More on Jack Davis and Civil War
Over at TAP, Robert Harding has a must read follow-up to our earlier post on Jack Davis’s call for a Civil War. He notes that farmers are not happy with the statement:
Many Western New York farmers rely on migrant workers from Mexico to bring in the crops.
After hearing quotes from Davis’ speech, John Lincoln, the president of the New York Farm Bureau, said: “The farmers overall would be really concerned about his statement.”
Told what Lincoln said, Davis replied: “He’s not a regular farmer. He’s one of these big guys . . . I’d call him a multinational farmer.”
Lincoln, 70, is a dairy farmer with 200 head of cattle in Bloomfield, a village of 1,258 in Ontario County, southeast of Rochester. Asked if he had ever met Lincoln, Davis said he had not.
And here’s the response from a leading Latino group:
Meanwhile, a top official at the National Council of La Raza, the nation’s leading Hispanic organization, termed Davis’ comments “extremely offensive.”
“He’s feeding an environment of intolerance that doesn’t distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants,” said Clarissa Martinez, director of immigration and national campaigns for the organization. “He’s presenting our whole community as invaders - people who want to take over the country.”
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“He’s not a regular farmer” — bs. All the major farm organizations are concerned about getting enough migrant labor to harvest their crops.
I know. I will try to find another article I saw about this issue — it was in the Times last week.
I was a little worried that this way-overdue exposure of Jack’s crazy side wouldn’t get noticed, but this piece is the most emailed article from the Buffalo News today.
I call him Jack Racist instead of Jack Davis
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