Thread: Hispanic advocates will continue to seek Frances Semler’s.

Posted on Sun, Oct. 28, 2007
Hispanic advocates will continue to seek Frances Semler’s removal from park board

By BILL GRAHAM
The Kansas City Star
Local Hispanic advocates and a national labor leader said Sunday they will continue to seek the removal of Frances Semler from Kansas City’s park board.

The latest development in the ongoing battle over Semler’s appointment by Mayor Mark Funkhouser came at a news conference local leaders called to launch new efforts to educate the public about their position.

They have sought Semler’s dismissal or resignation from the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners because of her membership in the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a national anti-illegal immigration group.

Funkhouser has said that although his views often differ from Semler’s, he will not remove her from the park board because her work is not related to immigration and he doesn’t want to infringe on her freedom of speech. That position recently prompted the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy group, to withdraw its convention scheduled for Kansas City in 2009.

Local leaders said Sunday they would continue to oppose Semler’s position on the park board because they think the Minuteman programs are divisive and contribute to racist attitudes against all Hispanics in the United States.

Also speaking on their behalf on Sunday was Dolores C. Huerta, a co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America. Huerta, 77, of Bakersfield, Calif., received an International Peace Award on Saturday from the Community of Christ Church in Independence. She also leads a foundation devoted to community organizing for civil issues.

Huerta said that efforts by groups such as the Minuteman’s to get anti-immigration laws passed are obscuring problems with federal immigration law that keeps workers America needs out of the country.

“This organization is creating so much hatred and divisiveness in our communities,â€

This race issue is getting so old. Americans are not buying it anymore.

Semler should sue these people for trying to ruin her career and her good name . The only people who think there is anything wrong with the minutemen are radical racists groups who do not want our laws enforced.

All the minutemen are doing is advocating for getting our immigration laws enforced that is a citizens right !



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Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

Semler should sue these people for trying to ruin her career and her good name . The only people who think there is anything wrong with the minutemen are ratical racists groups who do not want our laws enforced.

All the minutemen are doing is advocating for getting our immigration laws enforced that is a citizens right !

Well said SOSAD!!!

Originally Posted by realbsball

This race issue is getting so old. Americans are not buying it anymore.

It's way passed old, it's dead and buried!

Originally Posted by cvangel

Originally Posted by SOSADFORUS

Semler should sue these people for trying to ruin her career and her good name . The only people who think there is anything wrong with the minutemen are ratical racists groups who do not want our laws enforced.

All the minutemen are doing is advocating for getting our immigration laws enforced that is a citizens right !

Well said SOSAD!!!

I could not agree more. I also had the feeling we hadn't heard the last of this issue.

When LaRaza tried to bully and threaten into getting their own way, their bluff was called forcing them to put up or shut up. They were made to look the fools that they are and are enraged.

However, this has now reached the point of going well beyond whatever rights these groups may have to make their feelings known. They are harassing this woman, attempting to violate her rights as an American citizen, slandering her good name, and quite frankly IMO, possibly placing her in danger should more radical individuals decide to take matters into their own hands.

I am now going to turn my attention toward strongly encouraging Mayor Funkhouser and Ms. Semler into taking appropriate legal action.

This needs to stop, and it needs to stop yesterday.

absolutly"wreath" they are stomping on her civil rights to freedom of speech and her right to congregate with any group she pleases, especially one that has not been proven to do harm to anyone.

Now they have taken to picking on individuals and that is going to far, they have to be stopped!!

You know it is know wonder citizens have just had it with these people, they are going to far!! just to far!!

These brown supremacists aren't fooling anyone. Picking on this elderly woman is backfiring on them. They really are disgusting.

Originally Posted by TheWatchdog

These brown supremacists aren't fooling anyone. Picking on this elderly woman is backfiring on them. They really are disgusting.

It is disgusting Watchdog.

And these are the same groups who parade around announcing how powerful they, and the illegal aliens, are.

Just how powerful does one have to be in order to victimize senior citizens?

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