Texas Tea Party to Rick Perry: ‘We are fed up’

[highplainsdem]

http://blog.chron.com/rickperry/2011/09/texas-tea-party-to-rick-perry-we-are-fed-up/

Texas Tea Party leaders are unhappy with Gov. Rick Perry’s immigration-related positions and want him to call another special legislative session to give state lawmakers a third opportunity to ban sanctuary cities.

“This is an issue that is simmering and bubbling up to the surface … We are tired of lip service. We are fed up. We are fed up, too, Gov. Perry,” Texas Tea Party Caucus Advisory Committee chair JoAnn Fleming of Tyler said Monday.

Perry declared sanctuary cities an emergency issue in January and put it back on the legislative agenda in June after lawmakers failed to approve legislation during the regular session. Legislation to ban so-called sanctuary cities – and subject anyone stopped for a traffic violation to document their citizenship – also failed during the special session.

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“I left the room with the impression that a second special session would be an option,” said Katrina Pierson, founder of the Garland Tea Party and a member of the Dallas Tea Party steering committee.

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According to this Houston Chronicle blog, Texas Tea Party leaders "are not concerned that a special legislative session would conflict with Perry’s presidential campaign."

[ashling]

1. Is the Tea Party going to pay for this special session?

:shrug:

[napoleon_in_rags]

2. Immigration is one of those issues where millionaires interests collide with working conservatives.

With an epic unemployment rate, that whole jingle of "them" doing the jobs we don't want to do rings mighty hollow. Its just as hollow as the Dem claims to stand up for Labor while they openly advocate for illegals to be used to circumvent labor rights and eradicate American jobs for the benefit of millionaires who hire them. With Latino American population rising, both parties want to be on the right side of the future, but nobody is talking sanity: A way to get these people into a stable, taxpaying and protected status as American workers.