Thread: McCain can't pacify both sides on immigration

McCain can't pacify both sides on immigration
By: Gebe Martinez
February 13, 2008 07:51 AM EST

Time for a little straight talk here, as presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain likes to say.

McCain’s immigration position is not much different from what it was last year, before political forces caused the Arizona senator to back away from the bipartisan compromise he helped craft in the Senate.

The difference between then and now is how he talks about handling immigration.

Having felt the anger of voters about lax border enforcement, he issues a “straight talkâ€

Susana Quinonez
[quote]“The Republican Party is with millionaires, ... and many don’t want to help the Latinos,â€

[quote="Dixie"]Susana Quinonez
[quote]“The Republican Party is with millionaires, ... and many don’t want to help the Latinos,â€

[quote="Dixie"]Susana Quinonez
[quote]“The Republican Party is with millionaires, ... and many don’t want to help the Latinos,â€

[quote="Dixie"]
Having felt the anger of voters about lax border enforcement, he issues a “straight talkâ€

Jean wrote:

AND Pelosi AND Feinstein. In fact, probably the richest senators are Democrats.

You're right, the Democrats on the average have more wealth than the Republicans. I remember reading a paper on that very topic just this past year.

Kennedy and Kerry arn't exactly in the poor house either

It would be interesting and probably not very hard to
find a net worth comparison chart

The only one I could find was from 2003

Senate millionaires
John Kerry, D-Massachusetts: $163,626,399
Herb Kohl, D-Wisconsin: $111,015,016
John Rockefeller, D -West Virginia: $81,648,018
Jon Corzine, D-New Jersey: $71,035,025
Dianne Feinstein, D-California: $26,377,109
Peter Fitzgerald, R-Illinois: $26,132,013
Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey $17,789,018
Bill Frist, R-Tennessee: $15,108,042
John Edwards, D-North Carolina: $12,844,029
Edward Kennedy, D-Massachusetts: $9,905,009
Jeff Bingaman, D-New Mexico: $7,981,015
Bob Graham, D-Florida: $7,691,052
Richard Shelby, R-Alabama: $7,085,012
Gordon Smith, R-Oregon: $6,429,011
Lincoln Chafee, R-Rhode Island: $6,296,010
Ben Nelson, D-Nebraska: $6,267,028
Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee: $4,823,018
Mike DeWine, R-Ohio: $4,308,093
Mark Dayton, D-Minnesota: $3,974,037
Ben Campbell, R-Colorado: $3,165,007
Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska: $2,963,013
Olympia Snowe, R-Maine: $2,955,037
James Talent, R-Missouri: $2,843,031
Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania: $2,045,016
Judd Gregg, R-New Hampshire: $1,916,026
John McCain, R-Arizona: $1,838,010
James Inhofe, R-Oklahoma: $1,570,043
John Warner, R-Virginia: $1,545,039
Kay Bailey Hutchison, R - Texas: $1,513,046
Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky: $1,511,017
Harry Reid, D-Nevada: $1,500,040
Sam Brownback, R-Kansas: $1,491,018
Thomas Carper, D-Delaware: $1,482,017
Ted Stevens, R-Alaska: $1,417,013
Maria Cantwell, D-Washington: $1,264,999
Barbara Boxer, D-California: $1,172,003
Orrin Hatch, R-Utah: $1,086,023
Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana: $1,080,014
Bill Nelson, D-Florida: $1,073,014
Charles Grassley, R-Iowa: $1,016,024
*These figures are base estimates provided by senators on their financial disclosure forms