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To: Sully- who wrote (80104)	6/4/2010 1:19:00 AM
From: Sully-	1 Recommendation Respond to of 90947

Mexican consulate moves illegal immigant ID card handout By: Sara A. Carter National Security Correspondent 06/03/10 12:37 PM EDT Mexican government officials have moved their satellite consular office from the Catalina Island Country Club to a Catholic Church – citing protection under the Vienna Convention - after it was discovered that they did not have the appropriate paperwork to issue the island’s illegal immigrants identification cards. Since The Washington Examiner reported that the management of the club, on the island of Catalina, discovered that the event was not a multi-cultural celebration as they had been told and refused to allow the Mexican government to set up shop. The Mexican officials will provide "matricular" card services to Mexican nationals at St. Catherine’s Church, on the island. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican whose district includes Catalina Island, is heading to the island by helicopter today to confront the officials. <<< “If the Catholic Church insists on preventing immigration law from being enforced, then they should step up and pay the bill. Let the Catholic Church open up its schools for free and use their vast resources to pay for the benefits of illegals if they feel it’s such a moral issue,” Rep. Rohrabacher told The Examiner. “I don’t exactly see Cardinal Mahoney announcing the sale of catholic church property to pay the bills for illegal immigration. This holier than thou hypocrisy has got to stop.” >>> Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com

To: Sully- who wrote (80104)	6/4/2010 1:25:17 AM
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Rep. Darrell Issa: Romanoff job offer renders Obama "brand" ruined By: Mark Tapscott Editorial Page Editor 06/03/10 2:23 PM EDT Rep. Darrell Issa, the ranking minority member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sees irreparable damage being done to the Obama brand as a result of the growing White House bribe jobs scandal. Former Colorado House Speaker Anthony Romanoff is challenging Sen. Michael Bennett, D-CO, in that state's Democratic senatorial primary. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said earlier today that Obama's deputy chief of staff Jim Messina discussed employment possibilities with Romanoff earlier this year but only after the latter had applied for a federal position. It is illegal to offer a federal job to somebody in return for their doing something designed to influence the outcome of a congressional election. Issa isn't buying the White House version of the Romanoff events. "If things were as benign and innocent as the White House is trying to make it sound, there would have been no need for Messina to have sent an e-mail detailing three positions that would be available to Romanoff should he withdraw from the Colorado Senate primary," Issa said. "If it were as simple as following up on an application, Messina would have taken no for an answer after speaking with Romanoff, instead he persisted with the intent of coercing him with the implied promise of a job. Clearly, that was the intent, which was conditioned on Romanoff exiting the primary which is bare-knuckle Chicago-style politics-as-usual. Can anyone imagine a scenario where Romanoff exits the primary and doesn't get the job?" Last week, the White House was embroiled in controversy over Pennsylvania Democrat Rep. Joe Sestak's allegation that last February he was offered a job by somebody in the Obama White House in return for his dropping his Democratic primary challenge of Sen. Arlen Specter, D-PA. The White House said Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel recruited former president Bill Clinton to talk to Sestak but that nothing illegal was said during their conversation. An indication of the growing seriousness of the scandal is seen in a Politico story in which the accompanying photographs sandwhich Obama between Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and Mayberry Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife, portrayed in the popular TV sitcom, "The Andy Griffith Show," during the 1960s. Politico's Jonathon Allen and Carol E. Lee quoted a senior House Democrat saying "it is baffling 'how one group of people can be so good at campaigning and so bad at politics' — a phrasing nearly identical to that of a second veteran House Democrat who expressed the same sentiment." Also today, Issa asked White House counsel Bob Bauer to provide detailed information about all electoral races in which Obama or his aides have sought to influence, asking for "full and complete list of all elections in which the White House engaged in efforts to persuade specific candidates to drop election bids and if a job or any other thing of value meant to entice a candidate to withdraw from or not to enter the race was offered, [to] specify to whom it was offered, and by whom it was offered." Issa also asked Bauer to provide copies of a "written commitment to preserve all records and communications related to any attempts by the White House to clear the field in Democratic primary elections." Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com

To: Sully- who wrote (80104)	6/4/2010 1:38:58 AM
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Ambinder’s willful blindness on the Romanoff job offers By: David Freddoso Online Opinion Editor 06/03/10 5:02 PM EDT In his “nothing-to-see-here” post on the White House job offers to Andrew Romanoff, Marc Ambinder really stretches the limit for me. His zeal to defend the White House against anything and everything seems to spoil his appreciation of the relevant fact, eloquently set forth earlier today by our own Byron York. Romanoff’s job prospects in the Obama administration were apparently zero when he applied, but suddenly and dramatically improved when he began talking about a run for Senate. To avert one’s eyes from this is a tall order for someone who just wrote a self-important 1,100 word screed on how conservatives don’t call out a few marginal figures who hold, for example, that President Obama is a Muslim. Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com