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January 3—Iowa Caucus
January 5—Republican Wyoming caucus (ignored by leftist media)
January 8—New Hampshire Primary
January 15—Michigan Primary (allowed on appeal[2])
January 19—Nevada Caucus / Republican South Carolina Primary
January 26—Democratic South Carolina Primary
January 29—Florida Primary
February 2-Maine caucus
February 5;Super Tuesday: Primaries/caucuses for both parties in 19 states, including Arkansas!
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The South has an immigration battle looming! This is from another one of those states that would have been ignored by the media had it done it's primary early.
http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/
Public speaks out at immigration hearing Jan 5th
Panel’s goal is to make recommendations for new legislative session
The Associated Press HUNTSVILLE, AL (leftist sympathy for illegals alert)
More than 270 people packed a lively public hearing on illegal immigration that was interrupted when some crowd members taunted a Hispanic speaker.At one point a police officer briefly stopped the meeting Thursday night to calm the audience. It was the second public hearing of the Joint Interim Patriotic Immigration Commission, a 21-member panel created last year by the Legislature after lawmakers were unable to pass bills dealing with illegal immigration.The commission’s goal is to make policy recommendations on illegal immigration for the 2008 legislative session. It plans to submit a report to the Legislature three legislative days after the session begins Feb. 5. The commission also plans public hearings Jan. 10 in Hoover and Jan. 17 in Mobile.At Thursday’s meeting, speakers complained about the cost of illegal immigration to taxpayers for health care and social services, along with the cost or danger to motorists struck by illegal immigrants who don’t have drivers licenses and insurance. Several speakers suggested laws that would prevent illegal immigrants from getting public assistance, health care and education. But when it came time for Hispanic speakers to give the other side, some in the audience shouted taunts and did not want to listen. Rosa Toussaint Ortiz, raised in Puerto Rico but a Huntsville resident since 1985, suggested that instead of studying illegal immigration, the state should create a panel to probe domestic violence, or homelessness, or why so few blacks are involved in local politics.“Where are the African Americans?” she asked repeatedly, pointing at the largely white and middle-aged audience. At that point, a police officer had to walk into the center of the hall to stop the public hearing and calm the crowd. As she spoke, some in the audience booed and jeered and a few said, “It’s time to go.” But others demanded that Ortiz be heard.
When the audience quieted down enough for her to speak, Ortiz said, “Fear is driving much of the conversation over immigration.” Most speakers said the state needs to do more to curtail illegal immigration and to stop businesses from hiring undocumented workers.“Surely we still have it in us to recognize this country was bled for, and we came here legally,” said Don Duffey, a business owner who requires all employees speak English. Phil Goodale, chapter leader of the North Alabama Minutemen, linked illegal immigration to tuberculosis and drugs in public schools. “We need to end public assistance period for any undocumented people.” Ed Kiker, an Army veteran from Madison, argued that the current system depresses wages for all workers.“I really have to point my finger at the employers. If they were not employing illegals, there wouldn’t be any,” Kiker said. Two hours into the public hearing, Jose Guerrero of Athens became one of the few Hispanic speaker to approach the microphone. He told the audience he felt like a goldfish in a bowl of piranha.Guerrero, who was born in the U.S., praised the United States and asked of the panel only one thing: “Tell the governor there are Hispanic citizens out there, too.”
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