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Lawmaker says campaign signs defaced
Terrill says campaign signs defaced

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Published: July 8, 2008

The author of Oklahoma's anti-illegal immigration law says several of his campaign signs have been defaced with the words "racist" and "bigot."

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Rep. Randy Terrill, R-Moore, said Monday that dozens of his campaign signs were defaced, primarily in the Norman area.

"It is unfortunate," Terrill said. "It is childish. It is a criminal act. And it is an affront to our electoral process."

Last year, Terrill authored House Bill 1804, legislation that cracks down on illegal immigrants in the state that was signed into law by Gov. Brad Henry.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups filed a lawsuit alleging that a provision of the law subjecting employers to penalties was pre-empted by federal law and is unconstitutional.

U.S. District Court Judge Robin Cauthron issued a decision on June 4 blocking implementation of a provision affecting employers that was set to go into effect July 1. Cauthron said it was likely that the challengers would prevail in their lawsuit.

Most of the strict anti-illegal immigration law took effect late last year. Among other things, it denies state benefits to illegal immigrants and subjects employers and others to a state felony crime for harboring illegals.

Terrill said the 4-foot-square campaign signs, which cost about $25, not including installation and transportation costs, are a means of communication and name identification to voters. The signs had names scrawled on them, had marks through them or were cut up, Terrill said.

He said he has not filed a police report but plans to.

Terrill said he has not had time to replace the signs, adding that the damage occurred recently.

"I don't know who is doing this, but is very likely, from all indications, someone who is opposed to the bill I offered cracking down on illegal immigration and (making) English as the official language," he said.

Terrill's bill to make English the state's official language died in the Senate earlier this year.

Terrill's signs also were defaced in the last election cycle, he said. He said he has received restitution for the signs that were defaced.

Oklahoma Republican Party Chairman Gary Jones said vandalism to campaign signs happens but is not prevalent. Jones said he advises candidates to replace the signs and file a police report.

Jones is no stranger to shenanigans during an election. He had a campaign trailer stolen when he was running for the state auditor and inspector's post in 2006.

Terrill faces Republican Curtis Bruehl of Norman in the July 29 primary election. Democrats Troy Green of Oklahoma City and Charles Barnes of Norman also are seeking the post.

Copyright 2008 The Associated Press.

