Tuesday, September 26th, 2006...9:41 pm
Bill Montgomery Doing His Best to Prove Why We Need to Strengthen Our Immigration Laws
Republican Attorney General Candidate Bill Montgomery has so far had a couple of lame-ass excuses for hiring illegal aliens to appear in his illegally-paid-for campaign ads. First, he claimed that he didn’t know who the production company hired. The “blame the contractor” argument will be familiar to anyone who has followed immigration cases involving Wal-Mart or big time California growers.
His new claim is that Terry Goddard’s campaign is racist against Hispanics, this despite the fact that Goddard’s campaign manager is Hispanic. Montgomery claims that Goddard is assuming the actors are illegal aliens based entirely on their race. Goddard’s “assumption” is based on a report filed by a Town of Gilbert employee who spoke to the “actors” as well as a sworn affidavit by a citizen (a registered Republican even) who did the same.
What is truly amazing is that Montgomery is claiming that Goddard is racist at all. Let me get this straight, Montgomery was looking to put a couple of dark skinned folks getting arrested in an ad to scare the heck out of voters so they will vote for him, and Goddard is the racist?
As I said, Goddard’s claims are based on a report and an affidavit from witnesses that talked to the actors. They asked them point blank about their status, and they indicated that they were undocumented.
I’m wondering if maybe these “actors” were more talented than we thought. Maybe they were method-trained and they just were in character. Montgomery, if you use that one, please give me credit.
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