This guy has never even voted.

Jake, this is not news. This is standard mass email material. Why the free publicity for this guy?

Just because YOU are helping to spread his message, doesn’t mean there is “serious discussion of the issues.”

“they should be treated like anyone else who has broken the law.”

You mean like Scooter Libby?

OK, Bush crime family jokes aside what does that even mean? Most people upon their first crime conviction are not kicked out of their home, separated from their children. Wait I got It….

“They should be treated like all other poor people whom break the law.”

That must be what he meant to say.

Actually RM, I think Jake has a bone to pick with Olivo or Olivo-like people. He was the bulldog that broke the no voting story and now he refers to Olivo’s wife as his “current” wife and then questions Olivo’s mentioning of illegals passing through Indian Reservations because of lack of security with a silly “do we have reservations here?”

I won’t vote for Olivo, but I don’t think the voting issue is that big of a deal. The dude spent several years as a journeyman football player not knowing what city he was going to be in next. He also spent time abroad which pretty much wipes out local elections. Maybe he didn’t favor Bush/Gore or Kerry/Bush and decided to sit those out. Olivo not voting is pretty much a non-issue too.

RM, should we give all criminals a free pass on their first offense?
An illegal doesn’t have a home in the US. They are here illegally so everything they do thereafter is also illegal. Period.

Rich, Poor, Black, White, Green doesn’t matter one iota. Illegal is illegal.

So let’s see … we can elect a football player who never voted until after he was running for Congress, or a distinguished physician who obtained a law degree at the same time as he did his medical residency. Bonehead or genius. Wow, that’s a tough choice.

I should have said I wouldn’t vote for Olivo if he were in my district. He isn’t.

Nick, not sure, but Olivo probably earned a degree while earning MU millions of dollars. To consider someone a bonehead because they were a football player is childish. Lynn Swann ran for governor of PA, JC Watts was a Congressman and bonehead football player. Gerald Ford was a bonehead football player. Steve Largent was a bonehead football player. Tom Osborne was a bonehead player and coach.

Amazed - I don’t consider him a bonehead because he was a football player, I consider him a bonehead because he is a bonehead. I’ve heard he’s a very nice guy, and that’s all very well. But I can think of few people less qualified to serve as a Congressman than Brock Olivo. And yes, he seems to be a bonehead.

Actually the whole field of them are hardly worth the effort. That’s why I’m voting Independent in this one. http://justinjohnsonforcongress.wordpress.com/

Justin is the only one who is running who would truly represent the district.

I’ll take Olivo and his personal experience as part of an immigrant family/husband of an immigrant wife and his empty voting record any day over Dr. Onder and his quest to keep me and all other women of child bearing age from making their own health care decisions. No doubt Olivo knows better what it’s like to be an immigrant in this country than Onder knows what it’s like to face an unintended and unwelcome pregnancy (from the real business end of the stirrups). What distinguishes Onder as a physician is his his mindset that women are incapable of making the most basic and profoundly personal decisions about the fundamental direction of their lives and of assessing their individual capacities to bring another person into the world and manage both lives with some shred of dignity.

Boy, Reasonable Woman, you sure used a bunch of useless words when all you had to say was, “I won’t vote for Onder because he doesn’t favor abortion.”

Nick, have you met the guy? How much do you know about him that leads you to believe he’s a bonehead? I understand he isn’t your candidate of choosing, but if you don’t know much or anything about a guy, how does that make him a bonehead? Lacy Clay is a Congressman, so we already know brains are NOT a requirement for the job.