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cucumber, are you against Illegals or Mexicans? I can't tell by your posts. one minute you makes sense (illegals are wrong) but then you say something that makes you sound like a big A-- Bigot: "You can be living in the street and Mexicans will be ,living in your home. So go ahead and support them, they will have everything you have worked your life away for."
Renee, edmond - Jul 10, 2008 at 2:04 pm
Yet another who addresses the illegal alien issue with the term "Mexicans". Not all Mexicans are illegal.
BBJ, Midwest City - Jul 10, 2008 at 1:37 pm
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GO HOME VATOS!
If you're illegal, you're illegal. No bigotry about it.
Mexicans can eat my smelly cheese covered burrito as I bounce off the back of their adenoids.
JenniRules, OakCity - Jul 10, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I'm not in Terrill's area so whether or not I'd vote for him doesn't matter. I never assumed that I had you figured out. The only thing I addressed was your own comments. It doesn't matter what color you are, what your job is, or whether or not you're a criminal. I wasn't addressing any of those things, only your bigoted comments that ALL Mexicans are illegal and ALL Mexicans need to go back to Mexico. There's nothing ambiguous about your own words, Cuke.
BBJ, Midwest City - Jul 10, 2008 at 12:23 am
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Randy, Clay Bennett is one of the good guys. He brought the Sonics here, didn't he? Thanks for mentioning me in the same sentence as him. I do appreciate that.
UnSub, Yukon - Jul 9, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Paula, dearie, be sure and vote for Terrill. Better yet, since you have all the answers, you run for office. Hell, you already have all the Mexican votes. All BS aside, you really think you have me figured out. You can read one comment and see into someone's heart. Do you know what color I am? Do you know the things I've done to feed my family? Have I been to jail? Have I ever stolen anything? No, you would be very surprised, but of course you already know. You know everything.
UnSub, Yukon - Jul 9, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Randy, do we have a problem with the illegals? Is it legal for them to be here?
UnSub, Yukon - Jul 9, 2008 at 10:06 pm
job market in oklahoma. what a joke. alomost every business has a help wanted sign. cucumber please dont tell me you clay bennett's assistant and the mexicans are gonne git yer job!! come on over and have a beer, ill drive you around my district and prove every word i say.
Randy, Moore - Jul 9, 2008 at 9:51 pm
i can prove everything i say cucumber. want to take me up on it?
Randy, Moore - Jul 9, 2008 at 9:49 pm
OMG--you mean we're even behind Arkansas and New Mexico economically? Are you speaking per capita income, or median income?
Kevin, Oklahoma City - Jul 9, 2008 at 6:40 pm
cucumber...slither back under your rock and...while you're at it, take a course on economics. All 1804 has done is put oklahoma at an economic disadvantage with every neighboring state.
Jonathon, Oklahoma City - Jul 9, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Randy, Moore, you're a fool, plain and simple. You don't have a clue of what you are talking about. You base your opinion on the fact you don't like Terrill. You need to look at what is happening to our economy and job market.Okla. may be at the bottom of everything like you state(I really doubt that), but the Mexicans won't bring that up, they'll make it lower. They have no loyalty to Okla. or America. They hold there loyalty to Mexico.
UnSub, Yukon - Jul 9, 2008 at 4:59 pm
All of you that support these people need to really see how easy it is for the illegals. They don't have to qualify for a home or auto loan. And they can't be repo'ed. You can be living in the street and Mexicans will be ,living in your home. So go ahead and support them, they will have everything you have worked your life away for.
UnSub, Yukon - Jul 9, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Can't we all just...get along? :)
Kevin, Oklahoma City - Jul 9, 2008 at 4:35 pm
if he sticks one on my lawn, im going to stick it straight up his....
Randy, Moore - Jul 9, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Political "sign wars" have been waged in Oklahoma (and other states I'm sure)for the past 60 years. It's not right to do this, but only Randy Terrill, the ultimate conspiracy theorist, would rush to hold a news conference to get a little more publicity for his strange beliefs.
Mandell, Tulsa - Jul 9, 2008 at 3:26 pm
you broke the law, deport yourself.
Randy, Moore - Jul 9, 2008 at 3:18 pm
what a bunch of crap! It comes down to this: someone is here illegally (breaking the law), so we should send them back until they can come back legally (visa or citizenship). If you break the law (come here illegally) and are here illegally (kinda goes hand-in-hand) you should be sent back to your country of LEGAL residence. It's not that hard.
curtis, cushing - Jul 9, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Does the American people need to escalate the 315 million plus population, the census estimates we have now? To a new total of 435 million because the new president wants to add a new blanket AMNESTY? Right now the dire consequences of overpopulation is irrefutable, by just looking at the congestion in our cities, along with the ever growing pollution. We cannot sustain supporting even larger numbers of people, or ignoring the predatory businesses that callously assume that legal citizens will support their cheap labor? We, the American welcome more legal immigrants, than any other country in the world, whatever their national origin. Yet the 'Special interest lobby, through certain corrupted politicians expect us to import poverty, so that the profits of rogue companies is not suspended.


