From the Looks of It, It Better Be Too Late.

Rainbow Dash, if the rumours of her being a lesbian have been confirmed by Hasbro, would probably NOT approve of a recent ad campaign posted by Arizona politician, author and disbarred attorney Andy Thomas, who, according to Wikipedia, "was the subject of an FBI investigation regarding abuse of power and unethical behavior while county attorney."

Conservatives are backing Andrew Thomas for Governor because he's the only candidate to stop illegal immigration. He stood up to the gay lobby.

*sounds of needle scratching record*

Uh wait, what?

He stood up to the gay lobby.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

When I enforced the law, illegal immigrants fled, now they stay and protest.

- Andy Thomas

And for good reason: The Statue of Liberty said "Welcome Immigrants", right?

After this whole thing was said and done, Thomas issued a statement regarding it:

I am pleased to report my campaign has received a very strong, positive response to my new campaign ad. Voters can see I am the one true conservative running for Governor, someone who will stand up and fight for them.

Among the most positive responses are the following:

To say I'm going to draw a big Mexican flag, and I'm going to say all Mexicans are bad, or all of Mexico is bad, is something that is a bad omission, and something I would never want the Governor of Arizona to say. [...] He also said he stood up to the gay lobby; some people call the wording offensive, I have no idea what he's talking about, I don't know why he thinks that it's an issue in the race, it certainly hasn't come up when I've traveled around, I've never heard those words before.

- Christine Jones.

I'm not quite sure how the gay lobby gets into the whole immigration focus of this ad in the first place.

- Ken Bennett.

I do think it's racially insensitive because Mexican Americans like myself are a substantial population in this state. Andrew Thomas is a disgraced, disbarred lawyer. He should make his amends to society and get an honest job, and stop wasting the taxpayers' money.

- Stephen Montoya, civil rights attorney.

Interestingly, Andy is also the real-life short version of the real name of another state resident, the great (and truly so) MandoPony. MandoPony, Mr. Thomas, and myself, all live in Arizona (the first two live in Phoenix, while I live in Tucson).

I would like to send you now, a now-landmark poem called the New Colossus. Mr. Thomas should read this poem too, as it concerns the Statue of Liberty. In fact, I forwarded the email where this poem was contained to his email address: [e-mail].

The New Colossus

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

Emma Lazarus is the poet; she wrote it about the Statue of Liberty. She was a Jewish American poet and one of the first Jewish poets to be published here -- one of the first important American Jewish poets.

http://www.libertystatepark.com/emma.htm

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/new-colossus

Emma Lazarus

A descendant of Sephardic Jews who immigrated to the United States from Portugal around the time of the American Revolution, Emma Lazarus was born in New York City on July 22, 1849. Before Lazarus, the only Jewish poets published in the United States were humor and hymnal writers. Her book Songs of a Semite was the first collection of poetry to explore Jewish-American identity while struggling with the problems of modern poetics.

Her family was wealthy, and Lazarus was educated at home, acquiring a knowledge of Greek and Latin classics, as well as the modern literature of Germany, Italy, and France. Lazarus developed an affinity for verse at an early age. As a teenager, she began translating the poems of Victor Hugo, Heinrich Heine, Alexandre Dumas, and Friedrich Schiller.

Lazarus began publishing poems in the 1860s and 1870s, including translations of German poems. In 1866, her father arranged for the poems and translations she wrote between the ages of fourteen and sixteen to be privately printed, and the following year a commercially published volume titled Poems and Translations followed. The work attracted the attention of poets and critics, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, who became her friend and mentor.

Lazarus published another volume of poetry, Admetus and Other Poems (1871); a novel, Alide: An Episode in Goethe's Life (1874); and a verse drama, The Spagnoletto (1876), before her interests in Jewish identity and culture were reflected in her work. After reading George Eliot's 1876 novel Daniel Deronda, which explores Jewish ancestory in Victorian society, Lazarus began to translate medieval Hebrew poetry from the German. News of the Russian pogroms fueled her interest. In 1881, she witnessed firsthand the tumultuous arrival of exiled refugees into the United States. The following year, she published a polemic in The Century, as well as another collection of verse, Songs of a Semite: The Dance to Death and Other Poems.

Following the publication of Songs of a Semite, Lazarus wrote several prose pieces concerned with the historical and political interests of the Jewish people, and travelled to France and England, where she met and befriended literary figures, such as Robert Browning and William Morris.

After returning from Europe, Lazarus was asked for an original poem to be auctioned off as a fundraiser for the building of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Though she initially declined, Lazarus later used the opportunity to express the plight of refugee immigrants, who she cared greatly about. Her resulting sonnet, "The New Colossus", includes the iconic lines "Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," and is inscribed on a plaque on the pedestal of the monument.

In 1884, Lazarus fell ill, most likely from Hodgkin's lymphoma. After her father's death the following year, she travelled again, hoping an encounter with a new country would help her regain some of her strength. She visited Italy for the first time, followed by England and France, but soon returned to the United States when her illness worsened. She died a few months later on November 17, 1887.

In the years following her death, Lazarus fell into relative obscurity. A 1926 edition of her complete collected poems was kept out of the public eye by her sister, who owned the rights to the work, but whose religious and political beliefs were in opposition to the Judaic concerns raised by Lazarus in her poetry.