Citizen Lobbyist

Well, I was rooting for Ron Paul for president, then I saw that Robert DeNiro was backing Barack Obama. Obama makes the movie star “believe.” So, naturally, I switched my allegiance immediately. I want a president who makes movie stars “believe.”

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John McCain and Barack Obama sponsored S.1033. Do not forget what this piece of legislation would have done.

Sponsored or Co-sponsored the
Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005 (McCain/Kennedy)

Senator

State

Date

1.
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Sen McCain, John
[AZ]
05/12/2005
[introduced]

2.
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Sen Brownback, Sam
[KS]
05/12/2005

3.
 

Sen Chafee, Lincoln
[RI]
03/27/2006

4.
 

Sen Graham, Lindsey
[SC]
05/12/2005

5.
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Sen […]

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By an amazing coincidence, John McCain makes the same argument immigration lawyers make in denying the bills he supports are amnesties. You can see for yourself by reading a copy of the talking points, essentially one falsehood repeated in various forms, circulated on Capitol Hill by the American Immigration Lawyers Assn (AILA).No one is […]

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In early 2005, ProjectUSA sponsored a contest in which people who contributed to the cost of it, could vote for whichever slogan they preferred on a billboard that would target a member of Congress who supported amnesty.
John McCain “won” in a rout, drawing donations from Maine to San Diego.
A billboard in Phoenix was contracted […]

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In May, 2006, Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy were striving to pass a complex piece of legislation through the Senate. It wasn’t going very well. Opponents of the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act wouldn’t stop calling the bill an amnesty.
When it comes to infuriating the citizenry, nothing works so well as a proposal […]

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Rudy Giuliani, repeat after me: amnesty is relieving a class of lawbreakers [amnesty is relieving a class of lawbreakers] of the penalty required by law [of the penalty required by law] at the time they broke the law [at the time they broke the law].
For foreign nationals now illegally in the country, the minimum […]

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If you were watching the results of the Iowa caucuses on CNN last Thursday, you saw “the best political team on television” become downright giddy over Obama’s win over the rest of the Democratic field.
Obama won because he is inspiring, gushed the best political team. He is brilliant, he has the right message, […]

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Just in time for the Iowa caucuses, a new study shows that God isn’t actually a Republican. The study, released today in front of the headquarters of The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, God’s chosen lobbyists in Washington, DC, is sure to roil the Republican presidential race.

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In 1999, I started the immigration time-out organization, ProjectUSA, which put up billboards advertising facts about US immigration policy and its impact on the United States. Although we put up billboards in almost every region of the country, most of our “billboard democracy” activism took place in New York City—mainly because that is where […]

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