"Bill Jones speaks out against voting rights for non-citizens"

From Terence Chea of the AP (sfgate . com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/07/26/state1700EDT0097.DTL):

Republican Senate candidate Bill Jones railed on Monday against a ballot measure that would grant non-citizens here the right to vote in school board elections, calling it a "slap in the face" to U.S. citizenship and the country's immigration laws.

Speaking on the steps of San Francisco City Hall, the former secretary of state said the charter amendment would violate the California Constitution and erode public confidence in the electoral process. He said encouraging immigrants to become citizens is the best way to expand voter participation...

Oddly enough, Barbara Boxer also opposes the measure.

Whether Terence Chea would characterize Barbara Boxer as "railing" about something is an open question.

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Man what jerk thought of that? Voting is a privelege. You have to be a citizen to vote. These are probably the same kind of people that would ask Kofi to monitor our election process.