30:57 -0000

You are seeing the results of some handiwork by some extreme conservatives who behave like lemmings in our GOP party.

They were busy castigating Andy McKenna a week and a half ago at a party open meeting in Lake County for not throwing all of the GOP's resources in support of Pulido, and for not calling Washington's RNCC to send in the calvary.

When Pulido loses, they will blame McKenna "for his lack of support", and not Pulido and her views. If McKenna had come out in strong support of one of the other GOP candidates, they would have blamed McKenna for influencing the primary so that a "True Republican" (in their eyes) would not win that primary.

And so the endless treadmill that the Illinois GOP is on continues.

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:25:44 -0000

Is it suprising that when people call a political party's headquarters to volunteer for a candidate that won the party's nomination in a contested primary that the party would get them a yard sign or pass the volunteer over to the campaign?

I think Rich is trying to make something of nothing on a 3 week old local news story on NBC (wonder if some democrat operative pitched it to him?)

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

Rich Miller — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:35:49 -0000

===some of the quotes he put up do not support that===

Are you referring to Mexicans as the new KKK, or Obama selling his race back into slavery, because I'm totally confused here.

How can you have a meaningful discussion with somebody who says things like that? Seriously, please enlighten me.

Re: Cook GOP backing Pulido

lake county democrat — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:13:45 -0000

ZC:

Point taken, but what do you do when your choice is between the wack job vs. the sane person who you think will do grave harm? In this case I agree that she goes beyond the pale (see Rich's hightlight on gays), but some of the quotes he put up do not support that, and the reflexive response in some of the early comments go to the need for substance I'm writing about.

PS: I need to say it somewhere: Congrats to Waukegan on a great season and near-legendary comeback against Whitney Young!