The New Fault Line
JM, Use Cesar Chavez, 2.5.08
Joseph Mailander a guy in la • elsewhere • email
There is an interesting new fault line in the State, and it runs through the State's Democratic party, north of Ventura County.Why are the polls so wrong? What happened to the Obama surge in the State?
Plain and simple: the State's Latino machine adhered to Hillary.
The Sec of State has yesterday's primary as 52-42 Clinton/Obama. (In Los Angeles County, pretty much the exact same ratio, higher for Hillary though). That confounds all weekend polls. But....
If you look County by County, Obama won San Francisco, Alameda and Sacto among signficant counties. He also won the Coastal sweep from Santa Barbara all the way north.
But that's not enough against Orange, San Diego, LA, San Bernardino, Riverside---all where there are the highest concentrations of Latino voters.
Labels: a guy in la, Barack Obama, hillary clinton
Posted by Joseph F. Mailander @ 2/06/2008 11:49:00 AM
11 Comments:
Well this sure debunks the media myth that all Latinos want amnesty and open borders.
Barack's illegal immigrant plan is all but treasonous while Hillary is all over the place. (as usual)
Yet, she won the Latino vote.
The only reason Hillary had a slight edge in L.A. is that the Brown, racist, power hungry Mexican mayor stuffed the ballot box with ILLEGAL ALIEN VOTERS!
Guess he doesn't know that the rest of the country is not running a corrupt city like L.A.
Corruption is in the DNA of every single Mexican politician in LA!
Caesar Chavez was against illegal immigration, open borders and amnesty. He was for LEGAL immigration and the rule of law. Class dismissed.
In his prime, Chavez fought constantly against illegal immigration. He frequently complained that the Immigration & Naturalization Service wasn't tough enough. When Chavez would lead a strike, the grower would send trucks across the Mexican border, load them up with scabs, and race back to the Central Valley in the dead of night. Chavez even offered his UFW staffers to the INS to serve as volunteer border guards to keep Mexicans from sneaking into California. As Ruben Navarrette Jr. reported in the Arizona Republic: (8/31/97)
"Cesar Chavez, a labor leader intent on protecting union membership, was as effective a surrogate for the INS as ever existed. Indeed, Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union he headed routinely reported, to the INS, for deportation, suspected illegal immigrants who served as strikebreakers or refused to unionize."
In 1969, Chavez led a march to the Mexican border to protest illegal immigration. Joining him were Sen. Walter Mondale and Martin Luther King’s successor as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Ralph Abernathy.
The UFW picketed INS offices to demand closure of the border. Chavez also finked on illegal alien scabs to la migra. Columnist Ruben Navarrette Jr. reported in the Arizona Republic, “Cesar Chavez, a labor leader intent on protecting union membership, was as effective a surrogate for the INS as ever existed. Indeed, Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union he headed routinely reported, to the INS, for deportation, suspected illegal immigrants who served as strikebreakers or refused to unionize.”
Like today’s Minutemen, UFW staffers under the command of Chavez’s brother Manuel patrolled the Arizona-Mexico border to keep out illegal aliens. Unlike the well-behaved Minutemen, however, Chavez’s boys sometimes beat up intruders.
The UFW during Chávez's tenure was committed to restricting immigration. César Chávez and Dolores Huerta fought the Bracero Program that existed from 1942 to 1964. Their opposition stemmed from their belief that the program undermined U.S. workers and exploited the migrant workers. Their efforts contributed to Congress ending the bracero program in 1964. The UFW was one of the first labor unions to oppose employer sanctions—a federal law that prohibited hiring illegal immigrants in 1973. Later during the 1980s, while Chávez was still the UFW president, Dolores Huerta, the cofounder of the UFW, was key in getting the amnesty provisions into the 1986 federal immigration act.
On a few occasions, concerns that illegal migrant labor would undermine UFW strike campaigns led to a number of controversial events, which the UFW describes as anti-strikebreaking events, but which have also been interpreted as being anti-immigrant. In 1969, Chávez and members of the UFW marched through the Imperial and Coachella Valleys to the border of Mexico to protest growers' use of illegal immigrants as strikebreakers. Joining him on the march were both Reverend Ralph Abernathy and U.S. Senator Walter Mondale. In its early years, Chávez and the UFW went so far as to report illegal aliens who served as strikebreaking replacement workers, as well as those who refused to unionize, to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
In 1973, the United Farm Workers set up a "wet line" along the United States-Mexico border to prevent Mexican immigrants from entering the United States illegally and potentially undermining the UFW's unionization efforts. During one such event in which Chávez was not involved, some UFW members, under the guidance of Chávez's cousin Manuel, physically attacked the strikebreakers, after attempts to peacefully persuade the illegal aliens not to cross the border fail.
Interesting the senior citizens the age of 65-90 all speak English and were proud of America. Unlike the ungrateful, arrogant illegals here in LA now. We have a dumb shit mayor who panders to them and tells them its ok to break the law and stay here, he'll protect you. Look at all the dumb ass Latinos who voted for Antonio. HELLOOOO people these are the same idiots voting for Hillary. The smart Latinos voted for Obama.
Cesar Chavez = Minutemen Member in todays P.C. culture.
Hillary and Villar spent all their time in East LA eating tacos! Barack spent all of his time in Santa Monica and Westwood...eating Wolfgang puck with the white yuppies and college educated, upper class blacks and hispanics!
i think trujillo and ace smith proved that even with obamamania.
they cant be beaten.
Right on.
They can't be beat. Hillary's immigration plan is not all over the place. When asked if she would give illegals drivers license, she said no and Obama said yes.
What part of her plan is all over the place?
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