Saturday, July 3, 2010

This dickhead (DH) is Republican Barry Wong and he is a candidate for the Arizona Corporation Commission. DH Wong is the grandson of Chinese immigrants. If elected, DH Wong wants to verify the immigration status of new utility customers and then proceed to current customers. DH Wong wants to deny utilities to any undocumented immigrant and shut off the services of any current customer who is found to be here illegally.

DH Wong is quoted as saying, "is power or natural gas or any type of utility a right that people have? Is it a right or a service? Cutting electricity, water, natural gas, even telephone lines at the homes of illegal immigrants would lower the costs for the rest of the state's customers."

Glenn Hamer, the president and CEO of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry disagrees with Wong stating, "“Today is the third day in a row when Phoenix-area temperatures will reach 110 degrees or higher. Since you’re a native Phoenician, I don’t need to remind you of the peril our state’s most vulnerable residents face in our summer heat. To deny someone access to electricity based on his or her immigration status is not only a wrongheaded policy proposal, it’s just cruel,” Hamer wrote.

“Your claim that your proposal is somehow consumer-friendly is absurd. The costs of implementing your plan would be borne by ratepayers, never mind the hit taxpayers would take as police and fire departments would increasingly be responding to heat-related emergencies.”

Can you see just how ugly this has gotten? And people wonder why Hispanics are fleeing Arizona in droves. What a dickhead!!

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