Chambliss adds $800,000 to campaign
Thursday, July 3, 2008, 01:53 PM

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

While Democrats are still trying to select their party’s nominee to run against U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss of Moultrie, Chambliss keeps adding to his campaign war chest.

Chambliss on Thursday announced that he raised over $800,000 during the pre-primary fundraising period covering April 1 through June 25.

Going in to the general election, Chambliss has over $4 million in cash-on-hand. Since 2002, Chambliss has raised $9.9 million for his re-election campaign, dwarfing the amounts raised by the five Democrats vying to run against him.

Chambliss in November will face the Democratic winner of the July 15 primary and Libertarian Allen Buckley.

“I am humbled and honored by the strong support we continue to see as we travel all over Georgia,” Chambliss said in a statement. “Everyone I talk to is excited about this race and our supporters are really gearing up for a high-energy general election. I look forward to even more opportunities to talk with Georgians during my re-election campaign.”

From April 1 through June 25, Chambliss raised $808,117.15 for his re-election campaign and closed the pre-primary reporting period with a total of $4,005,173.68 cash-on-hand.

Chambliss’ campaign said, “95 percent of the money raised was from individual donors,” of which eighty-five percent are Georgians representing 128 counties in Georgia.

Chambliss is the ranking Republican Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry and a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the Senate Rules Committee. Chambliss previously represented Georgia’s 8th congressional district for four terms in the U.S.

— Jim Tharpe

ABC News

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Reuters

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Bay Buchanan — Human Events

As McCain panders, our borders crumble

One year ago the American people soundly rejected amnesty for illegal [aliens]. Across the nation, there was heavy sentiment against one if its principal supporters, John McCain. Last November Senator McCain shifted positions — not abandoning amnesty but putting it instead on the back burner to a secure border…

TRUE REFORMER CANDIDATES PRESENT:

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Your state’s primary election is coming up on 15 July 2008.

Please click here to find out which candidates in your state have pledged to tackle immigration problems.

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www.NumbersUSA.com

Liam Julian — CBS News

Raza Studies” defy American values

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Miami Herald

Illegal alien charged with putting newborn in trash

A baby girl born in a Lauderdale Lakes home two weeks ago went from her mother’s womb into a trash-filled white garbage bag. — The little girl survived the ordeal and is in good health, while the mother sits in county lockup, charged with attempted murder, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

HERE

“Although legal residents also require Hispanic interpreting services from time to time, he said from his own experience it’s mainly undocumented immigrants who are in need of these services….”

Whitfield County budgeted $70,000 for 2008 to pay for interpreting services, up from $43,000 in 2002, said Conasauga Judicial Circuit Court Administrator Brad Butler.

HERE from the Chattanooga Free Press

Ms. Heather Bates 2 July, 2008
Clerk of Commission
Hall County Board of Commissioners
Hall County, Georgia

As of July 1st, 2007, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act (SB 529 - HERE) of 2006 requires that all public employers make use of the no-cost federal employment eligibility verification system now called “E-Verify”. (HERE) to insure employment eligibility of newly hired employees. (Section 2)

Also, as of July 1st 2008 that all contractors and subcontractors with 100 or more employees entering into a contract or performing work for public employers be required to demonstrate use of the E-Verify system.

Under current Georgia Dept. of Labor regulations, an affidavit from the bidding contractor is required to demonstrate use of the E-Verify system. (HERE)

Section 9 of the law requires that all government agencies in Georgia use the federal ‘Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements’ (SAVE) (HERE) data base to verify the eligibility of all applicants for public benefits. Further, that all applicants - under penalty of false swearing - sign an affidavit attesting to either U.S. citizenship or lawful immigration status/lawful presence in the United States.

For any applicant who has executed an affidavit that he or she is an alien lawfully present in the United States, eligibility for benefits must be made using the (SAVE) program.

Additionally, the Georgia Security and Immigration Compliance Act requires each state agency or department which administers any program of state or local public benefits to provide an annual report with respect to its compliance with this Code section.

Public benefits include all “professional licenses, or commercial licenses provided by an agency of a State or local government or by appropriated funds of a State or local government” (8USC1621 HERE).

Please consider this my formal open records request for copies of all documents relating to Hall County’s compliance with sections 2 and 9 of the law, including copies of the Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the United States Department of Homeland Security for both E-Verify and the SAVE system from 1 July, 2007 to 1 July, 2008, inclusive.

I ask that copies of all affidavits from all contractors allowed to bid on public jobs attesting to use of the E-Verify system, copies of all affidavits from all applicants for public benefits – including new issue or renewal of commercial (business) licenses from the same time period – be included as well as a copy of the annual report required by law on compliance with section 9…the SAVE program.

Thank you,

D.A. King
President, the Dustin Inman Society
www.TheDustinInmanSociety.org

Marietta, Ga.

NOTE: THe same letter was sent to Gainesville, Ga. government

Think Progress
Washington Times paper calls McCain out for lying about support for 1986 IRCA

As ThinkProgress noted on Saturday, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) made inconsistent immigration pledges in a speech to the National Association of Latino Elected Officials, claiming he would both “secure our borders first” and make comprehensive reform his “top priority”…