James Simpson
, DC Independent Examiner
July 1, 2011

Thursday June 30, 2011 was a great day for Maryland and a victory patriots everywhere can celebrate . A small group of determined activists, led by newly-minted tea party Delegate Neil Parrott, managed to overcome Maryland's legendary corruption and an illegal immigrant lobby willing to engage in thuggish tactics, to win a petition drive that will put Maryland's in-state tuition for illegals DREAM Act to a vote.

With intense lobbying from open borders advocates, the DREAM Act passed the Maryland legislature in April. A petition drive was launched almost immediately to stall implementation and put the measure to referendum in the 2012 elections.

Petitioners turned in over 100,000 signatures in two months time, way more than the 55,736 necessary. For now at least, the law will not take effect as it was scheduled to do when the fiscal year begins on July 1st. This was a bi-partisan effort. about 30 percent of the petitions were signed by democrats. In Baltimore City it was 56 percent! Karl Rove, are you listening? If you ever needed convincing that taking a stand on illegal immigration is a winning issue, there you have it.

While we still have to deal with an Obama-driven recession, at least Maryland taxpayers will, for the time being, be spared the additional cost and moral outrage of seeing illegals attend college in preference to their own children.

The Maryland Board of Elections has until July 20th to certify all the petitions. It is difficult to imagine them disqualifying half of the petitions turned in, which is about what they would have to do.

But we are not completely out of the woods yet. An earlier post discussed how the illegal immigrant protest group CASA de Maryland was to receive copies of all the petitions, and had in fact already received the names and addresses of signers whose petitions had been certified to that point.

It has now been learned that the petitions were actually turned over to DNC General Counsel Joseph E. Sandler, who has been responsible for a laundry list of legal attacks on conservatives. Sandler threatened to sue Fox News' Glenn Beck, for calling admitted communist Van Jones a communist, Jihad Watch's Robert Spencer for telling the truth about the Council for American Islamic Relations - front group for the Muslim Brotherhood, and others for speaking other truths embarrassing to the Left.

He has wimped out on these, by the way. The purpose however, is not necessarily to win suits, but to intimidate, for after all, that has become the Democrats' entire gameplan, in one form or another. They have nothing else.

So Mr. Sandler has the petitions and CASA de Maryland may well ask for the rest, and we have no idea what kind of mischief, if any they have planned. But it is difficult to see how they could invalidate 50,000 petitions, and to even attempt it would make that organization and movement an even greater pariah than it already is.

All the same, it is a disgraceful comment on the depth to which these people have sunk, that we have to get 100,000 votes to assure that 55,000 will pass muster. When dealing with the Democrats on any voting matter these days, it is wise to plan to collect a minimum of 5 to 10 percent more votes than you need on anything, just to overcome anticipated fraud.

This victory is yet another demonstration of We the People finding our voice, and it is a huge morale boost. And this heroic feat was accomplished without benefit of George Soros billions, or even a modest endowment of any kind.

But the actual referendum has not been voted on. This happens in 2012, and the Left will move mountains to discredit Maryland voters' choice on this issue. There is yet much work to do. Help Neil Parrott's fledgling organization recoup their costs and work to win the referendum by donating, here.


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