Minnesotan the surprise early leader in the race for a billboard

January 21st, 2005
by Craig
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Issue 214

The Billboard Democracy Campaign, which will advertise the immigration voting records of members of Congress on billboards in their home districts, is off to a great start.

Martin Sabo of Minnesota is the leader in the early polling, with Senators John McCain of Arizona and Larry Craig of Idaho in second and third places.

Congressman Sabo “represents” Minnesota’s 5th District, which is in Minneapolis. He voted three times in the 108th Congress against Rep. Tom Tancredo’s amendments to withhold some federal money from cities that adopt illegal “sanctuary” policies, and he was a co-sponsor of the controversial AgJOBS amnesty.

BILLBOARD DEMOCRACY CURRENT STANDINGS
MEMBER	AgJOBS?	ABI	NEEDED
MARTIN SABO	YES	F	69
JOHN MCCAIN	YES	F	73
LARRY CRAIG	YES	B-	73
JANE HARMAN	YES	D+	74
BRIAN BAIRD	NO	F	74
DAVID WU	YES	F	74
TED KENNEDY	YES	D-	74

HOW
TO VOTE

It’s fast and easy to vote for the member of
Congress you feel most deserves to have his or
her immigration voting record openly displayed
on a billboard in his or her district.

Just go to our secure online donation page, make
a donation, and for every $25.00 you donate, you
get one vote.

After you vote, you’ll receive an email receipt,
which you just forward on to vote@projectusa.org
with the name of your nominee(s) written in.

In any case, don’t worry–we’ll follow up and
make sure your votes counts.

EMAIL
OF THE WEEK

You should have a way for folks like me, who
do not donate online, to donate to the billboard
campaign. Just add the votes once you recieve
the $25 donation by mail. I would enjoy working
in the community to get a billboard for my congressmember
CA Rep. Susan Davis = "F-" report card
grade on immigration issues.

Dan Russell
San Diego, CA

NOTE: Apologies for not mentioning that in
the last ezine. Yes, mail-in ballots are completely
fine–just include a note telling us which candidate(s)
you want your votes to go to.

QUOTE
OF THE WEEK

Every
week, at least 50 new immigrants arrive in Minnesota.
Since the earliest days of our state, immigrants
have helped make Minnesota a more vibrant and
productive place to live.

Minnesota
Dept of Health

Rep. Sabo’s ABI grade is an F; when given the opportunity to vote for higher immigration numbers, Rep. Sabo has done so 93% of the time.

Congressman Sabo, who was born on a farm in North Dakota, has learned his catechism well:

“In recent years,” writes Congressman Sabo on his website’s homepage, “the district has been strengthened, become more vibrant and ethnically diverse with arrivals of immigrants from Southeast Asia, East Africa, Central America and Eastern Europe.”

Yippee!

Maybe someday we’ll find out what, exactly, this “vibrancy” thing is, why it always seems to occur automatically wherever there is ethnic diversity, and why, for some members of Congress (and all the editorialists at the Minneapolis Star-Tribune), it always seems to trump the will of the people and the rule of law.

It’s a long shot, but perhaps someone in Congressman Sabo’s DC office can tell you whether there is a connection between his support for amnesty for illegal aliens and all this new vibrancy in which Minneapolis is awash.

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