#doesntjive

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"You may see Jesus when you look at them. I see Satan. And if they don’t like it here, hey, the door they came through to get here swings both ways." Republican Appointee

Annie-Rose Strasser: And while firing Krieser may remove some of the most virulent anti-immigrant rhetoric from his state government, it doesn’t address Walker’s ambiguous stance on reform.

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"It was sloppy, it was slapdash and it was inaccurate," said Polk County Supervisor of Elections Lori Edwards. “They were sending us names of people to remove because they were born in Puerto Rico. It was disgusting."

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Perhaps most troubling is that Mr. Edwards, Mr. Scott's single largest individual political contributor outside of family members, claims to have written the telemarketing pitches to service members, personally.

According to a Tampa Bay Times profile on Mr. Edwards:

He calls the script he personally wrote for telemarketers "the book." They are not to veer from it. It's based on sales principles he has culled from 20 years along with "understanding, firsthand, veterans, how they think, speak, analyze and relate to people."

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American Majority?

Interesting

A group called “American Majority" and an “organizing arm of the Right" has an all anglo staff nationwide. And they are expanding in places like Florida (good luck with that.)

Maybe if they called themselves an Anglo Majority I would see what they mean. Except, we have been through that, and it didn’t work out in the past.

So, what kind of majority are they trying to build? Isn’t an American majority made up of Americans?

Sounds more like one that is less diverse and more part of the culture of intolerance. Maybe they also subscribe to the Schlafly and company way of thinking and doing things.

Beyond a look into the non-profit status - i.e. Citizens United - like others have and also acknowledging that it’s the staff’s bread and butter (too soon Paula Deen?) in the marketing of politics, and they could be clueless,

It just doesn’t jive.

So what is an American majority?

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Phyllis Schlafly is doing her part to keep the Republican Party white.

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Private Prisons Expect To Profit From Immigration Reform

Industry officials had been cautious of the legislation’s impacts on the prison business, as reform would decriminalize the estimated 11.1 million undocumented immigrants.

It just doesn't jive:

Private prison contractors have become popular with many Republican lawmakers across the country because of their promises to cut costs. 

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There was a time in this country when the linked arms of those three groups would unquestionably have been joined by most Republicans on Capitol Hill. But that was long ago. Now the GOP is a different animal altogether." "What we are watching here is absolutely historic." "But I can say this: the defeat in the House of immigration reform, on the explicit political grounds that “we” (the GOP) don’t “need” Latinos and can win in the future by just riling up the white vote—which is in fact the argument now—represents a mainstreaming of Brimelow and Sailer that would have been totally unimaginable a decade ago."

The GOP’s Future: Move Right and Move White - The Daily Beast