Comments on: Meg Whitman Campaign ‘severs’ ties with Bob Kellar http://scvtalk.com/2010/01/30/meg-whitman-campaign-severs-ties-with-bob-kellar/ your daily dose of SCV news, politics and culture. Published since 2006 Fri, 10 Sep 2010 07:21:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: SCV Guy http://scvtalk.com/2010/01/30/meg-whitman-campaign-severs-ties-with-bob-kellar/#comment-8893 SCV Guy Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:14:26 +0000 http://scvtalk.com/?p=1727#comment-8893 I know Meg, worked with her when she was at eBay. Very smart woman. God Bless us that she doesn't win. We don't need her politics. I know Meg, worked with her when she was at eBay. Very smart woman.

God Bless us that she doesn’t win. We don’t need her politics.

]]> By: ReaderMama http://scvtalk.com/2010/01/30/meg-whitman-campaign-severs-ties-with-bob-kellar/#comment-8440 ReaderMama Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:15:12 +0000 http://scvtalk.com/?p=1727#comment-8440 The letters to the editor in this morning's Signal were overwhelmingly in Kellar's favor. Meg Whitman may be making a big mistake in distancing herself from him (from a political standpoint). The letters to the editor in this morning’s Signal were overwhelmingly in Kellar’s favor. Meg Whitman may be making a big mistake in distancing herself from him (from a political standpoint).

]]> By: Timothy Myers http://scvtalk.com/2010/01/30/meg-whitman-campaign-severs-ties-with-bob-kellar/#comment-8436 Timothy Myers Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:10:33 +0000 http://scvtalk.com/?p=1727#comment-8436 Bill: Thanks for clarifying your position. I hope everyone who says that Bob Kellar was taken "out of context" and is the victim of "political correctness" reads your comment. Bill:

Thanks for clarifying your position. I hope everyone who says that Bob Kellar was taken “out of context” and is the victim of “political correctness” reads your comment.

]]> By: Kari http://scvtalk.com/2010/01/30/meg-whitman-campaign-severs-ties-with-bob-kellar/#comment-8420 Kari Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:32:30 +0000 http://scvtalk.com/?p=1727#comment-8420 The matter of the fact is this....when companies, small businesses, and busy homeowners etc., stop hiring illegals they will have nothing more to do but go back home. Yet, it's cheaper to pay that cleaning lady $30 a day than $100, that gardener $60 a mo. than $200 and those workers minimum wage or less per hour. If you practice this, you are guilty of adding to the problem of illegal immigration. I am a citizen and my husband is a legal resident and have been unemployed for about 2 years between the both of us. Thanks to our savings we are fine, but this economy might force us to go back to Mexico, like many Mexican-Americans already did, I never lived in Mexico, and I sincerely don't want to, but we aren't able to find work. These are the problems we should be worried about. Not what some ignorant person who thinks he has power said. And btw the problem of illegal immigration has always been part of the "American Dream", "give me your poor, your tired, huddled masses yearning to breathe free" inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. These people, like Kellar, say to be proud Americans, but they have forgetten what America is about. Can someone remind Kellar, someone in his family got on a boat and came to America long ago, it just wasn't called illegal (Check with the Native Americans on that one) LMAO! The matter of the fact is this….when companies, small businesses, and busy homeowners etc., stop hiring illegals they will have nothing more to do but go back home. Yet, it’s cheaper to pay that cleaning lady $30 a day than $100, that gardener $60 a mo. than $200 and those workers minimum wage or less per hour. If you practice this, you are guilty of adding to the problem of illegal immigration. I am a citizen and my husband is a legal resident and have been unemployed for about 2 years between the both of us. Thanks to our savings we are fine, but this economy might force us to go back to Mexico, like many Mexican-Americans already did, I never lived in Mexico, and I sincerely don’t want to, but we aren’t able to find work. These are the problems we should be worried about. Not what some ignorant person who thinks he has power said. And btw the problem of illegal immigration has always been part of the “American Dream”, “give me your poor, your tired, huddled masses yearning to breathe free” inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. These people, like Kellar, say to be proud Americans, but they have forgetten what America is about. Can someone remind Kellar, someone in his family got on a boat and came to America long ago, it just wasn’t called illegal (Check with the Native Americans on that one) LMAO!

