GOP Candidate: Deport Latino Farmworkers, Replace With Inner-City Blacks

[Judi Lynn]

GOP Candidate: Deport Latino Farmworkers, Replace With Inner-City Blacks
— By Suzy Khimm
| Tue Mar. 15, 2011 6:26 AM PDT.

A Republican candidate running for Rep. Chris "Craigslist" Lee's seat in upstate New York isn't doing his scandalized party any favors. Jack Davis, a local businessman vying for the seat, shocked local GOP leaders by suggesting that the area's Hispanic farmworkers should be deported, and that inner city blacks should be bused in to pick the crops instead, as The Buffalo News reports.

Davis made the comments during a February 20 endorsement interview with local Republican Party leaders—and it's not the first time he's floated the idea. In 2008, Davis told another local paper: "We have a huge unemployment problem with black youth in our cities. Put them on buses, take them out there and pay them a decent wage; they will work."

Local Republicans leaders have quickly distanced themselves from Davis' inflammatory comments. "Maybe in 1860 that might have been seen by some as an appropriate comment, but not now," Amherst GOP Chairman Marshall Wood told the Buffalo News. But Davis—who's previously run for the seat as a Democrat—seems determined to continue his bid for the special election in May, casting himself as an anti-trade populist with tea party appeal.

What's next? A state Republican arguing that the physically and mentally disabled should be euthanized or just sent to Siberia? Or that illegal immigrants should be shot from helicopters like "feral hogs"? Oh no—both of those things have already happened.

http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/03/gop-candidate-deport-latino-farmworkers-replace-inner-city-blacks

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Run, Jack, Run!
Posted 25 days ago by Alan Bedenko

http://wnymedia.net/buffalopundit/2011/02/run-jack-run/

[rfranklin]

1. Forced busing? Weren't they against that a few years ago?

And what's a "decent wage?" For Republicans it's usually about half of the minimum wage.

[iwishiwas]

2. I wonder if he is still in the running as this happened Feb 20.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Apparently so, as Mother Jones took this from a Buffalo News article published today.

Davis' comments shock GOP leaders
http://www.buffalonews.com/topics/chris-lee/special-election/article367437.ece

[TheWraith]

10. Yes and no. He is NOT the Republican candidate, or even A Republican candidate.

He was a Republican, who then switched parties to run as a Democrat in 2004, 2006, and 2008. After that he went back to the Republicans, and now he's running as an independent.

The actual GOP candidate is Assemblywoman Jane Corwin (who's going to win in a walk). There is no Democratic candidate yet.

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Send the Honky Banksters (R) back to England, and replace them with Eskimos" - Redskins

[dkf]

5. Why not bus anyone who wants to work?

Yeah its not PC to suggest blacks do this, but farming is good honest work. Is that why we can't get Americans to farm? We equate it with slavery?

[exboyfil]

6. Funny how we have no problem getting white teenagers in

Iowa to board buses to go detasseling in the summer. Work is work - many of these kids are also some of the ones who do best academically. Many are squirrelling money away for college.

[dkf]

7. Yup. We need to restore and raise our appreciation for working hard.

[Judi Lynn]

8. We have no problem with "white teenagers" and work? Really?

Maybe your "white teenagers" might be interested in taking on the backbreaking work assigned immigrants, and eliminate the filthy noise from other "white" American citizens over "illegals."

[exboyfil]

9. The question was whether black teenagers should be bussed

to do agricultural work. I pointed out it is going on with lots of middle class white kids in Iowa. The buses pick them up at the school and head out during detasseling season.

The question becomes can you get idle individuals (U.S. citizens) to work opportunities. What would make these opportunities attractive for idle individuals over importing workers from another country? Maybe the answer is nothing, and we are structurally required to continue to push agricultural wages down by making exploited workers available otherwise we will lose our agricultural basis to cheaper imports from places like Chile.

While I can appreciate the plight of foreigners in their own country, I feel we have an obligation to provide first for our citizens and that includes jobs.

[Judi Lynn]

12. I know all about those kids. My sister was one, for a very short time, also.

She left it quickly to get a summer job at a country club, then, during college, managed to get jobs at Lake Champlain, New York, and casinos in Reno, etc., and had to get her parents to send her money to get home, of course. One really has to stretch oneself, embrace new experiences.

[PurityOfEssence]

11. Must be a bummer for him that ya can't grow cotton in New York...

It's getting rather interesting to see just how ugly these guys can get now that they're emboldened with assumptions of popular support.

[louslobbs]

13. Looks like the Republicon Plantation Owners, want their slaves back

Lou

[yurbud]

14. he doesn't understand the economics of illegal immigration--farmers want them BECAUSE they're

illegal, so they don't have to pay them minimum wage or worry about any pesky worker safety laws or taxes.

[yurbud]

15. I would encourage him to do a trial run himself. Drive the bus into a poor neighborhood, hop off

and say, ''Who wants to pick cotton for 3 cents a bushel?''

I'm sure he'd get an appropriate response.