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Thompson Mailer: Huckabee University: Illegals Welcome
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ABC News Christine Byun Reports: While Fred Thompson didn't attack Republican rival Mike Huckabee today on the debate stage, Iowa residents will be getting a new mail brochure from the former Senator's campaign which questions his rival's stance on immigration.
The new mailer looks like an advertisement for higher learning, with the phrase, "Huckabee University, Illegals Welcome, US citizens need not apply" against a backdrop of a scholarly-looking building. It also claims, "Huckabee talks like a Republican, but governs like a Democrat," and says the Arkansas governor "championed an effort ... to give in-state tuition at state colleges and taxpayer-funded scholarships to illegal immigrants."
It also accuses Huckabee of being against "legislation to require proof of citizenship in order to obtain public benefits and to vote."
This is the second flier the Thompson campaign has sent assailing Huckabee in Iowa in the past two weeks. Both fliers show a theme of Thompson's camp likening Huckabee to Democrats.
December 12, 2007 in Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (4)
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How could Huckabee be "against 'legislation to require proof of citizenship in order to obtain public benefits and to vote'" when he signed Act 2210 in 2005 that made it impossible for illegal immigrants to get a driver license?
Posted by: Mark | Dec 12, 2007 7:49:08 PM
When the Minutemen founder Jim Gilcrest endorses you for your immigration plan, it kind of takes the teeth out of these baseless attacks. Huckabee's support would have required the students to apply for citizenship, would have been granted to high achievers, and would have produced more educated legal tax payers. I guess Thompson would have said, "Nice job on your grades, now get out of my country because your parents broke our laws." Hmmm...
Posted by: John | Dec 12, 2007 8:01:20 PM
John: what Huck actually supported was a very broad plan that only required them to say they were going to apply and it was open to any illegal alien.
Posted by: The facts | Dec 12, 2007 8:09:48 PM
Word of God to 2008 Candidate Romney & Co
James 5:4
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of SABAOTH.
Posted by: Toto | Dec 13, 2007 1:24:20 PM
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