{"id":546064,"date":"2010-04-28T14:03:01","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T18:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=83439"},"modified":"2010-04-28T14:03:01","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T18:03:01","slug":"colorado-gubernatorial-candidate-promises-arizona-like-immigration-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546064","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Gubernatorial Candidate Promises Arizona-Like Immigration Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Arizona passed its highly controversial immigration bill &#8212; which among other provisions requires police to ask people about their legal status if they have reason to believe they might be illegal immigrants &#8212; into law last week, national Democrats hoped to turn the issue into a wedge for Republicans. And things seemed to be going their way at first, as high-profile conservatives like Florida Senate candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/04\/27\/rubio-arizona-immigration_n_553597.html\">Marco Rubio<\/a> came out against the Arizona law.<\/p>\n<p>But this morning, polls showed a healthy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/elections2\/election_2010\/election_2010_governor_elections\/arizona\/election_2010_arizona_governor\">approval rating bounce<\/a> for Gov. Jan Brewer (R-Ariz.) after she signed the immigration bill. And now at least one Republican gubernatorial candidate is hoping to follow Brewer&#8217;s lead.<span id=\"more-83439\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Colorado Independent <a href=\"http:\/\/coloradoindependent.com\/52281\/mcinnis-would-enact-harsh-arizona-style-immigration-laws\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.khow.com\/main.html\">Peter Boyles talk radio  show<\/a> Wednesday morning, Republican gubernatorial candidate Scott  McInnis said that if he were governor, he would seek to pass the same  kind of harsh anti-illegal immigration laws recently passed in Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am going to wave the magic wand. You\u2019re governor. What would you  do?\u201d Boyles asked McInnis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would do something very similar [to what Gov. Jan Brewer did in  Arizona],\u201d said McInnis, lauding Brewer for signing the legislation.  \u201cFinally some governor stood up and said \u2018We are stopping the retreat.  No more retreat. Federal government if you are not going to do it, we  are going to do it.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Arizona passed its highly controversial immigration bill &#8212; which among other provisions requires police to ask people about their legal status if they have reason to believe they might be illegal immigrants &#8212; into law last week, national Democrats hoped to turn the issue into a wedge for Republicans. And things seemed to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5443,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}