Another anti-immigrant know-nothing with a funny name
and these are refugees, for crying out loud!
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/hampshire-mayor-hopes-romney-help-him-reject-refugees-203457211.html
With Mitt Romney's strength in the polls in New Hampshire, the mayor of the state's biggest city hopes that a resolution to what he calls "the refugee resettlement question" will soon be at hand. While the Republican presidential candidates have been slugging it out in televised debates over issues like taxes and wars, one of the biggest local battles on the ground in New Hampshire has been over the place of 1,800 refugees from the tiny country of Bhutan. The debate is a parochial manifestation of what's sure to be a divisive issue in the 2012 presidential campaign: How will America treat its immigrants during a weak economic recovery?
"I can tell you if he is elected it will be high on his radar screen," Ted Gatsas, the mayor of Manchester, told Yahoo News in an interview in his window-lined office last week. Gatsas endorsed Romney in December. (He says he received no promises from Romney and that he plans to constantly lobby him about the issue.) Romney's campaign didn't respond to a request for comment....
"There's no question that this country is better than where they are [from]," Gatsas told Yahoo News. "But if we don't give the people that are here the opportunity to catch up, I don't know how we accept other ones."
Gatsas, who is the grandson of immigrants from Greece and Lebanon, added, "I'm not saying forever. Give us one year or two years so we can at least get these people into the system."
"I got mine, so screw you!" The repuke philosophy in a sound bite. Where's SoxFan (former Manchester alderman) when you need him??