Thursday, May 27, 2010
Palin: "'Fightin' words' to cancel team's trip"
Here's coverage of a recent Sarah Palin speech in Illinois...
Abdon M. Pallasch reports in on the Chicago Sun-Times website:
"With 4,000 Chicago area fans cheering her on, former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin trained her sights Wednesday night on Highland Park High School, which conservative talk radio has targeted for canceling the girls basketball team’s trip to a tournament in Arizona.
'Them are fightin’ words when you say a girl can’t play in the basketball tournament … for political reasons … so we’re going to see about that,' Palin said.
Arizona’s strict crackdown on illegal immigration is projected to cost that state millions in tourism from such cancellations.
'I said, ‘Wait, I thought it was already a crime for an illegal alien [to be here],' Palin said to raucous cheers at the Rosemont Theatre.
Noting that the Highland Park girls held bake sales to pay their way to the national finals for the first time in 26 years, Palin suggested conservatives could get the girls to Arizona despite High School District 113’s decision to keep the girls home this winter."
