VOTE NO ON THE MUSLIM INVASION OF SC Our fearless leader Dr. Carter parked some of us right by the doors to the building. I couldn't believe this would be allowed, but he'd said the one council member known to be right-minded said to. Right on schedule a black cop questioned us, but called his HQ and was told it was all right.
Among others streaming into the building a group of liberal-looking individuals passed us and nodded hello. Turned out to be reps of an Indian tribe that wants to build a huge movie studio up there.
Doc had instructed us to give a local address when signing the pad to speak. There was concern that if we did so they'd call us on it, while if we didn't they'd see a list of folks from hours away and skip over some or all. It was all good, though -- the chairman simply went down the list normally during public input time, even allowing some of us to abuse the two-minute limit rather badly.
Two or three of us (not I) went up for for the Nov. 2 first reading and tonight was an exciting advance on it. Neither time was there anybody present to speak for the refugee scheme; this time two locals we didn't know rose to condemn it -- one, a young lady, was as incisive on the real issues as they come.
The other was an impassioned 87-year-old gentleman, Curwood Chappell, who had chaired the council for 22 years. His hearing problems and total lack of guile made for some innocent chuckling. We chatted with him, his wife and daughter afterward at some length.
Well, the good news wouldn't stop. I traveled up with longtime compatriot Dean Allen, who reported that 10 and then a total of 17 states had announced refusal on these invaders. In the course of the meeting the chairman, while rapping us for breaking his applause rule, said several times that he was probably more against the scheme than the rest of us put together.
A council member to his left conveyed the news that the SC governor, recently revealed to be a hateful RINO, had just come through
"Haley asked the U.S. State Department not to resettle any Syrian refugees in South Carolina, citing the difficulty of checking their backgrounds"
Dean had told me she had to power to save us all this trouble by rescinding the statement she signed giving the feds the green light. Maybe the airheaded diversity poster girl's feeling the heat.
Thus it suddenly appears 3 of the 4 council members needed to defeat the scheme are on board -- especially remarkable if, as we've been told, members are getting payoffs to vote for it. York is a place forgotten by time, but it could be the hole in the dike.
From my remarks: Church bodies are pushing these programs and getting handsomely paid by the Obama administration for it. I think if they stopped to consider even the short-term impact they'd run the other way from it. Notably, churches whose motto is “always welcome the stranger” lock their doors.
We packed off to a Huddle House for food and merriment afterward. Doc had copies of the latest edition of our newspaper the Conservative Action Report and several said they liked on my editorial contrasting the Charleston shootings with the Charleston shooting.
York does have a lovely old-fashioned downtown, with what appears to be a circa 1900 brick hotel across the street with a porch across the front of the 3 stories. I feel sure there was once an ACLU lawsuit against the council starting its meetings with prayers but can't find a page on it. "In God we trust" is on the wall in big metal letters up front in the chamber.