ALIPAC Calls for John McCain to Apologize To Minorities
Posted on Friday, March 12 @ 12:37:35 EST
Topic: John McCain President Campaign
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 ALIPAC Calls for John McCain to Apologize To Minorities
March 12, 2010
CONTACT: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC)
www.alipac.us (866) 703-0864
The multi-racial political action committee called Americans for Legal
Immigration PAC or ALIPAC rebuked Senator John McCain's latest smear
attempt and calls on candidate McCain to apologize to the group's
minority supporters.
"McCain's campaign is pretty desperate to grab highly inaccurate
information off of a left wing blog and try to use it without fact
checking in a GOP primary," said William Gheen of ALIPAC. "We are
calling on John McCain to apologize immediately to the thousands of
minorities who support ALIPAC and oppose illegal immigration!"
John McCain's campaign just sent out a press release citing
inaccurate information from a left wing pro-Democrat blog called the
Phoenix New Times. The McCain campaign makes the false claim that
ALIPAC supports, endorses, and uses racially charged terms such as
"Wetback" and "Pepper belly" and that ALIPAC is supported by the KKK.
ALIPAC is a multi-racial organizations with
about 20% of the groups supporters being minorities. ALIPAC works
openly with black and Hispanic leaders and organizations as documented
in the national media. ALIPAC's President, William Gheen, has a
background in civil rights campaigns. ALIPAC has publicly rebuked
racist groups and organizations on many occasions and the groups
platform calls for "Americans of ever race..." to participate.
The word "Wetback" and "Pepper belly" do appear on ALIPAC's website
in the Discussion Groups comments section which are open source.
All posts made in comments are covered by ALIPAC's disclaimer that proclaims in 14 locations....
"ALIPAC is not responsible for the content of posts, comments,
articles, and links to other organizations. Posting here does not imply
endorsement or support. Posts from the public here are NOT
organizational statements or the positions of ALIPAC. Official ALIPAC
organizational positions and statements are found on the main site at www.alipac.us
.... ALIPAC enjoys the support of Americans from many different racial
and ethnic backgrounds. We are Americans United to fight illegal
immigration. Our boards are open to all that share our cause. NO RACISM
AND NO RACE BAITING"
The word 'Wetback' appears on the site in the phrase Operation
Wetback which refers to the historic deportation of millions of illegal
aliens under President Dwight Eisenhower. A simple Google search
indicates that the term "Operation Wetback" appears on over 90,000
websites, including Wikipedia, PBS, and Snopes to name a few. Would
John McCain call PBS racist for having the word Wetback on their
website?
The word "pepper belly" appears in text documented from a pro-Amnesty
blogger website, where ALIPAC activists sought to document the racism
found on another website. No ALIPAC supporter wrote those words.
To illustrate ALIPAC's position of strength in this matter, links
to both comments in question are provided here and being mounted on
ALIPAC's homepage.
Here are the links
http://www.alipac.us/ftopic-181813-next.html
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-186741.html
"I've been involved with and worked on hundreds of campaigns in my
life," said William Gheen who previously worked as a campaign
consultant. "This attack from John McCain's campaign is the dirtiest,
most low down, false, and deceptive thing I've ever seen. To suggest
that multi-racial groups and our black and Hispanic supporters are
somehow working with the KKK is ludicrous. John McCain should
immediately apologize to our minority supporters and to the public for
trying to be deceptive."
The Anti-Defamation League, which actively supports Amnesty for
illegal aliens and opposes ALIPAC's pro-enforcement positions, made the
false claim that ALIPAC was supported by the KKK because some racist
made a comment on some website supporting ALIPAC's opposition to
illegal immigration.
"Looks like McCain and Obama are just alike on illegal
immigration," said William Gheen. "They both want to label anyone that
opposes them as a racist. By doing so they are in truth claiming a
majority of Americans of every race are racists."
For more information about ALIPAC, or to schedule interviews with our minority supporters, please visit www.alipac.us
ALIPAC's Minority supporters are encouraged to contact the McCain
campaign to demand an apology from Brian Rogers at (602) 604-2010.
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DISCUSS THIS RELEASE WITH OUR ONLINE SUPPORTERS AT...
http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-1027573.html#1027573
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