From the office of Del. Pat McDonough:
With 17 states now filing versions of Arizona’s Immigration Bill SB 1070, the Honorable Pat McDonough will be introducing the first step toward Maryland’s version of the Arizona law, the Citizens’ Rights Act.
The Citizens’ Rights Act will be the first piece of legislation sponsored by Delegate McDonough for the 2011 session of the General Assembly.
Delegate McDonough indicated that he will introduce the Citizens’ Rights Act to the legislature to allow law enforcement officers with “reasonable suspicion” to inquire about a person’s citizenship status and arrest those who are in the country illegally.
“This is a common sense bill,” said McDonough, “and despite all the national controversy, the time has come for Maryland to protect her citizens”.
Delegate McDonough, a two-term legislator, is sending a Citizens’ Rights Act survey poll to every candidate running either for Governor, State Senator, or House of Delegates. “My bill will do little more than allow law enforcement to do their job,” McDonough stated. The Citizens’ Rights Act is designed to help Maryland reduce the crime and gang violence which has escalated in our state as the numbers of illegal aliens has increased.” “The survey will give voters the opportunity to know if their respective candidates will pledge to support the safety and security of Maryland citizens BEFORE they vote in the upcoming primary.”“I believe in the rule of law, and I have always believed in the rule of law,” said McDonough. “I will never stop fighting for the citizens of the great state of Maryland.”Please be advised that any candidate who does not respond to the survey poll will be considered as if they do not support the Citizens’ Rights Act for Maryland.
Results of this survey poll will be posted at citizensrightsactarizonalaw.wordpress.com
A copy of the Citizens’ Rights Survey poll follows this article.
Citizens’ Rights Act Survey Poll
I, ______________________________Gubernatorial Senate or House of Delegates (circle one) Candidate hereby pledge to support Delegate Pat McDonough’s Citizens’ Rights Act to be introduced in the Maryland 2011 General Assembly Session.
I understand that the Citizens’ Rights Act is modeled after Arizona Bill 1070, which is designed to protect the citizens and work to strengthen immigration laws.
I understand that the results of this survey will be posted online for all Maryland voters to review before the primary and general elections.
Signed,
_________________________________
________________________________________________(print full name)
Should you, as a candidate for office in Maryland, feel that you will not support Delegate McDonough’s Citizens’ Rights Act for Maryland, please indicate by signing your name here:
_______________________
_______________________(please print)
Please note:
Failure to return this survey/poll will indicate that you do not support Delegate McDonough’s Citizens’ Rights Act.
Please return this survey in the blue envelope provided for you. The deadline for all responses is August 20, 2010. Thank you.
Not paid for at government expense. Authority: Valerie McDonough, Treasurer
Can the Arizona law be enforced in Maryland considering we a loophole which allows Illegal Aliens in the state to posses driver’s licenses? Wouldnt this law require the reissue of MD Driver Licenses ( at great cost)? Just my 2 cents.
Aaron….they are NOT illegal “aliens”, but they MAY be illegal “immigrants”. Even McDonough’s proposed legislation uses the proper semantics to describe the “illegals”.
“Honorable” Pat McDonough….You expect all state level candidates to sign on (or not) to your “Citizens’ Rights Act” bill, and you challenge them publicly with your hyperbole, but you don’t even post your proposed legislation for us to examine. What a hypocrite you are. In my opinion, NONE of the candidates should submit to your B.S. I say….ignore the ignorant! I don’t know who is the biggest fool….you, or the voters in the 7th district who elected you and Rick Impallaria! Come on November!!!!
Alien is the proper term according the US Code. Alien refers to a person in the country without legal cause. Immigrant is inferred to be legal. You are incorrect. The term Illegal Alien is correct; however may be redundant, but correct nonetheless.
Aaron, thank you….I stand (or in this case, sit) corrected.
it would be so easy if the laws on the books were enforced. we don’t need a new law. Omalley caters to them like he’s been doing for years. Check out their voting records and see who supports illegal aliens and vote them out.
http://www.votesmart.org/index.htm
Comprehensive federal immigration reform is necessary, not state-by-state enforcement actions. Delegate McDonough is being pretty presumptuous about introducing a bill next session. Most Harford County resident are hoping that he and Impallaria are sent packing in the upcoming election. It will be kinda tough to introduce a bill from behind a radio microphone.
Rick Impallaria and Pat McDonough try to be political Godfathers. They fail miserably. They do not represent Harford County. They are trying to control elections in Harford county and their behavior has been unethical. They enjoy political shenanigans like control the Route 40 Club and North Harford Republican Club as well as supporting two week candidate for House of Delegates so that they can control these delegates from 35A. With any luck they will be out of a job in September.
