01/14/2006
A Certain Slant of Light, amongst the most indefatigable immigration-skeptic blogs currently active, has a useful report on attending a Town Hall Meeting on Thursday in Conroe TX.Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO)… spoke today to a standing-room-only audience of approximately 150 people…interrupted any number of times by strong applause (including a standing ovation at its conclusion) and loud vocal support…I find it interesting that a town hall meeting lacking MSM publicity drew such a solid crowd today — more people, really, than the room could comfortably accomodate. Many people stood along the walls of the meeting room; and more people were actually outside of the room in the hallway
Good point. One might also ask, how many Congressmen can get standing ovations — except from their own election workers?
A refreshing thing about Tancredo is that he seems to have grasped some of the economics of the immigration disaster, as ACSL’s summary of his talk notes:
"Cheap labor" is only cheap for employers who hire illegals, as taxpayers subsidize those wages by subsidizing the social safety net of services that illegals avail themselves of …
(This was also apparent in the brief but devastating remark the Los Angeles Times allowed him in their account last August of the new Amnesty-Lobbying effort.)
ACSL has a follow-up, noting the total lack of coverage of the meeting — after all by an out-of area national political figure to a metropolitan area with maybe half a million illegals — either before or after, by the Houston area media:
I did, however, find a story this morning that the Wendy’s hamburger chain is no longer putting tomato slices on its burgers unless the customer specifically requests them. That, of course, is need-to-know information.
This kind of repression is not going to work, now that the Internet has emerged as the Kentucky Long Rifle of America’s 21st century patriots
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