Thread: N.H.: Gregg failed country with his vote on immigration

Gregg failed country with his vote on immigration
By Mark Brighton
July 16, 2007 9:30 AM
On June 28, the Senate did the right thing and saved the country from S. 1639, euphemistically called The Amnesty Bill for Illegal Aliens, a bill which 80 percent of the country recognized as a recipe for disaster. It wasn't because of anything Judd Gregg did.

Until Thursday, an unfathomable madness was gripping Washington. George Bush was putting his full weight behind a bill that would not have solved the illegal immigration problem and certainly would have meant incalculable damage to his own party. And to top it off, our Republican senator, Judd Gregg, has now voted twice in favor of it. No excuse is good enough — for either of them. Did Gregg think he was going to get an invitation to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom?

This is the type of bill that defines a man, where he stands and what he believes is good for the country. And our senator was found wanting in both areas. If the senator is thinking that time heals all wounds, I have news for him:Some wounds are fatal.

Albeit with the greatest reluctance, I will join the madness. I can't even believe I'm saying this, but I'm begging Burt Cohen to run again against Sen. Gregg at the next opportunity. Burt, not only will I vote for you, I'll campaign for you. Well, I might not go that crazy, but at this moment I would vote for you.

Because with you, Burt, at least we "know who you are."

The writer is a Portsmouth resident.

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Great article jean, sure wish I could come across one on Senator Lugar of S. Indiana. People might just be awake at the next election. Sure hope so.

Asfor Senator Lugar, if he runs unopposed I will write in Mickey Mouse. I always vote. Just this time he will not get my vote. He waffeled and came out against the war in Iraq, sure is pitiful to see a senior Senator pander to the left to make up for what he lost on the right. Politics for small minds, soo he thinks! I got the magnifying glass out and he is the ant,,,,,,,,,,sunshine so bright!

"I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much from without, but because of the insidious forces from within." General Douglas MacArthur

Great article. I will never vote for that traitor Judd Gregg again. However NO ONE who is against illegal immigration would vote for Burt Cohen-he is a commie. I would find it very hard to believe he would vote against amnesty. That is why we need to find a non-amnesty Republican to run against Gregg in the primary when he is up for reelection.

My vote would be Jeb Bradley who ALIPAC endorsed but lost his House seat in 2006 to a wacko Carol Shea Porter. How this woman got in still amazes me. I know people were mad anout Iraq but this woman is an absolute disgrace. I am going to do everything in my power to make sure Jeb reclaims his seat in 2008.