Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008...10:08 am
Aww, Shucks, and Here I Was Looking Forward to Voting Against Them
El Don de las Aguas Doradas announced in an e-mail to supporters that his L.A.W. and S.O.L.E. initiatives aren’t going to make the ballot this year:
We have the final count on the two initiatives. Unfortunately neither initiative received the number of signatures required to be put on the ballot. I can’t thank our volunteers enough who put forth a heroic effort to collect signatures. The stories behind our great volunteers who collected signatures despite multiple death threats, physical attacks, harassment, adverse weather conditions and lack of outside financial support are numerous and well documented. Never once did they waver and never once did they quit. It has been an honor to work side by side with the hundreds of volunteers who chose to put their state and their neighbors first and their personal lives second.
Death threats and physical attacks? What in the name of his uncle is he talking about?
Was the weather any more “adverse” this year than in past years when anti-immigrant activists have been able to get such things on the ballot?
I don’t agree with these initiatives, and have worked against them in the past. But, I can think of few things that it would be easier to get signatures for in the current political climate. So, one has to ask, just how incompetent of an organizer is Don Goldwater?
Oh, and here is another paragraph from his e-mail:
Due to your efforts, the issue of illegal immigration, once thought of as a joke carried by fanatical radicals, now will help determine the winners of national and local races.
Believe me, Don, we don’t think of the illegal immigration issue as “a joke.” Families dying in the desert is not something that we find funny at all. However, once again, you’ve proven yourself the joke.
3 Comments
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:30 pm
“Fanatical Radicals” — isn’t that an 80’s cover band?
July 2nd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Due to your efforts, the issue of illegal immigration, once thought of as a joke carried by fanatical radicals, now will help determine the winners of national and local races.
Like it has in the past? Ask J.D. Hayworth about that. And maybe ask Randy Graf also. Besides that it made a difference in defeating the Republican incumbent in TX-23 last time around.
In Virginia last year Republicans tried to run on immigration in their races to keep control of the state senate, and they lost.
Many more ’successes’ like that and they won’t have anyplace left to go.
What anti-immigration folks don’t get is that most of them are going to vote GOP anyway. The swing voters who are mostly in play don’t hate immigrants and bashing immigrants only causes them to come across as mean-spirited. And many of them also have family members who are immigrants and once you attack la familia you’ve pretty much lost their vote, no matter what you are saying.
July 9th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Hey, he obviously didn’t read your blog and realize how ridiculous his comments were. He repeated some of the same stupid statements on Saturday in the Arizona Republican and I got to slam him in a letter to the editor (published today with a few slight edits.)
Thanks for the heads up.
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