One More Vote Needed to Pass Anti-Sanctuary City Bill in State Senate
All Republican Senators are on Board; Contact Democratic Senators Only
This is a special message for NumbersUSA members in Texas.
Dear Texas friends,
SB 358, which would prohibit local government "sanctuary city" policies that protect illegal aliens, needs just one more vote to pass the Texas State Senate. The group Immigration Reform Coalition of Texas (IRCOT) is requesting calls and emails to all Democratic Senators asking them to vote YES on SB 358 when it reaches the floor. All Republican Senators have committed to vote for the bill.
Talking points are included farther below. The web page for each Senator includes an email form. To access those pages, click on the Senator’s name below or on the following Senate web page: http://www.senate.state.tx.us/75r/senate/Members.htm
Democratic Senators to Contact
Davis, Wendy (512) 463-0110
Ellis, Rodney (512) 463-0113
Gallegos, Mario, Jr. (512) 463-0106
Hinojosa, Juan "Chuy" (512) 463-0120
Lucio, Eddie, Jr. (512) 463-0127
Shapleigh, Eliot (512) 463-0129
Uresti, Carlos (512) 463-0119
Van de Putte, Leticia (512) 463-0126
Watson, Kirk (512) 463-0114
West, Royce (512) 463-0123
Whitmire, John (512) 463-0115
Zaffirini, Judith (512) 463-0121
Also, please contact House Speaker Joe Straus, Lt. Governor David Dewhurst, and Governor Rick Perry to convey that you expect them to do everything possible to get SB 358 passed this session.
Speaker Joe Straus
Phone: (512) 463-1064
E-mail: Joe.Straus@house.state.tx.us
Lt. Governor David Dewhurst
Phone: (512) 463-0001
E-mail form: ">http://www.ltgov.state.tx.us/contact.php
Governor Rick Perry
Phone: 1-800-843-5789 OR (512) 463-2000
E-mail Governor Perry
Talking Points for Democratic Senators
• Please vote YES on SB 358 and end the dangerous sanctuary city policies in Texas. Sanctuary city policies enable violent criminal illegal aliens to remain within our communities without fear of being detected or deported. Too many Texans (including Texas law enforcement officers) have been killed or seriously injured because of the sanctuary given to illegal aliens by city officials.
• Sanctuary policies are illegal under Federal law, but a number of local governments in Texas still maintain policies that forbid police from asking about a person's immigration status or informing Federal immigration authorities about the presence of illegal aliens. The resulting safe havens make it easier for illegal aliens, including criminal aliens, to live undetected in the United States. It is dangerous, expensive and counterproductive to keep recycling illegal aliens through our justice system.
• Texas has sanctuary policies that do not just allow, but actually encourage illegal alien presence and activity. When public assistance agencies are prevented from inquiring about an applicant's immigration status, benefits are distributed to ineligible illegal aliens. These outrageous sanctuary policies are displacing benefits for needy Americans. Taxpayers should no longer have to foot the bill for illegal-alien public benefits.
• 90% of the U.S. based MS-13 gang members are foreign-born illegal aliens. (per "Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat on the SW Border," Majority Staff of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Investigations; 2006 U.S. Congressional Texas Hearings)
Talking Points for Straus, Dewhurst and Perry
• I expect you to use the full powers of your office to ensure passage of SB 358, a bill that would end dangerous sanctuary city policies in Texas. These illegal policies enable violent criminal illegal aliens to remain within our communities without fear of being detected or deported. Too many Texans (including Texas law enforcement officers) have been killed or seriously injured because of the sanctuary given to illegal aliens by city officials.
• Texas has sanctuary policies that do not just allow, but actually encourage illegal alien presence and activity. When public assistance agencies are prevented from inquiring about an applicant's immigration status, benefits are distributed to ineligible illegal aliens. These outrageous sanctuary policies are displacing benefits for needy Americans. Taxpayers should no longer have to foot the bill for illegal-alien public benefits.
Special Note Regarding our April 6 Alert Concerning Illegal-Alien Renting Restrictions
NumbersUSA sent an alert on April 6 that asked for calls and emails to the House Calendar Committee and your own Representative in opposition to SB 1398, a bill that would prevent Farmers Branch and other Texas cities from imposing restrictions on those who rent to illegal aliens. The link we provided in that alert for looking up the name of your Representative was incorrect. The correct link is http://www.house.state.tx.us/members/welcome.php
We have gotten word that the House Calendar Committee is being inundated with calls. Please keep calling to ensure the defeat of SB 1398, an underhanded attempt to end Farmers Branch’s crackdown efforts.
Thank you in advance for your assistance!
