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Michael Rights wins in Southeast

November
21

The local election that fixated on day labor and illegal immigration is finally resolved today: Michael Rights will become the next supervisor of Southeast, the town that surrounds Brewster.

Absentee ballots were opened this morning, giving him a 19-vote edge over Brewster Mayor John Degnan. It was a squeaker that might have turned out differently if it hadn’t been a three-way race. Lorraine Mitts, a Southeast councilwoman, came in a distant third.

Rights’ “Save Our Southeast” ticket sent out campaign literature raising the specter of illegal alien gang activity in the area and promising a crackdown on Brewster’s numerous day laborers. As Marcela Rojas has reported, immigrants and Brewster merchants were watching the election carefully: Many worry that an anti-immigrant climate will cause the village’s growing Hispanic businesses to shut down.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 at 1:05 pm by Leah Rae.
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16 Responses to “Michael Rights wins in Southeast”

  1. X BULLDOG

    If you are legal you have nothing to worry about. If you are
    Illegal you should have something to worry about. Why would
    this have anything to do with hispanic businesses if the owners are legal? If their customers are illegal to bad.

  2. SurroundedbyIDIOTS

    Er, do you think that the only businesses that they patronize are hispanic businesses? Do you think that those of us who are LEGAL will patronize any business in this town if they continues on this course?

    The town looked pretty shabby before all you knuckleheads started yammering, guess its going down the tubes now. Shame that you and your ilk don’t go down with it, then again maybe you will.

  3. X BULLDOG

    Surrounded -the town was just fine before the Illegals came
    or even the legal hispanics. I’m sure it will do just fine
    without them. New businesses will open and the place might
    not look like a third world dump either.

  4. SurroundedbyIDIOTS

    How would you know what a third world country would look like when it looks like you have a hard time hiding that brown shirt you got tuck under your coat?

    You are a sad man. I would suggest a psych visit that will result in some med for you. If not, you need to get out more, you spend way too much time posting here. They sun would do you good.

  5. X BULLDOG

    Learn how to read and write English moron. Your posts don’t
    even make sense. What I don’t understand is why you would
    promote and agree to illegal activity unless you are a criminal illegal yourself.

  6. SurroundedbyIDIOTS

    Just writing at your intellectual level and yeah, I’m an illegal and I can write better then you on a bad day.

    “If their customers are illegal to bad.”

    I think you were trying to say “too” bad here.

    1: besides, also
    2 a: to an excessive degree : excessively b: to such a degree as to be regrettable c: very 3: so 2d

    See I’m learning English and I can box against and intellectual midget such as yourself as well.

    Oh, brown shirts, clearly you’re not a student of history, (and what your place will be in it), aka, Storm Troopers, Nazi, fascist.

    Time for you to squeal…

  7. X BULLDOG

    I figured you were an illegal cheat. Doing things legally
    and working hard is beyond you. I’m glad to see you can use
    a dictionary when you don’t know the definition of a simple
    word. Box? did you say box? That’s all you savage animals
    know is violence because your brain is the size of a pea and you can’t carry on a civilized conversation. Fill me in
    on “Brown Shirts” i’m not up on the latest racial slurs.

  8. SurroundedbyIDIOTS

    Whoa slow down, you’re gonna blow a gasket and kill off the remaining brain cells that will allow you to function as a self-independent human being, a non-thinking one albeit, but functioning as in stuffing food into your mouth, beer guzzling, burping and the use of the restroom and grunting for your needs.

    Yeah you found one, ohmygawd, what are you going to do???

    Civilized conversation? Hummmm, have you displayed an example that I can look at. I’m confused about what you would consider to be civilized.

    Racist? Hummm, Which savages are you grouping me with so we can all be clear of what you would define as being a savage.

    Thought I did fill you in on the Brown shirts, your never studied did you? Its a political and not a racial classification. You know, what you Americans had to fight against during WWII. Not unless you identified with the racial underpinnings of that political sentiment.

    I wrote all this using Google translation service by the way, it is very good!

    Okay, enough of thumping on you, your turn to squeal.

  9. X BULLDOG

    o.k. my turn. I define savages as people of violence. That
    is who i’m grouping you with. You did say boxing didn’t you
    or did I misunderstand you? I am laying down my weapons and
    extending the olive branch. I am educated. I have a BS in
    business. I am well informed as far as history goes but
    never heard of brown shirts in any of the text books I read.
    What I don’t understand is if you are that educated why have you done something that you know is wrong by breaking the law and being here Illegally? Breaking the law is not something an educated lawful person would do. Do you believe in law and order or would you break all kinds of
    laws in your country? (where are you from?) The way you say “You Americans” sounds as if you are bitter about a country that seems to be better than where you came from or you wouldn’t be here. You have me wrong. I have no problem with immigrants just illegal ones. One of the things that makes this country great is law and order of which I believe in. Maybe it’s not that way in your country but it is here so you must understand why Americans are fed up with this. I have to obey the law but you don’t have to? Am I making any sense or no? I pass the baton to you.

