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This is AWESOME news. Below is the text of an e-mail on the subject.
Friends of ALIPAC,
We have some great news to report from the battle front!
Notorious amnesty supporter and Open Borders fanatic, Chris Cannon has been ousted from Congress.
Our movement has been after him for the last four years because of his support for the Bush/McCain/Kennedy Amnesty legislation. Today is a good day.
Chris Cannon lost his race in the GOP Primary last night, after facing a challenger with prior political experience.
Mr. Jason Chaffetz criticized Chris Cannon on spending, energy, and most importantly immigration. Chaffetz made a strong comparison of his immigration stances compared to Cannon and criticized Cannon for supporting In-State Tuition for illegal aliens. It is also important to note that awareness on this issue has climbed rapidly in Utah this year, since the state legislature passed strong laws to crack down on illegal immigration.
Chaffetz beat Cannon 60% to 40%, which is considered a landslide!
While the candidate who spends the most wins the race over 94% of the time, Chaffetz was outspent by Cannon 7 to 1!
Cannon tried to cling to Bush because Bush’s ratings have remained stronger in Utah than most of the rest of the nation, but over 80% of the people polled feel America is on the wrong track.
Chaffetz has stated he wants illegal aliens deported, the borders secured, and our existing immigration laws enforced. While Cannon supports a “guest worker program” for illegals inside America , Chaffetz wants to stop illegal aliens from exploiting birthright citizenship.
Chris Cannon was a 7 term incumbent and this is only the second time in thirty years that Utah voters have dumped an incumbent GOP Congressman!
Today our side has won an important victory and the ivory towers in Washington are buzzing with the news that one of their Globalist pawns in Utah has fallen.
The ironic part is that Chris Cannon’s next job is supposed to be traveling the country to help Republicans win elections. From the spanking Cannon just received, it would be better if they sent Jason Chaffetz out to advise GOP candidates instead.
We would like to congratulate Jason and we hope that his victory will be a trend setter. We hope to see an unprecedented sweep of incumbents out of office in 2008, while those aligned with the public on immigration prevail.
The ALIPAC Team
http://www.alipac.us
ERIC on 25 Jun 2008 at 8:45 pm #
Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!
RonL on 26 Jun 2008 at 12:39 am #
If only this occurred in 2006, it might have changed the entire dynamic of the presidential race.
csason on 26 Jun 2008 at 2:17 am #
A victory for neocons in 2006 would have us in Iran by now..building schools.. but that is my opinion.
I saw the young man Chaffetz today…on TV, he seems to be the real thing.
levotb on 26 Jun 2008 at 8:50 am #
Well, let’s not get carried away! He’s no Chuck Baldwin! Chaffetz was far too gracious discussing his chat with Cannon in consession. Most troubling about Chaffetz is he is pro-birthright citizenship, meaning that he’s for the current presumption that anyone born here is a citizen. Which means he will probably vote with the liberals against any effort to clarify or change the 14th Amendment interpretation.
Other than that, it’s wait and see…
roho on 26 Jun 2008 at 2:11 pm #
Awesome!…………..I’m about ready to swap out incumbants for any unknown?………….Bring on the NEW criminals!
csason on 27 Jun 2008 at 5:15 pm #
Chill out roho…your shadowy puppetmaster’s are listening…
Sean Scallon on 27 Jun 2008 at 9:04 pm #
Here’s what Micky Kaus of Slate.com had to say about Cannon’s defeat and its implications for John McCain:
“Comprehensivist Down! In 2006, the primary victory of GOP Rep. Chris Cannon was offered by many pundits as comforting evidence that the immigration issue didn’t have legs. After all, Cannon had supported “comprehensive” immigration reform–including legalization (i.e. semi-amnesty)–yet he survived in a conservative Utah district. Here’s Michael Barone two years ago:
If Cannon had lost, House Republicans surely would have panicked and stonewalled any approach but border-security-only. But his victory — and the fact that he ran ads with endorsements from George W. Bush, who supports a comprehensive bill — indicates that his positions are not political death, even in a district that went 77 percent to 20 percent Republican in the 2004 presidential election
Well, yesterday Cannon lost– to a fellow Republican who had no paid staff or polling but did attack Cannon’s support of “amnesty.” And Cannon lost by a large margin (60-40) primarily because he “failed to generate the kind of [Republican primary] turnout typically enjoyed by House incumbents.” …
Hmm. As if by eerie coincidence, John McCain has been having trouble generating the kind of popularity among Republicans typically enjoyed by Republican presidential candidates! And he’s also been pushing “comprehensive” reform of late, potentially winning Latino support but further jeopardizing his GOP support. Kausfiles notes that there are more Republicans than Latinos. If McCain win’s an extra 10% of Latino voters but loses an extra 10% of Republican voters, he loses, right? Maybe on his forthcoming trip to Mexico he will do the math. … “
levotb on 30 Jun 2008 at 3:32 am #
The liberal SL Tribune gave this rediculous epitath on Cannon’s proverbial grave:
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9733697
They declare that it WASN’T Cannon’s positions on Amnesty, Open Borders, etc. that nailed him! They use some leftist University “expert” to draw conclusions from 1,200 who were “exit polled” as if that were conclusive or at all meaningful. There was of course no reference to the fact that people who are annoyed by pollsters often give misleading statements.
The angry comments following that article by our Utahan patriots are rewarding after reading such b.s.