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12-30-2011, 08:46 PM #1
Casa De Maryland To Raise $10 Mil For Campaign To Defend DREAM Act
December 29, 2011
An activist group working to protect a new Maryland law granting illegal immigrants taxpayer-funded tuition benefits has plans to launch a multi-million-dollar fundraising campaign to help defend the measure from a ballot-referendum challenge.
Known as the Maryland DREAM Act, the law was enacted by the state’s General Assembly in April and signed by Governor Martin O’Malley weeks later. Essentially, it creates a new taxpayer-subsidized benefit — the ability to pay reduced tuition rates at Maryland community colleges and public higher education institutions—for certain eligible illegal aliens.
A news report quotes the Department of Legislative Services, the research arm for the Maryland State Legislature, estimating that the DREAM Act could cost Maryland taxpayers $778,000 in fiscal year 2014 and up to $3.5 million in fiscal 2016 to subsidize the tuition rate undocumented students will receive.
To give voters a chance to eliminate this costly benefit for illegal aliens, a group led by Maryland Assembly Delegate Neil Parrott launched a highly successful petition campaign to put the issue to a vote. Almost twice the number of signatures (130,000) required for a referendum to appear on the November 2012 ballot were collected throughout the state.
In an effort to protect the public subsidies for illegal immigrants’ college tuition, a renowned open borders group, Casa de Maryland, went to court and tried to throw out tens of thousands of valid signatures. Judicial Watch represents MDPetitions.com, which simply wants to give citizens the chance to be heard on this important issue. Illegal immigrant lobbyists, like Casa de Maryland, want voters to have no direct say on the issue, even though their money will finance this new measure.
Earlier this month Casa de Maryland conceded that MDPetitions.com did in fact collect more than enough signatures, announcing that it will no longer challenge the “sufficiency and number of the petition signatures” gathered to place the repeal of the illegal alien tuition benefits policy on the November, 2012 Maryland ballot. However, the group continues to maintain that the Maryland DREAM Act cannot legally be subject to referendum.
But as MDPetitions.com argues in its court filings, Maryland voters are merely exercising their rights under Article XVI, Section 2 of the Maryland Constitution, which unambiguously states: “The people reserve to themselves power known as The Referendum, by petition to have submitted to the registered voters of the State, to approve or reject at the polls, any Act, or part of any Act of the General Assembly, if approved by the Governor, or, if passed by the General Assembly over the veto of the Governor.”
Casa has seemed to concede that its political lawsuit to derail the ballot measure will fail. So the group is hiring a fundraising manager to lead a new $10 million campaign to “raise dollars from individuals, unions, and corporations” to “defend the Maryland DREAM Act.” The job description states that the new law is being “challenged through a ballot referendum challenge in the November 2012 elections.” The campaign fundraising manager job is described as a temporary position for an initiative called “Educating Maryland Kids.”
Of interesting note is that the assistant attorney general picked by President Obama to head the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) bloated civil rights division, former Maryland Labor Secretary Thomas Perez, served as president of the board of Casa de Maryland. The group is based in the state’s Tacoma Park area and proudly advertises its day laborer centers—in Baltimore, Wheaton and Silver Spring—which are all partially funded with public money from counties and cities.
A few years ago Casa de Maryland received a $1.5 million donation from Venezuela’s ardent anti-U.S. leader, socialist Hugo Chavez, who is a close ally of State Department terrorist nations like Iran, North Korea and Cuba. The Chavez-controlled Citgo Petroleum Corp. made the donation to support illegal aliens in the U.S. and the connection between the South American strongman and a top DOJ appointee is more than unsettling.
In a related matter, JW filed a taxpayer lawsuit early this year—before the DREAM Act passed—against the Board of Trustees of Maryland’s Montgomery College for unlawfully charging discounted “in county” tuition rates to students who graduate from public high schools in the county, regardless of their place of residency or immigration status.
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12-31-2011, 02:18 AM #2
If they can raise $10 Million, let them pay for illegals education instead of taxpayers...
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12-31-2011, 03:05 AM #3
This will be interesting to watch and see if the registered voters in Maryland are on the same pg. with these legislators drawing up these tax dollar draining bills.
If 70% of Americans want illegals deported, And Maryland voters vote this bill down, then the congress in Maryland will have a lot of explaining to do to the citizens of Maryland, if I remember right they needed 50,000 signatures to put this on the ballot, and collected 243,000 signatures.Support our FIGHT AGAINST illegal immigration & Amnesty by joining our E-mail Alerts at http://eepurl.com/cktGTn
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12-31-2011, 03:12 AM #4
"The Maryland US House of Representatives"
Maryland:
Harris, Andy 202-225-5311
212 W MAIN ST. SALISBURY, MD 21801-5006
https://harris.house.gov/contact-me/email-me
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Ruppersberger, Dutch 202-225-3061
375 W PADONIA RD. TIMONIUM, MD. 21093-2100
http://dutch.house.gov/email-dutch.shtml
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dutch-...04073632963666
http://twitter.com/Call_Me_Dutch
Sarbanes, John P. 202-225-4016
600 BALTIMORE AVE. TOWSON MD 21204-4034
http://sarbanes.house.gov/federal.asp
http://www.facebook.com/JSarbanes?sk=wall
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Edwards, Donna F. 202-225-8699
8730 GEORGIA AVE. SILVER SPRING MD 20910-3604
http://donnaedwards.house.gov/index....ctiontree=4,52
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Congre...s/107297211756
http://twitter.com/repdonnaedwards
Hoyer, Steny H. 202-225-4131
401 POST OFFICE RD. WALDORF MD 20602-2738
http://hoyer.house.gov/index.php?opt...2424&Itemid=75
http://www.facebook.com/WhipHoyer
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Bartlett, Roscoe 202-225-2721
1 FREDERICK ST. CUMBERLAND MD 21502-2394
https://bartlettforms.house.gov/Emai...e/default.aspx
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Roscoe...78050492239341
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Cummings, Elijah 202-225-4741
1010 PARK AVE. BALTIMORE MD 21201-5638
https://cummingsforms.house.gov/cont...age-form.shtml
http://www.facebook.com/elijahcummings?sk=wall
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Van Hollen, Chris 202-225-5341
51 MONROE ST. ROCKVILLE MD 20850-2421
http://vanhollen.house.gov/Contact/
http://www.facebook.com/CongressmanChrisVanHollen
http://twitter.com/chrisvanhollen
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12-31-2011, 03:14 AM #5
Hoyer and Cummings, need you hear more?
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