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...informed him that if Bush won, Alec Baldwin said he would move to France, which was tempting. Mikey is Australian and couldn't vote, which was what made him so desperate to convince me. "If Bush gets in, there's no way I'm going to become a citizen," he said. I figured Mikey had crossed Bush in some '70s coke deal gone awry, but then he explained that only Gore could provide the level of health care he needed to change nationalities. I wondered if Pat Buchanan had a plan for removing sweatshirted pamphleteers from our borders...
...think the focus should be on the actual immigration process. The federal government needs to reevaluate the way it grants citizenship, especially to those seeking political asylum, so that they can become citizens and vote. While I am sympathetic with the frustration about all the red tape, I feel that voting rights are an important part of becoming a citizen," he said...
...patently unfair for a person to wait 15 to 20 years to become a citizen, all the while seeing their kids in school, paying taxes, and not having a chance to participate," he said...
Neither Restrepo nor Morales voted yesterday. Neither is a U.S. citizen, but they said even if they were, they would not vote...
Today's ballot also includes citizen-initiated proposals to outlaw greyhound racing, give greater tax benefits to charitable contributions and revise laws related to drug crimes, to place a greater emphasis on drug treatment and to use proceeds of drug-related property seizures to go to treatment...