umm. This was yesterday. I wonder if there was any fallout? Anyone hear/see of anything?
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/kansas-goper-lets-shoot-illegal-immigrants-like-pigs.phpKansas GOPer: Let's Shoot Illegal Immigrants Like Pigs
Jillian Rayfield | March 14, 2011, 6:29PM
State Rep. Virgil Peck (R-KS)
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Immigration, Kansas, Virgil Peck
Kansas State Rep. Virgil Peck (R) suggested Monday that the best way to deal with the illegal immigration problem may be the same way the state might deal with the problem of "feral hogs" -- by shooting them from a helicopter.
The state's House Appropriations Committee was debating financing for controlling the feral swine problem, the Lawrence Journal World reports, when one legislator suggested the problem could be handled by shooting them from helicopters. Peck offered: "It looks like to me if shooting these immigrating feral hogs works maybe we have found a
to our illegal immigration problem."
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He said he didn't expect any further controversy over his comment. "I think it's over," he said.
Here's the audio, via Roy Rogers at Dome On The Range: