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Joined: Jun 13, 2007 Posts: 2274 Location: On Duty Alamo, California
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:11 am Post subject: Inside McCain’s closed-door meeting with Chicago Hispanics
Inside McCain’s closed-door meeting with Chicago Hispanics
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By Michelle Malkin • June 19, 2008 09:02 PM
Scroll down for updates…Rosanna Pulido of the anti-amnesty group, “You Don’t Speak for Me:” “He’s one John McCain in front of white Republicans. And he’s a different John McCain in front of Hispanics.”
Last night, John McCain met with a carefully screened group of Chicago-area Latino voters. The town hall was closed to the media. Several readers e-mailed an eyewitness account of the event. Here’s an excerpt:
I was one of the 150 people at the Drake Hotel in Downtown Chicago Wednesday night who came to hear John MC Cain speak to Illinois Hispanics.
I had e-mail in my request to attend after seeing an article in the news paper announcing this event.
This is what i received……….
We are pleased to confirm your invitation to attend the “Hispanic Voices Reception” with Republican Presidential candidate John McCain. The event will take place on June 18, 2008, at The Drake Hotel, 140 E. Walton Place, Chicago, Illinois, in the Drake Room.
A volunteer will call you in the next couple of days to give you a “unique event ID number.” You will need that number along with photo identification at the registration table in order to access the event. Doors open for the event promptly at 7:30 PM. Please come early, though, to get through security.
During the reception, Senator John McCain will be fielding questions from the audience. We ask that you be respectful during the question-and-answer session even if your opinions differ from those being shared. Please dress in business-casual attire.
You may park at The Drake Hotel for $30; valet parking is also provided at the hotel for $45. If you are traveling from the suburbs, limited seating is available on the bus leaving from Aurora. To reserve a seat for the bus, please contact us on our hotline number or by e-mail. For your own directions to the event, please click here.
For questions regarding the event, please call our hotline number at 630-801-0043 or e-mail us at McVolunteers@yahoo.com.
Both Senator John McCain and I look forward to meeting you next Wednesday.
Face to Face with John McCain!
“Hispanic Voices Reception”
Wednesday, June 18, 2008, starting at 7:30 PM
The Drake Room The Drake Hotel 140 E Walton Place Chicago, IL 60611
You are invited to hear John McCain address Illinois Hispanics!
If you have any questions, please contact: Gabriela Wyatt or Julie Brady at McVolunteers@yahoo.com Or call the event hot-line (630) 801-0043 _________________________________________________________
…..Personally as an Original Minuteman who attended the Historic Minuteman Border Watch in 2005 on the Arizona/ Mexico border and returni[n]g 2 more times for a tour of duty along our southern Border, I was especially looking forward to what John Mc Cain would say about illegal immigration.
This was a NO MEDIA ALLOWED EVENT! That is why I am reporting back to you, all of you folks who have fought so hard with your phone calls to Washington D.C. last summer, shutting down the Washington DC switch board and defeating the AMNESTY BILL. I am reporting back to you those of you who work tirelessly in your local cities and towns trying to get some public elected official to care and enforce the rule of law.
I was told by my friend and fellow Hispanic Marianne Davies who is on the board of “You Don’t Speak for Me” that John Mc Cain has been going across the country having “PRIVATE” meetings with Hispanics.
Although the [invitation] said we would be able to ask questions, that “question ” time with John McCain never happened. That was ok with me, I never had the intention of asking a question, I knew exactly the kind of open borders crowd I was with.
John McCain’s favorite words of the evening were Comprehensive Immigration Reform. But he started out first of all saying if he is gonna win the Presidential election he will need the support of the Latino community.
He said ” My state has been enriched by the Hispanic culture in Arizona.”
Then John McCain asked a question “Did you know this? I bet some of you did not know that Spanish was spoken in Arizona before English” …Loud cheers from the audience. (Ok John McCain What is your AZTLAN POINT?)
Then he said “I want to have some straight talk about our relationship with Mexico,our closest neighbor and dearest friend” He talked about the Mexican President fighting the drug cartels.
Then John McCain aid the exact thing I came to hear, he said “I was proud to work for Comprehensive Immigration Reform and If I am elected President I assure you that in 2009 I will ask Congress to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform.” (The crowd goes wild) “It is a Federal Responsibility” he said and continued ” we also need a temporary guest worker program”
He then told a story about a day laborer who got picked up this morning, worked all day and then never got paid…We have no Federal Policy, we cannot allow this to happen, he said, He repeated I assure you that I will work for Comprehensive Immigration Reform.
John McCain talked about a debate he was in about enforcing the law and he says that the “other side had a lot of “Rhetoric” “you know what I am talking about!” he said…
Yeah, we know what he’s talking about. All too well.
