From the San Diego Union-Trib, congressional candidate Francine Busby tries and fails to clarify her remarks, essentially saying she was not encouraging vote fraud, but only encouraging participation of illegal aliens in her own campaign:
If an election can turn on a sentence, this could be the one: “You don't need papers for voting.”
On Thursday night, Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate for the 50th Congressional District, was speaking before a largely Latino crowd in Escondido when she uttered those words. She said yesterday she simply misspoke.
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Busby said she was invited to the forum at the Jocelyn Senior Center in Escondido by the leader of a local soccer league. Many of the 50 or so people there were Spanish speakers. Toward the end, a man in the audience asked in Spanish: “I want to help, but I don't have papers.”
It was translated and Busby replied: “Everybody can help, yeah, absolutely, you can all help. You don't need papers for voting, you don't need to be a registered voter to help.”
Bilbray said at worst, Busby was encouraging someone to vote illegally. At best, she was encouraging someone who is illegally in the country to work on her campaign.
Hearing the Busby quote for the first time, we assumed she did not mean to encourage illegals to vote. We believe she was not doing that.
But Mr. Bilbray is exactly right. Her "clarification" still puts Busby in a bad light. Busby is completely open to the idea of illegals helping in her campaign for office in the United States Congress. That alone is sufficient reason to vote against her. U.S. campaigns are for U.S. citizens.
And Republicans who are thinking about staying home in November over the immigration issue, be ready for more Francine Busbys in Congress as a result of your inaction. And then no whining about it afterwards.
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Campaign season is upon us. And it is time again for people to try and bully us with their definitions of what we ought to think and be. You will hear 10,000 spat out words as intended insults which really equate to just regular words absent the fading context of momentary emotion. I might include in this the problem of emigration. The main problem here is militarily secure borders which is impossible at any rate for a free nation. The political right can't claim the economic progress of the last two decades without admitting porus borders as integral fact and also shortcomming. People want to hear a simply rendered version of free trade without realizing free trade is in itself a loophole that endangers. Am I a free trader, but not one that accept corporations as writing law through their politically interested proxies. Democracy will be well rewarded by people actually getting grass roots and avoiding anything of a single player. If you belong to a movement you move by thinking your own thoughts.
Comment by Bob L — June 6, 2006 @ 1:16 am June 6, 2006