Conservatives
lose again under Gold Dome, By
D.A. King, Dalton Daily Citizen, May 2, 2016
Both bills had the votes
top pass the House: “Shall the Constitution of
Georgia be amended so as to provide that English is the official language of
the State of Georgia?" Proposed statewide ballot question for the November
election contained in SR675 sponsored by Republican Senator Josh McKoon.
As a late note on the end
of the 2015-2016 General Assembly, here are more examples of Gold Dome reality
for people who don’t know how their government really works - and some
observations.
Despite a December Rosetta
Stone Communications poll showing a whopping 76% bipartisan public approval
rate for amending the state constitution to make English the official language
of government, Georgia voters will not be allowed to answer the above ballot
question in November.
Unless there is a badly
needed Executive Order from Governor Deal changing current policy at DDS,
Georgia will continue to give the illegal aliens, foreign diplomats and
Mercedes Benz executives here on a legal visas the exact same drivers license.
A committee-gutted version
McKoon’s SB6 would have created a new, vertically-oriented ‘driving card’ for
the illegal aliens with Obama’s deferred action on deportation amnesty and
would have clearly displayed their illegal status. That would have made it more
difficult for illegal victims of borders to board airliners, rent vehicles,
enter federal buildings and register to vote.
After the renewed reminder
on where Gov. Deal and corporate Georgia (apologies for the repetition) stand
on religious liberty legislation, readers should take an interest in why and
how SR675 and SB6 were defeated in a Republican-ruled state.
Both bills finally passed
the GOP state senate. All thirty-nine senate Republicans voted to let voters
decide on the official English Resolution. Only one GOP senator voted against
the bill improving the security on illegal alien’s drivers licenses. That was
restaurant-owner Senator Tommie Williams of South Georgia. Williams told the
senate he wanted to protect his illegal alien sous chef.
Nevertheless, both bills
are as dead as Poncho Villa. They were killed in the Republican-majority
Georgia House controlled by Speaker David Ralston because of Ralston’s personal
animosity for the bill’s sponsor and on orders from the Georgia Chamber of
Commerce.
The triumphant,
corporate-funded illegal alien lobby is still rejoicing. “The failure of the
anti-immigrant measures was a step forward in the search for equal rights for
everyone in Georgia," beamed Adelina Nicholls, executive director of the
anti-borders Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights.
Got that? Allowing
American voters to decide on English as the constitutional official language of
government and noting on their drivers licenses that illegal aliens are illegal
is “anti-immigrant.” Nichols gleeful remark should be regarded as an answer to
the question “how un-American are they?”
We note here that even
when the Democrats controlled the state Capitol, illegal aliens could not
legally obtain a drivers license. We also note that when the open borders
organizers speak of “equal rights for everyone”, they are aiming directly at
the end of immigration enforcement and winning voting rights for illegal
aliens.
Many Republican county and
district conventions last year saw passage of resolutions supporting a ballot
question on constitutional official English and ending the practice of
rewarding any illegals with any Georgia drivers license. The drivers license
resolution also passed at the Republican state convention. This was due to the
courageous work of commonsense, grassroots conservative activists in Georgia’s
Republican Party but was ignored by Speaker Ralston.
For Georgia conservatives,
the failure of SR675 and SB6 in the GOP-controlled legislature should serve as
obvious indicators of badly needed change. As a no-brainer security measure,
Governor Deal can and should use his own executive power to modify the drivers
licenses his administration is giving to illegal aliens.
King is president of the
Georgia-based Dustin Inman Society and an independent voter. Twitter @DAKDIS
Comments
Saving America will
require a complete rejection of “open borders” legislation. The Georgia legislature has been controlled
from the top down to ignore voter polls and give Obama everything he wants. Obama controls grants to states and Georgia
chose to “do their part”.
Trump is vowing to change
all this.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA
Tea Party Leader
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