(Image credit: People’s Cube)
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Related: Tipster Edgar M. sends an English translation of an article from Diario Libre touting McCain’s promise to renew his shamnesty push for the “undocumented:”
New York - The Republican candidate for the White House, Senator John McCain, promised that if he wins, a day after he is sworn in as a new president of the United States, he will pressure Congress to enact a law immediately in favor of immigration reform.
The candidate that appears today eight points behind his Democrat rival Barack Obama, did the pronouncement in an interview that he granted to the Hispanic newspaper La Opinion in Los Angeles…
McCain said that it is completely false that [he] has abandoned his original commitment to fight for reform for the more than 12 million undocumented immigrants that reside in the United States and that includes the failed proposal of President Bush, to secure the borders first.
“This reform will be a priority in my administration because it is a convincing federal responsibility”, added the contender of the Republican Party. “We will undertake immigration reform and on the day after my inauguration, I will ask Congress to reconsider it, although I believe that first we have to secure our borders, set in motion a plan for guest workers that works and to focus on the issue of the undocumented in a humane and compassionate way.”
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Related: Ed Morrissey’s liveblogging McCain’s townhall in St. Paul, Minn. Looks like immigration received only the most superficial treatment.
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Update: I’ve suggested before that McCain meet with the anti-illegal immigration Hispanic group, “You Don’t Speak for Me.” Rosanna Pulido is a member of the group. She speaks for me.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain assured Hispanic leaders he would push through Congress legislation to overhaul federal immigration laws if elected, several people who attended a private meeting with the candidate said Thursday.
Democrats questioned why the Arizona senator held the meeting late Wednesday night in Chicago. But supporters who were in the room denied that McCain held the closed-door session out of fear of offending conservatives, many of whom want him to take a harder line on immigration.
Both McCain and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama support giving legal status to millions of illegal immigrants, but neither has made the issue a centerpiece of the campaign. At one time, McCain’s campaign suffered because of his stance on the issue.
“This was not a secret meeting,” said Rafael Rivadeneira, a vice chairman of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly of Illinois, who was among more than 150 Chicago-area Hispanic leaders who attended. “There was nothing he said that they wouldn’t want people to hear.”
Other attendees said they were not so sure.
“He’s one John McCain in front of white Republicans. And he’s a different John McCain in front of Hispanics,” complained Rosanna Pulido, a Hispanic and conservative Republican who attended the meeting.
Pulido, who heads the Illinois Minuteman Project, which advocates for restrictive immigration laws, said she thought McCain was “pandering to the crowd” by emphasizing immigration reform in his speech.
“He’s having his private meetings to rally Hispanics and to tell them what they want to hear,” she said. “I’m outraged that he would reach out to me as a Hispanic but not as a conservative.”
Just when I thought I'd have to suck it up, swallow the bitterest pill of my political life and vote for McInsane in order to thwart Obamamamma...I get snapped back into reality.
HELL NO, I won't vote for McMoron!!! _________________
"If you can't do business legally, then you have no business being in business." -zeezil Anything short of deportation is amnesty.
Joined: Jun 13, 2007 Posts: 2274 Location: On Duty Alamo, California
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:42 am Post subject:
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Just when I thought I'd have to suck it up, swallow the bitterest pill of my political life and vote for McInsane in order to thwart Obamamamma...I get snapped back into reality.
I thought the exact same thing! McCain dumps the Conservative Republicans for a few Hispanic votes? McStain and Boosh have burned the Republican Party to the ground. Check out the link, there are over 230 comments about this already and there not good ones.
Joined: Jan 02, 2008 Posts: 5886 Location: Mexifornia
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:50 am Post subject:
Words cannot express my outrage for this double talking, two timing traitor! Now I understand why these little hispanic town hall meetings are clouded in such secrecy! McCain does not want the rest of America to learn what he's promising these people behind closed doors, hence "no media allowed!"
If John McCain thinks he can win by pandering to certain ethnic groups and by promising mass amnesty -- and by again poking a stick in the eye of conservatives and those who believe in the rule of law -- then let him do it. Remember, he won the California primary and knocked out Romney in no small measure due to his flooding the airwaves with tough sounding ads on border security. Now, like the phony that he is, he is twisting, evading and pandering all over the place.
My main issue is no amnesty. We have two terrible choices as president. I still *think* - and I could be wrong- it will be easier to defeat Obama on amnesty. McCain will not have my support.
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Just when I thought I'd have to suck it up, swallow the bitterest pill of my political life and vote for McInsane in order to thwart Obamamamma...I get snapped back into reality.
