The Right State

Much has been made of the letter  Tan Nguyen’s campaign sent to Spanish speaking homes in southern California.  Nguyen is a Republican candidate running for the House seat currently occupied by Democrat Loretta Sanchez.  The letter notes in part:

Written in Spanish, the letter threatens: “You are advised that if your residence in this country is illegal or you are an immigrant, voting in a federal election is a crime that could result in jail time.”

Loretta Sanchez has been crying foul ever since the letter became public.  The Orange County Republican Party Chairman called the letter ‘grotesque and obnoxious.’  Arnold Schwarzenegger has called for Nguyen to step down, calling the letter a ‘hate crime.’  Republicans and Democrats on both sides are calling for the embattled candidate to step down.  The problem is that the letter was right.  By law illegal immigrants can not vote and to cast an illegal vote is a felony.

In my home state of Texas, anyone who can pass a drivers test can also obtain a voter registration at the same time.  People working in the Department of Public Safety (DPS) are not allowed to ask if the applicant is an illegal immigrant.  In this regard Texas is not alone.  While trying to be racially sensitive, this country is allowing illegal immigrants by the hundreds of thousands if not millions to have a voter registration card.  A majority of states do not even require voters to show any kind of identification when voting.  This is a flaw that is just begging for abuse.  Without any kind of ID, there is no way to tell if someone has voted only once or multiple times or if the voter is legal.  When a state tries to require a voter ID, liberal courts strike it down saying the law creates a undo hardship on the voter.

What the liberals want is for everyone living in this country to vote, whether legal or illegal.    They know most Hispanics will vote for the Democratic candidate.  A few illegal votes here or there would not be that bad would it?

Al Barger posting on Blogcritics correctly points out the problem and the hypocracy behind the Democratic blustering.

But Nguyen is seriously being treated as a pariah and under criminal investigation primarily because he (or his office staff on his behalf) sent out a letter that said in Spanish that “if your residence in this country is illegal or you are an immigrant, voting in a federal election is a crime that could result in jail time.”

But what he said there is absolutely legally correct and proper. There have been numerous likely sounding stories of Democrat operatives actively recruiting illegal Mexican immigrants to vote. There’s been big opposition by Democrats in other places besides California to any idea of simply requiring voters to show photo ID at the polls, exactly because it would discourage their minions from hussling non-eligible people into voting booths.

Further, it is suspected that exactly such voting was how Ms Sanchez skinned ol’ B1 Bob Dornan out of this seat in the first place, back in 1996. Considering that this has been a tacit Democrat tactic, it’s only reasonable that the Republican candidate give people a general notice that such things are illegal - because they are.

Tan Nguyen is not on the hot seat because of Republicans, not Democrats.  The Dems are going to cry foul no matter what, but the Republican Party needs to grow a set of ba**s and stand firm on this issue.  Illegal immigrants should not be voting in this country, period!  To state that fact is not racist.  Nguyen is an immigrant from Vietnam and a naturalized citizen.  What is wrong with stating the obvious and demanding only people who can legally vote to vote in the upcoming election?

And now his campaign is under criminal investigation just two weeks from the election for something that was not a crime.  Not surprisingly the investigation was opened by the office of the Attorney General of California, a Democrat.  I only wish the Republican Party could show the backbone needed to stand up to their critics, especially when the critics are wrong as they are in this case.

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