The Diversity Alliance for Sustainable America www.earthtimes.org/have stated in it's article that if the U.S. grants amnesty and gives citizenship to 12 to 30 million illegal migrants, as Senators Obama and McCain propose. All those naturalized citizens could possibly add 120 million U.S. and foreign-born relatives to the U.S., in the next 20 years whom all would CONSUME MAJOR ENERGY. Only THE FEDERAL SAVE ACT (H.R.4088) offers any chance of halting this overpopulation quagmire It's enactment will give ICE and the police more enforcement powers. Join NUMBERSUSA for free and become part of a solution and not lies.
Dave, Indianapolis - Jul 9, 2008 at 12:27 pm
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diane just admitt it, you just a mexican hater. ive flown an italian flag for 30 years(not an american one). america is an italian word. discovered by an italian. paid for by the spanish won with the help of the french. it was taken from the indians, who were part of the migration of the asians colonizing down to the tip of south america. you have less than 100 years on this planet, try to enjoy it more.
Randy, Moore - Jul 9, 2008 at 11:51 am
diane, when you say "looks like mexifornia" thats when i know you are racist. in my state there are entire black towns, entire white towns, mixed towns, chinatowns, polishtowns, italian towns, mexican towns. my granfather came over in a boat in 1897 and was named "tony" because thats what was written on his forehead, TO N.Y..( to: new york). in 1944, japanese were put into camps at hollywood park because people like you thought it was better to segregate. maybe if you went down to the border with your racist buddy's you could shoot them come into california. you see diane. oklahoma does not border another country. i know that i wish mexico would take over texas, but thats just me. see diane. the people in oklahoma need better politicians. did you know that oklahoma is virtually at the bottom of everylist. teen pregnancy, bad roads, dirty water, 40 murders allready this year, need more police, better health care, better schools, highest dropout rate, heck if we had more fire fighters we could send them to help with your fires. there are countless other issues in oklahoma that deserve more attention from the good people in oklahoma than immigration. you people in the states where it does matter just need to do a better job. that is kind of one of the reasons us simple folk like it out here. we gave up the beach, but it dont take long to get there.
Randy, Moore - Jul 9, 2008 at 11:44 am
Mexicans have total loyalty to Mexico. That's why they display their flags. On 4th of July here in L.A. Mexicans & Chicanos call our special day "The farce of July!" (place it on google).
They also claim to have had these territories stolen from them? Their flag was on U.S. soil 26 years BIG DEAL!
They stole the territory from Spain who was here over 300 years (hence the Spanish names).
Yet they never will acknowledge NATIVE AMERICANS.
It was stolen Mexican land only in their eyes.
And they are taught in Mexican schools that the U.S. stole their territory and they have every right to take it back.
I have read Mexicans on message board claim that their dream is of a Mexico America.
This is why they fight so hard to call us racists and bigots.
Diane, Los Angeles - Jul 9, 2008 at 11:31 am
Paula, I agree. I guess the one thing that bugs me the most is the way that some prominent leaders in the Hispanic community who are either legal residents or citizens of USA, do not support the enforcing of the immigration laws and seem to show more loyalty to Mexico (carrying Mexico flags at rallys, signs that say that Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and California were stolen from Mexico)than to our country. Our freedom as been purchased with the blood of countless patriots over the years and to have people being openly loyal to another country and openly supporting the lawless uncontrolled entry over southern borders burns me up. If you are an American, support America. If you are a resident, remember that you are here by CHOICE and have some respect.
J, Anonymous - Jul 9, 2008 at 11:10 am
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Legal residents are not just "visitors" James. They are residents. They live here. I don't disagree with the majority of your post, but reducing legal residents to "visitors" only serves to further the reasoning that "cucumber" uses when s/he proclaims that ALL Mexicans are illegal and ALL Mexicans need to go back to Mexico.
BBJ, Midwest City - Jul 9, 2008 at 10:58 am
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First. People who are not Americans (still citizens of another country), whether legal or not cannot vote and have no say in our elections or politics. They are visitors. Second. Illegal aliens are just that, ILLEGAL, and should be deported. Third, any person that harbors an illegal alien should be prosecuted criminally. If that person is a citizen of another country, that person should be criminally prosecuted and then deported. That is not being racist, this is the law in this country and pales in comparison to the laws in most country regarding aliens, including Mexico. I am a democrat and probably would not support many things that Rep. Terrell would propose, but I DO SUPPORT HB 1804. The only reason IMAO that the chamber of commerce and other large companies do not support 1804 is because the presence of illegal aliens drives down the wages of legal aliens and citizens. I have no problem with Hispanic people. One of the best doctors in OKC is Hispanic and works in a clinic in Bethany. That doctor has been a Godsend to my family and I treause her presence in my life. I just believe that we are a country that believes in a system of LAW, and believe that the current law should be enforced. Period.
J, Anonymous - Jul 9, 2008 at 10:46 am
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