Thread: NC-03: Griffin goes ‘toe-to-toe’ with Laura Ingraham

NC-03: Griffin goes ‘toe-to-toe’ with Laura Ingraham
by Brant Clifton • April 16, 2014 •


A bit of advice before going on Laura Ingraham’s radio program: Put on your Big Boy / Big Girl Pants. (Laura is tough. She throws no softballs, and makes you defend every pause, comma and apostrophe.)

Renee Ellmers went on the show, and things didn’t go very well. Taylor Griffin, the GOP primary challenger to 3rd district incumbent Walter Jones, put himself in Laura’s hot seat on Tax Day.

Griffin is painting himself as a “conservative” alternative to Jones. Ingraham defended Jones, painting him as a solid social conservative with a more populist, Pat Buchanan-style Republicanism.

Of course, amnesty popped up in the discussion. Ingraham pressed Griffin to clarify his position — given the fact that he is backed by some big establishment money that favors amnesty. Griffin described himself as being “against blanket amnesty.”

”American citizenship is too precious to be given away as a political token,” Griffin told Ingraham. download (73)

The host pressed Griffin on whether illegal aliens — even those who qualify for the benefits of the DREAM act — should be deported. Griffin said — under current law — he favors deportation of illegal aliens. Even DREAMers. Ingraham pointed out that position puts him in direct conflict with Sheldon Adelson, a Vegas-based billionaire who is all for amnesty for DREAMers and has dumped a load of cash promoting Griffin.

“The first thing we have to do is to get a handle on those living outside the system,” Griffin told Ingraham. “We’ve got to get them out of the country or into the system. We need some sort of normalization for people already in the country.”

Ingraham pressed Griffin on whether his views are closer to those of South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham or Alabama’s Jeff Sessions.

“I don’t want to put myself in boxes,” Griffin told the host in response.

But when the discussion turned to agriculture, Griffin began to sound a lot like amnesty supporter Renee Ellmers. He brought up the talking point about how farmers cannot find enough help among native-born Americans.

“If you can’t afford to pay a decent wage to American citizens, you don’t deserve to be in business,” Ingraham said.

Griffin responded that forcing that issue will mean higher costs for consumers in their grocery shopping.

Griffin said some reform of the “social welfare net” needs to take place in order to put more low-skill workers out into the market for these agricultural jobs. In the short term, Griffin said the government needs to help farmers out with guest workers.

“I am not going to have farmers’ crops rotting in the fields,” he told Ingraham.


http://dailyhaymaker.com/?p=7680

Thank you Laura Ingraham for exposing this illegal alien amnesty supporter Taylor Griffin. Congressman Walter Jones is one of the few really good ones left in office these days.

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Check out the powerful comments about Walter Jones and Taylor Griffin at that link....

7 comments for “NC-03: Griffin goes ‘toe-to-toe’ with Laura Ingraham”

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  Raphael
  April 16, 2014 at 7:06 pm
  Laura smoked this establishment phoney out. He runs ads saying he will never support amnesty but those ads are clearly a lie.
  
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    Kathy
    April 16, 2014 at 10:26 pm
    The big money funders like Adelson are a dead giveaway. Griffin’s mealy-mouth response means he supports amnesty, and probably increases in immigration though not specifically stated here. If he did not, he would clearly specify that he is against any form of amnesty, legalization, or path to citizenship. The fact that he’s so cagey in this interview makes him like the other anti-American sovereignty corporatists, like Ellmers, who will do their masters’ bidding.
    Walter Jones on the other hand has been as steadfastly anti-amnesty as any Republican could be. He has a stellar record on this.
    
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      Raphael
      April 17, 2014 at 1:21 am
      You also have to look at the massive independent expenditures of Wall Street insider Joe RIcketts, former CEO of Ameritrade, who funds a group he calls ”Ending Spending”. Ricketts largest expenditure outside his home state last election was for Jeff Flake, one of the pro-amnesty Gang of 8 in the Senate. Flake had a hard fought primary with a more conservative Republican who took a hard line against amnesty. In addition, Ricketts other project this year besides Taylor Griffin is to push moderate Republican former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown for the Senate seat in New Hampshire. He first has to get Brown by conservative former New Hampshire US Senator Bob Smith in the primary. Scott Brown is also pro-amnesty.
      Oh, and Ricketts’ son is running in the GOP primary in Nebraska for Governor. So, if you know anyone there, call them and tell them to vote against Ricketts.
      
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  spin43@me.com
  April 16, 2014 at 11:01 pm
  Griffin sounded very insincere and fraudulent.
  
