Borderline insanity… redux

A lot of U.S. border state politicians engage in racist and xenophobic rhetoric when talking about Latinos, but Jack Davis stands out for his particular vitriol… although he’s up against eh wrong border.

The Buffalo, New York millionaire who fought to the Supreme Court of the United States for the right to self-finance his campaign (the Supremes ruling to uphold the principle that “a fool and his money can be parted”) has unsuccessfully run for Congress as the Democratic Party candidate in the heavily Republican 26th District of New York in 2006 and 2008.  In 2010, while a pre-candidate in the Democratic Primary for the candidacy, Davis gave a speechin which he “warned that increasing immigration from Mexico could lead to a new civil war between northern states and Mexican-influenced Southern states that may want to secede from the United States”.

Alas, despite the entertainment value (and the opportunity I saw for a really cool Confederate (er… Estados Confederados de Norteamerica) flag, he never got a chance to even go down in defeat to the Republican candidate.  Who, in 2010, happened to be another millionare businessman, a guy named Chris Lee, who had a thing for sending out photos of himself shirtless to what he thought were transvestites looking for boyfriends (nothing wrong with either sending out photos of various body parts on Craig’s List, or trolling for transvestites… though claiming to be a single guy, as opposed to a married congressman is somewhat frowned upon in the oddly puritanical world of U.S. politics).  Lee resigned his seat abruptly, and the special election is Davis’ chance to stage yet another amusing loss (this time as a “Tea Party Republican” — New York being one of the easier states in which to run minor party candidates)  based on his obsession with all things Latin.

… the Buffalo News is reporting on a controversy stirred by local businessman Jack Davis, who is collecting signatures to run as the Tea Party candidate in the primary for the seat formerly held by GOP scandal-boy Rep. Chris “Bare-chested on Craigslist” Lee. It turns out that a couple of weeks ago, Davis came up with this brilliant plan: Deport all of the upstate New York area’s Hispanic farmworkers, and replace them by busing in inner city blacks to pick the crops instead.

Of course, it might be mentioned (just in passing) that a goodly percentage of upstate New York farm workers are Puerto Ricans or Floridians.  Just sayin’.

Anyway, Davis can waste his money however he wants, but what I can’t understand is why he’s raving about the wrong border.  Shouldn’t he be blathering about the dangers of a poutine-eating quasi-socialists who have a national health system, or the threat posed to the American Way of Life by people who eat pizza with a knife and fork, and speak in strange ways, saying “sorry …eh?” instead of “Wattdafuk?”