Will Watts Demand In-State Tuition for All Felons?

2007-07-06T08:55:00.000-07:00

Rick Noriega, a Houston-based consigliere for Enron-wannabe CenterPoint Energy and Senate candidate, is the leading advocate for legislation which requires Texas to provide in-state tuition and financial aid to illegal aliens who have crossed the border into Texas before applying to a Texas college:

Noriega, whose great-grandmother crossed into Texas from Mexico in 1916, is author of a law permitting in-state college tuition rates for illegal immigrants.

Noriega’s likely opponent for the Democratic nomination in the Senate race is Mikal Watts, a San Antonio trial lawyer.

Not to be outdone by Noriega’s bold legislation extending in-state tuition and financial aid to college applicants who violated immigration laws, I anticipate the following announcement from the Watts campaign in the near future:

Watts has demanded that all lawbreakers who come to Texas to commit their felonies should receive both preferred access to financial aid and reduced in-state tuition:

“Where is Rick Noriega’s compassion?” Watts asked a crowd gathered in the Walls Unit of the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville. “Noriega extended financial aid and preferential in-state tuition only to those college applicants who break immigration laws,” Watts continued, “and I mean to break down that artificial barrier so that all convicts who cross Texas’ border in the commission of a felony enjoy an equal access to financial aid and reduced tuition at Texas universities!”

Will Noriega Sponsor a "No Abortionist Left Behind Act"?

2007-07-05T21:19:00.000-07:00

San Antonio lawyer Mikal Watts created a stir by announcing that he was running for Senate as a Democrat who inexplicably does not favor abortion on demand:

I personally have the view: I hold the pro-life position with three exceptions: one for rape, one for incest, one for the life of the mother. But I don't claim to the Republican position of slippery slopes that you have to eliminate incredibly important medical research into Alzheimer's and Parkinson's because of the slippery slope argument on stem cells. I don't buy into that at all. There are clean stem cells and there are fabulous doctors all over the country who are making incredible progress toward two diseases that debilitate a large portion of our elderly population. I'm not going to apply a litmus test to any nominee to the United State's Supreme Court. I don't get to make the choice as to who the nominee is. But if I'm voting, there is not going to be a litmus test on that issue in any way shape form or fashion.

Likely Senate opponent Rick Noriega, a Houston-based consigliere for Enron-wannabe CenterPoint Energy, will be quick to respond. Not to be outdone by Watts, I anticipate the following announcement from the Noriega campaign in the near future:

"If elected to the Senate, my first priority will be to protect abortion on demand," Noriega said. "I have drafted a bill entitled the 'No Abortionist Left Behind Act,'" he continued, "and I will not rest until every man and woman and child in America can get a drive-by abortion 24 hours a day at one of the drive-thru clinics I propose we build on every street corner from sea to shining sea!" Noriega added, "God bless America!"

Small Tent Democrat

Will Watts Demand In-State Tuition for All Felons?

Will Noriega Sponsor a "No Abortionist Left Behind Act"?