Rebecca Forest: Tea Party Leader Tells Austin Rally There's Too Many Hispanics in Legislature

[pampango]

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2011/06/rebecca_forest_hispanics.php

This weekend saw another thrilling right-wing rally in Austin, and in this one Rebecca Forest, a co-founder of an immigration group called Women on the Wall, offered a unique take on why Texas can't get hard-core legislation passed like Arizona and Alabama.

If you want to know why we can't pass legislation in Texas it's because we have 37, no 36, Hispanics in the Legislature. All of the states that have passed legislation have a handful and I mean literally, some of them have NO Hispanic legislators, well, maybe 3 or 5 or something. So that's, umm, part of our problem and we need to change those numbers. We need to do something about that.

Forest went on to say "during the debate on sanctuary cities, several Hispanic legislators testified that their grandparents and their parents were migrant workers who came over here to work and that THEY even worked in the fields. And some of them even admitted that they had been here illegally and that they came illegally. So the problem is these Hispanic legislators...is that it's too close to them and they, umm... simply cannot vote their conscience correctly."

THAT'S the problem -- Hispanic politicians can't vote their consciences correctly. (Oh they are quite able to vote their consciences, Ms Forest. The problem for you is that they have a conscience and you don't.)

To be fair to Forest, she didn't say there were "too many Hispanics in Texas." She said there were too many Hispanics in the Texas legislature. Big, big difference. For all we know, she might want tons and tons of more Hispanics in Texas, as long as they don't vote.

[blogslut]

1. Here, Rebecca. I think you need more of this:

[The Doctor.]

4. She has more than enough for an entire state party.

This ought to be fun.

:popcorn:

[southernyankeebelle]

19. Open mouth and insert foot lady. My goodness how stupid can you be.

[fascisthunter]

2. no, there are one too many Bigots

which I share my own skin color with, and frankly I think bigotry is repulsive.

[hobbit709]

3. And those 36 Hispanics were about 10 times her crowd size looks like.

[thanks_imjustlurking]

5. Thanks for posting this in GD.

:hi:

[ej510]

6. Right wingers love to demonize people they need someone to hate.

[Taverner]

7. Austinites: Why don't you tar and feather these assholes?

[ceile]

15. Because they don't widely publisize.

They don't want the counter protesters to outnumber them.

[JuniperLea]

8. Anyone who judges another by their DNA is an asshole...

A bigot and an asshole.

[damntexdem]

9. Those with racist aims employ racist means.

And racists are more and more open about expressing their racism.

[LynneSin]

10. Oh but, but...buttttttttttt the TEA PARTY ISN"T RACIST!!!11!!!!!11!1310-!11

:eyes:

[Parker CA]

12. Precisely!!

[MrScorpio]

11. Apparently there are too many bigoted assholes in the Tea Party. Nt

[spanone]

13. fuck the tea baggers...racist assholes

[UTUSN]

14. K&R #17 n/t

[efhmc]

16. i wish we could organize the nonbigots and there are

many of them to boot these idiots back under the rocks they crawled out of.

[KamaAina]

17. Creo que hay demasiadas locas "bolsa de te" en el Lege

:banghead:

[Motown_Johnny]

18. that could make one hell of a TV commercial, for our side

to bad the audio has issues