Jack Kemp

Here is more on the removal of the Juniper Serra statue from Washington.

Father Serra was a Christian missionary to early California who baptized Native Americans. There is a statue of him in the U.S. Capitol's Hall of Statuary (or some such title). Each state gets two statues and his is one of California's two.

the representatives know how to count Hispanic votes as well as anyone else. And if they tried to take out Father Serra's statue, they'd be gone from office muy pronto.

FAY VOSHELL REPLLIES;

I am surprised the representatives from CA haven't asked to have the Father's statue removed...

JACK KEMP REPLIES

Why do think Bill and Hillary sent Elian Gonzales back to Cuba? They wanted to anger the Hispanic voters in Florida so that Gore would lose the 2000 election so Hillary could run against a one term GOP President. If Gore was President in 2001, then Hillary could not get the nomination in 2004. One professor estimated that sending Elian back to Cuba cost Gore 57,000 votes in Florida. He lost the election there by around 500 votes.

DANA MATHEWSON SAYS:

Good points, Jack. He'd have lost by more if some TV station hadn't fumbled the ball and called the state for Gore before the polls closed in the Panhandle -- more conservative than the rest of the state, and lots of voters stayed home as a result.

Ah! I suppose the Left's take is that he was abusing them by baptizing them. (Spit)


fROM TIM:

Saint Louis University took down the statue of Fr. DeSmet because the Indians were kneeling before him as he baptized them. The leftists were screaming because "people of color were kneeling before a white man". You can't make this stuff up.

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