Supporters (Ohio) of Arizona-like immigration law focus on 2011

Source: Dayton Daily News

If Ohio voters get a chance to cast their ballots on an Arizona-like law to crack down on illegal immigrants, the opportunity wouldn’t come until November 2011 at the earliest, state Rep. Courtney Combs, R-Hamilton, said Monday, May 10.

He and Butler County Sheriff Richard K. Jones are trying to line up the support and resources to run a campaign to get the proposal before voters.

Arizona’s recently adopted immigration law has set off a national fire storm among supporters and critics, extending to Ohio.

Jones has said he would spearhead a statewide “citizens’ initiative” to put a similar proposal on the ballot, possibly this November. Gov. Ted Strickland has said he would veto any Arizona-like bill.

Read more: http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/politics/supporters-of-arizona-like-immigration-law-focus-on-2011-698664.html

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The usual list of suspects. A republican state politician wanting to get a boost from a "Let's be as tough as Arizona" anti-immigrant law. Our own Buckeye version of Sheriff Arpaio. And, thankfully, a Democratic governor who will veto any such legislation.

Ohio is proof that if republicans can't make pass divide-and-conquer laws the old fashioned way, they go the referendum route.

they can to win State government and electoral votes back to red. They have even brought John Kasich out of Lehman Brothers to do it. Everyone needs to watch the amount of money spent on the Ohio state races this fall to see what I mean. It will be apocalyptical money.

And the illegal immigrant referendum? It will be lip service, since no one seems interested in visiting Able Roofing sites and putting their owners in jail for hiring those who are in this country illegally. It will be simply a piece of the plan to whip up the bigoted underbelly of the Republican party and those independents who really "aren't" independent at all.

for the past few years.

And everybody expects all that crap done to the state to be fixed quickly and "overnight" ...

I'd comment that it's merely political posturing, but it's more than that--those idiots really do want to enact legislation or qualify a referendum for the ballot.

(BTW, as a Kerrytraveler from CA, I spent a couple of months in Columbus in '04 and had a wonderful time with the many terrific Buckeyes I met. After the election, they even got me into the championship game--and, while I'm not much of a college sports fan, it was a thrilling experience (and the band was spectacular!). I didn't keep the REAL buckeyes they souvenired me (from the trees on-campus), but I still tune in to the games once in a while--wearing the red Buckeyes hat they gave me.)

generations of them, from all over Western Europe!

It looks like Jesus is struggling as he's sinking in quicksand.

As for that last picture, if Ohio does pass an Arizona-type immigrant law, it seems to me that Mr. Orange Boner will need to carry a bunch of ID to convince the authorities he didn't come into this state illegally.

and he hasn't presented any proof to the contrary.

I've heard it called Touchdown Jesus or Big Butter Jesus. Quicksand works, too.

Many people here speak English as a second language and Spanish is not the first.

It always amazes me the ones who are screaming about the Mexican immigrants wouldn't be here if earlier generations had done something about them or their parent coming to America.

Seriously.

If that fucking asshole wins the governors race in Ohio, I'm out of a job. He will cut funding to every state university, destroy every teachers union, and kill the dept of education. If it's one thing republicans hate, it's an educated populace.

Strickland HAS TO WIN OHIO in 2011!

Watch the rural teabaggers and the farmers fight it out. You won't get those teabaggers out in the field to pick the crops.