SERVING THE BILLIONAIRE
CLASS
“Restructuring El
Paso: O’Rourke supported a plan in 2006 to
redevelop downtown El Paso by taking down tenements and gentrifying the area.
His father, billionaire William Sanders, was involved in the project. The plan
angered barrio residents and small business owners, who feared they would lose
their homes through the eminent domain process.”
Beto O’Rourke to Endorse Joe Biden for President
3:10
Former Rep. Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke (D-TX), whose presidential campaign ended with a whimper last fall, plans to endorse former Vice President Joe Biden’s bid for the White House, according to the New York Times.
O’Rourke is expected to make his support public at Biden’s campaign event in Dallas, Texas, on Monday evening. The Times‘ report comes after Biden received endorsements from former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) — both of whom dropped out of the Democrat presidential primary in the past 48 hours.
Biden said he signaled to Buttigieg that he would ask him to join his administration if he wins the White House. “I did speak to Pete Buttigieg a couple of days ago to encourage him to stay engaged. Because he has enormous talent, and I indicated to him that if I became the nominee, I’d come and ask him to be part of an administration,” he told Houston CBS affiliate KHOU.
Earlier Monday, Biden also scored endorsements from former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Obama-era National Security Advisor Susan Rice.
“Joe Biden’s strength of character and deep experience stand in the starkest contrast to Trump’s amorality, corruption and utter incompetence,” Reid said in a statement. “Biden will be a much-needed stabilizing force following Trump’s disastrous term, offering a positive and progressive alternative to Trump’s dark vision of racism, xenophobia and policies built on cruelty and exclusion. I believe Biden is best able to defeat Donald Trump and enact the policies we all care about.”
The endorsements show the establishment wing of the Democrat Party is coalescing around Biden before Super Tuesday, where a third of the delegates are up for grabs. The former vice president hopes to regain his frontrunner status from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who had strong showings in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, and South Carolina. Biden decisively won the Palmetto State on Saturday, while Sanders came in second.
President Donald Trump said Biden’s newfound support is proof of a plan to deny Sanders the Democrat nomination.
“I think it’s rigged against Bernie, but maybe he’ll pull it through. It was rigged against me four years ago, and I pulled it through. I think it’s rigged against Bernie. You see what’s happening with — Klobuchar just, I heard — just — something happened there,” the president told reporters as he departed for North Carolina for a re-election rally.
“Buttigieg just went out and said something. And probably, they’ll say, “Hey, look, if I win, I’ll put you in the administration.” That’s called “quid pro quo,” right? Quid pro quo. And they probably said, “Hey, listen, if I win, I’ll give you an endorsement, but will you take me in the administration?” Now, I’m sure, like — I’m sure nothing like that has ever happened, right? But that’s the way it seems to go,” he added.
Beto O’Rourke Immigration Plan: No Walls; Amnesty for Dreamers,
Parents, ‘Millions More’
Beto O’Rourke Immigration Plan: No Walls; Amnesty for Dreamers,
Parents, ‘Millions More’
What's
Beto's Problem with the Constitution?
BETOLAND Texas Finds 95,000 Non-US Citizens Registered
To Vote -- 58,000 Have Actually Voted In Recent Elections
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/01/25/texas-finds-95000-nonus-citizen-registered-to-vote-58000-have-actually-voted-in-recent-elections-n2540285
Top 5 Voter Fraud Cases Along Texas Border in 2018… which are
the only counties that voted for La Raza Beto!
In a year fraught with voter fraud allegations, many of which resulted
in prosecutions across Texas, counties along the Mexican border stood out as
hotbeds for investigative activities.
FORMER MEXICAN
PRESIDENT ENDORSES BETO O’ROURKE
Texas
Democrats asking non-citizens to vote
Beto O’Rourke Immigration Plan: No Walls; Amnesty for Dreamers,
Parents, ‘Millions More’
Chip Somodevilla/Getty
4:21
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) isn’t yet a
candidate for the Democrat presidential election, but he is already making
clear his stance on immigration — open borders and amnesty for all of the
people in the country illegally.
Media outlets, including the Houston Chronicle, are
reporting O’Rourke has released a “10-point plan.”
