True Immigration Reform Candidates for
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ALABAMA
Primary: June 3, 2008
Runoff: July 15, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District
CANDIDATES: Cheryl Sabel (D), Cendie Crawley (D),
Bobbi Bright (D), John W. Martin (R), Craig D. Schmidtke (R),
Harri A. Smith (R), David Woods (R), David Grimes (R), Jay Love (R) |
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ALASKA
Primary: August 26, 2008 |
RACE: Senate
CANDIDATES: Ted Stevens (R)*, David W. Cuddy (R),
Gerald L. Heikes (R), Nels Anderson, Jr. (D), Rocky Caldero (D),
Frank J. Vondersaar (D), Mark Begich (D),
Ray Metcalfe (D) Ted Gianoutsos (VPA) |
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ARIZONA
Primary: August 12, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 8th District
CANDIDATES: Gabrielle Giffords (D)*, Derek Tidball (D), Dwight D. Leister (D) |
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CALIFORNIA
Primary: June 3, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 4th District
CANDIDATES: Charles D. Brown (D), Suzanne Jones (R),
Tom McClintock (R) , Doug Ose (R), Theodore Terbolizard (R) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 35th District
CANDIDATES: Maxine Waters (D)*, Ted Hayes (R) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 43rd District
CANDIDATES: Joe Baca (D)*, Joanne Gilbert (D), Scott Folkens (R),
John Roberts (R) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 53rd District
CANDIDATES: Susan A. Davis (D), Mike Copass (D),
Naomi Bar-Lev (R), Michael P. Crimmins (R), Edward M. Teyssier (R),
Delecia Holt (R) |
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COLORADO
Primary: August 12, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 5th District
CANDIDATES: Doug Lamborn (R)*, Jeff Crank (R), Bentley B. Rayburn (R), Harold W. Bidlack (D), Rich Hand (I) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 6th District
CANDIDATES: Mike Collins (D), Henry H. Eng (D), Ted Harvey (R),
Mike Coffman (R), Tom Wiens (R), Wil Armstrong (R), Stephen P. Ward (R) |
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CONNECTICUT
Primary: August 12, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District
CANDIDATES: Joe Courtney (D)*, Sean Sullivan (R),
Gregory S. Deshefy (G), Daniel J. Reale (L) |
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FLORIDA
Primary: August 26, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Jeff Miller (R)*, Joe Roberts (D), Bryan James (D) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 16th District
CANDIDATES: Timothy Mahoney (D)*, Gayle B. Harrell (R), Mike Mett (R),
Tom Rooney (R), Rob Siedlecki (R), Hal Valeché (R) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 19th District
CANDIDATES: Robert Wexler (D)*, Edward J. Lynch (R),
Ben Graber (I) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 22nd District
CANDIDATES: Ron Klein (D)*, Paul F. Renneisen (D),
Allen B. West (R), Mike K. Thomas (R) |
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GEORGIA
Primary: July 15, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 12th District
CANDIDATES: John Barrow (D)*, Chris Edenfield (R), John E. Stone (R), Raymond L. McKinney (R)
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IDAHO
Primary: May 27, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Senate
CANDIDATES: Larry LaRocco (D), Rex Rammell (R), Jim Risch (R),
Alan Shealy (R), Kent Marmon (R), Richard E. Phenneger (R), Scott Syme (R), Bill Hunter (R), Fred Adams (R),Marvin Richardson (C), Jerry Carter (I) |
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ILLINOIS
Primary: February 5, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Senate
CANDIDATES: Dick Durbin (D)*, Steven Sauerberg (R) |
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INDIANA
Primary: May 6, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Pete Visclosky (D)*, Mark J. Leyva (R) |
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MAINE
Primary: June 10, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 1st District
CANDIDATES: Charlie Summers (R), Dean Scontras (R),
Chellie Pingree (D), Mike Brennan (D), Mark Lawrence (D),
Ethan Strimling (D), Adam Cote (D), Steve Meister (D) |
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MASSACHUSETTS
Primary: September 16, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 6th District
CANDIDATES: John F. Tierney (D)*, Rick Barton (R) |
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MICHIGAN
Primary: August 5, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Senate
CANDIDATES: Carl Levin (D)*, Bart Baron (R), Jack Hoogendyk (R) |
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MINNESOTA
Primary: September 9, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District
CANDIDATES: Terri E. Bonoff (DFL), Jigar Madia (DFL), Erik Paulsen (R),
David Dillion (I) |
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NEBRASKA
Primary: May 13, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Senate
CANDIDATES: Pat Flynn (R), Mike Johanns (R), Scott Kleeb (D) |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE
Primary: September 9, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Senate
CANDIDATES: John E. Sununu (R)*, Jeanne Shaheen (D),
Kenneth E. Blevens (L), Shawn Girard (I) |
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NEW JERSEY
Primary: September 9, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District
CANDIDATES: John H. Adler (D), Justin M. Murphy (R),
Chris Myers (R), Jack Kelly (R), Joseph H. Vicari (R) |
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NEW YORK
Primary: September 9, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 20th District
