This is one of the few places that covered the Brat – Cantor Primary race
-Brat raised just $207,000 in comparison to Cantor’s $5.44 million……………….This is the punch line
-The reports of the death of the Tea Party have been greatly exaggerated!
-Borders? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Borders! – Cantor found out we do!
Tea Party Claims Huge Scalp as Cantor Crashes in Primary
-Laugh of the day provided by Cantor’s loss? (Bonus: Suggested reading for Cantor)
-Dave Brat (R) Beat Eric Cantor In GOP VA Primary – Hannity
-Stunned cable news anchors react to Eric Cantor primary defeat
-Cantor Slayer Dave Brat Wants To Get Tough On NSA
-Cantor Will Step Down As Majority Leader
-Al Gore: NSA Violations ‘Way More Serious’ Crimes than Snowden’s
-New York Times: Ingraham, Levin, Breitbart Powered Brat Past GOP Establishment
June 11, 2014 Breibart News
Writing at the New York Times, Jeremy W. Peters notes the role conservative new media outlets helped propel Dave Brat to victory over House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in Virginia’s primary on Tuesday:
If Eric Cantor needed evidence that his political career was in real trouble, all he had to do was look outside his living room window one night last week. At a stately country club about half a mile from his home in the affluent Richmond suburb of Glen Allen, so many people had come to see the radio talk show host Laura Ingraham stump for Mr. Cantor’s opponent in the Republican primary, David Brat, that the overflow parking nearly reached his driveway.
Ms. Ingraham was so taken aback at the size of the crowd — inside the clubhouse, hundreds of people crammed onto staircase landings, leaned over railings and peered down at her from above — she wondered aloud what was really going on.
“We all looked at each other, saying, ‘He could totally win,’” Ms. Ingraham said in an interview. “I’ve had two moments in American politics in the last 15 years where I knew there was a big change afoot. One was when I left the Iowa caucuses in 2008. I walked out of there and said to a friend, ‘Barack Obama is going to win.’ And the other was when I left that rally last Tuesday.”
Few people did more than Ms. Ingraham to propel Mr. Brat, a 49-year-old economics professor who has never held elected office before, from obscurity to national conservative hero. And few stories better illustrate how his out-of-nowhere victory was due in large part to a unique and potent alignment of influential voices in conservative media.
Crucially, voices like Ms. Ingraham’s combined with shoe-leather, grass-roots campaign work by a highly organized local conservative movement to fill a void left by the absence of support from national Tea Party organizations and boldface Republican Party names.
Mr. Brat may have been turned away when he asked for financial support from well-funded conservative groups, and he was largely ignored by the national and local news media, which considered Mr. Cantor, the No. 2 Republican in the House, a shoo-in. But he was a known quantity to the loyal audiences of radio personalities like Ms. Ingraham and Mark Levin, a Reagan aide and a revered figure in the conservative movement, and Breitbart.com, the website founded by the provocateur Andrew Breitbart.
Together, Mr. Levin and Ms. Ingraham reach nearly 10 million people each week. And the Breitbart sites log 60 million page views each month. Those audiences are heavy with engaged, politically motivated voters who turn out in Republican primaries — the kind of voters who came out for Mr. Brat on Tuesday.
“Of the 70,000 voters yesterday in Virginia, I am sure 95 percent go to Drudge, Breitbart, Mark Levin or Laura Ingraham every day, multiple times a day,” said Stephen K. Bannon, who wears many hats as a radio host, a filmmaker and the executive chairman of Breitbart.
Breitbart flew a reporter to Glen Allen last week to cover the Ingraham-Brat rally, providing some of the scant media attention the event received. Over the course of the campaign, Breitbart writers churned out dozens of articles about Mr. Brat.
In fortuitous coincidence for Mr. Brat, many of the most influential media players who helped tip the election in his favor have longstanding ties to Virginia and were steeped in knowledge of how the state’s political system works. Mr. Bannon grew up in Richmond. An old childhood friend of his was helping to run the Brat campaign. Mr. Levin lives not too far away in Northern Virginia and has been active in races there before.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2014/06/11/New-York-Times-Ingraham-Levin-Breitbart-Powered-Brat-Past-GOP-Establishment
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June 10, 2014 By Cathy Burke, Greg Richter and Todd Beamon
In the most stunning upset of the midterm election season, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor was crushed in the Virginia Republican primary Tuesday by little-known tea party-backed challenger Dave Brat.
With 100 percent of the vote counted, Brat had 55.5 percent to Cantor’s 44.5 percent.
