Thread: NumbersUSA What Republican Voters Should Do

From: Roy Beck NumbersUSA <immigrationinfo@numbersusa.com> Add to Address Book
Date: 2006/11/03 Fri AM 01:20:01 EST
Subject: What Republican voters should do

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Thursday 2nov06 11:30 p.m. EST

Immigration difference between a Speaker Pelosi & a Speaker Hastert?

DEAR REPUBLICAN FAXERS,

Disillusioned Republicans wondering whether to waste another vote on a Republican candidate for U.S. Representative may want to focus on what this election means for immigration in terms of who becomes Speaker of the House.

Most likely if the Democrats win, the nation will have Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). If the Republicans hang on to their majority, we'll probably continue to have Speaker Hastert (R-IL).

OVERALL RECENT IMMIGRATION-REDUCTION GRADE (during this Congress)

A- (89%) HASTERT
F (6%) PELOSI

What a difference!

Hastert certainly wasn't our top defender. But he had the 33rd best grade of the 435 Members.

Pelosi was almost at the bottom. She was worse than everybody but:

Diaz-Balart, Lincoln (R-FL) - 4%
Ros-Lehtinen, Ileana (R-FL) - 4%
Gutierrez, Luis (D-IL) - 2%

Let's do some more comparison of the immigration differences, this time looking at their entire career in Congress:

OVERALL IMMIGRATION-REDUCTION GRADE
(career)

A+ (96%) HASTERT
F- (2%) PELOSI

Out of 435 Members of the House of Representatives, Pelosi has the WORST career record.

She ranks 435th in terms of protecting American workers and American communities from unrestrained flows of foreign workers and dependents.

It really is remarkable that we seem to be on the verge of going from having a Speaker whose recorded actions over his career put him in the Top 12 to a Speaker who has the most radically open borders, pro-illegal immigration, pro-worker importation record in the House.

Hastert at times has been maddening on immigration during his Speakership because he worked too hard to do the bidding of the White House and because he was especially susceptible to the "labor shortage" pleadings of the landscaping companies in his home District.

But when it mattered most, Hastert took full leadership and blocked an incredibly powerful collection of the Chamber of Commerce, Catholic bishops, unions, newspaper editorialists, Methodist leaders, ACLU, and nearly every other major national advocacy group in Washington. It is an amazing feat to have blocked their collective push for an amnesty. in this email:
The worst Member in the U.S. House.

U.S. House Republicans have been champions of immigration sanity

Comparison of GOP and Dem chairmen

Republicans worth punishing

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IF YOU ARE REPUBLICAN, HOW SHOULD YOU PUNISH REPUBLICAN LEADERS?

Many of you Republicans have written to me in despair about Republican leadership failures on immigration issues. You have wondered whether it makes any difference how you vote on Tuesday since both Parties have failed the American worker and American community so badly on these issues.

As you know, I am a lifelong political Independent while other members of the NumbersUSA staff are committed Republicans and Democrats. My comments are based solely on our shared interest in reducing overall illegal and legal immigration (currently running above 2 million a year).

POINT 1: National Republican Leadership Has Failed You on Immigration

There is no question that the Republican White House under President Bush, the leaders in the national Republican Party offices, and the Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate have continually sold out the interests of middle-class and working-class Americans and their families with their advocacy of massive flows of foreign workers.

POINT 2: On The Other Hand .... The Current Republican Majority of the U.S. House Has Been Your CHAMPION

All of the anger at Pres. Bush and the national Republican leadership on all kinds of issues appears most likely to end up punishing House Republicans -- WHO HAVE BEEN THE ONLY MAJOR GROUP OF POLITICIANS WHO HAVE STOOD WITH THE AMERICAN MAJORITY ON IMMIGRATION.

The House Republicans who are said to most likely be punished by an electorate fed up with Pres. Bush are the ones who finally said enough is enough and pushed through an immigration enforcement bill last December that provided probably 80% of everything we need to get illegal immigration under control.

And they voted to eliminate the visa lottery, too, the first time a chamber of Congress has voted to reduce legal immigration since 1924.

Then when the Senate passed an amnesty for illegal aliens and a massive increase in new foreign workers, it was House Republicans who stopped the insanity in its tracks during the summer.

Many people -- especially Republicans -- are angry at House Republicans for thinking too small in September when they passed four relatively small enforcement bills, including the 700-mile fence bill. The latter passed the Senate and was singed into law.

We strongly urged House Republican leaders to include the mandatory workplace verification provision from last December's bills. They felt they couldn't get any more than they did through the Senate. They were too timid in September.

