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You were right
about Mel Martinez
Monday, January 28, 2008
By Jim Boulet Jr.
Executive Director
English First
About a year ago, you and I tried to warn the Republican National
Committee that Florida Senator Mel Martinez was the wrong
choice as General Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
We said at the time that Martinez would use his RNC pulpit to
attack his fellow Republicans on the issue of amnesty for
illegal aliens and would put his thumb on the scale in
favor of John McCain's presidential race.
The RNC did not listen. You and I were proven right.
Amnesty Mel blasted GOP presidential candidates Giuliani and Romney.
Martinez proceeded to help lead the fight for the Senate's
"amnesty for illegal aliens" bill and then, on August 14,
attacked Republican Presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani
and Mitt Romney for opposing that amnesty.
The non-partisan National Journal editorialized at the
time: "it is bad enough that Senator Mel Martinez, the
national chairman of the Republican Party, is out of step
with a large majority of the party's voters and volunteers
on immigration. What's worse is that he is now attacking
the party's presidential candidates for being in step with them."
While Martinez had harsh words for Giuliani and Romney,
he commended Senator John McCain for being "courageous"
(i.e. pro amnesty).
Martinez sought to open the door to Puerto Rico statehood.
Martinez announced on April 15th that he supported legislation
that was essentially a Puerto Rico statehood bill and
complained that "some people don't want to see any change."
As a state, Spanish-only Puerto Rico would have at least
seven Congressmen and two Senators, all eager to plunder
the U.S. Treasury to relieve the poverty of Puerto Rico,
which currently has just half the income of America's
poorest state.
Martinez has now official endorsed John McCain.
Last week, to the astonishment of no one,
Mel Martinez officially endorsed John McCain for president.
Just after his resignation from his RNC post, Martinez told Roll
Call on October 29 that he "may not endorse until after the
[Republican] Party has clearly selected its nominee.
Says Mickey Kaus of Slate today of McCain's current
immigration views:
"McCain seems to have conned a lot of Republicans into thinking
he's transformed his position on immigration . This even though
it's obvious to anyone paying attention that McCain hasn't altered
his ultimate support for legalization of illegals (once he's
declared the border "secure"). One reason we know this is because
he's said it--he said it again on Meet the Press yesterday, when
asked if he'd sign the McCain-Kennedy "comprehensive" immigration
bill as president if it came to his desk. Answer: "Yeah." If
somebody like Hernandez, as McCain also said yesterday, "supports
my policies and my proposals," it serves to emphasize that those
policies may not have changed as much
McCain's curious staffing choice
McCain's legislative record shows an antipathy to the issue of
official English. But no one expected this:
More Multiculturalism [Mark Krikorian]
"The Corner," National Review Online, January 24, 2008
Actually, this is more like transnationalism. A reader alerted me to
the fact that McCain's "Hispanic Outreach Director" is the same guy
who held that job for Mexico's President Vicente Fox! U.S.-born dual
citizen Juan Hernandez was in Fox's cabinet as Director of the
Office for Mexicans Living Abroad and is notorious for having
said of Mexican Americans on Nightline on June 7, 2001, "I want
the third generation, the seventh generation, I want them all to
think 'Mexico first.'" Does McCain agree with this? Has he
offered Hernandez, a former high-level foreign government
official who presumably swore an oath to uphold the Mexican
constitution, a place in a future McCain Administration? That's
not a rhetorical question.
Last minute news note: MSNBC has justy reported that Barak Obama has
endorsed driver's licenses for ilelgal aliens, but has only
done so only in Spanish.
Sincerely,
Jim Boulet, Jr.
Executive Director
English First
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