Farmers Branch to vote
Ordinance likely to go to Farmers Branch voters
A referendum to repeal an anti-illegal-immigration ordinance in Farmers Branch will likely go ahead after the city secretary confirmed Wednesday that opponents of the ordinance collected enough signatures to force a vote.
The City Council is expected to schedule the referendum for the next municipal election on May 12.
City Secretary Cindee Peters certified that more than 900 signatures on a petition calling for the referendum were those of registered Farmers Branch voters. Organizers collected more than 1,200 signatures in an effort to strike down an ordinance that forbids the renting of apartments to illegal immigrants.
Yeah! for the 1,200 voters that signed the petition but signing a petition and going to the polls and voting are not the same thing. I hope they show up and vote it down. Of course they might not get the chance to repeal it if it’s struck down by one of the lawsuits already filed, but the result is the same either way so that is okay. I am betting the court will strike the ordinances down long before that May 12th date but who knows.
Funny that the people who are putting forth and passing this kind of measure don’t even realize that the only reason immigration is on the table right now is because it was a buzzword during the election. Washington doesn’t truly want to do anything about illegal immigration they just wanted to use it to scare you and me into believing that the other guy wasn’t going to keep you safe. They wanted to work us all up into a frenzy so we would vote for them. Happily, we didn’t vote for them but they did work some people up into a frenzy and this is what we have to show for it. They equated illegal immigration with terrorism, which has not been the case and continues not to be the case. I am sure that the politicians that were trying to scare the sheople into submission never had this in mind but nonetheless this is what we have to show for their political stunts.
The council can avoid a referendum only if it repeals the ordinance that it passed unanimously Nov. 13. The council also established English as the city’s official language. Councilman Tim O’Hare, who proposed the measures, said he is not worried about a vote.
“There is very little doubt in my mind that the voters of Farmers Branch will overwhelmingly approve of this ordinance,” he said. “It’s only going to solidify what we did, and it’s going to make it much harder for a court to overturn it.”
Tim O’Hare is one of those people that make me cringe when I see his name in print. In case he doesn’t already know this an unconstitutional law is still unconstitutional even if it wins a popular vote. It will be struck down equally as quickly. Farmers Branch spokesman Tom Bryson says the city won’t comment on pending litigation but Tim O’Hare seems to be loving his 15 minutes of fame by throwing soundbites out left and right. I will be very happy to see his name out of the news when the ordinances go down in flames.
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