Van Esser
Chief, Membership Services
Numbers USA
1601 N. Kent Street
Suite 1100
Arlington, VA 22209
Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label immigration. Show all posts
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Immigration
I'm sure I'm not the first to realize this but it's finally dawned on me why Obama wants to give amnesty to all of the ILLEGAL aliens. Votes!!!! They just have to get them citizenship in time to register and vote in the 2010 elections!!!! DUH!!!!!
We must stop this now!!!!
Next, if I was a naturalized citizen I'd be pissed to think of how hard I worked and studied to become a citizen only to have citizenship handed to another just to serve a political agenda!
Where is the equity in that?!?
We must stop this now!!!!
Next, if I was a naturalized citizen I'd be pissed to think of how hard I worked and studied to become a citizen only to have citizenship handed to another just to serve a political agenda!
Where is the equity in that?!?
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The First 100 Days...
and only 1361 left to go!
Well, I have lots to say - but I want to hear your comments. About the first 100, about the "speech", etc. Go ahead and lay it out there!
But I also want to call you to action regarding immigration and the amnesty issue. Please check out this web site - sign up and start taking action. Do it NOW, before its' too late!! http://www.numbersusa.com/content/
Well, I have lots to say - but I want to hear your comments. About the first 100, about the "speech", etc. Go ahead and lay it out there!
But I also want to call you to action regarding immigration and the amnesty issue. Please check out this web site - sign up and start taking action. Do it NOW, before its' too late!! http://www.numbersusa.com/content/
Saturday, April 25, 2009
The Peter Morrison Report - Texas Voting Legislation
Summary of this week's report:
Rep. Todd Smith, chairman of the House Elections Committee, has stated he wants to wait four years before requiring voter ID laws in our elections. Let him know this is unacceptable.
Please call his office at (512) 463-0522 and demand he pass voter ID laws in time for the 2010 elections, and that we cannot wait another election to stop the massive fraud that is disenfranchising legitimate Texas voters. Please send a fax as well by clicking here:
http://www.morrisonreport.com/fax_test/index.php?faxID=75
The full report:
There's an old saying that politics is the art of compromise.
There's a lot of truth in that - any politician or party has to be able to recognize just how much can be achieved at any given moment, and sometimes you have to settle for less than you'd hoped for. That's one form of compromise - a realistic, level headed approach to what's possible, and what's not. There's another form of political compromise, however, and there's nothing praiseworthy about it. That's when a gutless politician betrays his principles, party and supporters by kowtowing to the opposition in an attempt to curry favor with them and the media.
This second, reprehensible form of compromise seems to be practiced only by Republicans these days, and there's an awful lot of it going around. We've got an outrageous example of this cowardly form of compromise going on right now in Austin. Conservative Texans just fought a long, hard battle to bring the much needed Voter ID bill before both the House and Senate. If this bill becomes law, it's going to eliminate a lot of voter fraud all over the state. Voter fraud is a rampant problem in Texas, and across the nation. We've got people voting even though they're not registered. Some people vote several times because under current law they don't have to show ID to vote.
The Voter ID law would change all that. Democrats have fought the
bill tooth and nail, because almost all voter fraud is in favor of their party. Nevertheless, Republicans have been standing firm to get this bill passed, thanks in large part to you and thousands of other patriotic Texans holding their feet to the fire. Incredibly though, just when it looked as if we were on the verge of turning the bill into the law of the land, one Republican compromiser has decided to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. His name is Todd Smith, and if he has his way, this bill will be seriously weakened.
Representative Todd Smith is the chairman of the House Elections Committee, and as such, has a lot of influence over proceedings and his fellow members. Smith has decided that the time isn't right to implement the Voter ID law. He thinks we need to wait four years before eliminating voter fraud. So he has introduced his own version which won't take effect until 2014, instead of next year, as the original bill required. "My preferred period of transition would be two full election cycles," Smith told The Associated Press. "It's my intent that there be a period of time where people are literally educated as they vote."
Let me translate that for you: "I know the people who voted for me support this bill, but I'm more interested in groveling to the media and liberals than representing the people who elected me. So I've come up with a compromise bill that will hold off on stopping voter fraud for four years. That will give the liberals plenty of time to repeal the law. This way I can pretend to be representing my constituents' interests, but I won't get called names by Democrats and the media."
That may sound harsh, but that's what it boils down to. There is not one good reason to delay the implementation of a Voter ID law from next year until 2014. There are a whole host of reasons not to put it off. Yet we've got a Republican committee chairman proposing to do exactly that. This betrayal is even more outrageous when you consider that it took everything conservative Senators had in them to convince the Senate to suspend the 2/3 rule and even get the bill a hearing in the Texas Senate. Hundreds of people drove to Austin to demand passage of the original bill.
Now, if Todd Smith gets his way, all that work will have been for nothing.
