In his column today David Harsanyi highlights Helen Krieble's involment in an immigration plan being touted by Governor Owens [December 19, 2005, "Answers to border issue lie in middle"]. From the column, "What do I do when a challenging public-policy question arises? Naturally, I turn to a billionaire heiress for advice. Frankly, Colorado's Helen Krieble, who owns a horse farm in Parker, is not your classic scion. She's a policy wonk and a tireless advocate of 'the principles of the founding fathers of our country.' Last week, when Gov. Bill Owens returned from Washington with a lucid plan on immigration - one that provides private employers the power to issue guest-worker visas - he was touting a policy initiative co-written by Krieble...Krieble argues that a commercial visa process should be so cheap and painless that it would deprive foreign workers of the incentive to illegally cross the border. This sane proposal - co-written with Greg Walcher, a former Colorado GOP congressional candidate - is sure to polarize the Colorado right. The split, Krieble believes, will be between the business community, which understands the organic need for labor and, frankly, couldn't care less about borders, and the law-and-order crowd, whose contention is that we must unconditionally and entirely secure the border."
Western Democrat: "But, the math problem isn't simply a libertarianism lacking religion in the West and a religious based conservatism in the South. The Sagebrush region, where that quote is taken, is only one of three political regions in the West (the other two being El Norte and the Coasts). If you take into consideration the entire West, most importantly, Idaho and Utah, and New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado, you see some very real divisions between the South and the West. Namely, Catholics and Mormons see politics differently than evangelical Protestants."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
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