{"id":75722,"date":"2015-09-27T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-27T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=75722"},"modified":"2015-09-27T08:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-09-27T16:00:31","slug":"prop-187-debate-no-tolerance-but-abundant-anger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=75722","title":{"rendered":"Prop. 187 Debate: No Tolerance but Abundant Anger"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Ramos writes for the Los Angeles Times Oct. 10, 1994<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There wasn’t any tolerance the other night at the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance. Only petty narrow-mindedness held sway.<\/p>\n

The center, in conjunction with Occidental College, opened its Peltz Theater in West Los Angeles for a debate on Proposition 187, the supposed “save our state” measure on the Nov. 8 ballot that would deny health and educational benefits to illegal immigrants in California. Any hope for a rational discussion was dashed before the debate even started.<\/p>\n

Several hundred Latino demonstrators–who have loved to hate Harold Ezell since his days as regional immigration commissioner–confronted him before he took the podium. One protester called Ezell, a godfather of 187, “a bigot and a Nazi.”<\/p>\n

Amid signs calling him “Slezell,” Ezell cried foul, telling reporters on his way out that the assertion was ridiculous. “I don’t have a racist bone in my body,” he said. Ezell also claimed to know nothing of a comment made by a pro-187 leader, Ron Prince, who enraged protesters by recently telling an audience: “You are the posse and SOS is the rope.”<\/p>\n

The evening went downhill from there…<\/p>\n

Ezell knows I hate Proposition 187. But that didn’t stop him from calling the next day to see what I thought of the debate high jinks.<\/p>\n

We went back and forth, hammering each other. Ezell did say that Prince’s “SOS is the rope” comment was out of line.<\/p>\n

When we finished chatting, I realized I couldn’t take another word on 187. I don’t like what it’s done to us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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