Sorry Ann, Jack Kemp was Right
Now, I am an unabashed Kemp guy, (I even got him to personally autograph my copy of An American Renaissance) but I will freely accept that in his later years Jack Kemp could get cranky and unhelpful on the issue of minority outreach and his effort on the ticket with Dole in 1996 was sadly lacking. That said, Kemp was maybe the only one back in 1994 who truly recognized the PR disaster the cynical Pete Wilson cooked up in 1994 with Prop 187. Kemp correctly stated at the time none of Wilson’s measures could make it past the courts and would only wind up rebounding against the California GOP; something that happened almost immediately. (It is also important to note that Pete Wilson was governor for 8 years, and he had all the power he needed to end the illegal immigration magnet in California, simply by having his state tax department crack down on employers submitting phony social security numbers with their payroll records, rather than go through with a polarizing referendum fight.)
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