I’m proud of Utah’s Compact on Immigration. We are a Red State that welcome immigrants. That still doesn’t stop Congressmen like @RepBurgessOwens who flock to the Southern border to exploit the desperation of people seeking a better life. Instead of drawing on the #UtahWay#utpol
and working with Democrats on long overdue immigration reform, they use immigration, immigrants, and human suffering to scare and enrage their base. There is a crisis at the border and a majority of it exists because it’s used as a campaign talking-point. The party of ‘fiscal
responsibility’ used Florida’s taxpayer’s money to pick up migrants that weren’t even in his state. Republicans brag about inroads the GOP has made with Hispanic voters. DeSantis and Abbott doing this on the eve of Hispanic Heritage Month reeks of Trump wanting to hold a rally
in Tulsa on Juneteenth. The Republican Florida Governor took Venezuelan migrants out of the state of Texas and flew them to Massachusetts on the dime of Florida’s taxpayer’s who are 26% Hispanic. Simultaneously, the Republican Texas Governor, whose
state has the 2nd largest Hispanic population in the country, packed up migrants from Latin American countries, bussed them to D.C and just left them. He, like DeSantis did it on the eve of #HispanicHeritageMonth
Of course they knew, and they didn’t care.
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In 1962, Southern segregationists thought of a way to get at Northern liberals. They tricked Blacks from the South into traveling days by Greyhound to cities in the North and West with the promise of jobs and housing. The stunt was called the Reverse Freedom Rides. Mothers and
fathers traveled for days with their kids, hopes and dreams of a better life than what they’d had in the Jim Crow South. With a one-way ticket, they arrived in unsuspecting cities with no job or housing waiting for them. Some were able to find work, but most could not. This stunt
was the Segregationists’ retaliation for the Freedom Rides that pushed to desegregate interstate buses. On May 4, 1961. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) began a racially integrated Freedom Ride through the South on Greyhound and Trailways buses to test the Supreme Court’s
Just saw the Club for Growth ad against McMullin. I was told awhile ago that negative and dirty politics doesn’t play well in Utah. Was that a lie? #utpol
Watching the Club for Growth ad admonish “liberals” reminded me of the Jimmy Smit-Alan Alda debate from the West Wing series (last tweet). Republicans love to ‘remind’ folks that the Republican Party freed the slaves. MAGA Republicans love to do this, too. I remember hearing the
former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s RNC speech from 2000. She said the fIrst Republican she knew was her father, and that he was a Republican because the Democratic Party in the Jim Crow South would not register him the vote. That would be a true statement backed by
Before Obergefell vs Hodges there was Loving vs Virginia. Receiving a warm welcome and ovation at this year’s CPAC was Viktor Orbán, who’d earlier gave a speech against ‘mixing’ European and non-European races. His speech echoed the speech given by Va. county Judge Leon Bazile
when he ruled against Mildred and Richard Loving in 1964, who were sentenced to a year in prison for committing the crime of getting married in Virginia.
The organizers of CPAC didn’t rescind Prime Minister Orbán’s invitation after making his incendiary comment. Nor did members of Congress such as @RepBurgessOwens who have mixed-race members of his own family, refuse to attend. When Owens had an opportunity to speak on protecting
We are the company we keep. CPAC featured speaker was Viktor Orban. He doesn’t believe in ‘race-mixing’. Loving vs Virginia wouldn’t exist. He doesn’t agree with immigration. The Statue of Liberty would be returned to France. He’s a white nationalist, racist authoritarian. #utpol
Viktor Orban is anti-semitic who doesn’t believe in America’s ideals or democracy. He believes in ethnic-states and that countries like Russia and China should be world’s leaders. #CD4 voters, @RepBurgessOwens shares a stage with Viktor Orban. washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/08…
Are these your beliefs, too? If not, then you cannot cast another ballot for Burgess Owens. It’s time to stand up for our beliefs and for democracy. Burgess Owens does not represent my beliefs or ideals. #utpol
This is a lie. The anti-abortion movement didn’t begin with the 1973 Roe v. Wade Decision. Sen. Graham is a lawyer from the state of South Carolina, home of Bob Jones University. BJU fought to maintain its tax-exempt status by arguing the First Amendment protected their religious
freedom to discriminate and deny admission to African-American students. BJU in SC and North Carolina’s Goldsboro Christian Schools [GCS] were crusaders against the 1971 federal order declaring private schools that practiced racial discrimination couldn’t be considered charitable
organizations under IRS 501(c)(3). Sen. Graham most definitely knows that the anti-abortion movement didn’t begin in 1973. It began with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Decision that desegregated schools in America.
Congratulations on receiving this award, @RepBurgessOwens. Joseph Rainey was a revered man. Yet, when you know & study the history of Rep. Joseph Rainey, one must question why @RaineyCenter would debase the name of whom the organization is named? Mr. Rainey was a Republican. That
is the only thing that connects him to the people this award was given. Most, if not all African-Americans were members of the Republican Party following the Civil War. The Party of Lincoln. Providing for the newly freed men and women meant, Rainey and cohort worked to uplift his
community, while in Congress and as a business man. Mr. Owens’ entire political career is antithetical to that work. Mr. Rainey worked with the Freeman’s Affairs, which was a failed attempt at reparations for the enslaved people. @BurgessOwens adamantly oppose reparations.