PROGRAM # 412

GUESTS: Senator Dick Mountjoy (ret), Save Our License Committee

Date Video Taped: November 3, 2004

Los Angeles, CA - Will Cardinal Roger Mahoney, the Catholic Church and public schools once again attempt to defeat a proposed ballot initiative to ban taxpayer benefits to illegal aliens?

When asked about power politics and the Catholic Church, Loyola Marymount University’s Fernando Guerra told the Full Disclosure cable and internet TV program “the Cardinal feels a responsibility, as do most of the Church hierarchy, that they have to educate their parishioners on what they believe are important issues” and he went on to say that while the Catholic Church, the Archdiocese, never directly spent money in the campaign against Proposition 187 (1994) they do utilize their resources to try to mobilize Catholics in general and Latinos specifically.

In this part two of an interview with former State Senator Dick Mountjoy, the author of the Save Our License Constitutional Amendment initiative, he generally disagreed with Guerra. “I don’t believe the Catholic Church is going to mobilize thousands of people and have them believe that we ought to let people flood in here from around the world illegally.” “This is a matter of their pocketbook. This is a matter of survival, a matter of competing with those illegally here for jobs.” Mountjoy said.

In this interview with Emmy Award winning host Leslie Dutton, Senator Mountjoy reacted to video clips from a previous interview with Dr. Fernando Guerra who serves as Director of the Center for the Studies of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University.

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