But the House Republicans are not our enemies. It was the entire Democratic Party leadership, Republican Senate leaders (although not the majority of Senate Republicans) and Pres. Bush who made it nearly impossible to do more this fall.

POINT 3: If House Republicans Lose Majority, Immigration Improvements Almost Impossible

Any Republican who is an opponent of illegal immigration but who thinks he/she is too disillusioned with politics to bother to vote Tuesday may not have fully considered the consequences of the Republicans losing the majority in the House.

Consider key chairmanships.

MOST LIKELY CHAIRMAN OF HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE

This is the committee that has jurisdiction over nearly all immigration legislation.

Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) is in line to take over chairmanship if the Republicans win.

Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) is in line if the Democrats win.

Career immigration-reduction grades are:

A+ (96%) LAMAR SMITH
F (7%) JOHN CONYERS

A career of commitment to rational immigration policies, tough immigration enforcement and to a better American quality of life has earned Smith the 12th best grade (tied with Hastert). But we know that Smith is even better than that. He has a true passion for achieving most of the immigration goals that we share.

Conyers on the other hand has earned a grade that is 15th from the worst in the House.

MOST LIKELY CHAIRMAN OF HOUSE IMMIGRATION SUBCOMMITTEE

Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN) has done a fantastic job in this position the last four years. He would continue as chairman if he is re-elected and the Republicans hold the majority.

The ranking Democrat on the subcommittee is Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) who presumably would assume chairmanship if the Democrats win.

Career immigration-reduction grades are:

A (94%) JOHN HOSTETTLER
F (7%) SHEILA JACKSON-LEE

I think you must get the picture. All up and down the leadership ladder, the differences of who would be handling immigration matters is incredible.

There are some wonderful Democratic supporters of immigration reduction. But almost none of them is in any kind of leadership.

So, does that mean a committeed immigration reducer should vote for a Republican no matter what, just to keep the GOP leaders in power in the House?

No, but if immigration is at the top of your list -- and you are a Republican -- it is difficult to imagine many reasons why you wouldn't want to vote for the Republican House candidate, because of what it could mean for leadership.

Here are the Republicans in the House whose career record on immigration is so bad that it might be worth risking losing the Republican majority to get them out of the House:

D (21%)Mario Diaz-Balart(R-FL)

D- (18%) Heather Wilson (R-NM)

F (10%) Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)

F (8%) Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL)

All other House Republicans have above a D grade. If you want to punish some Republicans for the misdeeds of the top national leadership, those four certainly are deserving.

In the Senate, there are some other top nominees for Republicans you may want to choose to punish based on their record in this Congress of the last two years.

The next list is of the Senators with a D or lower immigration grade. Most of them are not up for election this year.

Because Sen. DeWine is on the Judiciary Committee and repeatedly used his special position to promote illegal immigration and massive increases in foreign workers this past year, it is especially interesting to have him considered to be in great danger of losing his Senate seat next Tuesday.

D (30%)Martinez, Mel (R-FL)
D (29%)Snowe, Olympia (R-ME)
D (28%)Gregg, Judd (R-NH)
D (25%) Hagel, Chuck (R-NE)
D (24%) Brownback, Sam (R-KS)
D (24%) Frist, Bill (R-TN)
D (22%) Coleman, Norm (R-MN)
D (22%) Warner, John (R-VA)
D (21%) Collins, Susan (R-ME)
D (21%) DeWine, Mike (R-OH)

D- (20%) Graham, Lindsey (R-SC)
D- (20%) Murkowski, Lisa (R-AK)
D- (19%) Lugar, Richard (R-IN)
D- (18%) McCain, John (R-AZ)
D- (16%) Smith, Gordon (R-OR)
D- (16%) Specter, Arlen (R-PA)
D- (16%) Stevens, Ted (R-AK)
D- (16%) Voinovich, George (R-OH)

F (11%) Chafee, Lincoln (R-RI)

From an immigration standpoint, does it matter if the Republicans lose or hold the Senate majority?

I don't think so. The Republican Senate leaders have been basically as bad on immigration as have the Senate Democratic leaders. Sen. Kennedy (D-MA) as Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman would be no worse than Sen. Specter (R-PA) has been the last two years.

BUT PLEASE DON'T PUNISH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BY TAKING IT OUT ON REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR THE HOUSE.

-- ROY

BUT PLEASE DON'T PUNISH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY BY TAKING IT OUT ON REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR THE HOUSE.

Agree, agree, agree!!!!!!!!

If we lose the House, we're in serious trouble.

Why isn't Pelosi's Vineyard/company brought up on charges for hiring ILLEGALS?

That's the issue. She would be gone if the Rule of Law was followed!

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