As Arch recently noted, the Republicans’ spin on immigration is about the only issue where they get any traction at all among the electorate.
Unfortunately for we here in the electorate, the Republicans’ solution so far has been to xenophobicly rail against illegal immigrants (all too often sweeping legal immigrants into the mix for good measure) and promote building 1/3 of a wall — neither of which actually solves the fundamental problem that our great nation’s immigration policy is fundamentally flawed and the system for accepting new immigrants is, quite frankly, broken.
So one is left to wonder whether or not 14th CD Candidate Jim “Helicopter” Oberweis — known for his serial exaggeration, FEC fines, superfat ice cream and pandering induced flip-flopping — and his con buddies like former Democrat Tony Peraica are going to talk about real solutions or simply spew a bunch of hateful, anti-brown people rhetoric during their upcoming Women’s Republican Club forum on immigration in Wheeling.
The Women’s Republican Club tells us that, “Up for discussion are the implications, consequences, and political ramifications of the immigration issue.” I take that to mean they may actually try discussing fundamental solutions rather than just unsustainable slash-and-burn rhetorical stances, but who knows.
Oh, and, “There will be a Q & A,” so since the forum is “open to the public and free”, perhaps someone would be willing to sit through it all to “Q” and hopefully get a legit “A”.
Maybe you’ll even get free ice cream… or a helicopter ride.
Specifics according to Anne Leary at ilgopnet:
Guest speakers include businessman and GOP political leader Jim Oberweis, State Sen. Bill Brady (R-Bloomington), attorney and Cook County reform leader Tony Peraica, and agriculture industry leader David Bender. [...]
The event is free and open to the public.
Monday, Nov. 5
Doors open at 7 p.m. Forum begins at 7:30
Chevy Chase Country Club, 1000 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Wheeling
Expected adjournment before 9 p.m.
PS: The description of the speakers leads one to wonder just when Mr. Oberweis, who is 0 for ?X# in major campaigns, became a “GOP political leader”… 
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October 31, 2007 at 9:07 am
c-rockforfreedom
Hey,
at least they show up.
Your man Dan the Ban, canceled his RANWC meeting last min. I guess he did not want to meet with the public. Maybe figured too many gunowners are also Licensed Agents.
October 31, 2007 at 9:08 am
c-rockforfreedom
Oberwies is ok Ice cream.
I rather get some stone cold creamery ice cream. That is the bomb!
October 31, 2007 at 4:43 pm
robnesvacil
Schedules change, Carl, and Sen. Kotowski isn’t the only Senator to have had to rearrange things with RANWC. Given that Sen. Kotowski has been meeting with the public from day one, your claim is demonstrably false.
Grow up.
November 1, 2007 at 8:27 am
c-rockforfreedom
Hey,
the man canceled meeting for the public. Nothing happened in the senate, which was the issue given to RANWC. He needed to get back to the senate for some reason.
Maybe he did not want to hear about 30-40% increases in assesments.
Maybe he did not want to hear about the transfer taxes wanted for the CTA.
Throw in some of his failed gun control ideas, and you could have him stumbling like he did at his 50 cal press conference. It could of been classic youtube material.
November 1, 2007 at 9:14 am
robnesvacil
And yet again you bring a completely unrelated thread back to your “baby” issue, Carl.
And the 50 cal press conference was very interesting given that the head of Armalite claimed his weapons in question were not military-style guns even though he had both tried to sell them to the Pentagon and the military does use 50 cals in its arsenal. You never seem to acknowledge those facts. Go figure.
November 1, 2007 at 11:09 pm
robnesvacil
C-Rock wrote, “the man canceled meeting for the public. Nothing happened in the senate, which was the issue given to RANWC. He needed to get back to the senate for some reason.”
Yet facts dictate otherwise. In other words, it wasn’t just “some reason”…
From the RANWC blog: “The Illinois State Senate has been called into session on Friday, November 2nd which will require Senator Kotowski to be in Springfield.
“Therefore the Legislative Breakfast scheduled on Friday, November 2nd has been postponed for a future date to be announced.”
Given that Sen. Kotowski does not control the Senate’s schedule (that’d be the Senate President’s prerogative), he had a very valid reason for canceling as all the state’s Senators were called back to Springfield for the fall veto session. (That’d be why he’s able to work on that Cook Co. tax cap legislation.)
Try harder Carl. Then again, you clearly are trying harder and still utterly failing to prove anything close to what anyone would consider a “point”.
November 2, 2007 at 8:40 am
c-rockforfreedom
The Cook Co Tax cap passed last week. Not this week.
November 2, 2007 at 9:27 am
robnesvacil
What planet are you on Carl?