Dan Logue to do Bus Tour with Minutemen...
Posted by Aaron Park on April 30, 2008 at 08:27 AM
That’s correct – the 3rd AD front-runner is hitting the road with Chris Simcox… take a look at this.
Minutemen co-founder to address area residents on illegal immigration
Link to Nevada County Union Article
BY PAT BUTLER, pbutler@theunion.com
12:01 a.m. PT Apr 30, 2008
One of the leading proponents of a border fence and other measures to crack down on illegal immigration will be speaking next week in Nevada City as part of the “Secure Our Borders” campaign tour.
Chris Simcox is the co-founder of the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps, an organization that has attracted national attention – and some criticism – for organizing volunteers to patrol the southwestern U.S. border and orchestrating a campaign to force the federal government to get tougher on illegal immigration.
Third Assembly District candidate Dan Logue is bringing Simcox to the area for a three-day tour that starts at 11:30 a.m. May 7 at Trolley Junction restaurant, 400 Railroad Ave., Nevada City. The event is open to the pubic, but lunch costs $12 at the restaurant.
California senator and 4th Congressional District candidate Tom McClintock is joining the tour.
After the Nevada City stop, Simcox is scheduled to speak in Susanville, Quincy, Oroville and Loma Rica in Yuba County, said Logue, a Yuba County supervisor and Realtor in Marysville.
Sue Horne, a Nevada County supervisor and Logue’s opponent in the June 3 Republican primary, did not return a call Tuesday seeking comment on the tour.
Relatively few Mexican immigrants reside in western Nevada County – about 2,000, according to one church that has an outreach program. Nevertheless, illegal immigration is the top issue in the larger district, Logue said Tuesday.
“This is crippling the economic future of California,” Logue said. “They (illegal immigrants) have to play by the same rules and abide by the laws of the land that have been ignored.”
Logue supports a border fence, making proficiency in English a requirement of citizenship, legislation to bar illegal immigrants from attending public schools and “turning off the immigrant magnet.”
The Republican candidate said he believes the lure of free health care and public education costs the state millions that it no longer can afford, and that “sanctuary cities” like San Francisco and Los Angeles need to be denied federal funding.
Logue’s positions mirror those of Simcox, a lightning rod in the immigration wars who has been interviewed by CNN, MSNBC, FOX News, PBS, USA Today and countless right-wing radio talk show hosts.
Simcox, 46, is a former Los Angeles kindergarten teacher who moved in 2003 to southern Arizona, where he bought the Tombstone Tumbleweed and launched the movement that has made him a hero to some and an enemy to others.
Organizations including the Southern Poverty Law Center and the National Council of La Raza have accused Simcox of “hate-mongering.”
Simcox was not available to be interviewed on Tuesday, according to a representative from the Minutemen organization.
To contact Staff Writer Pat Butler, e-mail pbutler@theunion.com or call 477-4239.
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174 Apple employees lost their job yesterday in Elk Grove. Their jobs are moving to Texas. The local Apple spokesperson refuses to say what the deal is with this move. Obviously this is devastating to the families involved. Been there and lived the pain for 15 months myself.
This is about making a middleclass living in the Sacramento valley. It is dispiriting to me to read that McClintock is off traveling with Chris Simcox to try to pick the low- lying fruit of those who are easily distracted into thinking that their malaise is caused by undocumented Hispanics. Tom will surely garner those voters’ support anyway. Or is he thinking that those voters might sit out this election and thus need a little stoking? This is dumbed down politics.
I would like to see Tom somehow transcend dumbed down politics and show he has the mind to craft ideas to address the specific ills of the local economies and resultant middleclass pain. Dumbed down political medicine is not going to take care of this pain. He could and should challenge Ose on his own turf, not so much as to try to spin the above mentioned job losses as an Ose failure but as an opportunity to show that he can bring together ideas and leaders to address the local middleclass pain.
Lee, this isn’t a McClintock issue, it’s a fundamental issue/problem with our country and what it takes to do business. Gray Davis chases businesses away from CA and Arnold promised to keep them here. Problem is, this goes way beyond many people’s reach and power. Texas, for one, has no income tax. Why not live and work there. Or send jobs there. It’s too difficult to do business in this state, and it’s highly inefficient. Taxes are too high. Too much red tape. All I can say is at least they didn’t send these jobs to Mexico or China.
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