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The 2008 senate elections thread - Page 3

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Mark Udall is a cosponsor of DREAM in the House.
he is ? he sounds like a total douche on immigration though.
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Mark Udall is a cosponsor of DREAM in the House.
he is ? he sounds like a total douche on immigration though.
Anyone have info? I have 2 newly minted citizens in Colorado that were going to donate money to Udall. If he's anti-immi I can probably talk them our of it. Let me know if anyone knows anything.
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Mark Udall is a cosponsor of DREAM in the House.
he is ? he sounds like a total douche on immigration though.
Anyone have info? I have 2 newly minted citizens in Colorado that were going to donate money to Udall. If he's anti-immi I can probably talk them our of it. Let me know if anyone knows anything.
here are his stands on immigration


http://markudall.house.gov/HoR/CO02/...ION+REFORM.htm
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Mike Johanns (R) (candidate for U.S. senate in Nebraska) opposes the Dream Act


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“Mike Johanns opposes the DREAM Act and opposes amnesty. Mike Johanns is against the use of public benefits for illegal immigrants,” said Johanns’ campaign manager Chris Peterson.
http://www.swnebr.net/newspaper/cgi-...iver.pl?162336


Chuck Hagel WHY!!! you have to retire!????
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WASHINGTON – The dream died last week, and Sen. John Cornyn helped to kill it: legislation that would grant legal status to students whose parents brought them to this country without visas.

The Texas senator had long supported the idea behind the so-called DREAM Act. This time, though, he argued that it's better to hold out for an immigration overhaul – however hopeless that seems – because cherry-picking its most popular elements makes it even harder to cobble together support for a broader deal.

"This is a hot hot-button issue that divides our country," he said. "I don't think the solution is to do piecemeal legislation that solves one group's problems at the expense of a comprehensive bill."


His Democratic challenger accused him of flip-flopping on the DREAM Act, and immigration policy analysts and lobbyists agreed that Mr. Cornyn's hard line of late seems to have a strong political dimension."Long term, it's hard to argue that being seen as anti-immigrant is going to be helpful to the Republican Party," said John Gay, co-chairman of the business-backed Essential Worker Immigration Coalition and an executive at the National Restaurant Association. "But when you're up [for re-election] in 15 months, that's as far as the horizon goes."

The Cornyn stance contrasted with that of senior Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. She backed the DREAM Act and was working with the Democratic author, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, on tweaks meant to broaden its appeal.

Mr. Cornyn complained that the bill would let criminals seek legalized status, and didn't set graduation from college as a requirement, only attendance. The fact that Democrats blocked amendments showed they were only trying to score political points, he said.

Two senators. Same state, same party, same constituents.

"They have different sensibilities and different ambitions," said Jim Henson, director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas at Austin. "You run on different sets of issues when you run for governor vs. when you run for Senate. ... He is by nature a more conservative guy on those issues than Hutchison, and he probably is thinking about shoring up his base for his upcoming race."

Ms. Hutchison won another term last year and won't be on the ballot again until at least 2010, when she may run for governor.

Besides, with the president's popularity so low – the chattering class in Washington was atwitter last week at a poll showing Americans more likely to believe in ghosts than to believe President Bush is doing a good job – there's no penalty for bucking the White House these days.

"It gets easier and easier and easier to break with the president every day," Mr. Henson said.

For most of his first term, Mr. Cornyn was an outspoken advocate of a "comprehensive" plan wedding a guest worker program with interior enforcement and heightened border security. But with the GOP base unhappy at the guest worker plan, and allegations that it provided "amnesty" for millions of illegal immigrants, he shunned the deal. Both he and Ms. Hutchison voted to shelve it in June.

Since then, Mr. Cornyn has dug into a security-first stance.

State Rep. Rick Noriega accused him of being disingenuous in claiming he opposed the DREAM Act because he wants to include it in a broader reform bill.

The Houston lawmaker last week became Mr. Cornyn's sole Democratic challenger, after San Antonio lawyer Mikal Watts dropped out. Mr. Noriega touts his support of a state version of the DREAM Act, asserting it has helped 10,000 children living in Texas stay in school. He accused Mr. Cornyn of flip-flopping to "exploit the education of Hispanic children" for political advantage.

"What we've seen is that he feels he has to pay homage to an ideological fringe," he said.
The death of the DREAM Act forebodes slim chances for other reforms before the new president and Congress take office in 2009.

"Hope springs eternal, but it looks worse and worse," said Mr. Gay.

He noted that most senators supported the DREAM Act, even though it fell short of the 60-vote supermajority needed.

"Yes, it's amnesty," he said. "It's amnesty for people whose parents committed a crime – forgiveness for the sins of the father. It just shows you where we are."
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I hope noriega wins!!!! Hasn't Cornyn voted against every form of COMPREHENSIVE REFORM????
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I hope he does too, but Cornyn has a lot of support in Texas.

Unless all Hispanics (U.S. Citizens) living in Texas vote for Noriega , i dont see how Cornyn can lose his re-election.
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http://www.fantasycongress.com/

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Sessions for U.S senate 08'

good gawwwd.

http://www.jeffsessions.com/issues/details.aspx?id=5
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.. i like this thread
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