Tea Partier Tells Rep. Lujan, Life-Long American, To ‘Get Out Of Politics,Make Room

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Tea Partier Tells Rep. Lujan, Life-Long American, To ‘Get Out Of Politics And Make Room For An American’
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/08/24/302820/tea-party-latino-rep-american/

The Tea Party continues to claim that racism, ethnocentrism, and xenophobia are not driving forces in its movement, but the actions of its members continues to belie those claims. Many of the movement’s causes have targeted Latinos — advocating for harsh immigration laws, referring to them as “anchor babies” and “welfare queens,” urging followers to attack Latinos, and fighting to rewrite the 14th amendment to remove its guarantee of birthright citizenship.

Tuesday in New Mexico, the strains of racism and ethnocentrism that exist in the Tea Party movement emerged again. As Rep. Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) prepared to tour a nonprofit organization in Farmington, he was met by a dozen Tea Party protesters, one of whom asserted that Lujan was not an American. The Farmington Daily Times reports:
http://www.daily-times.com/ci_18744816

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“He needs to get out of politics and make room for an American,” Clark said.

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Lujan, however, was born in Santa Fe, has lived in the U.S. all his life, and is the son of a public school administrator and the speaker of New Mexico’s state House of Representatives. According to the Daily Times, Lujan took the protests and their insults “in stride.” “It’s important that we get out to visit our constituency,” Luján said. “We think that’s important, and we’ll continue to do that.”

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1. Tea Baggers are totally patriotic and non-partisan, and not racist at all

So stop saying that!

[OffWithTheirHeads]

4. Bob Baulderdang, is that you?

God I miss him. And hatemail, and Duzy's, hell, I even miss Carlos.

[KamaAina]

9. It's "Boudelang"

which you would know if you were not a liberal Democrap dum-dum! :-)

[ZAROVE]

2. Race Or Politics?

Playing Devils Advocate, they may not be making comments about his Race.

Loads of Tea Partiers think you are not a Real American if you do not agree with the way they see the American Founding Fathers, and the Ideal of what it means to be an American. I have read articles on WND and other Neo-Conservative sites that explicitly state that Liberals Are not real Americans.

So, maybe they don't think of him as an American because of his Political Views which do not align with the Mythology of what it means to be an American that Animates the Tea Party Movement, rather than this being about his Race.

Also, if this is only a single individual, its also meaningless. I've spoken to level headed Tea Partiers, and I've spoken to some real Nut Tea Partiers. It takes all sorts I suppose.

[louis-t]

3. Oh, they have a long list of 'types' they don't think of as

'real' Americans. Brown people are just part of the list.

[WCGreen]

15. They still haven't got over the Catholics....

[louis-t]

17. And my Catholic teabagger relatives still don't get it.

[joeybee12]

5. You have a point, but I really do think they were commenting on his race....nt

[Kalidurga]

7. I will believe they are not racist when they talk about the Canadian Border problem.

They never talk about the wide open Canadian border and it is just as much a security threat as the Mexican border, probably more since it is basically patrolled.

[Saphire]

6. Mmm, no. Anyone with furin sounding names

must be furiners. Not Amurcan like them.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

12. If one is a teabagger, one is *not* level headed.

The two are mutually exclusive.

[Ikonoklast]

13. Hahahhaaaa!!

Oh, you're being serious.

[Gormy Cuss]

14. You're right, could be that it's not race. Maybe it's just xenophobia.

Both are traits more prevalent among teabaggers than in the general population.

[surrealAmerican]

8. Apparently, "American" is the new white.

These fools don't even comprehend how racist they are.

[KamaAina]

10. The first Europeans in New Mexico were the Spanish.

In fact, they were settling Santa Fe at the time Jamestown was founded. So yes, Mr. Teabagger, Ben Ray Lujan is an American.

[Fantastic Anarchist]

11. "Pray, Vote, Pray"

Was on the shirt of the mustached guy in the photo.

What a fucking loser.

[Dawson Leery]

16. Yesterday's klans"man" = Today's Teabagger

[Aerows]

18. Listen to his critics

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"He responded that he supports legislation that would boost demand for natural gas by converting vehicles to run on the fuel.

That answer did not satisfy Sexton. "It's a great idea, but it's not implementable," he said."

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Considering that there were 12.7 million natural gas vehicles world wide in 2010, I'd say Sexton doesn't have any idea what he's talking about.

"USA
The US has an expanding fleet of 112,000 NGVs, nearly all CNG, mostly buses but also some government fleet cars and vans, as well as increasing number of corporate trucks replacing diesel versions, most notably Waste Management, Inc and UPS trucks. With some 1000 refueling stations in operation as of December 2010, in terms of number of NGV stations, it is 7th in the world, but in terms of CNG stations it is ranked among the top 3 countries worldwide.<1>"

Rightwingers and their lust for oil dependency. They are so poorly informed, it makes me ill.