Thread: Democrat Tells Latinos 'You Don't Need papers For Voting'

Anyone who doubts that Democrats intend to use illegal aliens as voters should read the story below:

By Dani Dodge
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

June 3, 2006

If an election can turn on a sentence, this could be the one: “You don't need papers for voting.”

On Thursday night, Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate for the 50th Congressional District, was speaking before a largely Latino crowd in Escondido when she uttered those words. She said yesterday she simply misspoke.
Full story: www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/50 ... busby.html

See my post for the 1996 Reform Act that says they do!

http://www.alipac.us/ftopicp-154773.html#154773

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Busby on defense, says she misspoke




By Dani Dodge
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
June 3, 2006

If an election can turn on a sentence, this could be the one: “You don't need papers for voting.”

On Thursday night, Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate for the 50th Congressional District, was speaking before a largely Latino crowd in Escondido when she uttered those words. She said yesterday she simply misspoke.

But someone taped it and a recording began circulating yesterday. After she made that statement at the meeting, Busby immediately said: “You don't need to be a registered voter to help (the campaign).”

She said that subsequent statement was to clarify what she meant.

The recording, which was played yesterday on Roger Hedgecock's radio talk show, jolted the campaign.

Busby, a Cardiff school board member, is in a tight race with Republican Brian Bilbray, a congressman-turned-lobbyist, who has based his campaign on a tough anti-illegal-immigration stance. Busby has focused her campaign on ethics reform. The two are vying to replace Randy “Duke” Cunningham, who was jailed after pleading guilty to taking bribes.

Busby said she was invited to the forum at the Jocelyn Senior Center in Escondido by the leader of a local soccer league. Many of the 50 or so people there were Spanish speakers. Toward the end, a man in the audience asked in Spanish: “I want to help, but I don't have papers.”

It was translated and Busby replied: “Everybody can help, yeah, absolutely, you can all help. You don't need papers for voting, you don't need to be a registered voter to help.”

Bilbray said at worst, Busby was encouraging someone to vote illegally. At best, she was encouraging someone who is illegally in the country to work on her campaign.

“She's soliciting illegal aliens to campaign for her and it's on tape – this isn't exactly what you call the pinnacle of ethical campaign strategy,” Bilbray said. “I don't know how she shows her face.”

The two later met in a debate in Carlsbad last night.

Earlier, San Diego Minutemen volunteer Anthony Porrello said he got the tape from an an anonymous Minuteman and passed it on to the news media and talk radio. News of the gathering had circulated among local Minutemen before the meeting, according to William Griffith, the independent candidate in the race who has been endorsed by the San Diego Minutemen.

He attended, but did not hear the statement. He said he was in the back of the room.

“I heard what I expected to hear from a Democrat who supports amnesty,” he said. Busby says she doesn't support amnesty, but backs the comprehensive plan pushed by U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., that includes opening a path to citizenship for people in the United States illegally if they pay penalties and abide by certain conditions.

Busby said that Republicans are now twisting her words. She does not in any way support or advocate that illegal immigrants vote, she said.

“I was clarifying the question that was being asked in Spanish and then stated that you do not have to be a registered voter to help the campaign because there were many people who appeared to be to be under 18 in the group who wanted to volunteer,” she said in a statement. “I'm not surprised that the Republican Party is making this last-minute, desperate ploy and it is absolutely false.”

“You don't need papers for voting.”

I think this is what you call "a Freudian slip."

I can tolerate (barely) the open borders crowd. I do not agree but I respect their right to their (incorrect) opinion.

What I can't tolerate is somebody without the guts to stick up for their opinion.
The best recent example is the Senarte vote on the Amnesty bill. Did you notice that most of the Senators who voted against the bill are up for reelection? It tells me that they know that the majority of Americans do not support their position.

She should at least be cited for stating that remark which is not short of law breaking encouragement. When will we start making examples out of these pro-illegal people? If she can't mean what she says and doesn't say what she means, especially on this subject, then she shouldn't be in office.

If she can't mean what she says and doesn't say what she means, especially on this subject, then she shouldn't be in office.

But doesn't this make her a true politician? You know they are lying when their mouth is moving.

If an election can turn on a sentence, this could be the one: “You don't need papers for voting.”

I don't know what she's backtracking for. In California, she's absolutely right.

You don't need any proof of identity to vote here, nor do you need any to register to vote. Papers are racist, and tantamount to a hate crime.

And while I'm not positive about this, I believe it would be a felony to even ask for proof at the polls or when registering someone to vote.

Her only mistake was to speak what everyone knows anyway but chooses to ignore.

You don't need any proof of identity to vote here, nor do you need any to register to vote.

Yep! No need to worry should you forget to bring your gym membership card (an acceptable form of CA voter ID) to the polls. A caveat in California's offical voter ID requirements has you covered.

"Any doubts regarding the sufficiency of identification presented shall be resolved in favor of the voter."

http://electionline.org/Default.aspx?tabid=364

The last time I voted here in California I was not asked for any identification whatsoever. I could have been from Mars and still voted.

The last time I voted here in California I was not asked for any identification whatsoever. I could have been from Mars and still voted.

That's freaking pathetic, that California does not have a way to weed out those who should not be voting--What about felons, are they allowed to vote