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Posted on Fri, Aug. 18, 2006
Immigrants won't soon have a shot at license
Committee's decision to put measure on hold effectively kills it
By Edwin Garcia
MEDIANEWS SACRAMENTO BUREAU
SACRAMENTO - California's illegal immigrants won't get a chance to apply for driver's licenses anytime soon, based on the surprising decision Thursday by a powerful legislative committee that effectively shelves the measure again.
The Assembly Appropriations Committee, which typically announces decisions with little discussion and without a roll-call vote, officially put the measure on hold. In political lingo, however, the action signifies the bill has all but died -- unless committee members agree to reconsider over the next two weeks, which typically doesn't happen.
This was the seventh time in seven years that Sen. Gil Cedillo, D-Los Angeles, tried to pass the measure, which would establish a special license for the state's more than 2 million undocumented drivers.
His most recent efforts have been passed by the Legislature only to be vetoed by Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gray Davis. This time, the bill was shot down by a Democratic-controlled committee.
Political insiders suggested the measure was too controversial for an election year. The bill is opposed by Republicans -- and a majority of voters -- who say licenses would reward people in violation of immigration law.
Republican Schwarzenegger, who is running for re-election, has said he would veto the bill. His Democratic opponent, state Treasurer Phil Angelides, supports the measure.
Appropriations committee Chairwoman Judy Chu, D-Monterey Park, said she "strongly supports" the public-safety premise behind the bill, but said a "rational, productive debate" on the Assembly floor was unlikely.
"I held the bill with hopes that the Legislature can come back later when the issue can be dispassionately discussed in a way that will allow us to solve the difficult and myriad public-safety problems posed by unlicensed drivers and counterfeit ID's," Chu said in an e-mailed statement.
"As far as I am concerned, this issue is not dead and I would encourage my colleagues to continue to advocate for a fair and sensible solution."
The response angered Cedillo.
"It is absolutely unacceptable," he said. "My intention and my commitment is to move this bill to the floor. We have the right to have this bill debated, voted on and moved to the governor's desk."
Assemblyman Chuck Devore, R-Irvine, said the committee made the right move, considering the bill is unpopular with the voting public. Slightly more than half of California's adults oppose giving licenses to illegal immigrants, according to a Field Poll released in March.
"I think they understand this is a little bit of a political hot potato," Devore said.
Mike Spence, who has led a statewide effort to bar illegal immigrants from receiving licenses, was surprised the committee held the measure, SB1160, which previously was approved by the full Senate.
"Obviously, they know that a majority of Californians oppose licenses for illegals," said Spence, president of the California Republican Assembly. "And they didn't want to give the governor an issue in vetoing it, because they know this hurts Angelides because he's on the wrong side of immigration in California."
The national president of the Mexican American Political Association chided Democrats for keeping the bill from moving forward.
"They represent themselves as the party of opposition to anti-immigrant politics of the Republicans and they're demonstrating that they're no different in essence," said Nativo Lopez, who belongs to the Green Party.
Jose Sandoval, who has led a San Jose-based drive to gather thousands of signatures in support of licenses, said the effort organized by Voluntarios de la Comunidad will continue.
"The people are going to feel very sad about this situation," he said, "but they won't give up."
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california/15303685.htm
Jewish criminality came way before Herzl founding the ideology of Zionism.
Brett Quinn aka Jett Rink - likes "classy" coke and is a Jew whore lover.
Posted : 18/08/2006 8:17 am
Good God. That fact that this is even an issue at all is a damn good example of what's to come for this nation. Can't help but wonder when people will wake the fuck up.
Silence is the virtue of fools.
-Sir Francis Bacon
"Take the pain!"
-Platoon
Posted : 18/08/2006 9:42 am
Good God. That fact that this is even an issue at all is a damn good example of what's to come for this nation. Can't help but wonder when people will wake the fuck up.
Wake the fuck up and do what? Form a dot org? Write letters to congress critters? Protest with signs? Talk to their friends and neighbors?
Imagine Communist Russia except on a different continent and with cell phones. Yeah.
Posted : 18/08/2006 11:00 am
Wake the fuck up and do what? Form a dot org? Write letters to congress critters? Protest with signs? Talk to their friends and neighbors?
Imagine Communist Russia except on a different continent and with cell phones. Yeah.
I can relate to where you are coming from. Every city,state, town and county I go to it is the same thing mudds over riding whites. I see it every single day white people sticking up for shit skins. White whores with niggers or a variaty of shit colors. The white male isn't any better they would rather jump on your ass to deffend a mudd. When I confront some turd, the whites that are around jump my ass, if they don't jump my ass then they look at me like I am the most evil mother f*c*er that ever stepped foot on this messed up world. 99% of whites make me sick they just think everything is alright and our situation does not affect them.
nothing says lovin' like a jew in the oven
"What do you expect? All we got on this team are a bunch a Jews, spics, niggers, pansies -- and a booger-eatin' moron!"
Tanner Boyle - short stop for the Bad News Bears.
Posted : 18/08/2006 11:32 am
I have to agree with OYZEHATE on this one. I totally understand where this poster is coming from.
"I joined the Communist Party, USA, in 2000, in my post-leftist / post-anarchist period, as a joke."--Bill White
Posted : 18/08/2006 12:38 pm
We have a small window of availability left, before they take away free speech completely. Then they will come for the guns. Then they will come looking for anyone who disagrees with them that might cause trouble in the future.
Check out this radio interview on Daryl Bradford Smith's website:
http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Jim-Condit-14Aug2006.html
Apparently you can buy radio ads dirt cheap and you can say anything you want, promote anything you want, for 30 seconds or a minute, all day long. The catch is that you have to run for Federal office, like Congress or President. But if you do, even as a write-in candidate, they have to give you your time and they can't censor you.
We could collect money and run ads for Rounder in Mizzou, he's running right now, isn't he? It would only take about $1,000 to hit a big market during prime time, even less in small markets.
Posted : 18/08/2006 2:33 pm
We have a small window of availability left, before they take away free speech completely. Then they will come for the guns. Then they will come looking for anyone who disagrees with them that might cause trouble in the future.
Check out this radio interview on Daryl Bradford Smith's website:
http://www.iamthewitness.com/DarylBradfordSmith_Jim-Condit-14Aug2006.htmlApparently you can buy radio ads dirt cheap and you can say anything you want, promote anything you want, for 30 seconds or a minute, all day long. The catch is that you have to run for Federal office, like Congress or President. But if you do, even as a write-in candidate, they have to give you your time and they can't censor you.
We could collect money and run ads for Rounder in Mizzou, he's running right now, isn't he? It would only take about $1,000 to hit a big market during prime time, even less in small markets.
I was thinking more along the lines of a vast horde of pissed off White men headed for Washington DC in planes, trains, and automobiles-and on foot as necessary. Armed to the teeth, ready to kill and die, and with lots of torches and gasoline for burning up gubbermint buildings. And don't forget plenty of rope. An epic march into history and the new America. A bloody f'n revolution.
(This is merely a dream, not an incitement to violence. I am merely a keyboard commando with nothing better to type.)
Poverty and hopelessness are the greatest allies of the revolutionary. It's where the Jews came from in their ghettoes. And look at them now, on top of us and getting their sweet revenge on us, stealing our women with TV programming and all their little thousand cuts.
You want to die an old broke peasant in your bed with your dick in your hand? Or in a good war against tyrants and those who are making your life miserable? Come on people, us White racists are considered the dregs of society by the good, obedient people of the Kwa. They HATE our guts, they want us dead, they're vicious psychopaths.
Posted : 18/08/2006 9:59 pm