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The following was published in the Wall Street Journal on 9/1/2000
Re: How the Republicans Lost California, Ron Unz, August 28, 2000
Editor:
KTLA TV reporter (voice over):
"President Zedillo says he has a commitment from the governor."
Unz says Proposition 187 was "quickly ruled unconstitutional." Wrong. It was ruled unconstitutional by one judge, and it took her four years to do it. It was not tested in the Supreme Court because Gov. Gray Davis made a deal with Mexican President Zedillo to derail it. Unz says 187 would have kept U.S. citizen children from school if their parents were illegals. That simply isn't true.
The reaction to 187 produced outrageous political shenanigans. Art Torres, now Chairman of the California Democrat Party, said, "Remember, 187 is the last gasp of white American in California." Following his 1998 Presidential Medal of Freedom Award, Mario Obledo told a Los Angeles radio audience, "California is going to he a Hispanic state and anyone who doesn't like it should leave." And Citizenship USA, the Gore engineered voter factory that exploited Mexican Reconquista anger, has now been totally discredited.
A 1999 Los Angeles Times poll showed support for Proposition 187 as strong as it was in 1994. Republican Pete Wilson re-elected because he had the courage to stand up against the Mexican invasion. Handed enormous political ammunition by Democrats, Dan Lungren spent $44 million against Gray Davis, $33 million avoiding the most crucial issues facing California. His capitulation cost the Republicans California, not Proposition 187. But as the man who was responsible for pushing amnesty for millions through Congress in 1986, Lungren was hardly in a position to confront the consequences of his misguided actions.
Glenn Spencer
President
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