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2006-07-11 Home Front: Culture Wars

Colorado legislature passes anti-illegals bill

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Posted by Frank G 2006-07-11 10:12|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It is a start.

Posted by DarthVader 2006-07-11 10:20|| 2006-07-11 10:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Its a start indeed. I like the part about businesses loosing their license if they knowingly employ illegals.

Posted by CrazyFool 2006-07-11 10:56|| 2006-07-11 10:56|| Front Page Top

#3 Local politicians responding to local concerns. And, making the concerns unmistakable for their State and Federal level colleagues. It's working as it should, I think.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-07-11 11:00|| 2006-07-11 11:00|| Front Page Top

#4 This is the essence of federalism,a strong central government with a flexible state by state governance. Amazing that the democrats should seize upon this concept to adopt a policy that may actually work for it's intended purpose.

Just when you think you have seen it all.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-07-11 11:44|| 2006-07-11 11:44|| Front Page Top

#5 You should see the seething and loathing going on here in Georgia over our new State law to require (gasp) an ID to vote. The law allows for something like 17 different forms of ID in order to vote, an additional "free" State-issued ID, if you don't have one of the other 17, and allows you to vote by mail WITHOUT an ID.

Demos. sued (of course), and our former Governor (Roy Barnes) is the attorney involved in one case. He had 2 "defendants" he used to push the issue, and even though both of those people ended up having one of the valid ID's (one was a Florida University ID and the other was something like another State's driver's license), the judge still ruled in their favor. Of course, it was a County judge, so I assume his ruling will only apply in that County (Fulton, for those of you familiar with "da ATL"). Bravo to the State for continuing to fight this.

In fact, the Sec. of State (of GA) found something like 650,000 people who were on voting rolls, but didn't have driver's licenses. As the State Attorney said in his arguments...Of those 650,000 they could only find 2 whom this new law would "harm," and those 2 actually had other forms of IDs allowed under the law. Sounds like some clue-bats need to be handed out soon.

Posted by BA 2006-07-11 11:54|| 2006-07-11 11:54|| Front Page Top

#6 This sounds good on paper, I'll hold off comment until I see how it actually gets implimented.
There's talk of what is deemed emergency care, as one example. Fredrico Pena was part of this deal with Dick Lamm, I can't trust Pena very far, so we'll see how this all shakes out. There are alot of levels of crap going on here...

Posted by Jan 2006-07-11 20:59|| 2006-07-11 20:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Bad news: Georgia has a new voter ID.
Good news: Fayette County's voter ID has a Confederate flag.

Posted by Besoeker 2006-07-11 21:05|| 2006-07-11 21:05|| Front Page Top

#8 lol, besoeker. Unfortunately, us Gwinnettians (hard to believe he actually signed the Declaration of Independence if'n you look around Gwinnett now) are getting an ID with a morphing photo from the Dixie flag to the Mexican flag. At least it's not DeKalb's moonbat flag, lol!

Posted by BA 2006-07-11 21:18|| 2006-07-11 21:18|| Front Page Top

#9 Pena and Lame are not part of the state gov anymore. Sure they could fluff feathers and all, but they don't really matter anymore. Same with Webb, etc.

As was mentioned, enforcement is key and living where I do in CO, I can say this is serious local issue, so we shall see.

Posted by bombay">bombay 2006-07-11 22:35|| 2006-07-11 22:35|| Front Page Top

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