Ken Taylor (mayor)
Ken Taylor (mayor)
Ken Taylor is the mayor of Huachuca City, Arizona. The town is located near the U.S. Army base, Fort Huachuca and only 20 miles from Mexico has a population around 1,800 people. He was elected in 2013 and his current term finishes in 2018. [undefined] [undefined]
Controversy
Ken Taylor sent an angry email to the U.S.-Mexico Borders Mayors Association after he received a bilingual email in Spanish and English from the group about a meeting in Laredo, Texas. [undefined]
He believed that use of Spanish in the email caused division and put other countries ahead of the United States of America instead of putting "America First." [undefined]
Ken's Response:
‘I will NOT attend a function that is sent to me in Spanish/Mexican'.
and ‘One nation means one language and I am insulted by the division caused by language’, ‘America is going 'Down Hill' fast because we spend more time catering to others that are concerned with their own self interests’, the mayor wrote.
‘It is far past time to remember that we should be 'America First'... there is NOTHING wrong with that.
My feathers are ruffled anytime I see anything American putting other countries First.
If I was receiving correspondence from Mexican interests, I would expect to see them listed First.
Likewise, when I see things produced from America, I EXPECT to see America First’.
The "America First" slogan was first used by the America First Committee, a pressure group founded in 1940 whose aim was to lobby the government to stay out of the Second World War. [undefined]
The slogan since been used by Donald Trump's campaign for president. [undefined]
Ken also criticized the group calling them "Anti-American" in a Facebook post. Ken had orginally joined the group since he thought that they worked to secure the border with Mexico. Ken later found out that their main focus was to increase free trade between the United States and Mexico by supporting agreements such as NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement), which Ken believed were causing the loss of American jobs. [undefined] [666666]