After three terms in Congress and an unsuccessful bid for the
U.S. Senate, El Paso Democrat Beto O’Rourke has made clear his view that
immigrants should be welcomed as “human beings” and that “walls end lives.”
Now, signaling that he may soon announce a 2020 White House run,
O’Rourke is putting a finer point on his immigration agenda, releasing a
10-point plan that calls for citizenship for both “Dreamers” and their parents,
as well as for “millions more” who now live in the U.S. illegally.
And not only is O’Rourke against building more walls along the
U.S. border with Mexico but he has expressed support for tearing down existing barriers
that divide El Paso from Mexico.
“Yes, absolutely. I’d take the wall down,” O’Rourke said in an
MSNBC interview.
One politico scientist with the University of Houston quoted in
the Chronicle report said this position puts O’Rourke on
the left side of the ever-growing Democrat presidential field.
“That is fairly to the left of where most of the people in the
Democratic field are,” Brandon Rottinghaus said.
The Chronicle noted that tearing down
walls was not on the immigration policy list, “an omission that is likely to
raise new questions about his border policy positions.”
One strange point in O’Rourke’s immigration plan is the argument
that a wall would make it harder for people here illegally to return home.
“Here’s why,” O’Rourke wrote, “as we made it harder for people
to cross into the United States, we made it less likely that once here they
would attempt to go back to their home country. Fearing an increasingly
militarized border, circular patterns of migration became linear.”
His amnesty proposal is sweeping and includes all of the
Dreamers, their parents — whom he calls “the original Dreamers” — and would
bring “millions more out of the shadows and on a path to citizenship by
ensuring that they register with the government to gain status to legally work,
pay taxes and contribute even more to our country’s success.”
Republicans may be cheering O’Rourke’s radical stance on
immigration.
“He is now showing, even more, how out of touch he is and how
little he cares for American citizens and those who have followed the law to
seek to become citizens,” Texas Republican Party Chairman James Dickey said.
“Creating a whole new class of citizens whose status is a direct reward for
breaking the law is just his latest dangerous extremist position.”
“O’Rourke’s new policy paper does not call for abolishing ICE,
but it does call for, an ‘end to the global war on drugs’ which he says has
accelerated the erosion of civil society in Latin America and helped produce
the resulting flow of immigrants and refugees,” the Chronicle reported.
During his unsuccessful race to replace Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX),
O’Rourke’s Senate campaign website spelled out some
of his immigration priorities:
• End the militarization of our immigration enforcement system
and close private immigration prisons and detention centers that profit from
locking up families.
• Pass the DREAM Act and ensure that undocumented immigrants who
were brought here as children, known as ‘Dreamers’, find a permanent home and
citizenship in the U.S.
• Ensure that those who come to our borders seeking refuge from
violence and persecution are given a fair opportunity to present their claims
and guaranteed due process under our laws.
• Improve the immigration system to encourage and facilitate
family reunification, education, and the investment of talent in our country.
• Modernize the visa system to allow U.S. employers to find
workers for jobs that American workers can’t fill.
• Reform our immigration laws to legalize the status of millions
of immigrants already in our country and ensure a fair path to citizenship for
those inspired by the opportunity and ideals that we present to the rest of the
world.
O’Rourke recently met with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
(D-NY) about a different kind of campaign in which he would toss his hat in the
ring to unseat Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).
Nothing in O’Rourke’s plan that was reported in the media
addressed curtailing drug and human trafficking at the border.
Beto O’Rourke Immigration Plan: No Walls; Amnesty for Dreamers,
Parents, ‘Millions More’
Chip Somodevilla/Getty
4:21
Former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) isn’t yet a
candidate for the Democrat presidential election, but he is already making
clear his stance on immigration — open borders and amnesty for all of the
people in the country illegally.
Media outlets, including the Houston Chronicle, are
reporting O’Rourke has released a “10-point plan.”
After three terms in Congress and an unsuccessful bid for the
U.S. Senate, El Paso Democrat Beto O’Rourke has made clear his view that
immigrants should be welcomed as “human beings” and that “walls end lives.”
