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Dakota War College looks through the campaign materials for Republican US Senate candidate Charles Gonyo and smells a xenophobia that "no one in their right mind would consider voting for."
Now I tend to be sympathetic toward underdogs like Gonyo who appear to come from outside the typical political/business establishment. But hearing Gonyo on Inside KELOLand last night confirmed for me that Gonyo is simply a racist menace to his party and civil society. When asked by Perry Groten if he think we are in a recession, Gonyo said maybe not, talked about the dollar being down, lamented that we can't get back on the gold standard...
...and then Gonyo dropped his bombshell: Gonyo said our economy would do better if we just got rid of all 40 million foreigners in our country. He didn't say illegal immigrants. He didn't say criminals. He said "40 million foreigners."
Appalling. Embarrassing not just for the Republican Party but for all of South Dakota that a man with such backwards, ignorant views could think that he could effectively represent our state in the United States Senate.
On this Memorial Day, don't forget: more than a hundred noncitizens have given their lives in service to the United States Armed Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. President Bush himself has honored immigrants serving in our military. A full quarter of the Union Army was foreigners.
Spout your thoughtless hatred of foreigners all you want, Dr. Gonyo. Recite your nutty claim to be "at least a 10th-generation Dakota Territoial resident" whose family came here with the Verendryes. You're still an immigrant, just like the rest of us. And immigrants will keep coming, and fighting, and dying for the Constitution that protects your right to speak such foolishness.
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How do you get rid of forty million people? Even Stalin could manage only twenty million.
ReplyDeleteI also watched Gonyo embarass himself and his party on KELO and this guy is simply disconnected from reality. If he gets any votes, I'd be surprised, but of course, even the goofballs get votes in each election, and this guy is from another planet. Gonyo must GO.
ReplyDeleteI see on the sample ballot that he uses all three names...
ReplyDeleteSorry, the only historical figures that use all three names are A) Presidential Assassins or B) Serial Killers.
Present company excluded, Cory! I hope!
Har har, jackrabit1!
ReplyDeleteActually (tangent time!), I heard or read somewhere that middle names get a bad rap not because assassins and serial killers use them, but because when the media report some horrible crime, they are careful to report the middle name to minimize the confusion of the killer's name with anyone else's. Remember our own Robert Leroy Anderson? He probably didn't sign his own checks with the middle name; KELO, Argus, et al. just didn't want the several dozen other Bob Andersons around South Dakota to get that creepy feeling every time a news report came on.
And there is another Cory Heidelberger out there, so online and in the credit report, I figure the "Allen" can't hurt.
Now, back to figuring out which of the remaining Republicans, Dykstra or Kephart, stands the best chance of winning 40% of the vote against Johnson....