“I know there’s a lot of long faces here tonight,” Cantor told shocked supporters in a Richmond hotel ballroom, The Washington Post reported. “It’s disappointing, sure. But I believe in this country. I believe there’s opportunity around the next corner for all of us.”
Cantor spoke for just four minutes, promising to continue to “fight for the conservative cause.”
Brat, an economics professor who’s never run for public office, has been a relentless critic of the better-financed and far-better-known Cantor — who had been considered a potential future House speaker — for spending too much time in Washington and losing touch with his conservative base at home.
He called his win a “miracle,” but said it also was a clear mandate.
“I’m utterly humbled and thankful,” he told Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity. “God acts through people, and God acted through the people on my behalf.”
“We’re just celebrating like crazy tonight, an unbelievable miracle.”
Brat said, however, that he did not feel the race was “a contest between the tea party and the Republicans,” adding: “I ran on the Republican principles.”
“If you go door-to-door knocking, the American people know the country is headed in the wrong direction,” Brat told Hannity.
Though Brat hit Cantor hard on his support for immigration reform, he said that wasn’t the only issue in the race.
“It’s the most symbolic issue that captures the differences between myself and Eric Cantor in this race. But it also captures the fissure between Main Street and Wall Street,” he said.
In November, Brat, who teaches at Randolph-Macon College, a small liberal arts school north of Richmond, will face Democratic nominee Jack Trammell, a professor at the same college.
“I’m as stunned as anybody,” said Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia. “I’ve yet to find one person nationally or in the state outside the Brat circle who thought Cantor would be beaten.
“This is one of the most stunning upsets in modern American political history,” Sabato said. “This is the base rebelling against the GOP leadership in Washington, as represented by Eric Cantor.
Fox News Political Editor Chris Stirewalt said Brat’s election means comprehensive immigration reform is “dead meat.”
Pollster Doug Schoen told Newsmax that Republican voters are angry.
“They are angry at the establishment. Eric Cantor represents inside Washington — and this is a repudiation of the Republican leadership strata.”
Cantor, first elected in 2000, won the 2012 Republican primary with 79 percent of the vote. He has been the House majority leader since 2011, and has served in the Republican leadership since 2003.
Most Republicans view Cantor, 51, as the most conservative member of the House leadership, CNN noted, saying he served as President Barack Obama’s chief foil in budget negotiations in 2011.
On the eve of the primary, Brat kept up his needling of Cantor on immigration.
“Congressman Cantor has now publicly declared his intention to pass amnesty as soon as he possibly can, with President Obama’s help,” Brat told The Daily Caller on the eve of the primary.
“He is working hand-in-glove with the Chamber of Commerce to boost the supply of low-wage guest workers for corporations and provide other lavish Wall Street bailouts at taxpayers’ expense. No lawmaker is more beholden to large corporate funders than Eric Cantor. His corporate donors think they can buy this election.”
Brat even was able to pick off some former Cantor backers, PBS reported.
“[Cantor's] interests have turned toward large corporations, and he’s not looking out for my interests,” Ron Hedlund, who owns a small industrial repair business in Richmond and was a former volunteer for Cantor, told PBS.
Brat had also picked up support from some local Republican groups as well, ominously topping Cantor by more than 40 points in a straw poll at the district’s GOP convention in May, PBS noted.
For his part, Cantor — who collected more than $1 million in April and May for his campaign — stuck to accusations that Brat, who raised a little over $200,000, was a “liberal college professor.”
Virginia is no stranger to fights between the GOP establishment and the tea party since tea party favorite Ken Cuccinelli lost last year’s gubernatorial race. This year, Cantor supporters met with resistance trying to wrest control of the state party away from tea party enthusiasts, including in Cantor’s Richmond-area home district.
“It does speak to the kind of restlessness of the tea party,” University of Richmond political science professor Daniel Palazzolo told the Associated Press.
The Cantor loss could bode ill for one other longtime Republican incumbent, Mississippi Sen. Thad Cochran, who’s facing the fight of his life against tea party-backed challenger Chris McDaniel, who slams Cochran as not conservative enough.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Eric-Cantor-Primary-Dave-Brat-crash/2014/06/10/id/576292/?
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Reports of the Tea Party’s death were greatly exaggerated
June 11, 2014 by Robert Moon
Despite liberals absolutely falling over each other for years to insist that the Tea Party movement was dead at every turn, it has once again proven them all wrong, this time unseating the second most powerful politician in the House of Representatives in a stunning and historic upset on Tuesday. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) has now been removed from office by a completely unknown political novice with virtually zero campaign money.
