State Democrats despoil democracy
Boston Herald
By Michael Graham
The election of President Barack Obama was supposed to usher in a post-racial and post-partisan America. But who knew that some Massachusetts Democrats dreamed of a post-American America?
Rep. Pam Richardson of Framingham wants the Massachusetts Democratic Party to advocate voting rights for illegal aliens.
You read that right. A handful of liberal Massachusetts towns already allow legal resident aliens to vote in local elections. But Richardson wants illegal immigrants canceling out your vote for school committee and town selectman.
And she wants the state Democratic Party to lead the way.
Last month, at a local party platform meeting in Framingham, Richardson looked into a video camera and bemoaned the unfairness of the crimmigrants’ plight:
“We have a large population of people living here who don’t have the same rights and opportunities of the rest of us,” she complained. “I’m talking about undocumented immigrants.”
Most “unfair,” she argues, is their exclusion from our democratic process.
“They don’t feel that they have anyone to represent them [in government]. It’s because they’re not part of the democracy,” Richardson told fellow Democrats.
You’re right, Rep. Richardson. Illegal immigrants are not part of the Massachusetts voting population. Nor are felons, children, legal residents of other states or the criminally insane.
I just returned from Ireland where I had a delightful and well-documented visit. I happen to know a bit about Irish politics, too. But any Irishman who suggested that I should be able to vote in a Dublin election would have immediately been cut off by his local publican until he sobered up (the local version of the death penalty).
The idea of extending the right to vote to non-citizens is disconcerting enough. But to make legal voters from criminal aliens is beyond belief for the typical American.
The question is, does the idea offend the Massachusetts Democratic Party?
Richardson says it’s the Democrats’ job to be the “voice of the voiceless” in this case. Rep. Tom Sannicandro (D-Ashland) has already proposed legislation for one of her kooky ideas – driver’s licenses for illegals.
And so now it’s up to the state party to decide if they agree with the idea that American citizenship should be irrelevant in Massachusetts politics. It may sound crazy to you, but at the platform meeting in Framingham, Richardson received a rousing ovation.
Citizens? Bah! Who needs ’em?
He votes no. The illegal immigrant votes yes. The override passes, and he’s told to accept the results because “the people have spoken.”
But whose people? America’s – or Richardson’s?
Wild Thing’s comment…….
This from a state that was once the home of GREAT patriots like John Adams,John Hancock,Paul Revere,and Ben Franklin.
Someone stop the theft of the Republic! We’re on a fast train to fascism and the puppets in Congress are pushing from behind!
Has this Pam Richardson ever even read the US Constitution????
You just want to look her in the eye and say, “Oh, I’m sorry, you’re stupid. Your parents must be so proud.”
If they’re here illegally, they can’t have American rights–period. It would be the same if I moved to another country illegally. I would not have access to their rights.
Oh, brother. My son was born in Framingham, Mass on Set. 13, 1970. I should have driven my pregnant wife to a sane state.
Ah yes, Massachusetts. Home of the Kennedys, Barney Frank and his boy toys, John Kerry and Teresa Heinz, Michael Dukakis. No further comment needed.
What would she do if one of these ‘undocumented aliens’ broke into her house, would she let them stay ? Make them dinner, give them a place to sleep. I’d bet not.
What does this dumb bitch NOT understand about the word Illegal.
What if they just booted her ass out of her home like what has happened in Soweto and outlying South Africa, declaring it their home? Not to mention the debauchery and murders going on there.
I see the effects of the illegals every day in the hometown news, they have destroyed business, property values and civility through illegal criminal activity and the bastards vote in the local elections because this is a sanctuary state.
This Osama Obammunist administration, and it’s cohorts are trying to destroy our Republic faster than it was created. WTF is going on?
Bob A.
Just look at who she represents, the powerful lobby of SEIU who are only one generation separate of illegal aliens, DUH! She really should update her busted website of her standing next to deval cadillac on her contact page. I think she has been inhaling the fumes from route 9 too much. What people should start asking now is how many illegal aliens are working in the kitchens on route 9.
Thanks for the reminder Chrissie. I left my hometown of Mystic, CT to join the Cavalry and have never looked back. Thank God for Dixie.
Lynn, heh heh I would LOVE to do that!!
Steve Gaston, haha that is funny. I bet there
are some wonderful people that live there
that can’t stand that this woman won
an election.
Tom, yes they have some list of rats there.
Mark, LOL exactly.
Jack, that is what our newspaper was like
when we lived in Calif.It was non stop
news of the crimes they did.
Bob A., they sure are, the speed at which they are doing it is making me dizzy.
Santo, so many on the left think like
she does. LOL good one about her website.
Good question too.
James M., good to see you. That is how
Nicholas feels about New York. He said
it was like getting fresh air when he
moved out of New York long ago, when he
was in her early 20’s.
Another NIMBY liberal I’m sure. Wants their vote and she’ll give them free cheese, but that wouldn’t mean she’d want them in HER backyard.
Like that crap about the windmills the Kennedy’s blocked coming to their “neighborhood.” Just hypocritical liberals doing their usual thing.
PS WTF is up with this “Undocumented Immigrants” label?
That’s like calling a drug dealer an undocumented pharmacist.
Looks like Michelle Malkin is carrying the flag in the battle against O’s Shamnesty Act.
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/09/obamas-shamnesty-distraction/
quote:
“It’s not just conservative immigration enforcement activists.
It’s politicians who have to answer to their law-abiding constituents demanding to know why scarce resources should be allocated to illegal aliens over citizens. Like the five Democrats in Colorado who helped kill the state version of the DREAM Act. And the local health officials in northern California who are finally ending taxpayer subsidies for non-emergency illegal alien care.”
With five democrats voting against the DREAM act here in Colorado, I got a flash of hope that we might survive this on-going fiasco of a Presidency.