"Cannon has denounced the U.S. Senate bill that includes a path-to-citizenship provision. But he, like Bush, has indicated that he'd be willing to require illegal immigrants in a guest-worker program to return to their native country at some point before having the possibility of seeking permanent residence."

Chris Cannon in the Deseret News asserting his support for ProjectUSA's long-held position (in bold) that we must enforce the law as it now stands--illegal aliens must return home for a set period--before all else.

Cannon denounces own bill

UT rep who introduced same language says Senate bill an amnesty

n an interview he gave to long-time supporter Tad Walch of Utah's Deseret News, Congressman Chris Cannon denounced, on the grounds it's an amnesty, the recently passed senate immigration bill. Utah voters who read the interview may be left with the wrong impression of Cannon's real position, however, because Walch didn't note that the senate bill includes most of AgJOBS, the massive amnesty Cannon himself introduced in the House and has been denying is an amnesty ever since.

We've posted a copy of the interview during which Cannon lies about other stuff, too, and with singular grandiosity asserts—twice—that on his reelection hangs the future of the country and, if you can believe it, all of humanity and the earth itself.

Just as embarrassing for normal Utahns, Cannon, a self-important empty suit marginalized in the House since the 2004 campaign, pathetically asserts his influence is growing in Congress. Why is that a good thing for Utahns? Well , it allows him to "beat up on Northeast lefties," he tells Walch.

Finally, and most disgracefully, Cannon uses the interview to reinject into the campaign the tragedy of his daughter's untimely death two years ago. Her death at 25 made him "more philosophical" and "less emotional," he tells Walch, who awkwardly wedges the pompous absurdity into the published interview.

Perhaps Walch's omissions and lapdoggish reporting are the results of honest sloppiness or innocent credulity, but, in my experience, the people of Utah are ill-served by those on whom they depend for the information necessary to be well-informed voters.

Tad Walch and the Deseret News should be ashamed of themselves for colluding, by design or not, in the massive fraud on the American people that Chris Cannon embodies.