Lettuce-gate. When did it start and why has it gotten NO press?!

[bushisanidiot]

Has any of the major networks picked this story up yet??

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/border/124762

McCain's lettuce-picking remarks yield unwanted green
Arizona Daily Star

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 04.15.2006

As he steered his Straight Talk Express across the United States in recent weeks, Republican Sen. John McCain has tried to stay a-head of the immigration issue. But Friday the immigration issue delivered 36 or so heads to his Phoenix office — heads of lettuce, that is.

McCain has been getting skewered in the media for comments earlier this month to a union group in Washington, D.C., that immigrants are taking jobs no one else wants, and offered them $50 an hour to pick lettuce in the Arizona sun for a summer, suggesting they couldn't do it.

The senator didn't stick around long enough to process any applications, despite several offers to take him up on his offer from the audience.
So Friday more than three dozen demonstrators showed up at his office, many carrying lettuce picker applications in one hand, and a head of lettuce in the other to show they could do the job.

McCain was not on hand to greet them, but somehow it's probably not the kind of green he was hoping to collect for his budding presidential bid.

[wellstone dem]

1. kr

[zbdent]

2. Because it was a REPUBLICAN!!!

Geez, how many times must this have to be explained?

Almost no Republican lie or gaffe gets any scrutiny any more ...

But Obama makes a joke about visiting 59 states (in an obvious joke), or Kerry makes a remark about Bush and doesn't explicitly NAME Bush in it, and it's suddenly a 24/7 soundbyte ...

[K8-EEE]

3. SOMEONE ASK MCCAIN IF HE STILL THINKS

THAT AMERICANS WILL NOT PICK LETTUCE FOR $50!!!

Or the less asked questions: How much ARE they paid to pick lettuce? How much more would lettuce cost if illegals weren't exploited and underpaid for back-breaking labor?

[bushisanidiot]

4. OUT. OF. TOUCH.

period.

[The River]

5. It's Being Covered

by a thick layer of Multi-Ranch Dressing.

[bushisanidiot]

7. Ha! you had me going there for a sec.

good one.. unfortunately. ;(

[K8-EEE]

8. hahahahaha! That was a good one!

I love how the GOP call these millionaire compounds "ranches."

[redqueen]

6. Cause the M$M serves the republiCON party, of course.

Same reason we don't ever hear them talking about the hidden POW records.

[monomach]

9. It DID get press, it was looooong before the primary season.

It was over two years ago.

[goodgd_yall]

10. Well, it happened in 2006

So it's not exactly new news. Someone in Obama's campaign, I would think, needs to bring it up as a way of showing how McCain disrespects the American worker and is really lousy at economics. If McCain was paying $50 an hour to pick lettuce, he'd go broke!