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Don't
let a traitor business like Bashas Grocery in Arizona take "sanctuary"
during the illegal aliens' boycott !!
July
4th
Sandra Miller
We
all know that the new target for illegals' groups is conservative talk
radio by their issued boycott on advertisers of local and national talk
radio. Illegal aliens won't admit that Amnesty wasn't defeated by talk
radio, but by Americans!
While we do want to support those businesses, there's an exception here
in Phoenix, Arizona that deserves no sympathy or support. So that they
don't "take cover" with other patriotic people and businesses, here's
the story of Bashas, an Arizona grocery corporation (not publicly traded)
owned by the Basha family, well-known in Phoenix for supporting liberal
causes.
In 2004, they publicly opposed Arizona's Prop 200 (see below) and the
senior Eddie Basha has provided funds for illegal alien day labor centers.
(Private funding was critical after passage of AZ law that prohibited
public funding for day layor centers.) Naturally, the open-borders newspaper
Arizona Repugnant gave the Bashas lots of coverage for supporting illegal
aliens. It also identified who was funding our enemies, and many patriotic
Arizonans quietly took their grocery business elsewhere.
But times and political "bedfellows" change...
In a "right to work" state like Arizona, Bashas of course didn't allow
union representation of employees in any of their three grocery divisions:
A.J.s -- a high-end goutmet grocery & bakery, Bashas -- the "mainstream"
grocery stores, or Food City -- the "Hispanic" stores where products and
services for "immigrants." Phoenix residents comment that they know when
their neighborhoods have been "invaded" when they watch their local Bashas
store suddenly "change" to a Food City.
The Bashas-illegal aliens alliance was opportunistic from the start, and
when labor unions hoped amnestied illegals would swell their union membership
(and union dues revenue), it was no surprise that the illegal aliens recognized
that labor unions had more money and clout and threw Bashas to the wolves.
Of course, the UFCW (United Food & Commercial Workers) long ago proudly
branded themselves as anti-American and pro-illegal alien after their
national president admitted "knowingly representing" illegal aliens. ("Union
Organizers at Poultry Plants in South Find Newly Sympathetic Ears," New
York Times, September 6, 2005 http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/national/06labor.html)
Perhaps Bashas found that their Food City business wasn't enough to offset
the business they lost at their mainstream stores. Or perhaps like most
businesses who straddle political fences whenever their bottom line can
benefit, Bashas management realized they could no longer ignore Americans'
increased anti-illegal migration sentiment.
For whatever reason, when Bashas recently began advertising on the KFYI
broadcast of former Congressman J.D. Hayworth's daily 4-7pm radio show,
the illegal aliens couldn't tolerate that! Naturally, they engaged in
their usual character assassination and smear campaigns: "Bashas selling
outdated formula?" Arizona Republic , June 26 2007.
But dismissing the claims of "expired infant formula" in Bashas & Food
City stores is easy to blow off because it doesn't pass The Judge Judy
Test ("If it doesn't make sense, it's probably not true.") And we all
recognize that Bashas claim of such a demand for infant formula that it
doesn't remain on shelves long enough to expire DOES pass The Judge Judy
Test--with flying colors!
There are many businesses we want to support during the Illegal Alien
Boycott, but don't be fooled--Bashas Grocery Stores isn't one of them!
They're getting just what they deserve, and Americans across the country
need to be aware that there's more to the Bashas' boycott that the illegals
are admitting.
I recently let Mr. Eddie Basha know that I know how what's really behind
the "boycott" and how Bashas largely brought it on themselves. My note
to Mr. Basha appears below, and you're welcome to likewise comment to
him at his website comment page http://www.bashas.com/comments.php?com=2.
Like many American businesses wanting a share of the "Hispanic market,"
I have no doubt that Mr. Basha allied with illegal aliens because they
seemed a "sure thing." If Bashas and other "bottom-line" businesses never
considered that American patriots would become a force to be reckoned
with, they had plenty of company--the US Senate, George Bush, Michael
Chertoff, and many US House members.
We have a long way to go, but we've begun by letting banks and retail
stores know that their treasonous behavior hasn't gone unnoticed.
I hope other Americans will share accounts of local businesses like Bashas--don't
give such traitors "sanctuary" among REAL patriotic businesses who support
America!
The Bashas Website Comment page is a good place to begin.
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