The toughest thing in the world is separating the wheat from the chaff.

In political terms, it is separating the honest public servants and those who just play one on TV. Not all Republicans are good on opposing illegal immigration and not all Democrats are bad. However, my real anger is against those who pretend to be with us, but take money from interest groups who are leading the charge for Obama and other pro-Amnesty politicians.

A few years ago, a political committee called Georgia Employers for Immigration Reform was formed to push President Bush and Rino’s in Georgia to support amnesty. The group is not as active as it once was, but donations from their members are still having an influence in congressional campaigns.

For example, Georgia Employers for Immigration Reform members Fieldale Farms, Riverview Plantation, and Wayne Farms have senior employees who give money to Saxby Chambliss. Remember in Georgia it was Senator Saxby Chambliss who was given the Bronx cheer at the State Republican convention when he tried to defend President Bush’s pro-amnesty bill.

I was a member of the state GOP resolutions committee in that convention and we withheld our praise for Federal Republican officeholders that year because of their tentative support for an amnesty bill. In the last three years senior people at Wayne Farms gave Saxby Chambliss $2,500, senior people at Riverview Plantation gave Saxby Chambliss $1,750, and senior people at Fieldale Farms gave Saxby Chambliss $2,100. Wayne Farms has its own federal Pac that gave $1,000 to Senator Lindsey Graham, who today is negotiating with President Obama to open our borders.

What should concern us the most is that pro-amnesty businesses in Georgia are also giving money to candidates who claim to be conservative, yet whose supporters would never tolerate a pro-amnesty vote. Candidates for the 9th congressional district Bill Stephens and Tom Graves have both received money from senior officials at Fieldale Farms. In fact, Tom Graves received $3,000 and Bill Stephens received $1,000 just last year. We know Lindsey Graham is bad on immigration and we know Saxby waffled on the issue. We need to know that Bill Stephens and Tom Graves are not going to be Lindsey Graham Republicans. ( Note from the editor: Tom Graves campaign Website page on Border Security HERE – Bill Stephens’ HERE. Bobby Reese’s HERE dak)

Both of these men need to come clean on the issue of illegal immigration. Their association with a leader in the pro-amnesty business community should be a concern that they must be address. Conservative organizations that support them should ask questions before giving them their full support. It would be a mistake for newly energized grassroots activists fighting corruption in Washington to get mixed up with business interests that want to legalize currently illegal behavior for the sake of making more money.

A few years ago a national social conservative leader was disgraced and the movement he help founded all but destroyed when it was revealed that he took money from gambling interests to influence good Christian activists to support referendums in such a way to benefit his pro-gambling clients. I hope this does not happen to the other activist movements.

My primary sources are ww.fec.gov and The Florida Times-Union article “Businesses won’t let immigration reform die” By Walter C. Jones dated August 18, 2007