- Dallas Log Cabin Republicans President Rob Schlein, left, and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison
Dave Guy-Gainer, a local board member for the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, reported Monday night:
“Well I tried again to meet with Senator Hutchison or her staff. The Dallas number rang busy all day Friday. So, I tried their fax and it went thru. I proposed an establish communications’ meeting with myself and four other, major Dallas leaders. It’s Monday nite and I didn’t hear squat back. Guess she isn’t interested in representing us at all.”
Dallas Voice also contacted the offices of both Hutchison and Sen. John Cornyn on Monday to find out where they stand on the standalone measure to repeal DADT. But as of this morning, we had received no response — not even from Cornyn spokesman Kevin McLaughlin, who normally at least acknowledges our existence. After all, dealing with the media is part of McLaughlin’s taxpayer-funded job.
We also never heard back from McLaughlin about why Cornyn missed last week’s failed cloture vote on the Defense Authorization Act, to which DADT repeal was attached. (Hutchison voted against closure, joining the Republican filibuster that blocked the bill.)
This morning we contacted Rob Schlein, president of the Dallas chapter of Log Cabin Republicans, to find out whether he’d had any contact with the two senators’ offices about DADT repeal.
Schlein said he has not but is pretty sure they will vote against it.
“I am going to say that I wouldn’t suspect that they would support it, just because that’s been their history,” Schlein said. “I really don’t know, but it won’t surprise me if they both vote against it. You’ve got to remember that part of the senators’ job is to vote their constituency. I know the polls show the majority of the nation supports repeal, but I’m sure that in Texas, the numbers are a little bit different.”
Schlein added that their votes aren’t really that important, because there’s enough Republican support to pass DADT repeal in the Senate. He again blamed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, for failing to pass DADT repeal sooner.
“The more interesting question is, will Reid put the bill on the floor without sabotaging it?” Schlein said. “If the process is right, if Reid doesn’t play any more games and he doesn’t attach any unrelated amendments like the DREAM Act, I think it will pass.”
If you’d like to try to contact the senators yourself, Hutchison is at 202-224-5922 and Cornyn is at 202-224-2934.
SHE WILL not listen she if very antgay
correction, she is anti-gay. she is not voting for her constituents DALLAS is very pro-gay. She is voting for her own interests
An overwhelming majority of registered voters in Texas say they support a significant expansion of gay rights, according to the first-ever in-depth statewide poll on LGBT issues.
Both Cornyn and Hutchison will not vote for this bill, I would bet on it. They are about as anti-LGBT as they come.
It baffles me as to why the LRC would support their own persecution. Lemmings! I didn’t vote for KBH OR Perry since they made it clear they are against anything that is pro-gay prior to the previous election.
Aftermath of the DREAM ACT. The “Catch 22” travesty.
The most obvious question to ask, if the Dream Act passes in the Senate currently, are the parents still liable for excludability from the United States? If the parents are illegal by definition, can these people be deported? Let’s face it the students might get special relief under The Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, but that doesn’t mean the parents are free and clear? Those who enter without inspection have committed a federal crime Title 8 Section 1325 of the U.S. Code, and ICE are charged to knock on the door with an arrest warrant, once they know the abode of the student’s family? These scholars are the perfect GPS to zero-in on all the rest of the family under one roof. How is greasy Senator Harry Reid of Nevada and his hard Core liberal progressives going to slip this “Catch 22″ around the Immigration and Customs Service? Yet the Lib-Democrats are adamantly insisting this in not any kind of Amnesty?
If the Senate has some sleazy amendment that states the parents cannot be deported, then this is simply another—AMNESTY–that is being slipped past the American people. Then we should demand of a second question if this Dream Act is passed by the Senate. Who is going to pay for the Mother, Father, Sister, Brother and extended family members? Eventually in the majority of instances the taxpayer, bares the whole dollar package in the end. The so called affidavit that sponsors promise to financially support family, is never worth the paper its printed on? Fair stated on its website, ” In 2001, the United States admitted 1,064,318 immigrants–enough people to create a major city the size of Chicago. Why is immigration so high? One of the reasons is chain migration. In chain migration, one immigrant sponsors several other immigrants for admission, who then sponsor several others themselves, and so on.” In the old days Senator Reid, Pelosi and the Democratic open border zealots, would have been tarred and feathered and transported out of town backwards riding mules, for pushing this anti-taxpayer issue.
So the third question to ask after forwarding 9 years at the rate of chain migration, and a estimated 1 million a year being given permission to immigrate or migrate. Then the US government estimates we have only 13 million illegal immigrants? There is no possible way this number is correct, unless the have already been brain-washed? Learn the facts, not lies, propaganda spread by the Left Wing Press at NumbersUSA. The Pew Hispanic Center, has estimated a total of 2.15 million persons who might qualify for the DREAM Act. Then simply estimate that if both parents entered America illegally, a projection can assume 5 million blood relation illegal aliens are in the student’s home, who can be charged with unlawful entry and taken into custody?
In addition–any Student–come to that, any illegal alien can join the military in time of conflict. One does not need the Dream Act to be recruited into the armed forces, using 8 USC § 1440, these illegal aliens can become naturalized citizens through expedited processing, often obtaining U.S. citizenship within half a year?