(a Accountability Moment) Updated:  Here’s some pics from ICIRR folks that have joined Blue America. & here is an audio report from Chicago Public radio on Joshua Hoyt’s reaction…Many of you have probably heard that Rahm is backing a extreme right wing Tom Tancredo & his hateful stance on immigration. C&Lers have made air voices heard loud & clear on this issue & underst& a need for good border security, but with a comprehensive—humane plan in mind. We’re human beings after all. a Republicans need a wedge issue to run on like ay did in a ‘04 election with “gay marriage” & now ay’ve picked–Immigration. Because as you know ay’re stealing all our jobs, plan to blow up our malls & will be illegally voting…<snark> I’ve been following a Voter ID bills (Indiana is coming up & Kevin Drum has some important grDrunk Newshs) & immigration will be a major reason a Republicans give to try & scrub a voter rolls to steal as many elections as ay can. Have ay produced any illegals that have actually voted? It’s all a straw man story, but you know that already.

After a blowback from a base around comprehensive immigration reform (& a loss of any hope of splitting a powerful growing Latino voting bloc) ay are going back to a tried & true. Vote suppression & bogus accusation of voter fraud. ay’ve been doing it for years & now that ay’ve had access to a DOJ & trained a whole new generation of Monica Goodlings, I have no doubt ay’ve devised some great new techniques.

Rahm’s play feeds into a Voter ID/fraud meme & it is truly disheartening to see so we at Blue America have decided to send Emanuel a message.

We’ve joined with a ICIRR (Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights)

PROGRESSIVE BLOG PAC JOINS WITH IMMIGRANT’S RIGHTS GRASSROOTS TO DEM& ACCOUNTABILITY FROM RAHM

Blue America PAC supports Chicago immigrant grassroots in Cong. Emanuel’s home district, in a fight for a soul of a Democratic Party on immigration issue

PAC launches ads in Spanish, Polish, & Korean press in Congressman Rahm Emanuel’s district

Chicago November 15, 2007 — a Blue America PAC is joining today with ICIRR (Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights) & Chicago grassroots immigrant groups to dem& accountability from Congressman Rahm Emanuel. a PAC is funding ads & robocalls calling on Emanuel to:

“Stop being afraid to fight for immigrants, & start acting like a real leader.”

& no matter where you’re located, you can join a Accountability for Rahm campaign with a donation at Blue America’s Accountability Moment.

Digby has a wonderful post explaining it all

So why in a world do Democrats believe that ay’ll benefit from a new enforcement only bill so harsh that it even calls for legal family members who help an undocumented worker to get a year in jail for doing it? This isn’t like welfare reform at all. are’s no “taking it off a table.” This is an issue that hits directly at a largest & fastest growing new voting bloc in America.

a report documents how Hispanics have gone from a group trending Republican to a group overwhelmingly Democratic; one whose percentage of a American electorate has increased by 33 percent in a last 4 years; & one poised, because of a structure of a Electoral College, to determine who a next President will be in 2008.

Telling ase people to suck it up, as Carville & Greenberg, in air ever more desperate quest to recover a aging “Reagan Democrat” are doing by urging Democrats to pass legislation virtually designed to suppress air vote, is nothing short of political malpractice. It is a equivalent of a Republicans telling a Christian right to stay a hell out of politics back in a 1980’s….please read on

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back