Immigration enforcement group endorses Mass. Republican

Chad Groening - OneNewsNow - 1/18/2010 6:20:00 AMBookmark and Share

A pro-enforcement immigration political action committee is endorsing the Republican candidate in Tuesday's special election that will determine the permanent successor of Ted Kennedy in the U.S. Senate.



Martha Coakley (D-Massachusetts)State Sen. Scott Brown (Massachusetts)President Barack Obama is calling on his fellow Democrats to "put on their walking shoes" and help Martha Coakley succeed Kennedy in the Massachusetts Senate race. Republican Scott Brown has been gaining momentum heading into Tuesday's vote as shown in a recent Suffolk University/News7 survey where Brown stretches ahead of Coakley by four points.

A Republican Senate victory in blue Massachusetts would be a historic upset and could even reverberate its way to the White House. One Massachusetts Democrat in the U.S. House has gone so far to say that if Brown wins, the president's overhaul of healthcare is dead. That is why Obama is pulling out all the stops to try and preserve the pivotal 60th Democratic Senate vote needed to pass that overhaul.

William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC), says healthcare is not the only reason Brown is surging.

William Gheen (ALIPAC)"Martha Coakley has stated her support for the Obama comprehensive immigration reform amnesty legislation, whereas Scott Brown has made illegal immigration an issue on his campaign," Gheen explains. "He's placed it on his website that he is against any form of amnesty [and] that he's against benefits for illegal immigrants. Plus, as a state senator in Massachusetts, he disagreed fervently with Governor Deval Patrick for licenses and in-state tuition for illegal aliens. So we have a bit of a legislative history on Scott Brown as well."

As a result of his position on these issues, the ALIPAC president reports that his organization has officially endorsed Brown.



Since Kennedy's death this summer, the Senate seat has been filled on an interim basis by Paul G. Kirk. President Obama was to campaign for Coakley over the weekend in the Bay State.

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