Thread: UT-Opponent not ready to give Chaffetz an apology

Immigration tent city
Opponent not ready to give Chaffetz an apology
Republican insists no one would be singled out based on ethnicity
By Robert Gehrke
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 09/10/2008 12:10:31 AM MDT


Bennion Spencer«1»Republican 3rd Congressional District candidate Jason Chaffetz demanded an apology Tuesday from his opponent, Democrat Bennion Spencer, who Chaffetz said has mischaracterized his immigration views.
Spencer says that Chaffetz won't get an apology.
Chaffetz said Spencer had stated that Chaffetz wanted to lock people up in razor-wire ringed tent cities because of their ethnicity.
"You owe me an apology, because I've never said that, and it's wrong," Chaffetz said speaking in the first debate between the two, held at the conservative Sutherland Institute in Salt Lake City. "Your characterization of my position on enforcing the law is wrong."
Spencer said last month that it was "sacrilegious" for Chaffetz to "claim to be a believer of God and put someone in a tent city because of their ethnic persuasion."
Spencer didn't respond to Chaffetz's demand during the debate, but said afterward that he "shouldn't hold his breath."
Chaffetz is proposing the use of tent-style prison camps as part of his immigration plan, but insists nobody would be singled out based on ethnicity. The camps would first be used to imprison criminal immigrants. He says they would be cheaper than brick-and-mortar prisons. But they would also be used to detain undocumented immigrants awaiting deportation if they refuse to return home voluntarily.
Chaffetz
says that if the process for approving legal immigration is improved and incentives for undocumented immigrants to stay in this country removed, then those immigrants would return home and get in line to return here legally. Chaffetz is standing by his plan, even though he was scolded last week by California Rep. Mike Honda, who was imprisoned as a child in a Japanese internment camp in Colorado during World War II.
Honda had called Chaffetz's plan an "odious reminder" of that dark period in history, and Chaffetz demanded an apology from Honda, which he also didn't get.
"The only apology that should be made is by Mr. Chaffetz to the American public for injecting extremism into a sensitive and serious debate on immigration," Honda said.
Spencer said his first priority when it comes to immigration is securing U.S. borders.
"We have a right to know who is in this country," he said. "It's not a good situation for the undocumented workers, either. They are being taken advantage of. We need to punish people who take advantage of them."
The two candidates also disagreed on whether to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Chaffetz, who took a trip to the refuge earlier this year, said drilling needs to start there today to help keep gas prices down.
Spencer said the oil would likely end up going to China or Japan and do nothing to help American consumers.




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Originally Posted by FedUpinFarmersBranch

Chaffetz is standing by his plan, even though he was scolded last week by California Rep. Mike Honda, who was imprisoned as a child in a Japanese internment camp in Colorado during World War II.
Honda had called Chaffetz's plan an "odious reminder" of that dark period in history, and Chaffetz demanded an apology from Honda, which he also didn't get.

Yes it was a dark period in our history, Japan killed 2400 Americans without warning on December 7th, they were helped by Japanese-Americans. Jap subs were sinking our cargo ships and shelling installations off the coast of California. They were brutalizing American and Filipino soldiers during the Battan Death march. They put Dutch and British civilians into horrid concentration camps, not many emerged alive. They carpet bombed and otherwise leveled Chinese cities, and conducted gruesome medical experiments on the survivors. They took all the rice from Vietnamese farmers and let them starve to death.

Meanwhile Mike Honda was in a relocation camp in Colorado, playing baseball and learning how to get a free lunch by blaming white Americans for everything that goes wrong in the world.

Bennion’s guy called me to recant my vote for Jason, CLAIMING he was a Republican, ..but after giving HIM an earful, I HAD to hang up on that freak..!