Repost – January 2017 letter to GA. state Senate Republican caucus Re: Sen. Lindsey Tippens

December 29, 2021 By D.A. King

Republican state Senator Lindsey Tippens.

The below letter was emailed to each Republican state Senator in Jan 2017 and originally posted here.

January 31, 2017

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From: D.A. (Donald Arthur) King

Marietta, Ga. 30066
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Dear Georgia State Senators,

It has come to my attention that last week, Senator Lindsey Tippins reportedly made at least one open inquiry about my personal background and asked if it is true that I have a criminal record. I distribute this information to avoid any future confusion.

In 1977 I entered a guilty plea to the charge of illegal gambling. I was taking bets on football games. Because gambling laws are actually enforced, punishment was a $3000.00 fine and a two-year period of probation, which was terminated early.

I have made this part of my past very clear for forty years, including in my own newspaper columns in the Marietta Daily Journal beginning in 2003. This information has also been widely publicized by the media. Including in a 2006 AJC profile, an Associated Press profile from 2011 and in countless cowardly ad hominem attacks – before the one from Sen. Tippins – by the far-left due to my fifteen years of self-funded, pro-enforcement activism on immigration. I recognize the motivation from both sources.

My understanding is that Senator Tippins has made remarks indicating that he is considering taking information on my gambling conviction to the Marietta Daily Journal, which is our mutual hometown newspaper. To save the senator time, it should be pointed out that I hand delivered all of the attached information to then MDJ publisher, Mr. Otis Brumby Jr. (RIP) and then editorial page editor Joe Kirby (RIP) in early 2004. Current MDJ management is also fully aware of the above.

Please see attached copies of the following: Original 1977 Judgment Order, 2000 letter noting 1979 termination of probation, 1993 Restoration of Rights – including the right to vote and hold elected office – and my Honorable Discharge from the United States Marine Corps, in which I very proudly enlisted in 1969.

I note here that at no time has Senator Tippins ever asked me about any of this.

D.A. King

Anti-enforcement activist Jerry Gonzalez: Senate should pass amnesty in ‘BBB’ as stepping stone to “citizenship for all” – amnesty plan dies the next day #GALEO

December 17, 2021 By D.A. King

Gerado E. (Jerry) Gonzalez. Photo: GALEO/Twitter

“While it is imperative to pass immigration relief now, leaders in Congress should use it as a stepping stone for passing citizenship for all.”

The below guest column posted Dec. 15 on the liberal ‘Georgia Recorder” website was written by GALEO Inc. CEO Jerry Gonzalez. We repost it in part here to insure there is no doubt about the open border agenda of the extremist, corporate-funded GALEO gang. The Senate Parliamentarian ended Jerry’s amnesty hopes for 2021 the next day.

Opinion: Congress should keep fighting to support immigration reform in spending plan

Georgia Recorder

December 15, 2021

Jerry Gonzalez

It’s an important time of year, as our congressional leaders work to pass a budget that will build back our nation’s economy and workforce following the devastating effects of COVID-19.

The power lies with Congress to determine funding priorities for the upcoming year through the budget reconciliation process that will ensure we remain competitive and recover. As the Senate considers the House-passed bill known as the Build Back Better Act, I encourage Georgia Sens. Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff to ensure that the final package will support local jobs while making sure that opportunities to improve Georgians’ quality of life are accessible to everyone, especially immigrants who live, work, and go to school in this great state but are stuck in legal limbo due to decades of congressional inaction on immigration reform.

The House-passed Build Back Better Act includes necessary provisions that will transform the lives of about 7 million undocumented immigrants, all of whom have lived, worked, and contributed to our nation for an average of 20 years. By focusing on keeping families across the country together, the current plan would allow for those eligible to apply for long-term work permits as well as deportation protections. It would also help keep all our families and communities safe by expanding access to life-saving health care and would allow for those who have been separated from their loved ones to travel abroad to see their family.

If signed into law, this would be a victory for immigrants and the economy, and would provide immigration relief to the largest population in history.

Note: Related – GALEO Inc. Chair, anti-enforcement immigration activist announces run for Georgia state senate – dak

While it is imperative to pass immigration relief now, leaders in Congress should use it as a stepping stone for passing citizenship for all. After all, an overwhelming majority of voters see the clear benefits of immigration by supporting a pathway to citizenship as part of immigration reform and without a permanent, long-term legislative solution for all, our communities, labor forces, and economies will continue to be saddled with the costs.