I still do not understand how Rick gets elected. If people would just look into his criminal record…..
I would suggest that every concerned citizen look up the criminal and civil records of all candidates running for political office. You can also punch in the candidates name in any search engine and find all sorts of interesting facts. It is all public record and available online. It sometimes makes for very interesting reading.
Aaron, while your estimations about the District 7 team are observably true, the their outward support of the 35A slate makes those candidates “week” [sic] seems off to me. I would suggest you get to know those guys. I met the pair at the Farm Fair and they do not seem like the type that will succumb to control. Also, factually you are incorrect that Impallaria and McDonough do not represent Harford. Impallaria does live here and District 7 includes part of Harford County.
I have on several ocassions met the pair put up by district 7 and I am not impressed at all. I have yet to see anything from these two to make me think they are capable of standing on their own without the help of Pat and Rick. I can not imagine those two in the legislature. One candidate ran for sheriff with no previous law enforcement experience. Who does that? I am seriously concerned by this slate and would rather keep the incumbents then vote for these two.
I was not saying that District 7 did not include Harford County. I was merely stating that politcal stunts by the delegates in question are not in line with the community values and ideals of Harford County and I would not be surprised to see them out of a job.
Here is one 7th district voter not voting for this clown.
I want McDonough to show what he has done for Harford county. This is his personal issue, period.
I am afraid of the constituency that actually votes to elect del. Mcdonough.
It does not take much digging to realize that when it comes to local politics, most people vote a party line without really getting to know their candidates. Right now, with political views so highly slanted to the right thanks to relentlessly biased and hate-mongering ‘news’ outlets like Fox, it seems that one only needs to say something like ‘A Common Sense Conservative’ or ‘Your Conservative Team’ to get elected.
I fear for our country… we are too quick to listen to exceedingly biased sources of information and then attack relatively unbiased reporting as biased the other way. This is a very scary time, and representatives like McDonough, Impallaria, and Stiffler (and Boehner, Palin, and Bachman nationally) would have a much tougher road to election with a more fair and investigative approach to reporting.
Proud Dem,
What have you got against Ms. Stifler? She should be right in your wheel house! She cast votes in the last General Assembly to give our hard earned taxpayer dollars to Casa of Maryland to promote &assist illegal aliens, she voted against requiring driver’s licenses to be shown at the polls on election day to obtain a ballot & votes w/ the Dems 50% of the time. You should love her. She’s a RINO willing to compromise her principles for a few scrapes from the table of Mr. Bush.
Donna Stiffler is one of the absolute worst potential representatives I could imagine having. First off she straight up lied about being a teacher in her campaign materials (both now and in 2006). Best I can tell the most teaching experience she had was as a long-term sub at Mountain Christian School (an experience that does not qualify her to understand the ins and outs of a public school classroom). She sends her own kids to Mountain Christian. How can we expect her to fight for our public schools when she clearly does not believe in public education? If she lives in the 35a district, then the public schools are among the best in the nation… no excuse to shun them.
Second she voted against every single budget that could have brought money back to Harford County for road construction, school operation, environmental protection (she had a 22% rating in 2010 by MD League of Conservation Voters, 32% lifetime; this sucks), and saved the wages and jobs of many county employees. I recognize that she votes against these things as a sign of party solidarity, but in doing so she fails to bring back the very necessary monies that her county and district need to survive. She is not doing what is right for the citizens of Harford County. She does not deserve to be reelected.
Is this US Taxpayer? Thank God for Fox news. The entire media outlet has had an admitted liberal bias for more than 30 years. Why do you think the liberal news outlets and newspapers have lost their audience and moved on to fair and balanced programming like Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. The only followers of the NY Times, MSNBC, NBC, CBS, ABC, Rachael Maddow, Keith Oberman, Chris Matthews are blind sheep such as yourself.
This always cracks me up… one station is providing a balanced view of the political climate in the US while every other is in the tank for the Democrats and liberals that can’t stand it wail about “relentlessly biased and hate-mongering ‘news’ outlets”. Besides, any conservative bent is in their editorial stuff so what’s the big deal? Liberals simply can’t stand it when someone has an opinion that differs from theirs.
I will agree that it’s unfortunate people vote the party line… after all they gave us O’Malley who made one of his first acts a sales tax increase to screw us all… and they’ll vote for him again.
