As if Joshua Hoyt wasn’t enough–now we have Proft’s recent pronouncement with his usual flourish and aplomb, that his campaign was endorsed by Steve Rauschenberger. This guy can’t win for losing.
December 8, 2009
This morning on the top-rated Don Wade & Roma Morning Show on WLS-AM 890, 14-year State Senator and noted conservative reformer Steve Rauschenberger endorsed Dan Proft for Governor.
“I am proud to endorse Dan Proft’s candidacy for Governor because Proft is the only candidate who has properly diagnosed what afflicts state government and is prescribing the right policy remedies,” said Rauschenberger. “The other candidates believe we have a management problem in state government. Proft correctly understands that it is a system problem.”
Rauschenberger, a former member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and lead budget negotiator for the Senate Republicans, cited Proft’s plans to cut taxes and impose statutory spending caps as well as his commitment to overhaul K-12 in Illinois as prime examples of prescribing the right policy remedies.
“People ask me if Proft’s ideas are workable. Not only are they workable, they are absolutely necessary,” said Rauschenberger, a former National President of the National Council of State Legislatures (NCSL).
That’s interesting-because here’s something from June of 2005-“Illinois State Senator Steven Rauschenberger: An illegal alien’s best friend” - by Dave Gorak, the Executive Director of the Midwest Coalition to Reduce Immigration , indicating that yet another Proft buddy is “in” with the amnesty for illegals-type crowd. But if you dare call it out, you risk being called ‘black helicopter folks’, as Tom Mannis was by Proft on twitter yesterday.
Here are a couple of the pearls of wisdom Proft was slinging on twitter-
Sigh, it is futile to talk to black helicopter folks like you.You hear/read only what you can assimilate-and that ain’t much.
one more idea: take a remedial reading comprehension course and then we can debate what I wrote vs. your distortion of it
It’s not reading comprehensionTM that’s the problem here.
During a recent radio interview in which he offered his views about the just concluded state budget agreement, Illinois State Senator Steven Rauschenberger (R-Elgin) said the financial crisis was due in large part to Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s inability to “say no to anybody.”
Both men, ironically, have the same problem when dealing with illegal aliens. During an economic trade agreement signing in December with Mexico at that country’s Chicago consulate, Blagojevich told an enthusiastic crowd that he supports drivers licenses for illegals because these folks need a means of “getting to their jobs” (that were stolen from Americans.)
Rauschenberger, who says he’s “90 percent sure” he will run for governor next year, supported legislation (now law) in 2003 that gives instate tuition to illegal aliens, and last month he voted for a bill that recognizes foreign ID cards like Mexico’s matricula consular.
With these two gifts to illegal aliens under his belt, Rauschenberger, the president-elect of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), now has set his sights on giving them drivers licenses
Read the whole thing; but you can see by adding things up here what Proft’s REAL position-without the smoke and mirrors- is on the issue of illegal immigration and amnesty.
Yes, Dan, birds of a feather flock together, as I said to you in that spirited email exchange when we were trying – or at least I was trying-to discuss your relationship with Joshua Hoyt.
While Warner Todd Huston sings Kubaya and wants everyone to get along…we need to call things out as they really are.
If we compromise on every issue; we are left with disastrous policy prescriptions that effect all the American citizens who are unemployed, who are effected by the devastating crime brought to American by illegals, who are footing the bill for their benefits, medical coverage, and all the other things that the Mexican government has done to fail their own citizens.
I’ll do some digging and see if I can come up with the figures for Illinois…and how much illegal immigration has cost this state.
Illegal immigration is just as bad for our economy as shipping jobs overseas, says the Center for Immigration Studies. Illegal Immigration imports poverty and takes jobs away from the poor, American citizen High School dropouts- and middle-class Americans. If illegals want live in Illinois, they should first be forced to return to their country of origin and go to the end of the line. Illegal aliens nationwide have sent over 200 billion U.S. dollars back home since 1996.
In addition to employment, illegal immigrants get a number of other perts including, but not limited to, free medical treatment, food stamps, schooling, and WIC. It is the taxpayers who end up paying for all of this. If and when illegals get arrested, it’s taxpayers who pay for their court services and imprisonment. Whatever illegal immigration might possibly do for the U.S. economy is easily outweighed by the burdon it puts on taxpayers (over $20 billion annually).
This isn’t ‘demogogue’-ing the issue, this is simply looking at the facts.
Which, by the way, Dan’s own people said that they’ve talked to Dan Proft on the illegal immigration issue and ‘he won’t budge’. Now if his own people are saying that, then you know that he’s not being honest when he puts forward his position formally listed here.
“Nasty” isn’t a desirable quality, and neither is dishonesty-which, correct me if I’m wrong, is what I’m seeing here. This also makes me wonder when he talked about our immoral laws in that article at URQmedia and how it is possible-if he really believes that hogwash-and everything is America’s fault – that he could sign on as a 912 candidate.
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