Now, signaling that he may soon announce a 2020 White House run,
O’Rourke is putting a finer point on his immigration agenda, releasing a
10-point plan that calls for citizenship for both “Dreamers” and their parents,
as well as for “millions more” who now live in the U.S. illegally.
And not only is O’Rourke against building more walls along the
U.S. border with Mexico but he has expressed support for tearing down existing barriers
that divide El Paso from Mexico.
“Yes, absolutely. I’d take the wall down,” O’Rourke said in an
MSNBC interview.
One politico scientist with the University of Houston quoted in
the Chronicle report said this position puts O’Rourke on
the left side of the ever-growing Democrat presidential field.
“That is fairly to the left of where most of the people in the
Democratic field are,” Brandon Rottinghaus said.
The Chronicle noted that tearing down
walls was not on the immigration policy list, “an omission that is likely to
raise new questions about his border policy positions.”
One strange point in O’Rourke’s immigration plan is the argument
that a wall would make it harder for people here illegally to return home.
“Here’s why,” O’Rourke wrote, “as we made it harder for people
to cross into the United States, we made it less likely that once here they
would attempt to go back to their home country. Fearing an increasingly
militarized border, circular patterns of migration became linear.”
His amnesty proposal is sweeping and includes all of the
Dreamers, their parents — whom he calls “the original Dreamers” — and would
bring “millions more out of the shadows and on a path to citizenship by
ensuring that they register with the government to gain status to legally work,
pay taxes and contribute even more to our country’s success.”
Republicans may be cheering O’Rourke’s radical stance on
immigration.
“He is now showing, even more, how out of touch he is and how
little he cares for American citizens and those who have followed the law to
seek to become citizens,” Texas Republican Party Chairman James Dickey said.
“Creating a whole new class of citizens whose status is a direct reward for
breaking the law is just his latest dangerous extremist position.”
“O’Rourke’s new policy paper does not call for abolishing ICE,
but it does call for, an ‘end to the global war on drugs’ which he says has
accelerated the erosion of civil society in Latin America and helped produce
the resulting flow of immigrants and refugees,” the Chronicle reported.
During his unsuccessful race to replace Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX),
O’Rourke’s Senate campaign website spelled out some
of his immigration priorities:
• End the militarization of our immigration enforcement system
and close private immigration prisons and detention centers that profit from
locking up families.
• Pass the DREAM Act and ensure that undocumented immigrants who
were brought here as children, known as ‘Dreamers’, find a permanent home and
citizenship in the U.S.
• Ensure that those who come to our borders seeking refuge from
violence and persecution are given a fair opportunity to present their claims
and guaranteed due process under our laws.
• Improve the immigration system to encourage and facilitate
family reunification, education, and the investment of talent in our country.
• Modernize the visa system to allow U.S. employers to find
workers for jobs that American workers can’t fill.
• Reform our immigration laws to legalize the status of millions
of immigrants already in our country and ensure a fair path to citizenship for
those inspired by the opportunity and ideals that we present to the rest of the
world.
O’Rourke recently met with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
(D-NY) about a different kind of campaign in which he would toss his hat in the
ring to unseat Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).
Nothing in O’Rourke’s plan that was reported in the media
addressed curtailing drug and human trafficking at the border.
What's
Beto's Problem with the Constitution?
When "Beto"
O'Rourke recently questioned whether the basic
principles of the Constitution still apply in today's world, what exactly did
he mean? Which principles would he reject, and what new principles would
he substitute for our governance?
At a time when our
Constitution is increasingly attacked as unfair, immoral andobsolete, or simply irrelevant, the pronouncements of political figures such as
O'Rourke matter. O'Rourke is a rising star of the left and a presumed 2020 presidential
candidate who, as it happens, comes from Texas, a state with a large number
of electoral votes.
To get an idea of
O'Rourke's principles, we might look to his recent failed Senate run.
His campaign platform lists 17 major issue
categories. Within O'Rourke's 17 categories are over 75 specific
initiatives.
