Thread: Republican Vasquez could help Democrats win

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Article published Oct 9, 2005

Republican Vasquez could help Democrats win

Mainstream Republicans worry Robert Vasquez's vitriolic rhetoric on illegal immigration could win him the GOP nomination for Congress next year and hand the seat to a Democrat.

Their fears are valid.

Vasquez, a Canyon County commissioner whose grandparents came from Mexico, is exploiting anxiety about immigration. His publicity stunts â€â€

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Article published Oct 14, 2005

Ronalee Linsenmann: Rant about Vasquez insulted those who agree with him

Vitriolic rhetoric, rant, rabid cur, hotheads; such descriptive language in Dan Popkey's vitriolic, ranting, rabid cur, hothead column (Oct. 9) against Canyon County Commissioner Robert Vasquez, candidate for representative for the 1st Congressional District. By extension you have just insulted the majority of Idahoans who believe in Vasquez's stand on sovereignty and citizenship. Robert fought and nearly died for this country in Vietnam; now you and other soft politician-types would want him to transform from a "point-man for principles" to a mindless cheerleader for power players.

I was asked by ABC reporter Bill Redeker how it felt to know that the party leadership, lobbyists and big business would not be supporting Robert; I respond with a shout out, "How refreshing to have someone willing to support and protect the average citizen."

You, Dan, insult all Idahoans by inferring Democrats are so shallow they would only vote for Robert to weaken the Republican Party and then Republicans would all become turncoats and vote the Democrat into office just for spite.
My faith is in the Idahoans that know this is neither a Republican nor Democrat issue; it is an American issue. A guest speaker at a Hispanic Cultural Center program confirmed that it was amnesty under the Reagan administration that was the catalyst for our current free-for-all alien invasion. Now average Americans are required, under the "diversity" banner, to allow every minority faction to continue pulling us apart thread by thread. The true definition of diverse: to set apart, different, completely unlike. How do we resolve this with E Pluribus Unum? The melting pot? The waft and weave of a strong national fabric? With Martin Luther King and a color-blind society?

The Republican elites believe we have no recourse other than to acquiesce, then pray our diversified country will vote Republican. That has not proven true after the Reagan amnesty; and it will not prove true under a Craig/ Kennedy amnesty; or a Crapo "Dream Act" for illegal alien students that would put them financially in the front of the line before legal citizens' children; or after state/county/city services are required to accommodate non-English speakers (there once was a time when legal immigrants had to learn the language within five years or they would be deported); and especially not after illegals have experienced the subsidized medical care that is so readily available at every emergency room. At the same time, citizens that have the misfortune to meet with medical crisis will lose their homes and business (after having paid taxes all their lives).
So now the candidate contenders, many of whom have spent years in public office and have had ample opportunity to begin protecting our sovereignty and citizenship (but did not), are all scrambling to talk the talk on illegal alien issues. Candidate Vasquez, i.e., Commissioner Vasquez, had been in office just over three years, and because of his personal courage and faith in the wisdom of our founding fathers; his conviction that sovereignty and citizenship are foundational to our constitutional republic has proven one fearless man can make a difference.

I'm proudly supporting our "point-man for principle," Robert Vasquez, www.vasquezfor idaho.org.

Ronalee Linsenmann of Nampa is manager of the Vasquez campaign.