The challenger, Dave Brat, is an economics professor at Randolph-Macon college in Richmond. He has no ties to Washington whatsoever, and had no backing from any part of the Republican establishment. He secured the nomination with nothing more than the support of Tea Partiers and other conservative voices, such as talk radio host Laura Ingraham…and by embracing the former GOP principles that the American people overwhelmingly stand for—free markets, fiscal sanity, and actually following the Constitution.
From Fox News:
The upset sent shock waves across Capitol Hill with speculation about whether Cantor would resign his leadership post and if any Republican incumbent would now dare to support immigration reform. Cantor aides did not respond Tuesday when asked if the 51-year-old would launch a write-in campaign in November.
Cantor had joined Democrats in demonizing Tea Partiers as “dangerous” and “extreme” for preferring limited government that actually lives within its means, and had openly declared war on them for the last seven months straight. His finally fatal wrong turn was allowing the leftist RINO establishment to blackmail and bribe him into throwing the American people and the rule of law under the bus to side with foreign criminals who illegally broke into our country by the millions.
And just in case there is any doubt that this dramatic turn of events was a major step in the right direction, sobbing liberal embarrassment John Boehner has now stepped in to praise Cantor as a “great leader” and his closest “friend.”
As I have said before, Republicans have forgotten that they only win elections when they abandon the time-disproven Dole-McCain-Romney approach of “reaching across the aisle” and pretending to be Democrats on nearly every issue. They have forgotten that even liberal states like California vote with conservatives on things like illegal immigration.
They have forgotten that this is an overwhelmingly right-of-center country that has only elected two other Democrat presidents in the last 45 years: Carter, who was the only other candidate after Watergate, and Clinton, a Southerner who pretended to be a conservative.
They have forgotten that this country unites behind Republicans when they run as unapologetically conservative candidates, as with Reagan and Bush Sr. (until Bush Sr. revealed that he wasn’t really a conservative by raising taxes…at which point voters promptly ditched him for what they thought was a moderate Democrat).
Americans don’t want to compromise with liberalism. They want it defeated.
But Republicans have allowed themselves to be convinced that advocating for government that only does what it is actually authorized to do under the Constitution is “extreme” and would make them unelectable. They think they need to “get things done” and perpetually expand the role of government. They see principled conservatives as unsophisticated amateurs who should be hidden from view in embarrassment.
They are too busy begging for scraps from the left’s table to consider the winning strategy of actually fighting back and taking the kind of bold, extreme measures that are now required to save the republic. For instance, when Democrats forced through their illegal, economy-killing health care takeover, Republicans responded by offering up a different way to run it (‘Repeal and Replace’), rather than simply uprooting the blatant attack on the Constitution altogether.
This is always the way with Republicans. Don’t take a stand. Don’t actually fight back. Just offer something slightly less horrible than what Democrats have introduced—something that leaves the problem in place, the Federal Government’s foot in the door and the conservative movement with a knife in its back.
The Republican Party has been so thoroughly corrupted and compromised by leftist RINOs at this point (partly due to states allowing Democrats to vote in GOP primaries) that it has effectively become the moderate wing of a one-party socialist system, with a very narrow minority of actual conservatives remaining on its fringes, representing the American people on the issues. Elections have become a choice between destroying America at 55 MPH under Republicans, or at 155 MPH under Democrats.
The only chance there is at this point for Americans to peacefully restore our God-given rights and liberties under the Constitution is to have some form of actual representation in Washington. Otherwise, it will remain the Federal Government vs. The People, and it is only a matter of time before such an impossible alignment erupts into violence.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.” —JFK
http://www.examiner.com/article/reports-of-the-tea-party-s-death-were-greatly-exaggerated
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-Borders? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Borders! – Cantor found out we do!
June 9, 2014 by Christy “Snarks”
President “Slim Shady” and his gang of thugs are embroiled in so many scandals that they use new scandals to cover up old and ongoing ones. Meanwhile, their obedient lapdogs in the mainstream media lap up the vomit. As the rest of us have been skewering Obama for the V.A. Scandal and the Bowe Bergdahl exchange, Eric Holder has recently announced that he will be seeking taxpayer money for Justice Americorps, a program “aimed at ensuring that illegal immigrant children who cross into the U.S. without a parent or guardian have legal representation in the United States.” That is code for “making sure that illegal alien kids are allowed to stay.”
There is much anticipation that a vote on immigration reform, which would include some form of amnesty, could take place this year. As a result, countries in Central America are prompting their citizens to travel to the United States, especially their women and children, as they are less likely to be deported. Rather than try to combat this influx, the Department of Homeland Security is actually aiding it by transporting illegals who cross into Texas to a Greyhound bus station in Phoenix, Arizona. “All the immigrants bused to Phoenix are supposed to report to a local ICE office at their destination within 15 days.” Of course, there are no papers signed requiring them to do so. It is all based on the honor system.
