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La Raza Needs Your Taxpayer Dollars
By Greg L | 23 May 2007 | National Politics, Illegal Aliens | 8 Comments
If the federal government is going to provide millions of dollars in taxpayer funds to the National Council Of La Raza, which will use that money to encourage illegal aliens to subvert the law, and to lobby congress on behalf of the interests of illegal aliens, I wonder if it’s time Help Save Manassas and other organizations who support the rule of law and the interests of legal residents and citizens should belly up to the pork trough? Right on the heels of a disastrous amnesty proposal being considered in the Senate, Congressmen Ruben Hinojosa (TX) and cosponsors Barney Frank (MA), Ed Pastor (AZ), Rick Renzi (AZ) and Silvestre Reyes (TX) want to subsidize illegal alien apologist groups with five million dollars of taxpayer money in 2008, and ten million dollars every year thereafter.
If this outrageous claptrap continues, there’s going to be a run on pitchforks and torches in the environs of Washington, DC in no time. Here’s the text of this latest abomination:
Hope Fund Act of 2007 (Introduced in House)
HR 1999 IH
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1999
To authorize appropriations for assistance for the National Council of La Raza and the Raza Development Fund.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
April 23, 2007
Mr. HINOJOSA (for himself and Mr. RENZI) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Financial Services
A BILL
To authorize appropriations for assistance for the National Council of La Raza and the Raza Development Fund.
- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
- This Act may be cited as the `Hope Fund Act of 2007′.
SEC. 2. ASSISTANCE FOR NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA AND RAZA DEVELOPMENT FUND.
- (a) Use- The Secretary of Housing and Urban Development shall, to the extent amounts are made available pursuant to subsection (b), make a grant to the National Council of La Raza for the purpose of providing technical and financial assistance to local non-profit organizations to undertake community development and affordable housing projects and programs serving low- and moderate-income households, particularly through organizations located in neighborhoods with substantial populations of income-disadvantaged households of Hispanic origin. Assistance provided by the Secretary under this section may be used by the National Council of La Raza or the Raza Development Fund to–
- (1) provide technical and financial assistance for site acquisition and development, construction financing, and short- and long-term financing for housing, community facilities, and economic development;
- (2) leverage capital from private entities, including private financial institutions, insurance companies, and private philanthropic organizations;
- (3) provide technical assistance, training, support, and advice to develop the management, financial, and administrative capabilities of housing development organizations serving low-income households, including Hispanic households; and
- (4) conduct such other activities as may be determined by the Secretary and the National Council of La Raza.
- (b) Authorization of Appropriations- There is authorized to be appropriated for grants under this section–
- (1) $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; and
- (2) $10,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter.
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Greg — Have you thought about contacting Duncan Hunter or Tom Tancredo to sponsor legislation to fund the Help Save XXX (USA)?? What’s good for the goose is WAY overdue for the gander….
I’ve requested Tom come and speak with us, and have even corresponded with his scheduler, but he’s focused on Iowa right now and his schedule just doesn’t have any room in it.
At some point, when his schedule allows it, I believe he will pay us a visit.
Sure wish Virginians would follow Arizonan’s lead with regard to the way both Warner and Webb voted to SUPPORT the immigration amnesty….
Word is state of ARIZONA is a tinder-box in reaction to their SENATORS’ support of the bill and about ready to explode — Arizona Republicans are turning in their party cards in droves, the rhetoric is VENOMOUS, the outrage is PALPABLE, and the Republican Party is afraid this reaction is gonna go NATIONAL…. DUH, ya think???
REPUBS and DEMS alike better stop smoking crack, sit up and start paying attention to what we the people have been telling them until we are BLUE in the face — because the whoopASS is just getting started…
This is unbelievable! The one good thing about this is, it infuriates the average American citizen all the more, and hopefully it will be enough so they will become involved. We can not let these special interest groups dictate in Washington.
I would also suggest when we are calling our “elected officials” we tell them this funding is unacceptable and demand they rescind it! A lot of folks are up for re-election in the next couple of years and we need to let them know we have the capability to vote them out of office.
We, the American people, need to be the ones to dictate policy in OUR country!
Join us at our next Help Save Manassas meeting on May 30th!
It is fine to talk about tossing the bums out, but replace them with who? Unless incumbents lose in their own party’s primary they are very unlikely to lose to a challenger from the other party, especially if that challenger is even more spineless on illlegal foreign nationals (my term of choice).
So what’s the choice? Look for a 3d party candidate?
The Libertarians are out since they are open border types and I would guess that the Greens are the same. The Constitution Party has a strong position on secure borders and illegals, but barely has a presence in the state.
We start fielding candidates that will be tough on illegals. It can and has been done. Look at Herndon, Jackson Miller and the new Manassas City Councilmembers. People are tired of what is happening in our own country and are starting to do something about it.
Ted,
The key in my mind is to make sure that the elected officials moving up the ranks are consistently those who are on the right side on this issue. If we ever got to the point that every member of the HOD and state senate were right on the subject of illegal aliens, we’d never have a problem in our senate/congressional delegation on this issue. That’s the concept, although the execution is a little difficult.
In the meantime, this is an issue we should make every candidate talk about, at every level. If they can’t escape from the issue, perhaps it’ll reinforce in their minds how important it is to the voters.
Greg, Maureen,
I agree with you and hope that the presence of millions of illegal foreign nationals in our country will be the issue that inspires people who normally aren’t involved in politics to dive in head first. But I wonder how long people’s staying power will be because we have heard this all before.
Remember 1990 when people were “mad as hell” and weren’t going to take it anymore? All the usual suspects got relected to Congress. The Perot/Reform Party phenomena of 1992 collapsed just as quickly as it appeared. And the “revolution” of 1994 lasted less than one session of Congress.
And then there is this aspect of it, will the illegal issue truly make people one issue voters? Will pro-choicers vote for pro-life candidates who on the right side of the illegal issue and vice versa?
Yes, we need to beat our elected officials/candidates over the head with this and not let them weasel out of giving us definitive answers on what they plan on doing.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.