Thread: Iowa governor downplays GOP party platform; here’s the whole document

Iowa governor downplays GOP party platform; here’s the whole document

12:19 PM, Jun 13, 2012 | by Jennifer Jacobs |

The proposed new platform for the Republican Party of Iowa touches on abortion, agriculture, budgeting, business, criminal justice, education, elections, energy, environment, family values, foreign policy, government, gun rights, health care, homeland security, human services, immigration, marriage, religious freedom, the Republican Party, right to work, taxation and transportation.
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said most people don’t read the platform, which is controlled by the most ardent activists. The candidates’ stances are more important, he said.
“At the end of the day, the platform is a grassroots a document as developed by the delegates,” Branstad told the Des Moines Register Tuesday. “But what’s more important, in my mind, is the candidates that really articulate their stand on the issues. That’s really the important thing and that’s what goes to the voters. Most people don’t read the party platforms and you can take either party platform and you find that parties tend to be controlled by the more ardent left or right and that doesn’t really reflect where the candidates are going to come down.”
Here’s the proposed 2012 platform, which delegates will vote on Saturday during the state convention in downtown Des Moines:

The complete platform can be read at:
Iowa governor downplays GOP party platform; here’s the whole document | Des Moines Register Staff Blogs

The Immigration stance is here:

Immigration
21.1 We support granting citizenship to law-abiding, legal, resident aliens in a timely manner.
21.2 We demand a reduction in delays in deportation of illegal immigrants.
21.3 We demand an end to the practice of allowing any state university to offer in-state tuition or scholarships to illegal aliens.
21.4 We believe that all legal immigrants should be afforded the full protection of our laws, but that the privilege of being eligible to vote should not be granted until full U.S. citizenship has been obtained. Proof of U. S. citizenship shall be required whenever a person registers for the first time in any county or state.
21.5 We call for an end of government subsidies and incentives that lead aliens to enter the U.S.A. illegally.
21.6 We call for an immigration policy, not amnesty, which permits us to know who is in our country and where they are living and working.
21.7 We insist upon a green card system that can’t be forged. Any aliens found in the United States without a green card or visa shall be deported.
21.8 We call for strict enforcement of existing immigration and naturalization laws. We believe that all city, county, state, and federal officials should be required to enforce our immigration laws.
21.9 We believe that a double-security fence with surveillance equipment should be constructed as soon as possible on our southern border with Mexico, and that appropriate measures also be taken to secure our northern border with Canada.
21.10 We oppose driver’s licenses for illegal aliens, because they are used as the basis to register to vote.
21.11 We call for the elimination of “safe havens” for illegal aliens and oppose sanctuary cities, towns, and states, and call for the removal of homeland security funding from them.
21.12 We deplore any actions to unilaterally declare Iowa to be a sanctuary state and to hire state employees whose mission is to encourage local law enforcement to ignore the status of suspected illegal aliens who come into contact with local officials for infractions of other laws.
21.13 We insist that the Iowa Legislature follow the lead of the state of Oklahoma by passing legislation like that similar to Section 8 in Oklahoma House Bill 1804, which addresses illegal alien problems involving identity theft, terminates public assistance benefits to illegal aliens, empowers state and local police to enforce federal immigration laws, and punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens.
21.14 We call for each immigrant to again be required to have a sponsor for at least two years to assist them in assimilating into the culture and for them to become fluent in the American English language. During that period they could not become eligible for any welfare assistance, but instead would be the responsibility of the sponsor.
21.15 We believe all aliens living and working legally in the United States should be able to speak, read, and write American English proficiently, and should be required to attend classes until they can do so.
21.16 We believe that bequeathing citizenship to babies born to illegal aliens in the United States is a misinterpretation of the 14th amendment. Illegal aliens are not citizens of the United States and have committed a criminal act by entering illegally.
21.17 We are opposed to the Totalization Agreement with Mexico. We oppose allowing any illegal aliens to receive Social Security benefits, and we absolutely oppose creating any facility whatsoever in Mexico to administer such funds to illegal aliens who have returned to Mexico.

Iowa governor downplays GOP party platform; here’s the whole document | Des Moines Register Staff Blogs

So, do we believe the Gov. or the platform? I see proof of what I've been suggesting, through leadership of the repub. party doing one thing and the party soldiers dong another, we have NO way of knowing what the repubs. intend to do or will do!

Reminds me of GHWB, campaigning on prisoner releases by the Dem. would endanger my children, while he did not protect the border and my son was killed. Then, the kick in my teeth was when after writing him he would not acknowledge his hypocrisy!!

I think I would rather fight with someone that I know his mindset. Lying does not get immigration or anything else done! ( for the record, Obama will not get my vote, I subscribe to the no more than one term rule to win me over )