When a political candidate responds to a statement about illegal aliens wanting to help her campaign by saying:
BUSBY: Well sure, everybody can help. Yeah, absolutely. You can all help. Yeah, you don?t need papers for voting, you don?t need to be a registered voter to help.
That candidate should be removed from the ballot! She is openly advocating that lawbreakers not only support her campaign, but by saying they don’t need papers for voting, is offering a not too subtle suggestion that they violate election rules by casting a vote for her. If endorsing vote fraud is not enough to get a candidate in hot water with state and federal officials than nothing is.
Hear the audio at Expose the Left.
Francine Busby’s official campaign web site.
Francine Busby’s campaign blog. (allows comments)
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has a page for this advocate of law breakers on their site.
update 6/2/2006 11:07PM: Before Busby offered the illegals her advice, you can hear what sounds to me like the Spanish translator saying to her:
They’re not dealing with papers but they want to help.
Michelle Malkin mentions that it was a Spanish translator that asked the question and you can hear that translator speaking in Spanish after Busby responds.
update 6/3/2006 4:08PM: Busby is trying to spin her way out of this. But everyone knows she’s no good. Yet she claims to want “ethics reform”. What a joke!
Busby on defense, says she misspoke
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Busby, a Cardiff school board member, is in a tight race with Republican Brian Bilbray, a congressman-turned-lobbyist, who has based his campaign on a tough anti-illegal-immigration stance. Busby has focused her campaign on ethics reform. The two are vying to replace Randy ?Duke? Cunningham, who was jailed after pleading guilty to taking bribes.
Busby said she was invited to the forum at the Jocelyn Senior Center in Escondido by the leader of a local soccer league. Many of the 50 or so people there were Spanish speakers. Toward the end, a man in the audience asked in Spanish: ?I want to help, but I don’t have papers.?
It was translated and Busby replied: ?Everybody can help, yeah, absolutely, you can all help. You don’t need papers for voting, you don’t need to be a registered voter to help.?
Bilbray said at worst, Busby was encouraging someone to vote illegally. At best, she was encouraging someone who is illegally in the country to work on her campaign.
?She’s soliciting illegal aliens to campaign for her and it’s on tape ? this isn’t exactly what you call the pinnacle of ethical campaign strategy,? Bilbray said. ?I don’t know how she shows her face.?
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Earlier, San Diego Minutemen volunteer Anthony Porrello said he got the tape from an an anonymous Minuteman and passed it on to the news media and talk radio. News of the gathering had circulated among local Minutemen before the meeting, according to William Griffith, the independent candidate in the race who has been endorsed by the San Diego Minutemen.
He attended, but did not hear the statement. He said he was in the back of the room.
?I heard what I expected to hear from a Democrat who supports amnesty,? he said.
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All the more reason to require photo ID be shown at the polls. An ID that legally only a citizen should be able to carry.
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