Meet Barry Wong, Republican Candidate for the Arizona Corporation Commission:
He’s got an idea which is, apparently, getting him into hot water: cutting off power and gas to Illegals:
“It is not a right. It is a service,” Barry Wong, candidate for the Arizona Corporation Commission, told The Arizona Republic.
The Republican candidate argues that the policy would be a cost-saving measure for consumers.
Though it would cost money for power companies to check immigration status, he said it would ultimately save money because power companies would not have to build new plants to serve the illegal immigrant community, presumably passing on that savings to consumers. His plan, if elected to the five-person commission, would be to require utilities to check immigration status.
“There is a cost ratepayers shouldn’t have to bear because of the illegal immigrant population,” he said, while acknowledging the idea would probably attract “criticism about human-rights violations.”
What Wong is doing is taking the effect of SB1070 to the next level. Look for said criticism from human rights groups in 5…4…3…2….
Tags: Arizona, Barry Wong, Illlegal Immigration, Republican Party, SB1070
