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The People Have Spoken

The two beacons of illegal immigrant exclusion laws won the mayor’s office yesterday in their respective cities. Farmer’s Branch voters elected Tim O’Hare over Gene Bledsoe by a wide margin, with Irving voters deciding to re-elect Herbert Gears to lead their city with 54% of the ballots.

Both O’Hare and Gears have spearheaded the fight to exclude illegal immigrants in their cities attracting the ire of Washington D.C., the focus of the national news media and the desperation of other American mayors who want to follow in their footsteps looking for a solution to the national issue of undocumented workers.

Remember that Irving isn’t some just dot on the map.  It is a major Metroplex suburb with over 200,000 residents, and, according to Wikipedia:

Several large businesses have headquarters in Irving, including Chuck E. Cheese’s, Commercial Metals, ExxonMobil, Gruma, Kimberly-Clark, Michaels Stores, National Care Network, Omni Hotels, Southern Star Concrete, Inc., Xero Hour, Zale Corporation, Fluor Corporation and LXI Enterprise Storage.  The city is also home to the national headquarters of the Boy Scouts of America.  The Dallas Cowboys play at Texas Stadium in Irving until a new stadium is finished in Arlington, Texas, in 2009.

Farmers Branch, which borders Irving to the east, has about 27,000 people, which makes it small in terms of the Metroplex, but it would be a major suburb in St. Louis.  Taken together, Irving and Farmers Branch have about 236,000 people, so yesterday’s elections in those two cities are the functional equivalent of a relatively major city electing an anti-invasion mayor.  Considering these cities were in a border state, the open borders lobby probably made a big ruckus.  But the voters had other ideas.