Today, Georgia is home to more than 352,000 undocumented immigrants. Despite nine years of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program changing the lives of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who came to the U.S. as young children by offering eligible individuals temporary work and study auhorizations, recipients are facing potential consequences after a federal judge in Texas decided to move forward with terminating the program. This could impact an estimated 21,000 DACA recipients in Georgia and prevent thousands of other Dreamers who came to the U.S. as children from one day applying to receive temporary deportation protections under the program…Read the rest here. Please.

Jason Esteves GALEO

December 14, 2021 By D.A. King

Atlanta Journal Constitution news desk decree: Marijuana laws unfair to minorities #AJC

December 13, 2021 By D.A. King

A quick note to mark just one example of the ongoing changes at the liberal AJC.

In the “old days” the game was to find a source who would give a quote backing up and advancing the AJC agenda. For the last several years – we don’t have time to track all the countless examples – that practice morphed into un-sourced insertions of “fact” into news stories.

Here is a recent case: “Stalled pot decriminalization efforts irk backers in Gwinnett” on page A 12 of the hard copy version, Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021.

It’s a story about disappointment that commissioners in metro-Atlanta’s Little California, Gwinnett County, have not yet decriminalized possession of less than an ounce of weed. The thought is that very diverse areas should know better than to punish people for violation of marijuana laws.

With attribution from nobody, the liberal AJC assures confident readers that “Marijuana laws disproportionally affect minorities. Stricter punishments not only put more people in jail, but can hurt employment options down the road.”

Indeed.

You can read the entire “news” report here from the online version Dec 8 with a different headline.

Evidence SPLC

December 11, 2021 By D.A. King

Opponents of Lopez nomination make their case

https://www.ajc.com/blog/jay-bookman/opponents-lopez-nomination-make-their-case/vZWCSfK7xbdlcrn7NgqmsJ

GEORGIA VOICES

By Jay Bookman

Jan 13, 2016

NOTE: In a recent column, I criticized Georgia anti-immigration activists who are trying to block the confirmation of DeKalb State Court Judge Dax Lopez to the federal bench. Below is the response to that column by D.A. King of Cobb County.

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By D.A. King

Writing on the Obama judicial nomination of GALEO’s Dax Lopez, Jay Bookman’s smear attack on me and my friend Phil Kent in the AJC serves as a brilliant reminder of the mindset of most liberals on immigration and politics.

Bookman makes it clear that he looks at the world through the lens of race, skin color and ethnicity. Not only does he intentionally muddle those categories, he assumes that the rest of us suffer from the same disability. We don’t.

“Hispanic” is not the opposite of “white” (or black) and is not a race. Neither is “illegal.” Nor am I “anti-immigrant.” Like most of the mainstream, this proud American supports legal, sustainable and reasonable levels of immigration that benefits the United States and protects Americans. Including immigrants. My adopted sister is an immigrant. That sacred term legally describes someone who entered the U.S. lawfully.

Like the late Barbara Jordan, it is my long-held – and public – position that we cannot honor real immigrants or our immigration system unless and until we adhere to a policy of an equal application of our immigration laws. Bookman provides useful insight by labeling that view “extremist.”

Since it seems to matter, as a political independent, I am also a member of the Federalist Society. So is Phil Kent. I expect that more than a few of the many Republican legislators and sheriffs who have written to our U.S. senators in opposition to Lopez are as well.

Bookman’s attack is yet another attempt from the far-left to blur the lines between immigrants and what the federal government, including the Supreme Court, refers to as “illegal aliens.” I personally target illegal employers more than illegal aliens. It would be helpful if Jay Bookman did the same.

The panels from which Georgia’s U.S. senators accepted vetting information on Lopez mostly failed to include information easily accessed on the GALEO website. I am proud to have provided both senate offices with facts and statements taken directly from that source after President Obama nominated Lopez for a lifetime seat on the federal bench.

The confirmation of Dax Lopez is not being opposed because of his ethnicity, and also contrary to what Bookman writes, opposition is directly connected to what Lopez has said and done. As a director of the GALEO corporation for eleven years, state court judge Dax Lopez’s position as treasurer there and his willingness to not only help form and advance the agenda of that group while assisting in raising operating funds does not a “conservative” make. It should be enough to drive most conservatives -including Republicans – away from silent acceptance of his confirmation.

Since 2003, the corporate-funded GALEO has viciously condemned any law enforcement office that dares to enforce immigration laws. Dax Lopez’s statement that he “agrees with their mission” must always be viewed with the knowledge that GALEO Inc. has marched in the streets of Georgia in opposition to enforcement, lobbied against state E-Verify laws designed to protect legal workers, lobbied against local jails honoring ICE holds for criminal aliens and vehemently opposed voter ID. And they lobby against English as our official language.

No wonder activist Lopez is not speaking to the press.

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D.A. King, of Marietta, is president of the Dustin Inman Society.

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