Dear Editor:
I disagree with your analysis of the recall election
in your editorial in the 9/30 Immigration Daily issue. Perhaps because you focus all the time on immigration issues, you
myopically wear immigration-colored glasses to see the world.
This recall election is about the fiscal issues. It's
about our $38 billion deficit. It's about jobs and
job-creators leaving the state. It's about tripling
of the car tax. About getting rid of the Indian
gaming special interest and business-as-usual politics
in Sacramento. To some extent, it's about SB.60 which
gives illegals the driver licenses. However, it's the
money issues that people on the street primarily talk
about and why voters are so upset that they want to
kick out Gray Davis. As Arnold says in his
commercial, all the time here in the Golden State it's
"tax, tax, tax!" and the people here have had enough.
The candidates have barely talked in-depth about
immigration issues in their debates and ads. Arnold
does not give any plan of how he would deal with the
illegal immigration issues except that he would urge
the federal government to tighten up the border. Tom
McClintock is a little stronger but nothing specific
either. Bustamente, well, of course, Bustamente wants
to make California as welcome a place as possible for
illegal aliens.
"If, Mr. Bustamante wins, Democrats will argue that
pro-immigrant candidates can be vote winners, while
Republicans will point to Mr. McClintock's strident
anti-immigration views as the cause of the election
loss of the Governorship of the country's largest
State. " This is a statement out of left field on
your part. If Arnold loses, the Republicans will
blame McClintock for playing the spoiler part to take
votes away from Arnold, just like Ross Perot did in
'92 for Clinton against the first Bush. It's just
basic math and has nothing to do with McClintock's
anti-immigration views.
Rather, people voting for Arnold have said all along
that McClintock's stridently conservative views on
social issues such as on abortion, guns, gay marriage,
etc. doesn't play well here in California. However,
anti-immigration is not one such reason. Why is it
that the Indian gaming special interest has given so
much money to the McClintock advertising campaign
while the ultra-liberal LA Times praises arch-conservative McClintock in its latest issues?!
It's because they know that by divide-and-conquering
of the Republican vote, the Democrats can win, either
a victory for Davis and Bustamente. Because Arnold
leads by so much in the polls still (even after the
latest "grope-gate" and bogus Hitler allegations), the Democrats are intent on keeping with this tactic. But
again, it doesn't have anything to do with McClintock's anti-immigrant view.
Michael D.
Editor's Note: We look at current events clearly from an immigration perspective. Other media do an excellent job of covering other perspectives, especially political ones. We do not pretend to offer a comprehensive analysis from every point of view, as you have aptly noted we cover just the immigration-related points of view.
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