Say what you want about zealous anti-immigration folks, but they are nothing if not generous when it comes to funding their cause. Just ask Kansas Secretary of State candidate Kris Kobach, who's about to deposit a big check donated by strangers.
The UMKC professor and author of a Hazleton, Pennsylvania, law that aims to make life difficult for illegal immigrants by refusing permits to businesses that hire them and fining landlords who rent them homes, was paid $197,615 in legal fees for his work. And the town of around 22,000 didn't pay for a dime of it, city officials told the Hazleton Standard-Speaker.
The city, realizing defending the law called the Illegal Immigration
Relief Act could quickly empty its coffers, set up a defense fund in
2006, and it paid off big time, raking in $430,000 from online donations
and checks in the mail. The paper reports that donations from almost
4,500 donors in a handful of states have allowed the city to pay its
bills without tapping into tax payer money. That's a pretty sweet deal for
Hazleton, which admitted that with only $10,000 in its legal fund, couldn't afford fending off legal challenges
without the donations.
Still, scampering into the anti-immigration legislative battlefield
might not have been the best decision for Hazleton. Lawsuits over the IIRA have been successful, and now lawyers for the ACLU and other opponents of the law are
trying to get their mitts on $2.4 million in legal fees for going after
the law, which was passed in 2006 but has never been enforced.
Kobach, no doubt, must be pleased about his hefty payday, regardless of
where the cash came from. If he is elected Secretary of State in
November, he's in line for a major pay cut, and he'll have to leave
his teaching job.
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Kris Kobach is a great example of the True American who loves this Country, born and raised here and wants to do the RIGHT thing in defending Americans who can't possibly defend themselves against the Big Bad Political Machine that ACLU is an extension of - no not just the Democrats but the Republicans.
Why would the Tea Party endorse Marco Rubio a known Cuba Political Asylum Supporter (did we learn nothing from Obama's Aunt is is living off of US for life including an allowance of $700, plus free housing, healthcare etc and bashes Americans) why would the Tea Party be AGAINST Robert Enriquez out of Illinois who believes the Exact same thing as Marco Rubio? Marco Rubio's buddies get $10 billion in Farm Subsidies (Sugar Industry, see Florida Crystals & United States Sugar Corp) each year, then they sell their Sugar at high prices with Food Price Control by our Government.
Better check and do your research before you follow the Tea Party Recommendations, remember Scott Brown? The Tea Party is to the Republicans what ACORN/Unions are to the Democrats a fund raising and wealth redistribution arms because both parties are so corrupt no one follow them.
Americans are Centralist with a leaning of the Conservative, not Far Right, Not Far Left. The Media which we still believe Walter Cronkite style of reporting is still being followed is nothing more than Realty Show to keep you angry.
Let's turn that around. Stop giving money to Republican & Democratic Party. Do you really think Jim Demint (who allows Farm Subsidies to continue but yet screams he hates pork) Sarah Palin (I am a hockey mom, never discusses issues but makes fun others, Mitt Romney heralded as a great Conservative, Mr. Mass Governor and BFF Teddy and the blueprint for Obamacare?) are just fund raising for the Republican Party? You do know there is a price for admission? every year the Candidates or Office holders must raise double of what they raised the prior year. Are they really really for you and America? Do they really make laws that help America & Americans? or just what will line their pockets and keep lobbyist giving to the Party? How did Michelle Bachman afford a great big bus?
Think before you give anymore money to the Political Machine - bankrupt them as they have bankrupt us. Vote Independent.
JanSimpson
Kobach supporters join us for a FREE Country Music Concert this Saturday, Oct 16, 2010 at T-Bones Stadium, Legends. Time: 2 pm - 5 pm.
Concert features Glen Templeton, rising country music star.
You can also donate to the Kobach campaign!
The great experiment that was the USA now slides to its destruction. This once great nation that set an example for the rest of the world is now being eaten from within by political correctness and hyphenated Americanism. Where we were once united as a people we are now divided where everyone is retreating to their corners of special and self interest. Greed and decadence has provided the grease over the rule of law that once separated us from all other societies. It was these Laws that have been made over the 234 years that have made this country great, laws that are now whimsically tossed aside to pander special groups for their vote. Laws that were debated, voted on and stood for years that were safe, orderly and equitable are now brought down by the power of money. Hazleton will lose this case because they are no match to the special interest groups of the ACLU and LaRaza because they are too big to fail but it will be a bigger loss for this nation because it will say that laws with clear intent can be distorted if you have enough money. It will take away American citizenship and the right to defend our communities from invading foreign forces. Once the home of the brave the US is now just a flock of sheep unwilling to fight for what was, We the People of The United States of America.
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