Wow, the response from military veterans has been HUGE!
Larry Kilgore, Texas GOP candidate for governor, brought me and a friend to San Antonio last weekend to protest Mexican President Vicente Fox's dispatch of his army to KellyUSA, formerly known as KellyUSA.
Not just dozens of e-mail responses, but hundreds.
The campaign has received an infusion of donations and support from both active and retired military officers, as well as proponents of enforcing immigration laws.
"It really just blew me away," said Kilgore campaign director Joey Dauben. "Checking those e-mails and seeing how many times our press releases went to military e-mail addresses, that to me was big."
Fox reportedly sent two convoys to the San Antonio area to help with Hurricane Katrina efforts, one unarmed and one armed, according to the Associated Press and Austin-based Infowars.com.
"We welcome civilians to help in efforts, but not a foreign army," said Kilgore, who faces primary opposition from Gov. Rick Perry and Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn.
Since then, President Bush has allowed for the Germans, Dutch and Canadians to send Navy ships to the Gulf of Mexico outside of New Orleans, where Katrina rocked the Big Easy.
"We're in the process of scheduling more statewide protests, even traveling down to the border ourselves to get a birds-eye view of the border situation," said Dauben, a U.S. Congressional candidate from Ellis County. "We had three people go to San Antonio, but now with all the publicity, who knows, this thing could swell to hundreds.
"A convoy of ticked off Texans who are sick and tired of Gov. Perry, President Bush, and lawmakers' refusal to enforce our immigration laws might be the trick to turning the tide in this whole debate."
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