"You Don't Need Papers for Voting"

The race for the open 50th Congressional District seat in California just got a little more interesting. Democrat candidate Francine Busby reportedly told a group of latinos "you don't need papers for voting", basically encouraging illegal aliens to vote in Tuesday's election:

If an election can turn on a sentence, this could be the one: “You don't need papers for voting.”

On Thursday night, Francine Busby, the Democratic candidate for the 50th Congressional District, was speaking before a largely Latino crowd in Escondido when she uttered those words. She said yesterday she simply misspoke.

But someone taped it and a recording began circulating yesterday. After she made that statement at the meeting, Busby immediately said: “You don't need to be a registered voter to help (the campaign).”

She said that subsequent statement was to clarify what she meant.

The recording, which was played yesterday on Roger Hedgecock's radio talk show, jolted the campaign.

Whether she misspoke or not I don't know, but I saw her interviewed on Fox the other night and frankly, she's a lightweight. It's hard to believe that she's the best the Dems could come up with for this race.

She has come out strongly in support of the McCain-Kennedy amnesty bill, and has expressed support for many of the bill's most idiotic parts, including giving Social Security credit to people who were working under fraudulent ID's and such. This special election will turn on the immigration issue, and I think Busby just torched her own campaign.

The Dems might as well get the "almost victory" celebration started.

UPDATE: You do need papers to be a congressman.