CANDIDATES: Kirsten E. Gillibrand (D)*, Morris Guller (D),
John W. Wallace (R), Mike Rocque (R), Sandy Treadwell (R),
Richard C. Wager (R) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 23rd District
CANDIDATES: John M. McHugh (R)*, Mike Oot (D), Danny M. Francis (D) |
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NORTH CAROLINA
Primary: May 6, 2008
Runoff: June 24, 2008 |
RACE: Governor
CANDIDATES: Beverly Purdue (D), Richard Moore (D), Bob Orr (R),
Pat McCrory (R), Bill Graham (R), Fred Smith (R), Elbie Powers (R),
Michael Munfer (L) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 4th District
CANDIDATES: David Price (D)*, William Lawson (R),
Augustus Cho (R) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 8th District
CANDIDATES: Robin Hayes (R)*, Larry Kissell (D), John Autry (D),
Mike Zaccaro (D) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 9th District
CANDIDATES: Sue Myrick (R)*, Bill Glass (D), Ross Overby (D),
Harry Taylor (D) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 10th District
CANDIDATES: Patrick McHenry (R)*, Lance Sigmon (R),
Steve Ivester (D), Daniel Johnson (D), Bryan Greene (I) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 11th District
CANDIDATES: Heath Shuler (D)*, John Armor (R),
Spence Campbell, Jr. (R), Carl Mumpower (R) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 13th District
CANDIDATES: Brad Miller (D)*, Derald Hafner (D) |
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OREGON
Primary: May 20, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District
CANDIDATES: Earl Blumenauer (D)*, Delia Lopez (R) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 4th District
CANDIDATES: Peter DeFazio (D)*, Jaynee Germond (R) |
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PENNSYLVANIA
Primary: April 22, 2008 |
RACE: State Attorney General*
John Morganelli (D)
*Note: ABI does not actively solicit surveys for state and local candidates (other than governor), however, if a candidate for state or local office wishes to submit a survey, we will gladly post his or her responses accordingly. |
SOUTH CAROLINA
Primary: June 10, 2008
Runoff: June 24, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Senate
CANDIDATES: Lindsey Graham (R)*, Buddy Witherspoon (R), Tim Carnes (R),
Mark McBride (I), Bob Conley (D), Michael Cone (D) |
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UTAH
Primary: June 24, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 2nd District
CANDIDATES: Jim Matheson (D)*, Merrill Cook (R) |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 3rd District
CANDIDATES: Chris Cannon (R)*, Jason Chaffetz (R) |
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WASHINGTON
Primary: September 9, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 7th District
CANDIDATES: Jim McDermott (D)*, Steve Beren (R)
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WISCONSIN
Primary: August 19, 2008 |
RACE: U.S. Congress, 7th District
CANDIDATES: David R. Obey (D)*, Daniel E. Mielke (R)
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Each election on this page includes at least one congressional candidate who is making overall immigration reduction and improved immigration enforcement a major issue. Please e-mail us if you know of any other true reform candidates or have additional information on the races included here.
NAMES IN GREEN WITH YELLOW HIGHLIGHT are True Immigration Reform Candidates committed to ending illegal immigration and reducing overall immigration levels (as reflected in the 12 categories of the survey).
NAMES IN GREEN are incumbents who generally support reductions in illegal immigration. They haven't taken the survey and their actions in Congress aren't quite good enough to qualify as a True Immigration Reform candidate. But their overall Recent immigration actions have earned them better than a "B" grade.
NAMES IN PURPLE are candidates who generally support reductions but their answers on the survey did not quite qualify them as True Immigration Reform candidates.
NAMES IN RED are candidates who completed the immigration survey, but whose answers identify them as more opposed than supportive of overall immigration reductions (illegal and legal) -- or they are incumbents whose Recent immigration actions in Congress have earned them worse than a "C" grade.
NAMES WITH OUR SYMBOL preceding them indicate candidates whose survey responses best meet the criteria for being a "True Immigration-Reform Candidate" in races in which more than one candidate's name appears in green.
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You will see a grid that compares candidates' positions on various immigration issues. These positions have been ascertained by looking at actual voting records, statements in the media, and the surveys we have sent them and they have returned.
We make changes in the comparison pages as new information emerges. If you see any discrepancies, have additional candidates to suggest, or if you want to make the case that we have highlighted a race that is inappropriate, please contact us. |
ABI NEVER ENDORSES CANDIDATES. Our highlighting of some candidates is to help citizens know who is most likely to work for reducing overall immigration so citizens can factor that information into their voting decisions. But we realize that voters mark their ballot based on many issues and judgments about the character and leadership of a candidate. We don’t presume to suggest the best candidate for your overall needs and interests. And, Americans for Better Immigration is strictly non-partisan, with no preference for one party or another.
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