That's precisely what McTraitor was counting on! Many of us said we would not vote for the lesser of two evils but some are caving as the pressure mounts. _________________ We are NOT a nation of immigrants!
Last edited by IndianaJones on Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:02 pm; edited 1 time in total
McCAIN IS A TRAITOR. HE IS A SENILE OLD MAN BECAUSE HE CLEARLY FORGETS WHAT 80%+ AMERICANS SAID ABOUT HIS AMNESTY PACKAGE. WE SAID NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
BOTH OBAMA AND McCAIN ARE DANGEROUS. PRAY FOR A MIRACLE!
No mas, Juan McLame. We are onto your forked tongue obfuscation. We know you like a book and 'ya ain't getting away with it.
Conservatives and illegal immigration enforcement advocates will expose you like you ain't got no clothes on...you creep. Si se puede!!! _________________
"If you can't do business legally, then you have no business being in business." -zeezil Anything short of deportation is amnesty.
Joined: Jun 29, 2007 Posts: 665 Location: LA War Zone, CA
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:25 pm Post subject:
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We have two terrible choices as president. I still *think* - and I could be wrong- it will be easier to defeat Obama on amnesty.
Although I could never vote for Obama, I'd take him over this lying clown. Maybe, just maybe, the true conservatives in the GOP will pull together and gain enough strength from their defeat to fight Obama tooth and nail over every policy he tries to institute.
Joined: Nov 24, 2005 Posts: 2400 Location: Tucson, AZ
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject:
Thank you Bulldogger for giving those who considered voting for MCinsane a dose of reality. My husband told me the other day that Obama actually said he was willing to put troops on the border. Don't rule out the logic in voting for Obama for President. I think he's a good man.
I would like to add one email address to the list of Talk Radio Hosts if I could, I did not see the address listed. Pat Gray has been on top of this issue since before I knew it was an issue although I did suspect it may be an "issue". Pat has a morning show from 6:00 am to 9:00 am in Houston on 700 AM, he also often subs for Glenn Beck.
Then John McCain asked a question “Did you know this? I bet some of you did not know that Spanish was spoken in Arizona before English” …Loud cheers from the audience.
McCain, you idiot. Before Spanish ever found its way to Arizona, the following Indian tribes in Arizona, all established prior to any Spanish presence, all had their own languages and dialects:
Are you really this stupid or is it something else? Oh, thats right...you are P-A-N-D-E-R-I-N-G. But, I think you are also a bit stupid. _________________
"If you can't do business legally, then you have no business being in business." -zeezil Anything short of deportation is amnesty.
Joined: Jun 13, 2007 Posts: 2274 Location: On Duty Alamo, California
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 3:50 pm Post subject:
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I would like to add one email address to the list of Talk Radio Hosts if I could, I did not see the address listed. Pat Gray has been on top of this issue since before I knew it was an issue although I did suspect it may be an "issue". Pat has a morning show from 6:00 am to 9:00 am in Houston on 700 AM, he also often subs for Glenn Beck.
Thanks lccat,
I will add him to the list and send him an email.
Joined: Jun 29, 2005 Posts: 6366 Location: From FLA to GA as of 04/01/07
Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 7:20 am Post subject:
mapwife wrote:
Thank you Bulldogger for giving those who considered voting for MCinsane a dose of reality. My husband told me the other day that Obama actually said he was willing to put troops on the border. Don't rule out the logic in voting for Obama for President. I think he's a good man.
Mapwife, do you remember when Obama suggested we revamp NAFTA and then there were these really nervous elites in Canada who questioned Obama about his intentions? Obama came out and said to them that they not need to worry becuase he was only politically postering. In other words, he lied about revamping NAFTA. When he says he's willing to entertain the idea of putting troops on the border, he's lying. He's doing exactly what McTraitor has done--which is lying. Neither one of these unqualified, tratorous commie pinkos should be President. The ones who have the intestinal fortitude and the wisdom to run this great country have been sidelined by the US Chamber of Commerce, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg Group. Our elections don't count..they are merely an institution which falsifies our freedom and pacifies the US citizens--just how those who want to overthrow our Consitution want it. _________________ Hey, it doesn't really matter to me, baby, everyone has got to fight to be free. You don't have to live like a refugee!--Tom Petty
Thank you Bulldogger for giving those who considered voting for MCinsane a dose of reality. My husband told me the other day that Obama actually said he was willing to put troops on the border. Don't rule out the logic in voting for Obama for President. I think he's a good man.
Whoa...good man? Yeah, if you have a fondness for ultra-left marxist big government tax and spend appease the enemies trying to kill you illegal alien amnesty loving radicals. _________________
"If you can't do business legally, then you have no business being in business." -zeezil Anything short of deportation is amnesty.
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