Arizona governor, Jan Brewer, is naturally incensed and she contends that Jeh Johnson, head of DHS, never informed her of their intentions to use her state as an immigrant dumping ground. She released a statement on Friday regarding the situation.
“This is a crisis of the federal government’s creation, and the fact that the border remains unsecure – now apparently intentionally – while this operation continues full-steam ahead is deplorable.”
“I am disturbed and outraged that President Obama’s administration continues to implement this dangerous and inhumane policy, meanwhile neglecting to answer crucial questions our citizens demand and deserve.”
Governor Brewer has been an outspoken critic of the Administration’s policies, and this practice could be seen as their way to put a thumb in Brewer’s eye for her opposition.
The self-appointed monarchy that is the Obama administration has absolutely no respect for the rule of law that we, the “riff-raff”, are expected to follow. Try failing to pay your taxes and see what happens. To that end, American citizenship is only valuable to the Washington power brokers as a means to fund their corruption. “We the People” are nothing more than a giant pocket to be picked.
The Republicans are supposed to be a line of defense against these lawless shenanigans, but they manage to fold like a Sunday paper with every challenge. If John Boehner and the rest of his castrated crew had half a nut for defiance, this administration might not treat the law as their own personal doormat. Sadly, thanks to the US Chamber of Commerce, Main Street, Crossroads and other unprincipled players, they are just as eager as the Democrats to strike an amnesty deal. In fact, House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, has already suggested that it is time compromise with Obama - WHICH is a Good Part of why he LOST in the Primary. Republicans see it as a way to satisfy their big business and big donor interests, while Democrats see it as a way to gain more votes through welfare dependence. Further, Barack Obama may want to rebuild our republic by overloading the system until it crashes. After all, isn’t that the Cloward-Piven philosophy?
It is understandable that people want to come to this country. They do not deserve blame for that. The ones who do deserve the blame are those who are using them as political pawns for their own gain. They claim to care about them, but what kind of care is shown by herding people onto a bus and shipping them to Arizona? What kind of message is sent to those who respected our country enough to go through the process…and what recourse do American citizens have if those who are supposed to work for us are more interested in representing those who should not even be here in the first place?
If Eric Holder were as interested in retrieving U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi from a Mexican prison as he is in advocating for illegal immigrant children and Army deserters, the good Sergeant would be home by now. Shortly after the Bowe Bergdahl release, a Texas gun store, Tactical Firearms, displayed a message on their outdoor sign. It read, “Will trade Obama to Mexico for Sgt Tahmooressi. God help us all.” I suggest we throw in his nut-Holder for free.
http://joeforamerica.com/2014/06/borders-dont-need-stinkin-borders/#s
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Cantor Slayer Dave Brat Wants To Get Tough On NSA
June 11, 2014 by Giuseppe Macri
While political pundits across Washington are already sounding the death knell for immigration reform over Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s surprising Virginia primary loss to tea party opponent Dave Brat, little mention has been made of its influence on another major Congressional reform effort — National Security Agency spying.
As the first leaks of classified NSA bulk surveillance programs rocked Capitol Hill last summer, Cantor voted against legislation that would have significantly reigned in the signals intelligence agency’s ability sweep up phone metadata on Americans – a vote that came much closer to passage than anyone expected according to a Washington Post report.
Instead the majority leader favored a weak bill from the House Intelligence Committee that would have actually broadened the agency’s surveillance authority, and eventually brought to the floor and voted for a “gutted” version of what was previously the most sweeping reform to go before Congress yet.
Brat meanwhile asserted during his campaign that the government has ”spun out of control” in regard to surveillance and called for an end to bulk telephone record collection, along with a need for greater protections over email communications, according to the Post.
“The NSA’s indiscriminate collection of data on all Americans is a disturbing violation of our Fourth Amendment right to privacy. Snowden shed light on the violations of our privacy, and we must guard against intrusion on our constitutional rights,” Brat said in the Richmond Times-Dispatch last week.
The tea party upstart appreciates the value of Snowden’s disclosures for highlighting the institutional failures of sacrificing Americans’ privacy in the name of security, but still believes the leaker should stand trial for breaking the law.
“If Snowden gave sensitive U.S. intelligence information to Russia’s — or any other — foreign government, then he’s a traitor by definition. Even if he did not, passing the stolen information straight to the media is a violation of the law, and he should face trial for that,” Brat said.
“Thus it is crucial that we bring Snowden to justice under our system of laws as we require our justice system to account for its own institutional and constitutional failings. Americans must remain always vigilant in the fight for freedom.”
