GOP official loses deportation suit

You can't believe anything the Republican life destroyers say, because their actions undercut their words.

Michael Kamburowski is an Australian citizen who came to the U.S. in 1995 to work for conservative causes. Although he had only a tourist visa and no work permit, he worked for 5 years for Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform, a right-wing think tank.

In 2001, immigration officials discovered Kamburowski had overstayed his visa. When he ignored several orders to appear at a deportation hearing, a judge ordered him deported and issued an arrest warrant.

Three years later - while still a fugitive - Kamburowski had the nerve to apply for a green card and went to an immigration office in New York for an interview. Then he was finally arrested and jailed. Amazingly, a judge later gave him legal immigration status, despite him being an illegal immigrant for years.

Last year, the California Republican Party rewarded Michael Kamburowski for his lawbreaking by hiring him to oversee the party's finances. You read that right: A party that rails against illegal immigration and crime hired someone who spent years as an illegal immigrant and a fugitive.

It's no wonder we can't trust a damn thing the Republicans say. "Do as I say, not as I do" seems to be the philosophy that guides the whole party.

It gets sillier. Kamburowski actually had the audacity to sue the federal government for $5,000,000 over his arrest. Why??? How could Kamburowski possibly have sustained $5,000,000 in damages? Maybe if he had gotten a work permit and gone through the legal immigration process, he never would have been arrested.

But now a federal judge has rightly thrown out Kamburowski's frivolous lawsuit. Ha ha!

It amazes you. It would have been so much easier for him to get a work permit and immigrate legally than to get arrested and gum up the court system. But nobody here said Michael Kamburowski isn't a complete and utter fool.

(Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/23/MNA410SLOQ.DTL&type=politics)