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This just in from NumbersUSA... TOP AMNESTY CHAMPION SIDETRACKED IN BID TO RETURN TO CONGRESS ====================================================== The Utah Republican Party state convention just a few minutes ago failed to re-nominate Rep. Chris Cannon to return to Congress. One of the nation's foremost champions of amnesty for illegal aliens, Rep. Cannon must now face Matt Throckmorton in a Republican primary of voters in June. Cannon's failure to win re-nomination from his own party's convention is extraordinary and becomes a strong signal to the nation that voters are tired of immigration business as usual and that incumbents who constantly and aggressively violate their constituents' wishes on immigration may indeed be punished. Cannon's loss today is even more important because his pro-illegal positions were obviously the key reason. Throckmorton, a former member of the Utah legislature, has made immigration reductions one of his two main campaign issues and has pounded Cannon for weeks for his years of working for high immigration and rewarding illegal aliens. Most media have been reporting for some time that immigration is the No. 1 issue in this race. Cannon is serving his 4th term and 8th year in the U.S. House. He is a member of the Judiciary Committee's immigration subcommittee. As such, he has played a periodic role in blocking legislation to crack down on illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration. He often sides with the committee's most radical open-border Democrats and is a darling of the national immigration lawyers association and the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund. Cannon has praised Mexico because it has quadrupled its population in his lifetime. He advocates larger and larger U.S. population growth and thinks that is an important reason to run as high immigration as possible. More than 90% of his campaign contributions come from out of state, primarily from businesses that make money off the cheap foreign labor that Cannon pushes through immigration legislation. If you want to help Throckmorton with some out-of-state funding that would benefit the American -- as well as the Utah -- public, you can make contributions at: http://www.matt4utah.com/contribute.jsp Cannon has publicly lamented the defeat of Sen. Spencer Abraham (R-MI) in 2000. Most political commentators said that Abraham's aggressive advancement of high immigration on the Senate immigration subcommittee was one of two or three reasons why he narrowly lost his bid for a second term. Cannon at times has said that he considers himself as being the person who picked up the high-immigration torch from Abraham. After today's convention vote, it appears now that Cannon is following in Abraham's footsteps in more than one way. Utah is set up so that an incumbent has to win 60% of his party's convention vote to automatically be placed on the ballot. Generally, getting that is just a formality for an incumbent congressman. Today, however, Cannon fell a little short at 57%, with Throckmorton getting 42% and a third candidate getting 1%. Registered Republican voters will cast ballots between Cannon and Throckmorton in late June. Another loss by Cannon in June would greatly improve the chance of improvements in immigration law in the House Judiciary Committee and would send an important signal especially to the several dozen other Republicans in Congress who are amnesty supporters. People like Chris Cannon for years have voted on immigration issues as if the public will never notice and never do anything about it. The thousand or so delegates to the Utah convention proved that false today. Just to know how much is at stake, look at Cannon's immigration Profile here: http://profiles.numbersusa.com/improfile.php3?DistSend=UT&VIPID=818 He is currently the lead sponsor or co-sponsor of five amnesty bills. Amazingly, throughout the last month of challenges, he has publicly insisted that he opposed amnesties for illegal aliens and that none of his bills provides amnesties. He managed to get most of the Utah media to believe there is actually ambiguity about whether the five bills are amnesties. In fact, though, every single one of them provides the path to permanent residency and U.S. citizenship for illegal aliens and never requires them to go home. But Cannon is pretty good at clouding issues. Throckmorton will need a strong advertising budget to break through to the voting public with the truth about Cannon's leadership in Congress. You can help him here: http://www.matt4utah.com/contribute.jsp Congratulations to all of you in Utah who have worked so hard for this day. We'll keep all of you posted with developments in this race. This is one of those races that will draw disproprotionate national media attention. -- ROY -- WANT MORE (OR LESS) INFORMATION FROM NUMBERSUSA? As a NumbersUSA subscriber, you will receive occasional emails about immigration-related opportunities. If you want to increase or reduce the frequency of these emails, click here and choose from Total Activism, Moderate Activism, or Limited Activism at the bottom of your registration form: http://www.numbersusa.com/user -- NumbersUSA - relies upon individuals like you to reach its goal of an environmentally sustainable and economically just America. Would you consider making a donation? Click on: http://www.numbersusa.com/donationonline.html
