The Hill reports HERE:
Democrats hope to take a page from the Republican 2004 playbook that painted Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) as a "flip-flopper" and turn the immigration issue to their advantage in the race between Rep. Charlie Melancon (D-La.) and Republican state Sen. Craig Romero.
Romero was one of nine senators who initially opposed a state Senate bill that gives the attorney general or district attorneys the ability to issue cease-and-desist orders to employers who have hired undocumented immigrants. But he voted two weeks later in mid-June for the final version of the bill, which dropped the provision, saying it imposed a burdensome paperwork requirement on small-business owners.
Melancon won his seat by only 600 votes in 2004, so he is pulling out all stops to keep it. The district comprises a section of "greater New Orleans," and this is the first major election there since Katrina.
Romero's vote may not have been politically astute, but it was the correct one. The bill was originally a grandstanding ploy, issuing state regulations on how businesses comply with federal law. If passed in that form, it would have been challenged in court and likely overturned.
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