As might be expected, a
review of his platform's top initiatives reveals a strong alignment with the
progressive left on nearly every point: health care a "basic human
right," ensuring "guaranteed due process" as well as citizenship
for illegal immigrants, correcting "bias" in the criminal justice
system, increasing public funding for "underserved communities,"
"protecting" teachers' pensions, and much more.
Within this potpourri of
regulation, handouts, and carveouts, we can discern a common thread: a
larger role for government -- specifically the federal government -- tacitly
justified by a deluge of empathy.
O'Rourke's platform
aligns neatly with Franklin D. Roosevelt's "second bill of rights" of the 1940s,
which viewed the Constitution as inadequate and proposed a vast expansion of
federal power and reach as a correction. In more recent times, FDR's view
was embraced by Barack Obama, who described the Constitution dismissively as a "charter of
negative liberties." O'Rourke is only the latest in a long line of
progressives who plainlyhave trouble with the
Constitution.
Yet if O'Rourke's
platform contains any actual new "principles of governance" that are
somehow superior to the Constitution's and presumably should supersede them,
they are obscured by the gratuitous empathy that motivates his
initiatives. O'Rourke simply identifies numerous "victims" and
makes himself their gallant champion.
In the realm of civics,
it is vital to be skeptical of empathy. Viewed cynically, empathy is
politically useful inasmuch as it makes it easy to seduce the persuadable to
your side, and it opens the door wide to politically useful virtue-signaling.
But viewed realistically,
empathy in civic discourse is insidious and corrosive. It is wholly incompatible with rational judgment and sober
decision-making -- hallmarks of good governance. Instead, empathy
empowers a few individuals to hijack civic priorities, irrespective of facts
and in circumvention of just process. Empathy demands compassionate
action regardless of any obstacles -- never mind that resources are always and
everywhere limited. Empathy privileges certain preferred choices over
others, without regard to their relative worthiness -- necessarily trampling
the legitimate rights of the truly worthy. Empathy silences opposing
points of view, as its claim to the moral high ground makes it virtually immune
to criticism.
Does O'Rourke actually
understand the real principles at the foundation of the Constitution?
Does he appreciate their wisdom and importance?
The Founders were learned
men, keen students of human history and human nature, who had endured tyranny
firsthand. They understood human weakness and fallibility. They
observed the corrupting influence of power on leadership. They appreciated
the essential limits and inadequacies of every sort of governance and
authority. They respected that individuals, men and women -- and only
they -- are the proper guardians of their destiny.
These are durable,
unchanging, inherent principles of humankind, and the Constitution embodies
this found wisdom. In devising a new form of government, the Founders
incorporated these understandings through a variety of structural limitations,
controls and "checks and balances" upon government, and upon those
who hold office. The Bill of Rights further embodies key concepts of
liberty, most importantly the principle of inalienable rights, that
additionally restrict the powers of the federal government. This formula
of restrained government as an enabler of unprecedented social and economic
freedom, combined with individual enterprise, produced the wealthiest and most
beneficent nation on Earth, and we are its fortunate inheritors.
Beto O'Rourke is simply
wrong to declare these principles obsolete. Human nature has not changed.
The passage of "230-plus years" since the Constitution's adoption
makes no difference whatsoever.
Is O'Rourke merely
ignorant of this basic truth? O'Rourke calls for a "discussion"
on these principles, but it is hard to see this as anything other than their
implicit rejection. More likely, holding his own views as
incontrovertible, O'Rourke arrogantly seeks to control the affairs of American
citizens and will use the power of government to achieve his ends. For
such purposes the Constitution is decidedly an obstacle and not an enabler.
But who is Beto, or any
of his philosophical predecessors and cohorts, to make intimate decisions and
judgments for others' lives, families and destinies? Election to office
is not such a license, as the Founders understood. It takes stupendous
hubris, conceit, and a wholly unjustified sense of personal righteousness, to
usurp this privilege.
Only a sound and
respected republican Constitution will prevent people like O'Rourke from
putting the government in charge of literally everything.
