Kobach gets hit by the Pitch

Pitch whistles a couple of fastballs at Kris Kobach this week that both deserve mentions.

Kobach's Big Tent is getting pretty crowded. Jerry Falwell, Gun Owners of America/Larry Pratt, FAIR, Phyllis Schafly...the list goes on, so reports Leonard Zeskind.*

There's a web of connections detailed in the article that we can't do justice to via mere excerpts, so go read it:

All's FAIR
Kris Kobach loads up with anti-immigration ammo

Also in this week's Pitch, a story about the effects of the tuition law Kobach is suing to overturn:

Dream On, Chiquita
An education is a terrible thing to waste on an immigrant

Turns out one of the handful of Kansas students who has benefited from the bill was given a volunteer service award by President Bush. Egads, the conspiracy goes all the way to the top!

The article shows the pluck and irreverance we Turks admire, and the writer -- Tony Ortega -- got a response from Kobach regarding the aspiring architect at K-State:

"Everybody's a citizen of one country," [Kobach] said. "One option [for Pardo] is a subsidized education in her own country."

The candidate was being polite, though. So the Strip will translate the answer he gave when this meat patty told him about the young architecture student who just won a presidential award for her work in the community:

Go back to Mexico, bee-yatch.

* When the author of a 2,000-word article about you has the following mini-biography listed at the end of the story, it's probably safe to say you're not going to be adding that particular story to your scrapbook:

"Leonard Zeskind covered the gun lobby and militia for Rolling Stone in 1995. He is now finishing a book on the history of the white nationalist movement."

Though for all we know, some militia leader has a Zeskind article proudly tacked up to the wall of his armory (garage) where he can gaze upon it when he looks up from the latest issue of Soldier of Fortune.