I don’t mean anything personal by it.

These days it appears that approaching things as delicately as possible in everything you do should be the primary concern-and emotion rules the day; not facts.

You’re not the enemy; I’ve never believed you were “the enemy” whatever that means- I know who you are -or at least I THOUGHT I did up until this moment…you and I are both registered contributors at STOPTHEACLU.com!

I appreciate that you came by and am very flattered by it – as I said on that interview with you on my blog talk radio show – I respect your work, and think very highly of your writing.

Rosanna should have every opportunity to talk about this thing with Ratowitz; and I’ve said my piece over here. You should certainly have every opportunity to do your own analysis.

Please don’t be offended if I link to your site if you do that, I would like readers to be able to follow what’s going on, and it helps me to follow what’s going on, too.

In FACT, I attended Rosanna’s organization meeting when she tried to run for that same seat that Ratowitz is now running for. Yep, got in my little car and drove all the way downtown.

I’ve contacted Rosanna to give her a full post to say her piece on the issue so that she has the respect of an open forum on my blogs and is not just being relegated to the comments section. That is on my bogs. What you do on yours is not my concern nor do I have any problem with it. I have enjoyed your point of view and have been following this issue.

My stance on illegal immigration is pretty well developed through my writing as yours is for you. I am against it. I am 100% for the building of the wall, I am against sanctuary cities, I am against cops being stopped from asking if a suspect is a legal citizen, and I think that amnesty is a horrible idea. I think employers should be fined and prosecuted for hiring illegals and I think that no child of an illegal should be allowed to go to school as if he were a citizen. I am also against the Census counting illegals and against the state paying health bills for illegals.

As to Ratowitz, I met him once. I am not part of his campaign. I am, however, the editor of the Cook County pages on RedCounty.com and have been charged to talk about ALL the GOP candidates for the Cook County area and the surrounding communities. This controversy makes for good copy and that is why I want all sides covered.

I have to say, though, I am somewhat sorry I so innocently came here to join in the discussion not realizing that I would be attacked as some apostate to the cause… especially since I did not even pronounce my opinion on this whole matter but have simply reported all sides as the issue has played out. (All I said is that the petition aspect of the story didn’t particularly interest me) Apparently, one cannot even report what the other side is saying without being accused of being a monster around here!

In any case, Rosanna has agreed to drop me a line about her side of this tale and I am happy to post it on my site in a formal post. Just as I was happy to link to your post about it all on my site.

Rosanna said some things here in comments that you didn’t include, that struck me as somewhat curious.

I am curious why you feel it is your job to email Rosanna to clarify her position when she’s already made it clear, and it’s clear that I’m in touch with her? In fact, I was contacted by an associate of the Ratowitz campaign that wanted to know if I was, in fact, Rosanna Pulido! What an absurd accusation! But they are desperate to find someone to blame for the challenge to his petition signatures!

Why do you think it’s necessary to mediate, Warner? Do you think I’m being unfair to the Ratowitz campaign, or – what is your motivation here? What is your connection to them?

I’ve already published Rosanna’s response.

I am speaking as an associate and supporter of the Minuteman groups (Chicago, Midwest, the Minuteman Project, etc.) and Chris Simcox, Rick Biesada and Jake and MJ – and I have been very forthcoming on my views on the subject; and if you go through my archives, you can even find my interview with Rosanna on my blog talk radio show.

You can go through the “open borders and immigration” category here and find a lot of videos and articles not only about what has happened on this subject in the Chicagoland area (courtesy of Jake and MJ) but across the nation- including the once active “blogs for borders blogbursts”, mostly written by Heidi at Euphoric Reality.

What is your position on immigration, Warner? Or is your purpose in all of this merely to be the ‘objective reporter’? (because I am always interesting-but biased)?

I just got the Ratowitz campaign’s latest on his stance on immigration. You can see it at: http://bit.ly/3DDjhs

We all should keep the discussion going and I am not trying to hide anyone’s info in favor of the other party’s. We need this info out so we can make an informed decision at the polls.

I’m troubled by a number of things about Ratowitz’s campaign including the Log Cabin Republicans meetup group and the connection to Ron Paulian non interventionist truther types.

The fact is – the guy has been and is currently involved with some nutty people and is connected to that artificial creation (like most political committees) – the Chicago GOP, which has a heavy *** influence and is known as an assortment of bad people.

Nothing Ferreri says or WTH writes will change those simple facts.