Yes, you can judge a bill by its sponsers

Article 2-1-10

Two bills, two disgraced politicians

by Howie Carr
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Feb. 1, 2010

Like a bad penny, the in-state-tuition-for-illegal-aliens bill is back, and who do you suppose is, or was, its lead sponsor in the Senate?

Sen. Anthony D. (for Drunkard) Galluccio. That’s right, the now ex-senator, formerly of Cambridge, now of Billerica, as in the Billerica House of Correction.

Do you suppose Jail-uccio ingested a bad ice cube, or at least some high-octane toothpaste, before he scrawled this legislation giving foreign freeloaders yet another handout?

Sadly, he was unable to testify in favor of his own bill because he’d already made his one phone call of the day.

Then there’s the companion bill in the House, H. 1175. Its lead sponsor is Rep. Marie St. Fleur (D-Dorchester). Remember her? She wanted to run statewide in 2006 until it was discovered that she had $40,000 in unpaid student loans, a $12,700 lien on her home for unpaid federal taxes, had failed to pay excise taxes in the city . . . shall I go on?

By its sponsors, ye shall know a bill.

The hacks on Beacon Hill still don’t get it. They have learned nothing from the victory of Scott Brown.

Last Wednesday, the illegals and their political enablers were once again at the State House, banging the tin cup, demanding more free rides.

These bills themselves are more of the same old, same old. The Galluccio-St. Fleur types say that it’s “only” for illegals who graduated from local high schools.

So why do you suppose Galluccio, before he was locked up, entitled the bill “An Act Relative to Equal Access to Higher Education”?

Equal access? Illegal aliens will pay a fraction of the tuition charged to American kids whose parents work and pay income taxes in this state, but live in, say, New Hampshire.

And when the illegals say they want to pay “in-state” tuition, what they really mean is no tuition. When they do work, it’s usually under the table, which means they show no income, which means . . . scholarships.

Of course there is a way they could actually earn U.S. citizenship and a college scholarship at the same time. They could enlist in the military. Three years, and you get citizenship, plus the GI Bill. That’s what immigrants used to do.

But now, in Massachusetts, “earn” is a four-letter word, and so is “work.” Hate speech, almost, and certainly very mean-spirited.

Sorry, illegals, we’re tapped out. That’s why Scott Brown won the election.