Meet The Arizona Candidate Who Would Cut Utilities From Illegal Immigrant Homes

Barry Wong is running for office in Arizona, ergo he will spew racist platforms like how he'd cut power lines to illegal immigrants. Hooray for the democratic process!

Barry's a Republican running for a spot on the Arizona Corporation Commission which, amongst other things, regulates public utilities in Arizona. Snorez, right? Even the local paper says these elections are a snoozefest "usually mired in arcane policy discussions." Not this year! This year all you have to do to win Arizona's love, attention and, most importantly, votes, is hate Mexicans. Hence, Barry Wong's rando idea to smoke them out with no basic neccessities like clean drinking water.

"There is a cost ratepayers shouldn't have to bear because of the illegal-immigrant population," Wong told the Arizona Republic. That's not political pandering, nooooo. Even though the other two Republicans in the race and all three Democrats said that asking utilities to check customers' immigration status is inappropriate.

"That's not an argument I think we'll involve ourselves in," said Corporation Commissioner Gary Pierce. When the guy who was brazen enough to threaten turning off the power to all of Los Angeles is calling you inappropriate, you might be a redneck, Barry.

Wong, a lawyer and four-term member of the state House of Representatives appointed to a temporary spot on the commission in 2006, says this is about dollars and has nothing to do with stealing some of the spotlight from Pierce.

"I'm sure there will be criticism about human-rights violations," Wong said of his utility proposal. "Is power or natural gas or any type of utility we regulate, is that a right that people have? It is not a right. It is a service."

Hear that, Mexicans? Water, the basic life giving fuel for all the planet is not a right. It's a service.

Source: AZ Central