Fedup, you must be kidding me, please do not tell me you really believe this about Fox news! The problem with Fox is that they bleed commentary into their basic News Coverage… this is the very definition of bias! The absolute pinnacle of bias occurred a couple of weeks ago when I was sitting in a bar watching a report about a ‘former FEMA director criticizes Obama administration about handling of Gulf oil spill’. ARE YOU KIDDING… Michael (Heck of a job Brownie) Brown is going to be taken seriously when discussing a Gulf crisis??? I have yet to see Fox not cover a story that emphasizes Republican or conservative standpoints as part of its basic news delivery, ESPECIALLY on the Fox News cable channel. One must be REALLY brainwashed to seriously believe they are balanced…
Really? The pinnacle? And here I thought that was during the election when every other “news” channel commentator and talking head wanted to have Obama’s love child… the mass infatuation was sickening. And these tools and fools helped give us the least experienced president of my lifetime simply because he was the flashy shamwow guy with marketing and branding. “.. ya gotta call now cause I can’t do this all day…” Frankly, I’d rather have gotten Hilary.
Then again maybe the pinnacle was when MSNBC ran a banner that read “New law will make it a crime to be illegal immigrant”. Or is that just stupidity.. I get confused.
At least when I watch Fox I get opinions that I DON’T agree with from liberal commentators – I never have to worry about hearing a conservative viewpoint from the other networks. Just because they say what you want to hear doesn’t mean they’re balanced. Cdev is right you need input from all sources instead of simply blocking out what you don’t want to hear.
You are really insane… Fox is amazingly one-sided. Your idea of ‘balanced’ is an argument that is staged such that the conservative always ‘wins’. Only on Fox, RK, SH, and GB did this notion of media love of President Obama originate. I wonder how you even know this since you claim to ignore those sources. Watching ABC news in the past week I have noticed at least four reports that were clearly anti-Democratic Party, yet you say they are liberally biased? Fox has so brainwashed so many people that the conservative idea of balanced is anti-Democrat. Our country is so skewed conservative these days, that even truly balanced reporting (like that on NPR or CNN) is considered liberal by those that frequent Fox.
The only insane comment here is ProudDem’s hilarious pronouncement that NPR and CNN are the places to go for “truly balanced reporting,”
Hahahahahahaha! My sides hurt! Stop it!
PD or US, I’m not even going to begin dredging up the scores of instances where the media was rooting for Obama. You would still deny it. Lets say that you’re correct… ONE news outlet leans right among all the other outlets. What’s your problem? Conservatives can’t have even ONE channel to watch where similar views are held? So far you’ve called me “brainwashed” and now “insane”. Sadly this is exactly what I’ve come to expect from liberal leaning individuals. I have been nothing but civil in my comments and will continue as such. I also didn’t say I ignore other outlets.
As far as your other posting, Michael Brown may be an idiot I don’t know, but anybody that builds a city in a hole beside the ocean, throws up some tall Jersey barriers and calls them dikes and hides behind them waiting for a hurricane to hammer them is most assuredly in for a surprise. I fail to see why one single penny of federal money went to New Orleans when they’ve had decades to address the situation and done nothing.
fedup their point is that fox is not what it is claiming to be. The others are biased as well but they do not claim to be unbiased. As I said earlier there is no such thing as unbiased media outlets anymore they are all owned by the same 4 companies.
There is no such thing as balanced TV or Radio news anymore. The moment you add comentary you slant it one way or the other. Print media has remenents of news with just facts allowing YOU to draw your conclusions. Yet people take blogs to be the gospel truth and that is not thinking. It is up to the consumer to make it fair and balanced by getting news from a variety of sources. FYI Fox and the Wall street journal does not represent a variaty of sources as they are owned by the same parent company just like NBC & AP or ABC and ESPN.
There is no such thing as balanced TV or Radio news anymore. The moment you add comentary you slant it one way or the other. Print media has remenents of news with just facts allowing YOU to draw your conclusions. Yet people take blogs to be the gospel truth and that is not thinking. It is up to the consumer to make it fair and balanced by getting news from a variety of sources. FYI Fox and the Wall street journal does not represent a variaty of sources as they are owned by the same parent company just like NBC & AP or ABC and ESPN.
Arizona law has been rendered “toothless”. As I said before here, this law would not pass the legal test. oh, the irony…create a law to deal with illegals, but it won’t pass the legal test.
Does that mean that illegals are now granted legal standing and have rights tha our Constitution protects? Of course that’s not the intent, but the result of making bad law.
The law can’t infringue upon the Constitutional rights of Hispanic Americans and legal residents as the Arizona law tries to determine legal status of “reasonable suspects” whatever that means.
What is needed is inmigration reform:
Grant temporary legal stay to illegals who register with homeland dept.
Conduct criminal background checks
pay a fine and complete community service
learn English
High fines for employers that hire illegals
Jail sentences for multiple offenders.
