Thread: ALIPAC Issues Warning and Advisory on DC March for Jobs

Originally Posted by Rabid Conservative

What is going on with this? I thought ALIPAC was against illegal immigration! Sounds to me like some personal jealousy or envy or something going on here. Site point; Someone needs to research before posting this on the Internet. Leah Durant's husband was hired by " PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN AND A.G. ED MEESE"! Yes the man has been at the Justice Department as a staff attorney for some 30 years or more. He has seen Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43 go and now is under Obama. So? If this organization is truly not going to support this rally, then something is wrong. When you have Col. Allen West, Sen. Ted Cruz, Congressman Steve King, Congressman Mo Brooks and many African American conservative activist all on the same stage preaching about how bad this S744 is, then what is the problem. It truly doesn't matter who is holding the rally or where the money comes from, the point is " the rally is being held and people are trying to stop a bad bill". Again; I ask, what is the problem with that?

Welcome 'Rabid Conservative' what an interesting name you have! Thanks for the info about Leah Durant's husband working for the Justice Department. We sent Mrs. Durant an email inquiring about the details of his employment with Eric Holder several days ago and received no response.

No, ALIPAC is not supporting this march because while the DC Based organizers of this march are saying things we all want to hear about opposing amnesty and getting more minorities involved and while they are greasing the wheel with a lot of money of unknown origins, these organizers do not rise to our standard of quality for an event we would support.

It is not just that they are disorganized, it is that we have been lied to by them several times and ALIPAC does not work with liars.

Also, the revelation that the newly created Black American Leadership Alliance (BALA) has intended all along to not include or work with the existing groups that have proven track records defeating amnesty legislation is of concern. Those dc based organizers are making an intentional effort to avoid and bypass groups that the public has come to trust on this issue.

The numerous lies, combined with this overtly suspicious behavior, combined with the distraction and difficulty the organizers caused ALIPAC with their repeated approaches asking us for help then rescinding offers to speak leads up to have to put out a notice clarifying this event is not supported by us.

We certainly were NOT going to put out an email to our extensive communications networks we have been building for 9 years that contained false information we were given by March for Jobs organizers and not send out a correction when we were informed otherwise.

So if you have a complaint about ALIPAC's advisory, you would be better served at directing it at BALA because anytime anyone misleads ALIPAC, lies to us, or engages in suspicious or integrity lacking behavior, and tries to trick us.... we are going to put it out there in a big way.

Thanks for reading and posting.

William Gheen
President, Americans for Legal Immigration PAC

For those of you supporting the DC March for Jobs we had to put an advisory out because we were lied to by event organizers on several occassions when they started asking us to circulate information about this march to our networks.

At first, we gave them the benefit of the doubt and put some info out as they requested of us. But then they put us in a position where we had put out false or changed information. When we told them we would have to issue a correction, they contacted us back and lied to us a second time.

When we discovered we were lied to a second time by Leah Durant, our 'correction' turned into this advisory you see above.

If you have a concern about ALIPAC telling our networks the truth about our experiences with BALA and the March for DC, then this organization is just not for you.

We believe that the truth is the only strong weapon we have against the liars in DC.

We have seen the truth prevail in many David and Goliath political matches.

We have taken heat before for putting out truthful information that some people in our movement preferred us to conceal because it tarnished some event they wanted to attend or speak at.

While we would have preferred to have had nothing to do with this march at all at this point, this chain of events was set in motion by BALA and March for Jobs supporters and the lies that were told which necessitated our response.

Please make sure that everyone is aware that ALIPAC stands ready to work with and support any racially inclusive, peaceful, and political groups fighting against amnesty and illegal immigration. We have demonstrated that many many times over the last 9 years.

But if you lie to us, mistreat us, or unfortunately trick or cause us to distribute information that is false or that changes inappropriately we will not just bit the bullet.

In this case we were told some things to illicit our participation and endorsement, we gave that and then the rug was pulled. When we made it clear we would have to issue a correction, we were contacted a second time and lied to a second time leading to this advisory.

At no time has ALIPAC contacted the DC March for Jobs leadership except our one call to Leah Durant in response to the first lie to try to clarify what was happening. DC March for Jobs contacted us twice and misled us twice in an attempt to get us to use our networks and supporters to strengthen their event. This would have been fine if they had simply told us the truth, but that is not what we experienced.

If people are going to march on Washington, our ALIPAC supporters deserve to know what we know and to know if the event has our endorsement or not.

In this case it does not and having Ted Cruz or anyone else speak does not change that.

William Gheen

Update: We have been advised that several group leaders and activists that were arranging buses for this march have decided not to participate after reading ALIPAC's advisory. We are also advised that some of the DC March for Jobs are angry and blaming ALIPAC for this loss of support. Our response is that the blame belongs to the DC March for Jobs organizers that lied to us and put us in a position where we put out false information to our networks based on their statements and actions. Instead of allowing the false information to remain out there, we corrected it and made it clear to all we were not attending, supporting, or endorsing this march and why. If anyone is angry, place the blame where it belongs and not on those of us that are strict about telling our supporters the truth about our positions and what is going on. If the DC March for Jobs had wanted ALIPAC's endorsement or participation, all they had to do was tell us the truth and treat us with the respect we deserve and we would have been more than happy to assist them. But that is not the way they chose to act in these matters and that is why this advisory has been issued and that is why many activists and leaders that respect ALIPAC's positions on these matters have withdrawn or foregone support.