ColoradoPols is beginning the blogswarm on what seems at this early juncture to be a big story:
We can't believe he brought up the Northern Marianas experience with immigrant labor as a good thing. Seriously, we're floored by this. You may not understand exactly what we're talking about yet, but by the time Democrats get through reminding you of the whole sordid story featuring Jack Abramoff, Tom DeLay, and forced abortions (you read that correctly) you will--everybody will.
We referenced the Denver Post story that led this off this morning, noting that Schaffer's immiigration stance has been all over the map in the last few weeks. But at the bottom of the story was the true nugget, his admiration for the Northern Mariana Islands and their system of immigration. A system, it turns out, that he got a look at first-hand:
And guess who went along in 1999 to 'check out the situation?' That would be Rep. Bob Schaffer, who has also taken thousands of dollars in campaign money from Saipan politicians linked to this same congressional squashing of human rights reforms. There are literally hundreds of stories out there on the Saipan labor rights issue, which subsequently emerged a key part of the Abramoff scandal.
What's really, really amazing to us is that we spent about 5 easy minutes searching up gobs of damaging information linking the Northern Marianas, Jack Abramoff, and Bob Schaffer.
Indeed. It will be interesting to see what unfolds from this little slip of the tongue.
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