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Dulcinea

(6,630 posts)
Wed May 16, 2018, 12:13 PM May 2018

GOP Georgia governor candidate bringing 'Deportation Bus Tour' to state's sanctuary cities

A Republican candidate in Georgia’s gubernatorial race is bringing what he calls a “Deportation Bus Tour' to the state’s "sanctuary cities" to tout his support for expediting deportation for immigrants in the United States illegally.

State Sen. Michael Williams’s campaign said in a press release that the tour will “expose how dangerous illegal aliens ruin local economies, cost American jobs, increase healthcare costs and lower education standards.”

Williams says in a commercial for the tour that his deportation plan will “fill this bus with illegals to send them back to where they came from.”

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/387722-gop-georgia-governor-candidate-bringing-deportation-bus-tour-to-states

A couple of asides: Sanctuary cities are illegal in Georgia. Also, Clarkston, GA, is one of the biggest refugee resettlement towns in the nation. Maybe he neither knows nor cares that refugees are LEGAL immigrants.

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GOP Georgia governor candidate bringing 'Deportation Bus Tour' to state's sanctuary cities (Original Post) Dulcinea May 2018 OP
This guy is a toad. redstatebluegirl May 2018 #1
My thought is that... wcmagumba May 2018 #2
It's a way to get attention in a crowded field. Dulcinea May 2018 #3

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
1. This guy is a toad.
Wed May 16, 2018, 12:20 PM
May 2018

More importantly he is a GOP member, to the max. They are trying to run from it but they can't run fast enough. They are racists, they hate brown and black people, and all women. Nothing new here, just more out in the public eye and not under the covers anymore.

wcmagumba

(2,886 posts)
2. My thought is that...
Wed May 16, 2018, 12:30 PM
May 2018

(I know, foil hat time) it might be a trap, calling for vandalism or worse
from the left, thus giving faux news and twitler raw meat for their base...
but probably is just what it appears, asshole rightys...

Dulcinea

(6,630 posts)
3. It's a way to get attention in a crowded field.
Wed May 16, 2018, 12:41 PM
May 2018

Repubs here are paying attention to Casey Cagle & Brian Kemp, whose commercials are appalling. He's stirring up the deplorables.

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