Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Around Town / Phillips Sheriff Hall, Learn to Google or Hire Someone Who Can
Posted by Betsy Phillips on Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:29 AM
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If you're interested, I got my hands on the original press release for the event and discuss it in more detail over at Tiny Cat Pants. The short version, though, is that Hall would have been the only person not affiliated with the think tank on the panel, so I think it's clear that they were using his presence as a way of legitimizing them and getting press attention.
And while he was scheduled to speak on 287(g), which, of course, deals with illegal immigrants, the other panelists were scheduled to speak on the heretofore unknown criminality of all immigrants.
And I'm sure it's got to be very comforting to our legal immigrant neighbors to know that the Sheriff sees nothing wrong with speaking to a group that believes immigrants are secret criminals.
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It seems these "near" misses are intentional. A very passive way of signaling to the right wing that he's with them. Very disappointing: a politician talking out of both sides of his mouth.
Sheriff Hall as well as Sheriff Arpaio are closet white supremacist, they're racist.
They just happen to get called out on it, they got caught. But that still doesn't change how they feel inside.
Arpaio said to Lou Dobbs "they call you a KKK, they call me one... I think it's an honor" look at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFTUQ71Aq0o
Hall is no different.
... signaling to the right wing ...
Indeed, Hall's political organization once contributed $500 to Friends of Charlie Tygard after conservative CM Tygard lead the move to shift $250,000 from the Metro Arts Commission to the Sheriff's Office.
http://enclave-nashville.blogspot.com/2007/07/curious-sequence-of-events-in-local.html
Replacement for Sheriff Daron Hall on the Center for Immigration Studies panel on immigration and crime:
Gary McLhinney, former Baltimore police officer, former president of the police union, appointed by ex-Gov Ehrlich to be chief of the Md. Transportation Authority for 4 yrs.
http://cis.org/Announcements/ImmigrationAndCrimePanel
Do read my comments on this incident, and on the "reporting" of SouthComm affiliates, over on the Post Politics blog. I won't include the comment link here, as this comment might get kicked off for multiple links.
