Poizner attacks illegals
One of the Republicans seeking to become California's next governor is promising to end taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal immigrants in a TV commercial that blames liberals for "doing too much for too many." AP in the Daily News.
The 30-second ad by Steve Poizner appears tailored to appeal to conservatives who will dominate at the ballot box in the state Republican primary in June. But Poizner, the state insurance commissioner, risks turning off Hispanics who make up about a third of the state's population and are a growing force in California politics.
The ad, which begins airing statewide Tuesday, is Poizner's latest bid to gain notice in a race in which he trails GOP rival Meg Whitman by a wide margin in polls.
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Los Angeles Daily News City Hall reporter Rick Orlov writes about politics on the local, state and national stage.
You, Mr Orlov are assuming (wrongly) that every Hispanic in Calif favors open borders amnesty, open borders anarchy, and spl order 40 and sanctuary city policies as in SF and LA. I went door to door to get signatures to get on the ballot vs Rosendahl in 2009. MANY Hispanics are against unfettered, open borders policies. Even on the west side of Los Angeles CD 11, people secretly signed my petition. They don't want their leftist neighbors to know it, but they do agree with me. Look at Arizona, the only state to even attempt to enforce existing immigration laws. Ariz is a border state obviously like Calif is. But Arizona legal residents and citizens do not want Ariz to become de facto Mexico, or Cuba or Russia or some other country with some other language and culture.