Larry Halloran on HB2372 interview on KAKE

What we DIDN't see... the good stuff hit the cutting room floor so they could EMPHASIZE "the color of one's skin" which is NO where to be found in the Bill. www.kslegislature.org/li/b2011_12/year1/measures/hb2372/ Larry's Testimony in Support of HB 2372 Testimony of Larry Halloran in support of HB 2372; Chairman Kinzer and Members of the House Judiciary Committee, We ask for your support of HB 2372; An Act concerning immigration; requiring verification of employment eligibility and making other amendments concerning immigration. The fundamental question today is not illegal immigration itself. If we are a nation of laws and are faithful to our obligations as citizens or legislators then we will rightfully conclude that the rule of law is the bedrock foundation of our society and passage of this legislation should require little debate. I would not dispute that employer and citizen alike have found the blind eye beneficial to their pocket book but financial gain, open borders or humanitarian compassion are not acceptable substitutes for the rule of law. Yesterdays benefit (however perceived) is today's liability as our citizens find themselves struggling to meet the increased burden of illegal immigration on our society that cannot be measured in financial terms alone. The blessings and benefits of America are bountiful. But, if they are to be preserved for our posterity and those seeking the benefit of citizenship they must be secured by principled adherence to our state and federal Constitutions. Illegal immigration is a festering cancer that damages both our society and those unlawfully seeking employment. It creates the necessity for a second society operating under the radar that inhibits the necessary assimilation of new immigrants into the America family. We are no longer concerned with a few thousand illegal immigrants that could be easily absorbed but rather tens of millions that now tax the limits of our social networks. It is past time for the half measured approaches, nod and wink policies and felonious excuses of citizen, employer and legislator alike related to the employment eligibility of illegal immigrants are put to rest. It is time that a lawful approach to employment eligibility verification becomes the rule for all employers and the accepted social norm for all citizens. Of even greater importance is that you, the citizen legislator, honor your oath of office and uphold the rule of law. Our Founders studied the laws and customs of many nations (both failed and existing) and took from them guidance for our Constitution that best protected a free people and society. For over 200 years, our Constitution has served as the legal binder for our citizens and those wishing to assimilate into a free society. Today, many seek to dilute the authority of our Constitution through substitution of unlawful privileges that in essence establish an equal but separate society within our borders. A society that stands in stark contrast and in opposition to the fundamental necessity of assimilation at the expense of individual liberties guaranteed to all by our Constitution. Such practices serve to disadvantage the citizens and legal immigrants that play by the rules and adhere to our laws by granting unearned favor to the illegal immigrant. Surely, we are all aware of the inequities, consequences and unquestionable failures of equal but separate jurisprudence practiced at times within our own society. To turn a blind eye or foster such practices is treasonous to our founding principles, documents and the faith of those who gave all to defend and preserve the greatest grant of freedom ever known to man; America. The challenges before us in preserving the free society and America are indeed great but do include a provision for national suicide. Tolerance does not beget equal but separate in a free society but instead requires assimilation through shared core values and equal application of the laws Thank you for your favorable support of HB 2372, your service and the defense of freedom for all. Respectfully, Larry Halloran, Chairman Wichita - South Central KS 912 Group Mulvane, KS 67110 Testimony of Lana Reed in Support of HB 2372 Testimony Of Lana Reed Provided Pursuant to K.S.A. 75-2973 Kansas Whistleblower Act On The HB 2372 Before the House Judiciary Committee "Under the current SRS system Kansas taxpayers are having millions of dollars stolen from them through fraud. Perhaps worse Kansas citizens, who are footing the bill, are being denied benefits that illegal aliens are approved for. The SRS system works for the illegal aliens and the illegal aliens know how to work the system...." p.12 Representative Lance Kinzer, Chairman Thursday, March 10, 2011, 3:30 p.m. 785-296-7692 Table of Contents Executive Summary. Fraud in the Kansas SRS System.. Hiding Illegal Aliens and Fraud. Types of Fraud. Fake Documents. Legitimate SSNs. Multiple Identities. Living the Goo

Destination Marketing Webinar - Search: Powering Your Marketing Mix

Our first in this series is Search Powering Your Marketing Mix where we will show how search marketing can provide behavioral information on who is searching for lodging, restaurant, attraction and activity information in and around your destination, which messages resonate with them and what factors entice them to become visitors/customers. Armed with this knowledge, destination and regional marketers can create effective messaging to drive consumer actions through all aspects of the marketing mix, both online and traditional channels. In this webinar you will learn: 1. How Search & Social Intelligence Research can define your target audience(s) and provide knowledge needed to create an effective overall marketing campaign. 2. How to leverage this information across your online and traditional marketing mix. TRANSCRIPT: Mike: Good morning, thanks Tyson. Good morning to some and good afternoon to others. Thanks for joining us for the first of our three destination marketing webinars, search powering your marketing mix. I'm Mike Rosenberg Vice President of New Business and Strategy at EngineWworks. We're a full service digital marketing agency focused on the travel and hospitality industry. So my goal today is to show you how to use search marketing research really to drive all of your marketing efforts. This session promises to provide a strategy backbone that can be implemented by all destinations of all sizes, to enhance your marketing efforts, from research to strategy and planning. This hopefully informative and actionable presentation is going to provide a road map. And we'll have some case studies along the way as well. As a reminder as I mentioned it is the first of three. The next two specifically focusing in on social media and can it deliver to your bottom line where we'll address how to go about tracking your social media efforts to see if all the work is paying off. That will be our April presentation, and then in May we'll go even more interactive than we are today and have live SEO assessments. We'll take a couple of quote-unquote ”pre-seededed assessments” from ahead of time, and then we'll take a few that are also live from the attendees during the webinar. So if that's something that you’re interested in, definitely reach out and let me know if you want to be one of those pre-seeded ones. So let's get going, search powering and your marketing mix, knowledge is power. So really the impetus of this presentation is that for a long time, really since the beginning of advertising and marketing. Companies have spent a lot of money, a lot of time on the creation of their marketing mix. And traditionally this has been a topped down strategy. You know, messages were created to tout the attributes or the benefits of a company’s products or services. Or in this case, a destination’s, attractions or features, or the cities within it. Follow that by integration of that messaging into each channel of the marketing mix. Then do some conventional marketing research to see if it was effective. Kind of going into the old adage of if fifty percent of my marketing works, I just don't know which fifty percent. Well unfortunately this process often failed to hit the mark. The in-depth research and analysis of consumer action coupled with what we now have is, instantaneous or at least close to instantaneous ROI tracking and measurement, can help us use that knowledge gained through some of these search marketing, and all my marketing tools as a foundation to actually create a marketing mix. So, what we would like to look at here is not just viewing search marketing or even online marketing as, a channel within the mix, but, rather we can feed that traditionally created messaging that we feed into the marketing mix. But rather using that to extract knowledge to create that overall marketing campaign. Kind of a road map of what we're going to cover, the four main points today are going to be: research and analysis, how customers seek out destinations, how we can discover the best targeting and messaging and then, how to integrate all of it into your various media channels. You know, through this process we can really extract some precise behavioral information pertaining to exactly who's searching for a specific destinations information on those, what it is that their looking for, which messages resonate with them, and what factors entice them to become visitors, or customers. And all through this you can create targeting and messaging to really drive that consumer action, both on and offline. So one thing to note here is, I would definitely use the bullets, not a list, one, two, three, four. We'll really weave through these four pieces throughout the entire presentation. And as I mentioned we'll use some examples along the way as well, some case studies. So what does this look like? Well successful digital marketing focuses first on three areas for success. You've got your content, so what