So long as they know their place?
Should be blogger James Phillips drops an e-mail from Folsom, CA that highlights the real reason behind the pro-immigration feelings of Governor (at least for the next seven hours or so) Gray Davis:
Gov. Gray Davis, perched stiffly on a TV studio stool like a schoolboy in a spelling bee, recited his lines in a thin, reedy monotone.
Illegal immigrants are indispensable to California's economy, he began. But then he seemed to forget his audience.
"We need immigrants to pick our food and put it on our tables," he said as the audience --middle-class Latinos, primarily -- shifted uncomfortably. "We need immigrants to clean our hotels and office buildings and take care of the elderly."
And: "That work is important Whether people are janitors or maids or busboys or cooks, it's all part of the experience we enjoy when we're at a restaurant or a hotel."
Hey Jose, after you're done mowing my lawn how about whipping up a margarita and making me a burrito?
Si senor Davis.
Can you imagine the media firestorm if Ahnold or McClintock had made such incendiary statements?
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