BETOLAND Texas Finds 95,000 Non-US Citizens Registered
To Vote -- 58,000 Have Actually Voted In Recent Elections
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/timothymeads/2019/01/25/texas-finds-95000-nonus-citizen-registered-to-vote-58000-have-actually-voted-in-recent-elections-n2540285
On Friday January 25,
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that 95,000 individuals registered to
vote in the Lone Star State have been identified as "Non-US
Citizens," meaning they are illegally registered to vote. Further evidence
brought forth by Texas Secretary of State David Whitely confirms that 58,000 of
these individuals have broken the law and voted in "one or more"
recent elections.
“Every single instance
of illegal voting threatens democracy in our state and deprives individual
Texans of their voice," AG Paxton said in a statement. "My Election
Fraud Unit stands ready to investigate and prosecute crimes against the
democratic process when needed."
VOTER FRAUD ALERT: The @TXsecofstate discovered approx 95,000 individuals
identified by DPS as non-U.S. citizens have a matching voter registration
record in TX, approx 58,000 of whom have voted in TX elections. Any illegal
vote deprives Americans of their voice.
According to a press
release issued by the Attorney General's office, while non-US citizens are
legally allowed to obtain driver's licenses and other forms of ID, "only
citizens are eligible to vote." Furthermore, the Sec. of State's office
notes that "Voting in an election in which the person knows he or she is
not eligible to vote is a second-degree felony in the State of Texas. "
Sec. of State Whitely
discovered a "total of approximately 95,000 individuals" illegally
registered to vote after a year-long evaluation of Texas county voting
registrars. Today, his office announced that 58,000 of these individuals
actually voted in one or more election.
"Integrity and
efficiency of elections in Texas require accuracy of our state's voter rolls,
and my office is committed to using all available tools under the law to
maintain an accurate list of registered voters. Our agency has provided
extensive training opportunities to county voter registrars so that they can
properly perform list maintenance activities in accordance with federal and
state law, which affords every registered voter the chance to submit proof of
eligibility," Sec. of State Whitely told the media.
The report notes that
Sec. of State Whitely "immediately provided the data in its possession to
the Texas Attorney General's office, as the Secretary of State has no statutory
enforcement authority to investigate or prosecute alleged illegal activity in
connection with an election."
"Nothing is more
vital to preserving our Constitution than the integrity of our voting process,
and my office will do everything within its abilities to solidify trust in
every election in the state of Texas. I applaud Secretary of State Whitley for
his proactive work in safeguarding our elections," AG Paxton added.
Top 5 Voter Fraud Cases Along Texas Border in 2018… which are
the only counties that voted for La Raza Beto!
6:47
In a year fraught with voter fraud allegations, many of which resulted
in prosecutions across Texas, counties along the Mexican border stood out as
hotbeds for investigative activities.
Here are
the top 5 voter fraud cases along the Texas border in 2018:
1.
Three arrested in Starr County investigation for fraudulently filling in
mail-in ballots–one for a dead person.
Breitbart TV
In
January, authorities arrested Ernestina Barron, 50, a Rio Grande
City school district employee, on three counts of election fraud and three
counts of a fraudulent application for a mail-in ballot for filling out
applications illegally for other voters in an earlier election. Days later,
officials charged Erika Lozano-Pelayo, 37, after she
purportedly submitted an absentee ballot for a voter who died but remained on
the voter registration rolls. A third woman, Belinda Garcia, 45, surrendered to the Starr County Special Crimes
Unit on a charge of fraudulently applying for a mail-in ballot. She reportedly
said the voter was disabled but this was not true.
2.
14 Hidalgo County residents charged in voter fraud scheme.
A total
of 14 residents were arrested for their purported roles in a voter scheme that
recruited people to falsely claim residential addresses so they could vote in
specific races and manipulate the results of a 2017 Edinburg city election.
Investigators with the Hidalgo County DA’s office, the Texas Rangers, and
Office of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton initially arrested four of the suspects in May 2018,
all of whom illegally voted in that 2017 election. One was a convicted human
smuggler serving probation who voted illegally. Two claimed to live in the
city’s limits, but, in fact, resided elsewhere. Another suspect was only
charged with making a false statement on a voter registration form. In June,
county officials charged a fifth person with two counts of illegal voting.
Then, in November, nine more were arrested. The investigation continues and more
arrests may come in 2019.
3.
