Response to Racist GOP Mailers
WHEC TV 10 had this on the 11 PM news:
Campaign flyer offends Muslim community
ROCHESTER - There is a new debate in Monroe County related to Governor Spitzer’s plan to give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants. The debate has worked its way into the county legislature races. It has to do with a campaign mailing sent out by the Republican Party.
It is not so much what it says but what it shows that has members of the Islamic community upset. The flyer suggests that county legislature democrats want to license potential terrorists and the literature contains images intended to depict terrorists.
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Dr. Shafiq is the Imam at the Islamic Center on Westfall Road in Rochester. He says the images are offensive to Muslims and believes the Republican Party is using fear tactics to persuade voters.
Offensive? Fear tactics? Ya think?
County clerk Cheryl Dinolfo disagrees.
“I really do take issue with that way of thinking because, again, that piece is about not one particular nationality,” said Dinolfo.
Dinolfo says licensing illegal immigrants could jeopardize the security of the entire nation. She uses 9/11 as an example.
“The fact remains that there were terrorists who came into this country and harmed our country using licenses to do so,” said Dinolfo.
Oh. My. God. Did it look like she was wired or did she simply memorize those talking points? With a performance like that, no doubt Minarik is queueing her up to take Maggie’s place.
County Democrats say the Republicans are attacking them on the licensing issue that the county legislature has virtually no control over. Democrats accuse Republicans of using the topic to try and hold onto control of the county legislature.
“Frankly putting someone on the face of campaign literature with an Uzi in his hand and accusing Democrats of aiding and abetting terrorists is about the lowest form of discourse or communication I’ve ever seen in this community,” said Monroe County Democratic Chair, Assemblyman Joe Morelle.
Other responses? D&C Ed Board? Anyone?
Wease just came out hard against it. Mocked the Republicans for trying to scare us.
Tommy smart-alecked something about “Watch out! Al-Qaeda’s coming to Penfield!”
Morelle called in and said it was despicable, or something like that.
They were all slamming Danielle, too, bigtime.
has everyone gone insane? the terrorists were here LEGALLY!!!!! it doesn’t matter that they had driver’s licenses. why can’t the media call out the repubs on this? LEGALLY!!!
I thought they used box cutters and airplanes, not licenses. I stand corrected. If only they didn’t have those damn licenses, everything would have been OK.
Ah. So, maybe the Republicans aught to find an “Every color of the rainbow” fear tactic? Maybe their mailers aught to be like the “Inclusion” literature you get at your job, and show people of different colors, all standing side-by-side, all smiling, all shaking hands, all carrying Uzis?
Or maybe they should just say, “fear brown people!” It is, after all, the whole point of the illegal immigrant/terrorist fear nexus the Republicans are drumming up.
What did the terrorists do with their licenses…give paper cuts?
Hehehe, lots of laughs.
I think they should have been totally inclusive. Why not stick Minarik in the picture with wads of money wrapped around his face, and children running away in the background.
Props to Morelle for coming out strong today. I hope he continues to seek visibility and presses the issues.
Let me be the first to personally THANK Monroe County Clerk Cheryl Dinolfo and her Republican cohorts in the County Lej for keeping me and my family safe!
Now when I’m on the road I just have to watch out for the geriatrics who got their licenses in 1927 and are still driving at 1927 speeds on 590…Oh, and the texting-16 year olds…And that macho guyin the Camaro trying to run me off the road…and that guy in the morning who’s late for work and can’t be bothered to stop for the school bus…Not to mention the RTS bus drivers who are in some way exempt from many traffic laws.
But no terrorists! THANKS CHERYL!!
Could the Republican party have survived this long without the terrorist attacks of 9/11? It seems everything they say and do is based on invoking memories of 9/11.
“It seems everything they say and do is based on invoking memories of 9/11.”
…except of course capturing Osama Bin Laden, the guy who did it. Maybe he will apply for a Driver’s License and Cheryl Dinofolo will apprehend him and the world will be saved! Hooray!
Enter Joe Biden: “There’s only three things [that the leading Republican candidate] mentions in a sentence — a noun, a verb, and 9/11.”
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