A chance to confront Sensenbrenner
You've got to give Rep. F. Jim Sensenbrenner credit for one thing. He's consistent, even if it's consistently wrong.
Sensenbrenner, one of only 11 people to vote against federal help for Hurricane Katrina victims, voted recently against a supplemental appropriation, too. This time the vote was 348-71, and another Wisconsin Republican, Tom Petri, voted with him.
Sensenbrenner is in his suburban district this weekend, holding town hall meetings.
It's a good chance to ask him in person why he keeps voting against helping disaster victims, why he keeps taking those free junkets around the world at taxpayer expense, why he's so obsessed with immigration that he wants to build a 700-mile wall on the Mexican border and make felons out of illegal immigrants or anyone who helps them. That's just for starters.
Sensenbrenner's opponent, Democrat Bryan Kennedy, is urging voters to confront Sensenbrenner this weekend. I hope Kennedy will attend himself and see if he can engage F. Jim in some discussion. It should make for some good theater, and guarantee that Sensenbrenner blows a gasket. I'd invite TV cameras, or at least bring a camera crew of my own. That's today's free advice to the Kennedy campaign.
Sensenbrenner's town hall meetings will be on Saturday are at 9 a.m. at West Bend City Hall and at 1 p.m. at Waukesha State Bank, and on Sunday at the Menomonee Falls Safety Building at 7 p.m.
posted by xoff @ 9:19 AM
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2 Comments:
so the fact that these people are breaking the law entering our country dosent bother you Bill? Yes Bill tell Bryan Kennedy to run on a Open Border platform in the 5th. So what other laws can we ignore Bill?
Does it bother you the amount of drugs that flows over our southern border?
Keep dreaming the Bryan Kennedy dream Bill souldnt you be working to spin Diamond Jims miserable poll numbers 54% neg in Southeastern Wis lol.
Actually, there are alternatives to making everyone a felon and locking them all up. For example:
The Milwaukee Common Council today approved a resolution opposing Sensenbrenner's HR 4437 and lending support to S.1033, a bipartisan immigration reform bill backed by Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona and Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts.
The McCain-Kennedy bill calls for tougher border security while allowing temporary work visas and creates a path to citizenship for most illegal immigrants already in the U.S.
The city's resolution was introduced by Ald. Michael J. Murphy, who said in a release that "the reality is that our economy simply couldn't function without the millions of illegal immigrant workers who contribute their hard work every day."
See Murphy's release here.
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