Non-U.S. citizen indicted for leading “voter assistance” ring that targeted
elderly and disabled voters in Hidalgo County.
In June,
a Hidalgo County grand jury indicted Marcela Guttierrez, a non-U.S.
citizen on an illegal voting charge for misleading a voter to believe she was
demonstrating how to use a voting machine when, actually, Guttierez voted for a
slate of candidates she was paid to support in a June 2016 Hidalgo city runoff
election. Two of her fellow campaign workers, Sylvia Arojano and Sara Ornelas,
also were charged with seven counts of unlawfully assisting voters. Reportedly,
Arojano is married to a school board member for the Hidalgo County school
district.
4.
Poll watcher accuses Hidalgo city official of unlawfully assisting a voter in
the 2018 midterm.
In December,
the Texas Secretary of State escalated a voter fraud complaint to
Paxton’s office. A poll watcher accused Hidalgo City Councilman Rodolfo
“Rudy” Franz of unlawfully assisting a voter during the 2018 midterm election’s
early voting period. The complaint alleged that Franz suggested and instructed
the voter on who to vote for on their ballot even though Franz was asked
multiple times by election workers to stop.
5.
Texas Democratic Party accused of encouraging noncitizens to vote in 2018
November midterm in Rio Grande Valley.
An
October complaint accused the Texas Democratic Party of
mailing “altered” voter registration applications to noncitizens in the Rio
Grande Valley. The mailers allegedly had the U.S. citizenship box pre-checked,
creating false claims to voter eligibility. The document urged recipients to
vote in the November midterm election. The box asking if a voter will be 18
years of age on or before election day also was pre-filled. The Public Interest
Legal Foundation, an election integrity law firm, alerted Starr and Hidalgo
county district attorneys, Paxton, Texas Secretary of State Rolando Pablos, and
the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) about the complaint. Subsequently,
Pablos referred the complaint to Paxton’s office
for further investigation.
While
Texas border voter fraud cases permeated Breitbart News coverage, other high profiles cases in the Lone
Star State garnered honorable mentions:
Texas
AG to prosecute three indicted on nine counts of voter fraud in Nueces County
2016 Democratic primary runoff.
Paxton announced his office would prosecute three
residents indicted by a grand jury on nine counts of voter fraud stemming back
to a May 2016 Nueces County Democratic primary runoff election. County Clerk
Kara Sands presented data to a local commissioners
court in January that unmasked the alleged voter fraud.
Salvadoran
illegal immigrant living in East Texas since the 1980s was indicted on voter
fraud and immigration violations charges.
In June,
Texas prosecutors indicted Salvadoran national Mario Obdulio
Orellana, 57, who lived illegally in the state since the 1980s. Officials said
Orellana purportedly falsified documents to obtain a U.S. birth certificate,
applied for and received a U.S. passport and a Social Security number.
Prosecutors said Orellano claimed to be a U.S. citizen when he registered to
vote and fraudulently cast a ballot in the 2016 presidential election.
Mexican
national faces deportation after pleading guilty to voter fraud in Texas.
In
September, Mexican national Laura Janeth Garza, 38, pleaded guilty to voter fraud charges for
voting in three election cycles, including 2016. She did so by stealing a
Texan’s identity to obtain a U.S. passport and Social Security number. The
American citizen victim learned about the fraud when she tried to apply for a
passport in her own name and discovered Garza already did so. Garza was
sentenced to 10 years in jail, after which she will be deported.
Texas
AG: Democratic Party leader funded “voter fraud ring” in Tarrant County.
In
October, Paxton’s office indicted four North Texas women for their
alleged roles in a “voter fraud ring” that targeted the elderly in select
northern Fort Worth precincts during the March 2016 Democrat Party primary
election. Subsequently released court documents revealed the ringleader, Leticia Sanchez,
57, allegedly paid her co-defendants with funds provided by the then Tarrant
County Democratic Party Executive Director, Stuart Clegg. The scheme reportedly
intended to influence the outcome of certain down-ballot races. Allegedly, they
did this by “seeding” or proliferating mail-in ballots through forged
signatures and altering historical applications, then resubmitting them without
the voter’s knowledge.
