Rep. King (R-Ia) passed over as subcommittee leader

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/article/20110108/AP/701089890

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CHRIS MACHIAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, was not named as chairman of an immigration subcommittee as expected.

By Robynn Tysver
WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER

Political reality — and the growing influence of the Latino vote nationally — may have torpedoed U.S. Rep. Steve King's chance for a chairmanship.

In a move Friday that shocked many, Republican leaders passed over King for the chairmanship of the committee that handles immigration, giving the title to a less-controversial and a less-senior California congressman.

It was a big snub for the western Iowa Republican, who had begun putting together plans to toughen policies on illegal immigration before officially learning whether he would take control of the congressional subcommittee that oversees the issue.

King's expected promotion, however, ran into opposition from key groups, including GOP Latinos. Some feared the hard-line Republican would turn off Latino voters. He has angered some Latinos with what they consider “inflammatory” anti-immigration remarks.

King once suggested an electric fence along the U.S.-Mexican border, noting that ranchers use the devices for cattle.

“I'm shocked. I thought it was a done deal but I guess it wasn't,” said Steffen Schmidt, political scientist at Iowa State University.

FULL story at link.

[somone]

1. Too stupid for their taste

[janet118]

2. or could it be this?

"As I deliberate and I listen to the gentleman from Tennessee, I have to make a point that when you challenge the mendacity of the leader there is an opportunity to make a motion to take the gentleman's words down, however many of the members are off on other endeavors and the leader and the speaker have established their integrity in their mendacity for years in this Congress and I don't think it can be challenged and those who do so are making aspersions by making wild accusations," King said.

[pacalo]

3. They certainly have integrity in their mendacity -- their dishonesty is most certainly from the

heart & true-blue to their despicable party.

[janet118]

7. I guess he was by-passed because he told truth to power . . .

:>)

[tpsbmam]

4. Is it bad that this gave me a little moment of "neener neener neener" glee?

Oh hell no!

:rofl: :rofl:

[Ikonoklast]

5. As I noted in another thread concerning this matter...

Lots of meatpacking plants in Iowa.

Lots of meatpacking plants in Iowa that were formerly decent-paying union meatpacking plants until the un ions were busted by bringing in illegal immigrants to work for slave wages.

Lots of money is made by packing houses on the backs of undocumented workers. Low wages, no benefits, and a docile workforce that gets terminated on the spot if they complain.

NO WAY IN HELL do they want those undocumented workers sent back to their home country.

Do you think that those big packing conglomerates will let Steve King fuck up their billions in profits by having to (gasp) hire Americans again?

[Omaha Steve]

6. Meat packing paid better before the Spam strike in the 80's

That door was wide open after Raygun fired the PATCO air controllers.

30 years of inflation and still meat packing paid better wages and benefits in the early 80's. And that spread Raygun economics across the country like a plague.

[Ikonoklast]

9. Packing plant unions were one of the first targeted by the union-busters.

As you well know, the big meat-packing conglomerates have always hated the unions with a passion, since the days of Upton Sinclair.

Once solidly middle-class jobs, all gone.

Now the wage paid barely is comparable to minimum wage, factoring in those thirty years of inflation, you are exactly correct.

[bullwinkle428]

8. This Iowan thinks, "It couldn't happen to a nicer asshole!"