Brat’s nuanced approach to the issue puts him in a positive light among conservative camps divided over Snowden and NSA, and comes across clearer than the often contradictory statements and actions of other lawmakers on Capitol Hill made in the wake of the ongoing leaks.
If Brat goes on to win Virginia’s 7th District seat in the November mid-term election, he’s much more likely to stand with other popular tea party Republicans like Rand Paul on state surveillance issues in Congress.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/11/eric-cantor-is-a-friend-to-nsa-primary-challenger-dave-brat-is-not/
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Cantor Will Step Down As Majority Leader
June 11, 2014 by B. Christopher Agee
Following his primary defeat this week, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is expected to announce his resignation from that post effective at the end of July.
A source requesting anonymity confirmed the Republican leader will deliver the news soon as the GOP establishment reels from Tuesday’s upset victory by Tea Party challenger David Brat. Despite spending far more on his campaign and the ostensible benefit of name recognition, Cantor could not compete with Brat’s conservative platform.
A number of names have already been mentioned as a potential replacement in the second-highest House position. One candidate, Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, weighed in on his colleague’s defeat.
“Few have fought harder or have accomplished more in the pursuit of solutions-based policies to better the lives of Americans than Eric Cantor,” he said. “Every single member of this conference is indebted to Eric’s graciousness and leadership.”
Other representatives who could advance to the leadership post include Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, who heads the House Budget Committee, and House Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling of Texas. Ryan has publicly stated he has no interest in the position.
Representatives Peter Roskam, Tom Price, Steve Scalise, and Jim Jordan are also receiving some attention among D.C. insiders, according to a USA Today report.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-report-cantor-will-step-majority-leader/
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Laugh of the day provided by Cantor’s loss? (Bonus: Suggested reading for Cantor)
June 11, 2014
David Burge @iowahawkblog
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Huh. I assumed the immigrant vote would turn out for Cantor. #VA07
Bada-zing! But Iowahawk wasn’t done yet after Eric Cantor’s primary loss Tuesday night.
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Some summer reading for Eric Cantor
https://www.google.com/search?q=tea+party+movement+is+dead
Snicker. That’s a Google search for “Tea Party movement is dead.”
Be prepared for lots of laughs today.
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Want some real laughs today? Watch the desperate contortions of people who deny Cantor’s loss had anything to do with amnesty.
Schadenfreudelicious!
An an exit reminder:
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No matter how low your opinion of Washington, it’s nothing compared to Washington’s low opinion of you
Bingo.
http://twitchy.com/2014/06/11/laugh-of-the-day-provided-by-cantors-loss-bonus-suggested-reading-for-cantor/
Stunned cable news anchors react to Eric Cantor primary defeat
Dave Brat (R) Beat Eric Cantor In GOP VA Primary – Hannity
-Brat raised just $207,000 in comparison to Cantor’s $5.44 million……………….This is the punch line
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Al Gore: NSA Violations ‘Way More Serious’ Crimes than Snowden’s
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Related
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Cantor-Obama-immigration-House/2014/06/09/id/575853/
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Eric-Cantor-immigration-amnesty-children/2014/06/04/id/575180/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/10/virginia-primary-results_n_5479472.html
http://davebratforcongress.com/
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/10/Earthquake-Eric-Cantor-Caught-Everybody-By-Surprise
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/10/SHOCK-House-Majority-Leader-Eric-Cantor-Loses-Primary
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/10/Eric-Cantor-Live-by-the-Tea-Party-Die-By-the-Tea-Party
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/10/house-majority-leader-eric-cantor-loses-virginia-gop-primary-ap-reports/
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Related previous posts on this blog
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/06/05/video-laura-ingraham-mark-levin-for-brat-ingraham-we-should-have-traded-cantor-for-bergdahl/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/05/29/cantor-primary-challenger-david-brat-anti-amnesty-mailer-act-of-a-desperate-campaign/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/05/28/days-from-primary-eric-cantor-lies-poses-as-anti-amnesty-warrior-clever-bit-of-political-theater/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/05/13/a-very-very-dangerous-man-eric-cantor-and-the-establishments-stunning-loss/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/04/10/cantor-wants-to-be-speaker-and-sabotages-conservatives/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/gop-challenger-rips-crony-cantor-on-immigration/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/conservatives-pushing-boehner-cantor-to-defund-obamacare-in-continuing-resolution/
http://reclaimourrepublic.wordpress.com/2014/06/06/amnesty-group-robocalls-thanking-cantor-graham-for-supporting-amnesty-dream-act-is-not-biblical/
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