GOP gets local

For the first time in a debate, the word counties was uttered:

Tom Fahey from the New Hampshire Union Leader asked Duncan Hunter,

Congressman Hunter, whether we like it or not, in cities across America, counties across America, including your district in San Diego, illegal immigrants are doing jobs that American citizens don't want, working on farms, in hotels, restaurants.If you have your way and they all leave this country, who's going to fill those jobs?

Duncan Hunter disagreed with Fahey, but he made it known that the immigration debate comes down to border enforcement as a matter of national security. Several of his fellow candidate agreed with him while Ron Paul took it a step further acknowledging the burden that illegal immigrants put on county governments saying:

...we force our states and our local communities to pay for the health care, to pay for the education.

Paul later continued to promote local efforts:

We don't need somebody in Washington telling us what we can do, because we don't have perfect knowledge. And that's the magnificence of our Constitution and our republic. We sort out the difficult problems at local levels, and we don't have, you know, one-case-fit-all.

It's great to see local issues getting some oxygen in the debate. Keep up the great work of talking to the campaigns and educating them on county issues!