Mack bias
To the editor:
An editorial in another newspaper calling Congressman Connie Mack a staunch conservative is a little like calling V. I. Lenin a pacifist, it is just so untrue. Mr. Mack is adept at the Washington style of hate mongering. Pick a target, Hugo Chavez, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the new Arizona immigration law and Connie is right there to spew his vitriol against imagined enemies.
Let’s help dear Connie look at the facts. According to most polls over 70 percent of Arizonians approve the new (enforce the immigration law) law. Yet, (get this) only 58 percent of Arizonians are white; 30 percent are Hispanic, 5 percent are Native American, 4 percent are black, and 2 percent are mixed race.
The Phoenix Suns Basketball Team played to a full house of more than 18,000 people on Tuesday night May 5 with many Hispanics in attendance. Outside, New York Congressman Al Sharpton’s anti-law march drew fewer than 3,000. Most citizen Hispanics don’t support human trafficking, the narcotics trade, and criminal gangs. They want safe neighborhoods, too.
What Mack should do to mitigate this egregious problem is demand removal of all incentives to illegal immigration; including doubling sentences for those who hire illegal aliens. During Mr. Mack’s less-than-illustrious career the U.S. budget deficit has blossomed to one and a half trillion dollars. Also, we’re involved in no-win wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and on the verge of becoming a third world country, while Mr. Mack has the gall to criticize the besieged citizens of the great state of Arizona.
You’d think with the “drill baby drill” debacle on our coastline Mr. Mack would have enough problems right here at home to keep him busy rather than finding fault elsewhere.
Jon Larsen Shudlick
Cape Coral