GOP in Idaho's Bonner County doesn't like 'Fiesta' theme

[meegbear]

Some Republicans are unhappy with the Bonner County Fair's theme of "Fiesta at the Fair," in light of ongoing battles to stop illegal immigration from Mexico.

The Bonner County GOP said it will decorate its booth with the word "celebrate" instead of "fiesta." The Republicans have also asked Arizona officials for some license plates to put in the booth, to show support for that state's controversial law targeting illegal immigrants.

"The Republicans at BCRCC want to make it very clear that English is our primary language, and call our booths 'Celebrate!' and display some Arizona license plates if you have some to spare," Bonner County Republican Central Committee Chairman Cornel Rasor wrote in a letter to Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, according to The Spokesman-Review newspaper.

The fair runs Aug. 24-28 in Sandpoint, Idaho, a town with relatively few minorities that is about 90 miles north of Spokane, Wash.

Bonner County fair board Chairman Tim Cary said the fair was just looking for a theme that's fun to decorate with, and the choice had nothing to do with official language or immigration disputes.

Cary noted that one of the fair's regular offerings is the Mexican food sold at the Search and Rescue booth.

"Are we supposed to change the name of a burrito to something in English?" Cary said. "I'm thinking there's some narrow-mindedness here, but that's just my opinion."

The county GOP at its monthly meeting in June voted to "affirm" Arizona's tough immigration law and to send the letter seeking the license plates for the fair booth to Arizona's governor.

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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700046570/GOP-in-Idahos-Bonner-County-doesnt-like-Fiesta-theme.html

[RandomThoughts]

1. What is your meaning in the signature line?

[meegbear]

6. Been hearing/seeing that phrase on some blogs I visit ...

so I threw it on.

And I am the official bear on this site.

[RandomThoughts]

7. I meant the comment on take that.

not the beer comment.


Note that I do not think Hippies are dirtier then other people, although some made that judgment by only looking at the outside, not the inside.

[KamaAina]

2. The teabaggers should sell Anglicized burritos

that is to say, "little asses". :eyes:

[SargeUNN]

3. Wow I feel like I am back in the past

seeing they want to use Arizona license plates like that takes me back to my days in Jim Crow Mississippi when if anyone wanted to show racism they often opted to use Mississippi as the symbol. I even was assumed to be a KKK member and racist when I went to Air Force Basic just because I was from Mississippi. Members of my flight believed it in spite of the fact I told them I had sided against it, but I was from Mississippi so I had to be what they believed. Now here I am in Juan Crow Arizona and wondering how long will it be that just because I am now from Arizona I have to be in favor of Juan Crow.

[Kber]

4. "I'm thinking there's some narrow-mindedness here, but that's just my opinion."

Wow.

I mean, wow.

[JoePhilly]

5. Will they serve Freedom Fries and Freedom Toast???

And will you be able to buy a Margarita ... ??

[WolverineDG]

9. Yes, they'll be selling Margarets nt

[damntexdem]

8. Well they could call their booth the "Fester at the Fair."

And if they wanted to give out food but not use Spanish words, they could give out burritos but call them "little asses."

;-)

[Cleita]

10. I lived there for five years and knew one Mexican

national who worked as a gardener in the resort I worked at and he had a Green Card. There is no fear of those kind of immigrants there. Being sixty miles from the Canadian border, maybe they should call it something more appropriate because that's the border they should be worried about. However, no fear of that. They like the Canadian tourists and their money.