May 16, 2008
Extra Extra: After the Rain
- Texas Insurance Council estimates Wednesday night's storms caused $25 million worth of damage.
- During the storm, someone broke into a South Austin public storage facility.
- Capitol officials say they expect to use some of the wood from the trees felled by the storm to make gavels and wooden coins.
- Tickets for upcoming Pachanga Fest (May 31) at Waterloo Park are buy one, get one free through Saturday.
- Job growth for our area lower than it was last year.
- Texas Border Coalition suing to stop construction of Bush's border fence.
- FAA and Dallas-based American Airlines argue over who was responsible for AA's grounding flights in April.
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"Bush's border fence"? Last I heard, President Amnesty was against the fence, as is John McCain.
Please don't link those of us who support enforcement of our immigration laws with corporate plutocrats like Bush, who only want to ensure a steady stream of cheap, illegal-immigrant labor for their corporate cronies.
Where you getting your info Kenneth? Bush signed the border fence bill and has people out there building the fence:
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/26/border.fence/index.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5785497.html
McCain flip-flops on his support for the fence publicly, but voted for the initial border fence bill and some of the extension amendments:
http://grades.betterimmigration.com/testgradescategory.php3?District=AZ&Category=8&Status=Career&VIPID=33
Kenneth,
If enforcing our immigration laws were your goal, you would support more policing of the employers rather than faux border security.
Seth