Maybe there's a reason that Republicans in Washington state have not had a statewide majority in like two decades. They're out of touch, out of the mainstream of Washington leta alone the nation, and they sometimes are just plain nuts. The latest example is the 2006 state party platform, adopted this weekend in Yakima, that would bar children of illegal immigrants from becoming citizens. This despite the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.
Read here.
Seems like once again a few manuipulative folks have taken control of the state party. Meanwhile all the people who have to explain this to the public or who have won statewide (that would be only Attorney General Rob McKenna bythe way) think the move is pretty foolish. The fact that this happened in Yakima of all places is so ironic. The city is one of the most dependent on agriculture labor and has a huge population of immigrants -- illegal and legal. Mexico's President Vicente Fox even visited there just this week.
The GOP in this state had a chance in 2004 to claim the governor's mansion with a strong candidate and history on their side. They could not put that together, and 2006 is not looking very good to reclaim the Legislature, either. And, with at least two weakened U.S. Representatives and a Senate candidate that is facing an increasingly popular incumbent, it looks like this blue state may just stay that way a while.
-- Seattle
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