It will all have been for nothing if you're a conservative Republican, that is. It will pay off handsomely for Todd Smith, though. Democrats love traitorous Republicans, and they're already patting Smith on the back for caving in to pressure and gutting the Voter ID law. Here's how one liberal Democrat, Rep. Rafael Anchia, praised Smith for his craven betrayal of the conservative voters who elected him. "We've never heard anything like that from the Republicans in the past, so I think Todd is trying to set the right tone for the discussions," Anchia said. "In the past it's always been a cram down. There's been no input. We've always been playing defense in the House and we've always been run over."
In other words, with Republican turncoats like Todd Smith across the aisle, why should Democrats care that they're in the minority in Austin? They don't have to "play defense" anymore, when sellouts like Smith will just hand them the ball and start blocking tackles for them. It's not just Democrats who are suddenly in love with a Republican. The liberal media is, too. In the past couple day, Todd Smith has been the subject of fawning editorials in the Lubbock and Fort Worth papers for coming up with his "principled"
and "balanced" bill to postpone Voter ID for four more years.
Make no mistake - that's exactly why Todd Smith has betrayed his party and his constituents - to win the praise of Democrats and the liberal media. He wants to be seen as a "sensible, moderate"
Republican who can "reach across the aisle" instead of sticking to conservative principles. That's why liberals like Rep. Anchia and various liberal media outlets are singing his praises - because he's willing to betray his own party and help the Democrats.
We can't let this betrayal stand. It's not just because we've worked so long to bring the Voter ID bill up for a vote, although that's a huge reason to be outraged by Todd Smith selling us out.
No, it goes deeper than that. We've got to get this bill passed now - the one that mandates Voter ID in the 2010 elections - because if we don't, Voter ID may never become the law in Texas.
It's true that Republicans currently control both the House and Senate in Austin, but the majority in the House is razor thin, just 76-74. There's no guarantee that the GOP will continue to be the majority party, and there's a real risk that it won't. If we don't enact Voter ID now, but delay implementing it until 2014 and the Democrats win back control of one or both houses, that's it for Voter ID in Texas. Rest assured, if they take the reins, one of the first things Democrats will do is repeal it. Delaying it, and allowing voter fraud to continue for four more years, just means a whole lot more Democrat voters in the next couple elections.
Democrats know this, which is why they hate Voter ID, and why they love a turncoat like Todd Smith - if he gets his way, it will mean that they're that much closer to taking control in Austin and keeping it.
We can't let that happen. Please call Rep. Smith's office at (512)
463-0522 and demand he pass voter ID laws in time for the 2010 elections, and that we cannot wait another election to stop the massive fraud that is disenfranchising legitimate Texas voters.
Please send a fax as well by clicking here:
http://www.morrisonreport.com/fax_test/index.php?faxID=75
Sources:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6346475.html
http://www.star-telegram.com/242/story/1290815.html
http://lubbockonline.com/stories/040109/edi_420615458.shtml
That's it for this report. Watch your inbox next week for the next issue of The Peter Morrison Report, a free newsletter for Texas conservatives.
The Peter Morrison Report
http://www.petermorrisonreport.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peter-Morrison/70301468419
Rep. Todd Smith, chairman of the House Elections Committee, has stated he wants to wait four years before requiring voter ID laws in our elections. Let him know this is unacceptable.
Please call his office at (512) 463-0522 and demand he pass voter ID laws in time for the 2010 elections, and that we cannot wait another election to stop the massive fraud that is disenfranchising legitimate Texas voters. Please send a fax as well by clicking here:
http://www.morrisonreport.com/fax_test/index.php?faxID=75
The full report:
There's an old saying that politics is the art of compromise.
There's a lot of truth in that - any politician or party has to be able to recognize just how much can be achieved at any given moment, and sometimes you have to settle for less than you'd hoped for. That's one form of compromise - a realistic, level headed approach to what's possible, and what's not. There's another form of political compromise, however, and there's nothing praiseworthy about it. That's when a gutless politician betrays his principles, party and supporters by kowtowing to the opposition in an attempt to curry favor with them and the media.
This second, reprehensible form of compromise seems to be practiced only by Republicans these days, and there's an awful lot of it going around. We've got an outrageous example of this cowardly form of compromise going on right now in Austin. Conservative Texans just fought a long, hard battle to bring the much needed Voter ID bill before both the House and Senate. If this bill becomes law, it's going to eliminate a lot of voter fraud all over the state. Voter fraud is a rampant problem in Texas, and across the nation. We've got people voting even though they're not registered. Some people vote several times because under current law they don't have to show ID to vote.