]]> By: Linda Brown http://scvtalk.com/2010/01/30/meg-whitman-campaign-severs-ties-with-bob-kellar/#comment-8418 Linda Brown Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:59:29 +0000 http://scvtalk.com/?p=1727#comment-8418 Kellar's comments on the John and Ken Show are troubling. He also has made the same comment elsewhere a couple of times on how he receives complaints from SCV residents about the drunk and loud illegals on the streets. How can you tell by looking that someone is illegal? Sounds like Kellar is sterotyping that any Hispanic must be illegal. While I believe that he is not a racist, his remarks are not constructive and were inappropriate. While he may not have intended to represent the City, he has negatively. Nothing what he has done has helped solved the problem of illegal immigration. Kellar’s comments on the John and Ken Show are troubling. He also has made the same comment elsewhere a couple of times on how he receives complaints from SCV residents about the drunk and loud illegals on the streets.

How can you tell by looking that someone is illegal? Sounds like Kellar is sterotyping that any Hispanic must be illegal.

While I believe that he is not a racist, his remarks are not constructive and were inappropriate. While he may not have intended to represent the City, he has negatively. Nothing what he has done has helped solved the problem of illegal immigration.

]]> By: lvogel http://scvtalk.com/2010/01/30/meg-whitman-campaign-severs-ties-with-bob-kellar/#comment-8417 lvogel Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:58:42 +0000 http://scvtalk.com/?p=1727#comment-8417 Thank you for the post Kari and your perspective. I hope others have read it and seriously thought about your thoughts on this issue, because you are RIGHT-ON! Thank you for the post Kari and your perspective. I hope others have read it and seriously thought about your thoughts on this issue, because you are RIGHT-ON!

]]> By: Sneetch http://scvtalk.com/2010/01/30/meg-whitman-campaign-severs-ties-with-bob-kellar/#comment-8415 Sneetch Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:24:40 +0000 http://scvtalk.com/?p=1727#comment-8415 Good for Meg! See a Democrat CAN say something nice in regards to a Republican. ;) Good for Meg! See a Democrat CAN say something nice in regards to a Republican. ;)

]]> By: Bill http://scvtalk.com/2010/01/30/meg-whitman-campaign-severs-ties-with-bob-kellar/#comment-8414 Bill Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:39:22 +0000 http://scvtalk.com/?p=1727#comment-8414 Tim M., Joe Novotny was killed by one Marco Antonio Valencia. I don't give a damn if he was a citizen. We all know where he came from and how he respected our laws. Tim M.,

Joe Novotny was killed by one Marco Antonio Valencia. I don’t give a damn if he was a citizen. We all know where he came from and how he respected our laws.

]]> By: Kari http://scvtalk.com/2010/01/30/meg-whitman-campaign-severs-ties-with-bob-kellar/#comment-8412 Kari Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:38:18 +0000 http://scvtalk.com/?p=1727#comment-8412 As for illegal immigration, I am torn.... when employers start following the laws, and the government starts enforcing them I don't think illegal immigration will stop. If they can't be hired, they will go back home and not come back, but if employers keep hiring and keeping them for cheaper pay, they will stay and more will come from all parts of the world, not just MEXICO. Just to let you know, my father came here under the Bracero Program and was promised a Green Card, but when it was terminated he was repatriated and we are still fighting for wages that the US kept, my grandfather has already gotten his $10,000 dollars only 50 years later. So a lot of us Naturalized Citizens it is hard to express our opinion on this issue, yes an illegal immigrant has the job that my unemployed Plumber husband needs, but my family was forced to once have been in that position after the US negated my father a promised Green Card. So, who is at fault? How can it be fixed? Will someone ever step? Who knows. All I know is blaming it all on the illegals is not the way to go. As for illegal immigration, I am torn…. when employers start following the laws, and the government starts enforcing them I don’t think illegal immigration will stop. If they can’t be hired, they will go back home and not come back, but if employers keep hiring and keeping them for cheaper pay, they will stay and more will come from all parts of the world, not just MEXICO. Just to let you know, my father came here under the Bracero Program and was promised a Green Card, but when it was terminated he was repatriated and we are still fighting for wages that the US kept, my grandfather has already gotten his $10,000 dollars only 50 years later. So a lot of us Naturalized Citizens it is hard to express our opinion on this issue, yes an illegal immigrant has the job that my unemployed Plumber husband needs, but my family was forced to once have been in that position after the US negated my father a promised Green Card. So, who is at fault? How can it be fixed? Will someone ever step? Who knows. All I know is blaming it all on the illegals is not the way to go.

]]> By: Kari http://scvtalk.com/2010/01/30/meg-whitman-campaign-severs-ties-with-bob-kellar/#comment-8411 Kari Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:25:07 +0000 http://scvtalk.com/?p=1727#comment-8411 Oops "their" I meant there! Oops “their” I meant there!

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