Michael Kamburowski, the Australian immigrant hired as a top official in the California Republican Party, was ordered deported in 2001, jailed three years later for visa violations — and has filed a $5 million wrongful arrest lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to U.S. District Court documents.
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Christopher Matthews, a Canadian citizen with no experience in statewide politics, was hired this month after the California Republican party applied for, and received, an H1B visa specifically to fill the role of “political director,” according to U.S. Department of Labor data.
Hat-tip Donna Woodka.
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Lordy, the jokes just write themselves, don’t they? (Though I’d rather see an H-1B, which is intended to boost the American economy, go to him rather than to somebody Bill Gates hired at cut-rate wages to be trained here so that particular somebody can then go back to China or India and help Gates finish the job of totally offshoring Microsoft, as it’s all too obvious he intends to do.)
I agree with Charles, we should offshore the Republican party. Maybe they can help out in Iraq?
No, that might be worse than what Bush did to them. They deserve friendship, not our cast-offs.
cannablog 
June 24, 2007 at 8:24 pm
I wonder what flag flies outside the office? Do they take the Queen’s Birthday off?
June 24, 2007 at 9:21 pm
I understand that George HW Bush was knighted.
June 24, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Ah, yes. He is a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath.
By decree of HM the Queen.
June 24, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Perhaps the Republicans have simply gone Monarchist.