In Texas,
illegal voting is a second degree felony punishable up to 20 years in $10,000
fine. Making a false statement on a voter registration application is a Class B
misdemeanor.
FORMER MEXICAN
PRESIDENT ENDORSES BETO O’ROURKE
Saagar
Enjeti | White House Correspondent
Former
Mexican President Vicente Fox came out in support of Democratic Texas
Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke, in a Thursday evening tweet.
.@BetoORourke, what a candidate you are! You not only understand America, you know about
humanity. This is what the U.S. needs: someone compassionate yet firm. I stand
with you because I believe you’re what America needs. pic.twitter.com/xccqvXFfk9
Fox
served as the Mexican president from 2000 to 2006 and has been an outspoken critic
of President Donald Trump. The former Mexican president’s comments follow
O’Rourke’s appearance at a CNN town hall Thursday evening and a debate with
Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
Fox
has often unleashed profanity laced pronouncements aimed
at Trump, particularly on Trump’s declaration that the U.S. will make Mexico
pay for his proposed wall along the southern border.
“I’m
not going to pay for that fucking wall,” Fox declared in
a Fusion TV interview. In another profane tweet Fox urged Trump to “get his
shit together.”
.@realDonaldTrump, you’ve got to get your shit together: migrants are
people who have left everything behind – not by choice, to pursue a better
life. You must show compassion and humanity. your golden head and a #FuckingWall won’t stop these people’s dreams and hopes. https://t.co/JC1NETBKqP
Texas
Democrats asking non-citizens to vote
The
Public Interest Legal Foundation has alerted the Justice Department to a gambit
by Texas Democrats to get non-citizens to vote.
The
state party sent out a voter registration form asking non-citizens to sign up,
with the citizenship box already checked "yes."
The
Public Interest Legal Foundation alerted district attorneys and the federal
Justice Department to the pre-checked applications, and also included a signed
affidavit from a man who said some of his relatives, who aren't citizens,
received the mailing.
"This
is how the Texas Democratic Party is inviting foreign influence in an
election in a federal election cycle," said Logan Churchwell,
spokesman for the PILF, a group that's made its mark policing states' voter
registration practices.
The
Texas secretary of state's office said it, too, had gotten complaints both from
immigrants [sic] and from relatives of dead people who said they got mailings
asking them to register.
Texas
Gov. Greg Abbott vowed to investigate.
"If
true there will be serious consequences," he said.
This
is an open invitation for voter fraud on a large scale, and the way the
Democrats went about it defies belief:
The
applications were pre-addressed to elections officials, which is likely what
left many voters to believe they were receiving an official communication from
the state.
But
the return address was from the State Democratic Executive Committee, and
listed an address in Austin that matches the state Democratic Party's
headquarters.
The
letter is emblazoned with "Urgent! Your voter registration
deadline is October 9." It continues: "Your voter
registration application is inside. Complete, sign and return it
today!"
On
the application, boxes affirming the applicant is both 18 and a U.S. citizen
are already checked with an "X" in the Yes field.
The
mailing also urges those who are unsure if they're registered to "Mail it
in."
Dead
people were also being asked to vote.
Sam
Taylor, spokesman for Texas's secretary of state, said they heard from people
whose relatives were receiving mail despite having passed away 10 years ago or
longer. One woman said her child, who'd been dead 19 years, got a
mailing asking to register.
"It
looks like a case of really bad information they are using to send out these
mailers," Mr. Taylor said.
Mr.
Taylor is being very charitable. I doubt very much whether it's
"bad information" being used by Democrats.
How
many other state Democratic Parties send out similar requests to non-citizens
and haven't been caught? Are we to believe that one party in one
state came up with this idea all on its own? Perhaps, but not
likely.
Many
liberals believe that anyone in the United States – citizen or non-citizen – should
be able to vote. If they want to make that argument and change the
law to make it happen, they are more than welcome to try. Of course,
if they run on that issue, they will get slaughtered at the
polls. So instead of going to the American people and working to
change the law, they try an underhanded dirty trick to achieve the same goal.
Someone
should go to jail for this ruse.
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