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  Kathy
  April 17, 2014 at 12:37 am
  Well, Ann Coulter has come out strongly against NC candidates supporting amnesty, including Tillis and Ellmers, and in favor of Brannon and Roche:
  http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/20...html#read_more
  
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    jr cooper
    April 17, 2014 at 11:37 am
    I would love for Ann to come to North Carolina and campaign for Brannon and Roche. That would create some buzz for sure. I love to hear her talk. She is unique and has her own style.
    
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  Nancy in Craven
  April 17, 2014 at 2:03 pm
  The day before the 3rd District meeting Griffin called me…not a Robo call…but a short personal message on my answering machine saying he looked forward to seeing me at the meeting. He’s making some hay on the fact that Walter never shows up for these kind of affairs. I don’t know Jones personally, but some tell me that he is very uncomfortable with them, and expects his record to speak for itself.
  Unfortunately there are so many people who are more interested in personalities than principles and they readily buy into Taylor “The Snake” Griffin’s rhetoric. To Walter’s favor, Griffin isn’t very personable and certainly doesn’t seem all that genuine.
  It’s not at all difficult to defend Jones’ record; he has consistently voted his principles. It’s imperative that those in the know take the time to inform the low information voter and those easily swayed by swarmy types selling their brand of snake oil.
  
  
  

The rotting food in the fields argument is so bogus. If we sent the illegals home we wouldn't need as much food. They are takers when it comes to food(EBT cards, WIC, food pantries etc) and take much more than they give. Most of the cost of food isn't from the growing of food itself-it's from the processing, transporting etc.

Originally Posted by working4change

NC-03: Griffin goes ‘toe-to-toe’ with Laura Ingraham
by Brant Clifton • April 16, 2014 •


A bit of advice before going on Laura Ingraham’s radio program: Put on your Big Boy / Big Girl Pants. (Laura is tough. She throws no softballs, and makes you defend every pause, comma and apostrophe.)

Renee Ellmers went on the show, and things didn’t go very well. Taylor Griffin, the GOP primary challenger to 3rd district incumbent Walter Jones, put himself in Laura’s hot seat on Tax Day.

Griffin is painting himself as a “conservative” alternative to Jones. Ingraham defended Jones, painting him as a solid social conservative with a more populist, Pat Buchanan-style Republicanism.

Of course, amnesty popped up in the discussion. Ingraham pressed Griffin to clarify his position — given the fact that he is backed by some big establishment money that favors amnesty. Griffin described himself as being “against blanket amnesty.”

”American citizenship is too precious to be given away as a political token,” Griffin told Ingraham. download (73)

The host pressed Griffin on whether illegal aliens — even those who qualify for the benefits of the DREAM act — should be deported. Griffin said — under current law — he favors deportation of illegal aliens. Even DREAMers. Ingraham pointed out that position puts him in direct conflict with Sheldon Adelson, a Vegas-based billionaire who is all for amnesty for DREAMers and has dumped a load of cash promoting Griffin.

“The first thing we have to do is to get a handle on those living outside the system,” Griffin told Ingraham. “We’ve got to get them out of the country or into the system. We need some sort of normalization for people already in the country.”

Ingraham pressed Griffin on whether his views are closer to those of South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham or Alabama’s Jeff Sessions.

“I don’t want to put myself in boxes,” Griffin told the host in response.

But when the discussion turned to agriculture, Griffin began to sound a lot like amnesty supporter Renee Ellmers. He brought up the talking point about how farmers cannot find enough help among native-born Americans.

“If you can’t afford to pay a decent wage to American citizens, you don’t deserve to be in business,” Ingraham said.

Griffin responded that forcing that issue will mean higher costs for consumers in their grocery shopping.

Griffin said some reform of the “social welfare net” needs to take place in order to put more low-skill workers out into the market for these agricultural jobs. In the short term, Griffin said the government needs to help farmers out with guest workers.

“I am not going to have farmers’ crops rotting in the fields,” he told Ingraham.


http://dailyhaymaker.com/?p=7680

THANK YOU LAURA WE DO HAVE GOOD ONE LEFT IN OFFICE

April 17, 2014 | 05:36 PM
beaufortobserver.net

Popular conservative talk radio host Laura Ingraham has exposed Congressional challenger Taylor Griffin as not what he claims to be on the issue of illegal immigration. While Griffin said he was ''against blanket amnesty'', he admitted to being for ''normalization'' for those illegals already in the country. ''Normalization'' is one of the buzzwords that open borders liberals use for amnesty. This flies totally in the face of the radio ads Griffin has been running claiming to be against amnesty.

Several billionaires who support amnesty for illegal aliens such as Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and Wall Street insider Joe Ricketts (''Ending Spending'' PAC) have been dumping big money into Griffin's campaign through independent ads.

Walter Jones has always been a strong voice against amnesty for illegal aliens and is the only Congressman from NC with an A+ rating from Numbers USA, the major anti-amnesty organization.

http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Blog...migration.html