Governor Vetoes Move to Make Driver’s Test English-Only

As I’ve opined before, in a sane society, this would be enough to have the Governor removed from office immediately and prosecuted. It’s all up to the American citizenry in the end. His e-mail should be jammed already, and calls for his resignation should be in the tens of thousands,etc.

And Hispanics are a fast growing demo in Kentucky. Most of the whites outside Appalachia tend Republican, so the state’s Democrats are importing a new constituency.

I read a story on V-Dare a couple years back where a Hispanic woman and her kids from L.A. moved to Lexington, Kentucky, and liked it a lot better because SoCal “has got too many Mexicans.” (Her own words). And so is Lexington’s future, if word gets out.

The campus at Lexington is the one of the most rabidly liberal in the entire midwest and near south, and it shows in the decisions by this leftist governor.

How requiring a written test in English is going to detract from the area’s desire to be “welcoming” is a mystery nobody but a deranged liberal understands.

Don’t be surprised if he deems it o.k. for gang members to flash gang signs in response to questions.

Incidentally, I have one question. If his desire is to create a nice environment, will that mean he isn’t going to have to lay off a substantial number of police, firemen, teachers and government employees to meet the budget in the next five years? His last economic report reflected a VERY grim picture for Kentucky.

This issue has never set well with me. Save the “English Only” debate for another time and look at it purely as a road safety issue. The ability to read road signs and emergency warnings, and to comprehend the instructions of police and other safety officials is an essential component of driving safely in the USA.

Don’t even get me started about states that allow applicants to supply their own translator, who could just as easliy provide the answers answers as well as the questions.

Less welcoming? I wish NJ were less welcoming….

The less welcoming a state is the less multi-culti garbage it has to deal with. Go English only!

Blanton [Jay Blanton, the governor’s spokesman] says, “Kentucky has a long standing tradition of being a very welcoming state. We’re seeking foreign investment in our state. We want people to come here from other countries to do business, and Gov. Beshear doesn’t want to detract from that.”
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If a rich German wants to invest in Kentucky, he can hire a translator himself rather than sticking the American tax payer with the bill. As far as the mestizos are concerned, when one invests a million or more dollars in the American economy, we’ll say he’s entitled to a spanish language driver’s exam. Until then, get out of my land.

Blanton [Jay Blanton, the governor’s spokesman] says, “Kentucky has a long standing tradition of being a very welcoming state. We’re seeking foreign investment in our state. We want people to come here from other countries to do business, and Gov. Beshear doesn’t want to detract from that.”

Translation: A whole bunch of diverse foreign investors are perusing industrial base bone picking opportunities in our state. We mustn’t offend them.

The real truth is that legitimate foreign non-resident visitors (vultures) with valid in compliance visa passports only need a foreign driver’s license and a AAA card to legally operate a motor vehicle on the highways of any state of the union. Anybody else is a potential rapist of the Governator’s wife or daughter.

More madness. We have to give driver’s licenses to people who can’t read the road signs.

I went to graduate school at Western Kentucky University (Bowling Green, Kentucky) and I was born in Kentucky, but I never noticed that the highway and traffic signs were in 22 different languages!

Of course, they aren’t. They are all in English. So to obtain a license to operate a motor vehicle in Kentucky it would not be unreasonable for the license examination to ALSO be ONLY in English. Otherwise, it would only make sense to have all traffic and highway signs in the SAME 22 different languages….just like the license examination.

Now doesn’t the governor have that warm fuzzy feeling, he normally gets, when he actually helps no one and makes everything more difficult for the people of his state?

An American state wanting immigrants to speak English and not give them jobs unless they do? How ‘mean’! How ‘racist!’.

Gee! With only “12” million illegals in the country, they sure seem to be everywhere, don’t they? Next thing you know they will be offered membership in the DAR.

Actually, we had this case in Carinthia (aka Jörg Haider´s empire).
Slovenians refused to pay traffic fines en masse, claiming they couldn´t read the traffic signs unless they were bilingual (“Ortstafelstreit”). Prepare for something like that, too.
More probably, it will be a defense strategy in some fatal DUI.

I suppose English-only road signs and English measurements also contribute to the lack of hospitality immigrants feel while traversing the Bluegrass State.

Kentucky should have multilingual signs or else replace modern alphabetic writing with hieroglyphics, and we can all guess as to what we should do.

We could also have multilingual police officers issuing multilingual traffic tickets. Just a thought.

I’m sure that road signs in Kentucky are in English as is the case in the rest of the US. If people can’t pass a driver’s test in English how in the world are they going to be able to figure out what commons road signs like “left lane yield on green” and “road work ahead- drive slowly” are supposed to mean?! This decision puts Americans at a greater risk of an accident at the hands of foreigner drivers. Is the good governor of Kentucky now going to require that all road signs in his state are printed in the 22 languages that the driving test is offered in?

As a Canadian who faithfully reads AmRen I can only warn Americans that they are going down a very dangerous road here on this whole ‘language front’. You are making a terrible mistake and should be protecting the English langauge and trying to promote the unilingual character of your country. Believe me nothing good will come of this.

I was stationed in Europe for a good number of years and drove through Germany, Italy, France, Holland (Netherlands) and several other countries in South America with no problem. The differece is that Europe has long used international road signs with different symbols for each road condition. This would cost a fortune in the United States,
My view is that if you move to another country it is your duty and responsibity to learn the language, respect their culture,and adapt to their ways of doing things. By not doing so the people are showing their contempt for the native population and disrespect for the soverignity of the nation.
Since retirement, I have entered into conversations with a number of third and fourth generation Hispanics that will tell you with a straight face that their first allegiance is to Mexico and not the United States and further state that America had better adapt to their way rather than the other way around. To me this is the language of invaders, not immigrants.