Adventures of the Coconut Caucus

If you can`t kick out the day laborers, at least you can make them starve….

Jefferson bans taqueria trucks

The Jefferson Parish Council today approved tighter regulations for vendors selling food from temporary stands or vehicles, effectively stopping the taqueria trucks that arrived after Hurricane Katrina from operating in their current form.

The new rules, which go into force in 10 days, bar food trucks from areas along many major streets in Jefferson Parish, limiting them to heavy commercial and industrial zones. And the rules require vendors to provide permanent restrooms, which typically are not available at the trucks that sell Latin American food to workers who came to the New Orleans area for Katrina rebuilding jobs.

What better way to treat people who refuse to go on welfare, prefer to work and pay taxes in post-Katrina times….

So of course the anti taco white guy who led the city council in this effort says there is no racism involved… because of course how could anyone think there is any racism in Louisiana.… and at least on this one, Ray Nagin has come out in favor of the tacos….

In neighboring New Orleans, City Councilman Oliver Thomas sparked a firestorm when he suggested that the Crescent City follow Jefferson Parish’s lead. “How are we helping our restaurants that are trying to recover by having more food trucks from Texas open up?” he asked. “How do tacos help gumbo?”

Unexpected ally

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who once notoriously expressed dismay that Hispanics were pouring into the city, stepped up to defend mobile vendors, saying they were welcome in the Crescent City as long as they obeyed health laws.Critics of the Jefferson Parish law ranged from the New Orleans Times-Picayune, which termed the measure “intolerant,” to the Mexican consulate in Houston, where protection officer Carlos Garcia said it was “naive” to believe the measure wasn’t meant to target Latinos.

“It tells vendors who have lived up to every letter of the law put before them that we don’t want your kind and we don’t appreciate the color and flavor you bring to the community,” New Orleans CityBusiness staffer Greg LaRose complained in a signed editorial.

AND smiling about it, on the official Justice Department page:

Usually I am against deportation, unless you are from St Kitts and Nevis, or Belize, because it means a free trip to paradise… HOWEVER… in this case I may make an exception because the DHS could deport a POLITICIAN!!!!!!! (how can anyone be against that?)

Zoila Meyer faces deportation, fights to stay in U.S.

APPLE VALLEY — Zoila Meyer has been in America since the age of 1.

She has been living the American dream; marrying her high school sweetheart, raising their four children, working on a college education and winning a seat for city office.
Her only problem — she isn’t an American — and now faces deportation for illegally voting in the 2004 election.

“I truly thought I was a citizen, all my life. I’ve been voting since I was 18. I didn’t know I was here illegally,” she said. “It was a mistake on my parents behalf. They messed up. They didn’t want to. It just happened.”

Tuesday’s arrest stems from the 2004 election.

The article goes on to say:

While it is not illegal for an illegal immigrant to register to vote — it is if they actually do vote. WTF?

Of course since she is Cuban, maybe they can just deport her to Third World Country Miami….

I have a few other politicians I would love to see deported…. Gonzales, Cheney and Tancredo come to mind, and since they are all U.S. citizens, I guess the only place you can send them is to Guantànamo….

Finally some racially charged events we can all support.…

Mexican goes to Paris, brings la whole familia who don`t protest the fact that she marries a black guy because he speaks French and is rich.

AND just a word of advice, start shopping for lawyers for your future mexican children of an immigrant Black guy, because they will surely be stopped by Texas police when they are out driving the family BMW…

Ok, so I should be following this much more closely, because people keep giving me tips, but I have been a bit distracted by the most important current event happening right now, of course you know that means Copa América 2007, anyway so back to Mirthala Salinas (aka Amigdala Saliva).

Since first “commentating” on this, we have found out that:

• She likes married Latino politicians (NALEO should give her an award)
• She isn`t not supposedly pregnant or at least if she is the mayor says the baby is not his
• Fabián Nuñez is California´s biggest chismoso ever (he can´t keep a secret from Loretta Sánchez or from anybody else)

ANYWAY, what irks me the most is that after she has done such a good job at cultivating her sources for Telemundo, they up and take her off the air!!!!!

Why is this outrageous? because Telemundo has been milking this story for themselves, taking full advantage. Their coverage of the whole affair (before the people at NBC found out) has been total gloating, treating the story about their reporter doing the mayor as an exclusive, and of course the ratings jump.

AND now, the guys who have known for a year about Mirthala´s nonbinding relationship with the mayor, took advantage of her access to the corridors of power, and had this “exclusive” story at the top of several of their national newscasts, are blaming her, yes very typical.

SO in other words she is getting the same treatment standard for LAPD officers who shoot unarmed iraq vets.

anyway, enough indignation for one day, time for a gringo to do the rest of my job:

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