“A lot of them couldn’t communicate with the people they were getting the mortgage FROM,” he said.
Hey, Fred. Even in your brand of English,
a preposition should not end a sentence.
Nevertheless, Freddy the Sloth is unaware that
many legal immigrants don’t speak the lingo.
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Thompson’s got trouble in River City
Iowa has become central to his GOP campaign as he’s slid to asterisk status in New Hampshire. Challenges include lackluster polling, energy and funds.
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By Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
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December 23, 2007
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MASON CITY, IOWA — Janice Easley’s fury over illegal immigration boiled over Saturday as she confronted Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson at the Music Man Square museum.
She said she recalled a film about Mexicans who wanted to take over California and New Mexico. Calling illegal immigrants a taxpayer burden, she wondered whether Americans could march in the streets of Mexico and demand welfare. When Iowans call up the power company, she said, “everything is in Spanish; it’s sickening.”
“You are so, so right,” Thompson responded. English should be the national language, he told the retiree, and immigrants bear some of the blame for the home-loan crisis.
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You must remember these photographs from the FREDTHOMPSONEXPERIENCE.
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Doug Mills/The New York Times
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AP photo
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Images: See October 4, 2007:AP photo via Huffington Post; (computer image) Vanderline via Boston Globe