Congratulations Barry Wong. You made it! The First Person on the True Mexican “List of Who is Not Worthy of the Latino Vote in Arizona”. Warning sign number one is demonizing a racial minority and using that to power your campaign. Barry must really be in dire straights to use this technique. This is politics at its lowest and filthiest. In the AZ republic there was a great editorial about this, an Open Letter from Glen Hamer who is the CEO of the AZ Chamber of Commerce and Industry and a column by Mr. Montini. Please take time to read them. They really say it all. Barry really needs to re read the history of the Chinese Immigrant in America.
What is the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) and why is it important to us? The Arizona Corporation Commission is one of those hazy government bodies that few people know anything about. (It’s so obscure, it doesn’t even have a Wikipedia entry yet.) Generally, when commissioners are in the news, it’s because they’ve been hit with a $60 million legal judgment. When you go to the offical ACC website their definition of what they do is even more obscure, So the following I found on the web site of a Securities Investment Association in AZ
What is the ACC and what does it do?
The Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) is the state agency that regulates utility companies, polices the sale of securities within Arizona and oversees the corporate status of Arizona and foreign corporations. The ACC also has certain regulatory responsibilities concerning the safety of railroad and pipeline operations in the state. The breadth of its regulatory scope is substantial and its decisions involve complex accounting, engineering, legal, financial and economic considerations.
The ACC was established by the Arizona Constitution in 1912 and certain of its powers are constitutionally defined. With that foundation, the ACC not only sets the rates charged by utilities but also determines policies which have a significant impact on their ability to attract capital so they can provide services to customers.
In a nutshell these people have a tremendous amount of power. Their decisions involve complex accounting, engineering, legal, financial and economic considerations. They have a 29.3 million dollar budget that as tax payers we give them. What do they spend it on? I don’t know but I will find out for you. It has been a traditional stronghold for Republicans. This election cycle we will have 3 democrats running David Bradley, Jorge Luis Garcia, and Renz Jennings. The three Republicans are Gary Pierce, Brenda Burns and Barry Wong are certainly politicians you want to know more about these people.
So Barry here it is. Please read this excellent article it may help you to refresh your self on the discrimination and demonization of your own people in America. I will post the whole article on True Mexican but here is the information concerning Chinese Immigration
California was the first state to challenge the federal government’s authority on immigration by enacting several measures against Chinese immigrants who were challenging native-born Americans for mining jobs in the wake of the gold rush. In 1852, the state imposed a $3 monthly tax on “non-native-born citizens of the United States.” Tax collectors kept part of the fee, confiscated property of those who failed to pay and often used extreme violence in their collection methods.
Three years later, in 1855, the California legislature levied a $50 tax on every ship bringing immigrants “ineligible for citizenship.” When the measure proved unsuccessful, the legislature passed another tax on Chinese workers in order “to protect free white labor against competition with Coolie labor.” The discriminatory legislation forced the Chinese out of the gold fields and into low-paying, menial jobs such as laying track for the Central Pacific Railroad or doing cheap labor wherever there was work that no other group wanted.
Throughout the 1860s and 1870s, Californians continued to attribute declining wages and unemployment to the despised Chinese laborers, who would work for low wages. To placate white workers, two new amendments were made to the California constitution in 1879. The first prohibited Chinese immigrants from voting in state elections, and the second forbid state and local public works agencies from employing a Chinese laborer.
That same year, all Chinese residents of Eureka, California were threatened with public hanging if seen on the street after 3 p.m., and later they were expelled from the city altogether.
Not until 1882, however, did the federal government respond to the crisis by passing the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first significant law restricting immigration into the United States. The measure suspended Chinese immigration for 10 years and declared the Chinese ineligible for naturalization. The act was passed by Congress to appease worker demands and assuage prevailing concerns about maintaining white “racial purity.” It was renewed in 1892 for another 10 years. In 1902 Chinese immigration was made illegal until the exclusion act was rescinded in 1943.
Do I sense history repeating itself, Barry?
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