x-sender: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com x-receiver: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com Received: from mail pickup service by IQ12 with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sat, 3 Oct 2015 11:03:28 -0400 thread-index: AdD97Kkdv6bpcRrKS8mOcT5K6nA8aQ== Thread-Topic: Beware who you trust From: To: Subject: Beware who you trust Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 11:03:28 -0400 Message-ID: <39125998C4464A0EB72BA6D8D815BD63@IQ12> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7601.17609 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Oct 2015 15:03:28.0732 (UTC) FILETIME=[A93ED1C0:01D0FDEC] CUSTOM Mrs. Annette Savoie 2999 Gabrysh Ave. se Palm Bay FL 32909 alouette8@juno.com 321-725-5559 GOVE Beware who you trust 104.55.0.76 Senate Signals Left Turn for Central America Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-Fla.) name constantly crops up as a possible Vice Presidential nominee. But in El Salvador, the nomination he's more often linked to is Mari Carmen Aponte's. For the last year, Aponte has served as the President'svery controversial ambassador to El Salvador--a post she had to bypass the Senate to get. Senate Republicans had such strong reservations about Aponte's past (she's been linked to a Cuban spy) that the President had to name her by recess appointment. In the almost two years that Aponte served in El Salvador, she did plenty to prove her detractors right. Like most ambassadors, Aponte was given strict instructions to use her influence to demand acceptance for the President's radical social agenda. In most cases, this aggressive strategy has made more enemies of nations than friends--especially in countries as profoundly religious as El Salvador. At the request of Secretary Clinton, Aponte published a scathing op-ed in local newspapers chastising Salvadorians for their rejection of homosexuality and suggested their position was ignorant. The column sparked such a huge uproar that Salvadorian leaders called for her removal from office. When her bumpy term finally ended, it was just assumed that she wouldn't be re-nominated. That's no longer the case, thanks in part to Senator Rubio - who used her appointment as a negotiating chip with the White House. Reportedly, after a closed-door meeting with President Obama, Sen. Rubio not only agreed to support the divisive nominee, but that also promised to lobby other Republicans to vote for her too. Keep in mind that her nomination is such an affront to Salvadorians that they organized a coalition solely for blocking her appointment. Together, they pleaded with Republican senators to back off, calling Aponte an insult to their people and their values. "[A] fundamental rule in diplomatic practices," they wrote," is to not disregard the traditions and customs of the host country... Ms. Aponte, in clear violation of the rules of diplomacy and international rights laws, you intend to impose to Salvadorans, disregarding our profound Christian values, rooted in natural law, a new vision of foreign and bizarre values, completely alien to our moral fiber, intending to disguise this as 'human rights.'" When reporters asked Sen. Rubio how he could possibly vote with liberal Democrats on her confirmation, his office replied, "We worked behind the scenes with the administration and reached an agreement [on another policy in] Nicaragua, so the senator agreed to vote for cloture on Aponte and find enough Republican votes (6) for her to pass." The office even backed off its earlier opposition, claiming that it "was never based on her personally." "The administration addressed his policy concerns, he looks forward to voting for her whenever Senator [Harry] Reid (D-Nev.) brings her up for another vote." Which happened to be today. Unfortunately, the Senate chose to confirm Aponte. Please contact your senators and either thank them for opposing Aponte or ask why they failed to respect the wishes of the Salvadorian people. Real diplomacy means honoring the values of other countries while best representing your own. This candidate does neither.