KS GOP Rep Connie O’Brien Says She Can Tell Who Is ‘Illegal’ Because They Have 'Olive Complexion'

[kpete]

KS GOP Rep. Connie O’Brien Says She Can Tell Who Is ‘Illegal’ Because They Have ‘The Olive Complexion’

One week ago, the Kansas House Federal and State Committee held a hearing about in-state tuition being granted to the children of undocumented immigrants, which has been the policy in the state since 2004.

Speaking in favor of repealing the law, Rep. Connie O’Brien (R-OK) began telling an anecdote at the hearing about how her son had difficulty in getting financial assistance to attend college. She explained that she took her son to a financial aid office, and as she was waiting in line, she believed there was a girl waiting in line with them who was “not originally from this country.” Fellow committee member Rep. Sean Gatewood (D-OK) asked O’Brien how she knew this student was “illegal.” O’Brien replied that she knew because the student “wasn’t black, she wasn’t Asian, and she had the olive complexion”:

REP. O’BRIEN: My son who’s a Kansas resident, born here, raised here, didn’t qualify for any financial aid. Yet this girl was going to get financial aid. My son was kinda upset about it because he works and pays for his own schooling and his books and everything and he didn’t think that was fair. We didn’t ask the girl what nationality she was, we didn’t think that was proper. But we could tell by looking at her that she was not originally from this country. <...>

REP. GATEWOOD: Can you expand on how you could tell that they were illegal?

REP. O’BRIEN: Well she wasn’t black, she wasn’t Asian, and she had the olive complexion.

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/15/ks-gop-rep-obrien/

[Buzz Clik]

1. The truth revealed:

"I hates me some Messicans." What a piece of work.

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. "the" olive complexion?

Where do these people come from?

[PatSeg]

15. Olivesylvania

And they're everywhere!

[Renew Deal]

16. Greece

But I bet she was substituting "olive" for brown.

[KansDem]

3. I'm confused.

Is she from Kansas or Oklahoma?

Speaking in favor of repealing the law, Rep. Connie O’Brien (R-OK) began telling an anecdote at the hearing about how her son had difficulty in getting financial assistance to attend college.

She's from Kansas. And what about this statement?
...began telling an anecdote at the hearing about how her son had difficulty in getting financial assistance to attend college.

Let's see how she votes on any legislation regarding student financial assistance...

[Ghost in the Machine]

4. O'Brien?? Doesn't sound American to me, where's her birth certificate??

:hide:

[NOLALady]

5. Olive?

Some Native Americans as well as African Americans have olive complexions.

O'Brien? I wonder if her ancestors were originally from this country?

:banghead:

[JitterbugPerfume]

6. Her last name indicates she might be Irish

maybe she needs to read the history of her people in the United States?

[Blue_Tires]

7. It's race-baiting bullshit because O'Brien doesn't want any of "them"

to get any advantage over her precious son...

As I mentioned in the other thread, she's talking about Kansas City Kansas Community College, and in-state tuition is $66 per credit hour...So it's not like the dark-skinned immigrant hordes were keeping her son out of MIT or Princeton...

http://www.kckcc.edu/academics/catalog/indexT/tuitionAndFees.aspx

[ensho]

8. and we can tell how stupid Connie is by the things she says

maybe she was home schooled

[a la izquierda]

9. Oh dear...I better bleach my skin.

I have that olive complexion (Irish, Italian, and recently discovered Spanish and French ancestry). I'm doomed.

[madmom]

10. My dad has an olive complexion, he's second generation Italian.

:banghead: (why do I seem to using this "smilie" so much recently?)

[dipsydoodle]

11. Are they all skinny too

with Olive's complexion ?

[MadHound]

12. Really, it's true, when I was a kid, Kansas and Kansasans were sane, intelligent people

Granted, being a Mizzou fan, they were still Jayhawks and all that. But I recognized that they were sane, intelligent people.

But now, geez. Sometime over the past three decades the state has gone batshit crazy.

[madmom]

13. Maybe he didn't get financial aid because SHE makes too much money. See the

rest of us know how it works if you are poor and live with your parents because you can't afford a place of your own, you can't get any help because they make a buck or two "too much".:mad:

[Monique1]

14. Guess she would consider me illegal

My skin has an olive tone but born in the US as were my parents. I am of Polish decent. What an idiot!

[bullwinkle428]

17. She must have taken lessons from Sharron Angle!!

GA-ZOING!!! :rofl:

[EC]

18. Financial aid is by income

I'm guessing that a congressperson earns way over the amount of income that qualifies. He should have studied harder and got scholarships like others who don't qualify for "aid" do. Aid is to help those who don't earn enough to go to school otherwise.


and by the way lady - I'm a Italian American and have olive skin...so what does that make me in your little pea brain?

[Cheap_Trick]

19. And I can tell who is a fucking moron.

Because they're a republican.

[tallahasseedem]

20. I hate to say this but...

you can also tell that they're an idiot if they're wearing a disproportionate amount of American flag clothing.

[ensho]

21. you got that right - remember all the US flags behind, beside smirk

when he was on TV or when any of the bloody handed neo cons were on TV.

flag factorys did mucho business when the neo cons were in charge.