Mike Rights, twice arrested for drinking and driving, led campaign against immigrants after a vehicular homicide by a Latino
I have been giving you a look over the last two weeks at the anti-immigrant machine Assemblyman Greg Ball is trying to put together in the Hudson Valley. One of the key players in the Ball machine is Mike Rights.
Last year, a truck driver struck and killed a mother and her daughter on the streets of Brewster in Putnam County. The driver was intoxicated.
Instead of ramping up efforts to curb drunk driving, the town’s Supervisor Michael Rights focused on the driver’s ethnicity and the fact that he was an immigrant. A hearing organized by Rights discussed day laborers standing on street corners, the smell of presumably Latino urine at the train station, and the rather speculative claim that Blockbuster Video had closed down its Brewster store because there were too many Latinos living in the community.
In other words, it covered everything except how to reduce drunk driving.
There may be a reason for that oversight.
Town Supervisor Michael Rights has been arrested twice on alcohol related charges. This is how The Journal News described his driving record: “Rights pleaded guilty to driving while ability impaired after a June 2007 accident in which his car flipped over on Milltown Road and then pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in July 2008 after being stopped on Route 22.”
Town Councilman Paul Johnson says that Right’s efforts against immigrants are part of an effort to rehabilitate his own career.
Note: For more on arrests of Rights, here is one story and here is another.
Bonus: Find out about Greg Ball protege Steve Katz, who campaigns on an English-Only platform, but who advertises in Spanish!
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