Congress needs to work of effective inmigration reform and attack the supply of work for illegals. I can say with fair amount of certainty that no illegals would come here if they could not find work.
Cisco,
You fall into the trap, ot perhaps you are one of those setting the trap, of “Immigration Reform” “comprehensive” or otherwise. Immigration reform is merely code for amnesty. There should be no amnesty for those the commiting criminal act of breaking into our country. No registering w/ DHS ro ICE. No paying of fines, they will never be paid. They should have their benefits removed. No subsidized housing. No “work centers.” No fred education in our public schools. No jobs with contractors who have state contracts. No welfare, WIC, food stamps, drivers licenses, voter registration, etc. Once these magnets are removed & big fines for employers hiriing the are implemented they will self deport. We do not have a broker immigration system. It’s just that the illegals & their supporter/apologists no like it as it exists.
Our delegates in Annapolis should stop the handouts & take measures to demand O’Malley end Maryland’s status as a sanctuary state. Illegals cost MD 2B per years. The same size as the budget hole Owe Malley had to paper over this session.
the status quo fixes nothing. You would want them to go back and still pay the same for food, groceries and other services they provide for less money than Americans want to work for.
There is no proof that illegals “cost” any $$$ or at least in the amount that you state. In fact, most studies show that illegals do not have any access to medicaid, food stamps, welfare or housing. In fact the $$$ they pay in to Social Security and local taxes do not go back to them in any way. Your $2 billion figure, where dit it come from? Speak with facts as oppossed to urban tales.
I think if people register, pay a fine and obtain a work permit which allows them to come out of the shadows is not the same as Amnesty.
OK…HERE WE GO……!!!!!
The injunction against Arizona’s law is a folly destined to have grave results.
One needs look no further than our transportation article. The transportation article criminalizes, (to the extent of making violations of state law, violations of FMCSA rules), any violation of Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration rules. The state adapts through inclusion the fed rules and enforces them on the state level.
Is this not exactly what Arizona has done?
Time for these pissing contests by the Obama administration to end!
Pissing contests of Democrats over Republicans….
Pissing contests over race……
Pissing contests over states rights…..
Obama is pissing our country to medocracy….
Go Dagger !
There is no “reasonable suspiction clause” within the federal law as far as inmigration enforcement. You are comparing apples to avocados.
Fox news fair and balanced? I want some of what you are smoking. This will allow our already overly inflated police force to spend more of our tax dollars to profile people based on race. Think about the ridiculous costs involved in apprehending supposed illegal immigrants, the time and resources it will take to check said person’s background and citizen status, the space and care of the correctional system that will be utilized to hold these people while they are researched…. The fact you people care more about illegal immigration than the crimes happening under our noses and in our back yards goes to show that these redirection tecniques used by our politicians is working perfectly. Why concentrate on illegal citizens when there are natural born citizens killing raping and pillaging our communities.
One thing that is perfectly clear is that most folks commenting have only the slightest appreciation of the “elephant” (as in the tale of the blind men learning about the elephant) they are offering opinions about.
If someone is engaging in crimes, drug trafficking,human trafficking,robbing me, stealing my car, causing drunken driving accident, stealing my job opportunities, causing my taxes to go up to support illegal invaders, taking our higher education slots and available moneys … I believe our elected officials and bureaucracies and police should be doing something about eradicating it. When our Justice Dept is supporting the New Black Panthers, Sanctuary Cities and States, suppressing voting by Service members … they are part of the problem. When ICE says it doesn’t have enough resources to do their jobs and their Union says they are thwarted from performing their duties … our States need to step in and take action. SB 1070 simply requires state enforcement to act in concert with Federal law. Ultimately, it should be fully approved and implemented.
If we are fully honest with ourselves Obama and his good buddy O’Malley are simply out there pandering for more democrat voters.
Maybe but McDonough will do nothing about this but pander to people like you for their vote. Then never get around to even proposing a bill. He has a history of it and the 7th district will make him History in September.
McDonough hasn’t even written the bill. What a goofball. He expects candidates to endorse something he’s not written. That would be as bad as Pelosi’s gang.
He will never write the bill. He makes promises and then never does it. Like his English Only bill he promised and never actually introduced. Or the bill to reregulate power companies.
Can someone explain to me why Delegate McDonough would come out and endorse Dr. Cardarelli for the second district, when Dr. Cardarelli has a very questionable stance on immigration…Cardarelli posted his stance, Help save Maryland attacked, he took it down and now when asked all he says is Del. McDonough endorsed me….So why would McDonough endorse him? something stinks….