What do the KKK, suspicious vandalism, and "Operation Wetback" have to do with this year's election in Arizona?
What do the KKK, suspicious vandalism, and “Operation Wetback” have to do with this year’s election in Arizona?
Everything.
The Ku Klux Klan
GOP Congressional candidate Randy Graf recently garnered the support of one of the most polarizing figures in American politics – Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke.
Graf is widely viewed as an extremist – so much so that the national GOP recently pulled their support of his candidacy. But, incredibly, the Arizona Republican Party continues to support his fringe agenda and his campaign for US Congress.
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“Operation Wetback”
While Graf has been garnering the endorsements of white supremacists, one of his colleagues in the state legislature, Russell Pearce, announced his intention to bring back “Operation Wetback,” the pre-civil rights era program to deal with illegal immigration.
Raising the specter of reinstating this long-discredited program can only serve to polarize the state and empower the GOP’s most radical supporters.
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Democrats Targeted for Vandalism
If all of this wasn’t enough, we learned Friday that the Democratic Party Headquarters in Tucson was vandalized and the phone lines to the call center were cut overnight. This crippled our volunteer call center and jeopardized our ability to talk to voters in Southern Arizona at a critical time in the election.
Did radical GOP supporters cut critical phone lines to Democratic offices? You decide. But whether they did or not, I can assure you that Republicans will stop at nothing to beat our Democratic candidates and push an extreme agenda for Arizona.
We need your support today to stop them.
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Posted Wednesday October 4, 2006 by
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I dont agree with the program that Mr Pearce wants to bring back, but I do believe its time we do something about all the illegals we have in this State and in this Country.I am so fed up hearing people talk about the rights of these people… What rights do they have? They broke the law and should be returned to their home Countries.
If anyone believes that making them Citizens or guest workers will fix the problem then you are fooling yourself, think about how many family members they have back home that will now have a right to come to the US.. Its crazy the way our Government has done nothing about this problem.
I am also afraid that we as Dems are to often coming out on the wrong side of this issue and we could be hurting our chances of ever getting back into power in this country
— Concerned AZ Dem Oct 4, 07:52 PM #
It is unAmerican to proclaim that illegals should be deported. Many of them go hungry and have no basic rights in their own countries and yet we as Americans are so proud to be so civilized. What’s civilized about sending hard-working people home to starve. All we really care about is our selfish materialistic lifestyle. Democrats need to bring some enlightenment and genuine Christian awareness into the debate.
— MJ Oct 13, 03:50 PM #