McCain to visit Boston next month for campaign fundraiser
BOSTON Sen. John McCain will hold a fundraiser next month in Massachusetts, home state of his presidential rival Mitt Romney.
The Arizona Republican will gather June 18 with supporters at The Taj hotel, the former Ritz-Carlton overlooking the Public Garden, McCain's campaign confirmed.
Organizers include Jane Swift, the state's former acting governor, and Jean Inman, former chairwoman of the Massachusetts Republican Party.
Meanwhile, former Gov. Paul Cellucci is helping organize another fundraiser next month on behalf of a third GOP presidential candidate, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. The date and location have yet to be announced, although Cellucci previously confirmed the event.
The three Republicans who combined to hold the governor's office from 1991 to 2003 have split in the race for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. Former Gov. William F. Weld is backing Romney, who was Massachusetts governor between 2003 and 2007, while Cellucci is supporting Giuliani and Swift has endorsed McCain.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
"immigration bill fundamentally flawed" Gov. Bill Richardson
In opposing immigration bill, Richardson caught in debate
immigration bill fundamentally flawed
WASHINGTON - Of all the candidates running for president,
none has more weathered the crosscurrents of the immigration
battle than Gov. Bill Richardson, the New Mexico Democrat.
Richardson, whose mother is Mexican, is the governor of a border
state with the highest percentage of Latino immigrants in the country.
He has been entangled in the issue at home and a player in the ongoing
struggle in Washington about rewriting the nation's immigration laws.
He is the first Latino to seek the Democratic presidential nomination.
Richardson initially said he would support the immigration compromise
announced earlier this week. But on Wednesday, he said that after
reading it in detail, he had decided to oppose it, saying the measure
placed too great a burden on immigrants - tearing apart families that
wanted to settle in the United States, creating a permanent tier of
second-class immigrant workers, and funding a border fence that
Richardson had long opposed.
"This is fundamentally flawed in its current form, and I would
oppose it," he said. "We need bipartisanship, but we also need
legislation that is compassionate. I'm not sure this is."
see more at...........
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_5972184
immigration bill fundamentally flawed
WASHINGTON - Of all the candidates running for president,
none has more weathered the crosscurrents of the immigration
battle than Gov. Bill Richardson, the New Mexico Democrat.
Richardson, whose mother is Mexican, is the governor of a border
state with the highest percentage of Latino immigrants in the country.
He has been entangled in the issue at home and a player in the ongoing
struggle in Washington about rewriting the nation's immigration laws.
He is the first Latino to seek the Democratic presidential nomination.
Richardson initially said he would support the immigration compromise
announced earlier this week. But on Wednesday, he said that after
reading it in detail, he had decided to oppose it, saying the measure
placed too great a burden on immigrants - tearing apart families that
wanted to settle in the United States, creating a permanent tier of
second-class immigrant workers, and funding a border fence that
Richardson had long opposed.
"This is fundamentally flawed in its current form, and I would
oppose it," he said. "We need bipartisanship, but we also need
legislation that is compassionate. I'm not sure this is."
see more at...........
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_5972184
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