The Voter ID law would change all that. Democrats have fought the
bill tooth and nail, because almost all voter fraud is in favor of their party. Nevertheless, Republicans have been standing firm to get this bill passed, thanks in large part to you and thousands of other patriotic Texans holding their feet to the fire. Incredibly though, just when it looked as if we were on the verge of turning the bill into the law of the land, one Republican compromiser has decided to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. His name is Todd Smith, and if he has his way, this bill will be seriously weakened.
Representative Todd Smith is the chairman of the House Elections Committee, and as such, has a lot of influence over proceedings and his fellow members. Smith has decided that the time isn't right to implement the Voter ID law. He thinks we need to wait four years before eliminating voter fraud. So he has introduced his own version which won't take effect until 2014, instead of next year, as the original bill required. "My preferred period of transition would be two full election cycles," Smith told The Associated Press. "It's my intent that there be a period of time where people are literally educated as they vote."
Let me translate that for you: "I know the people who voted for me support this bill, but I'm more interested in groveling to the media and liberals than representing the people who elected me. So I've come up with a compromise bill that will hold off on stopping voter fraud for four years. That will give the liberals plenty of time to repeal the law. This way I can pretend to be representing my constituents' interests, but I won't get called names by Democrats and the media."
That may sound harsh, but that's what it boils down to. There is not one good reason to delay the implementation of a Voter ID law from next year until 2014. There are a whole host of reasons not to put it off. Yet we've got a Republican committee chairman proposing to do exactly that. This betrayal is even more outrageous when you consider that it took everything conservative Senators had in them to convince the Senate to suspend the 2/3 rule and even get the bill a hearing in the Texas Senate. Hundreds of people drove to Austin to demand passage of the original bill.
Now, if Todd Smith gets his way, all that work will have been for nothing.
It will all have been for nothing if you're a conservative Republican, that is. It will pay off handsomely for Todd Smith, though. Democrats love traitorous Republicans, and they're already patting Smith on the back for caving in to pressure and gutting the Voter ID law. Here's how one liberal Democrat, Rep. Rafael Anchia, praised Smith for his craven betrayal of the conservative voters who elected him. "We've never heard anything like that from the Republicans in the past, so I think Todd is trying to set the right tone for the discussions," Anchia said. "In the past it's always been a cram down. There's been no input. We've always been playing defense in the House and we've always been run over."
In other words, with Republican turncoats like Todd Smith across the aisle, why should Democrats care that they're in the minority in Austin? They don't have to "play defense" anymore, when sellouts like Smith will just hand them the ball and start blocking tackles for them. It's not just Democrats who are suddenly in love with a Republican. The liberal media is, too. In the past couple day, Todd Smith has been the subject of fawning editorials in the Lubbock and Fort Worth papers for coming up with his "principled"
and "balanced" bill to postpone Voter ID for four more years.
Make no mistake - that's exactly why Todd Smith has betrayed his party and his constituents - to win the praise of Democrats and the liberal media. He wants to be seen as a "sensible, moderate"
Republican who can "reach across the aisle" instead of sticking to conservative principles. That's why liberals like Rep. Anchia and various liberal media outlets are singing his praises - because he's willing to betray his own party and help the Democrats.
We can't let this betrayal stand. It's not just because we've worked so long to bring the Voter ID bill up for a vote, although that's a huge reason to be outraged by Todd Smith selling us out.
No, it goes deeper than that. We've got to get this bill passed now - the one that mandates Voter ID in the 2010 elections - because if we don't, Voter ID may never become the law in Texas.
It's true that Republicans currently control both the House and Senate in Austin, but the majority in the House is razor thin, just 76-74. There's no guarantee that the GOP will continue to be the majority party, and there's a real risk that it won't. If we don't enact Voter ID now, but delay implementing it until 2014 and the Democrats win back control of one or both houses, that's it for Voter ID in Texas. Rest assured, if they take the reins, one of the first things Democrats will do is repeal it. Delaying it, and allowing voter fraud to continue for four more years, just means a whole lot more Democrat voters in the next couple elections.
Democrats know this, which is why they hate Voter ID, and why they love a turncoat like Todd Smith - if he gets his way, it will mean that they're that much closer to taking control in Austin and keeping it.
We can't let that happen. Please call Rep. Smith's office at (512)
463-0522 and demand he pass voter ID laws in time for the 2010 elections, and that we cannot wait another election to stop the massive fraud that is disenfranchising legitimate Texas voters.
Please send a fax as well by clicking here:
http://www.morrisonreport.com/fax_test/index.php?faxID=75
Sources:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6346475.html
http://www.star-telegram.com/242/story/1290815.html
http://lubbockonline.com/stories/040109/edi_420615458.shtml
That's it for this report. Watch your inbox next week for the next issue of The Peter Morrison Report, a free newsletter for Texas conservatives.
The Peter Morrison Report
http://www.petermorrisonreport.com/
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Peter-Morrison/70301468419
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