  10. SurroundbyIDIOTS

    First thing, never learn history from only from a textbook, clearly that limited education has a overbearing influence on your life and given you a limited view of the world.
    The term “boxing with an intellectual midget,� is as common as the United States of America apple pie. It deals with an intellectual confrontation with two individuals, one superior to another who is clearly inferior.
    Brownshirts are in fact, in your history textbooks, despite my earlier criticism. I have attached a Wiki translation for you benefit below;

    The Sturmabteilung or SA (German for “Storm department”, usually translated as “stormtroop(er)s”), functioned as a paramilitary organization of the NSDAP — the German Nazi party. It played a key role in Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s.

    SA men were often called “brownshirts”, for the color of their uniforms, and to distinguish them from the Schutzstaffel (SS), who wore black and brown uniforms (compare the Italian blackshirts). Brown-colored shirts were chosen as the SA uniform because a large batch of them was cheaply available after World War I, having originally been ordered for German troops serving in Africa.

    As for my culture or origin, I think I’ll stay as a illegal savage in your eyes, I think it makes you feel actually more comfortable to be able degrade and dehumanize those that you know nothing about. Very similar to what the Brownshirts did in Germany.
    As for my human right to seek better life, who are you to decide how I should live it? That I broke a single law to achieve that goal for me and my family, who are you to judge that? As to my level of education, poverty is a indifferent to peoples education. Along with the farmer, construction worker, the cook and the common laborer, also follow the teacher, the doctor the lawyer, the poet and artist who can no longer sustain our families in the countries that we come from. So we come here, we take the jobs that we can find, we pray day to day that we find someone that will hire us, in a country that where many, but not all, hates and would prefer to treat us like we are animals and education counts for nothing.

  11. X BULLDOG

    You seem more hateful than most immigrants i’ve met. It must
    be that sense of reason that this country “Owes” you something. You seem more like these brown shirts than myself
    by feeling you are superior to another person (me) and that I am inferior. I tried to make the peace but you are as
    stubborn as a muel. Who am I to judge you? No one. For you
    to justify that it’s o.k. to break the law so you and your
    family can have a bettr life is absurd. Wouldn’t it be great
    if we could all break the law for a better life. This would
    mean i could steal from you if i wanted just to make my life
    better. Where would we be without laws and people who obey
    them? You come to my country and push your language and your
    culture down my throat. This country owes you nothing. You come
    here because the dump you are from can’t feed,house,cloth or
    provide jobs for you so you come running here. I would be ashamed to be from such a country. Your bitterness shows and
    you are probably a member of the Tan Klan. Your education
    and brightness is worth nothing when you are a cheat in this
    world. That’s nothing to be proud of. You can’t hide forever, someday the law will catch up with you. America does not need law breaking cheats as citizens. We have enough already without importing more. If anyone owes you something it’s your country not this one.

  12. AMERICAN

    Man, I thought I saw it all then I see Bulldogs rants and raves about what America needs and I can tell you that what we need is less of his type around.

    It’s funny that these guys think that they are making us all feel better by surfing and posting their backward, inbred garbage.

    I never seen such lack of civility in a single individual, but what can you say? Cowards hide behind brave sounding words, but ultimately they are just little men with little ideas and little,,, Well you see where I’m going with that.

    Clearly, Surrounded cleaned the floor with with you in the brains department, get over it and tend to your wounds.

  13. X BULLDOG

    Yes American you are exactly right. What we need is less people like me and more Illegal alien cheats like surrounded. That makes alot of sense. I don’t hide behind
    words or computers. I’m more than happy to carry on a debate in person. Are you? if not you are the coward. As far as my little…..you might be quite surprised.

  14. X BULLDOG

    Gee American i don’t see any comments on Surrounds ranting
    and raving. He/She used some pretty strong language and if
    you look my original comment was not that bad. Kind of one
    sided don’t you think?

  15. AMERICAN

    Yeah but I don’t like you, so in the balance of life you lose.

  16. X BULLDOG

    Now look who sounds hateful. You don’t even know me. You don’t like me so I lose? I doubt it.

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