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AZ Gubernatorial Candidate Killing It

rootlesscosmorootlesscosmo 12,848 Posts
edited September 2010 in Strut Central
she nails this.



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  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    wow
  • fishmongerfunkfishmongerfunk 4,154 Posts
    yeah, she's a real piece of work (you have to hang in with this video until about the 1:50 mark for the pay-off)

  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,473 Posts
    Shit is, as Snoop would say, worse than fuckin' pathetic. And the worst part? This will merely reinforce that "Jan Brewer is one of us!" to her supporters.
  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    Don't laugh, it looks like she had a mini stroke.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Goddard entered the debate about 20% down in the polls.

    He is a centrist. As attorney general has won the support of much of the states law enforcement. (not Joe Arpio.)

    This train wreck will have to help him.

    Brewer ascended to the governship when Gov Napolitano (D) became Secretary of Home Land Security. Until she signed 1070 she was as big a joke to Republicans who she was fighting with as dems. When she signed 1070 she became an overnight hero.

    The more the voters see her the better Goddard's chances.
  • GrandfatherGrandfather 2,303 Posts
    Then there is this:

    http://www.kpho.com/news/24834877/detail.html

    PHOENIX, Ariz. -- Gov. Jan Brewer???s campaign chairman and policy adviser is also a lobbyist for the largest private prison company in the country.
    Chuck Coughlin is one of two people in the Brewer administration with ties to Corrections Corporation of America. The other administration member is communications director Paul Senseman, a former CCA lobbyist. His wife still lobbies for the company.
    According to campaign finance records, CCA executives and employees contributed more than $1,000 to the governor???s re-election campaign. The company???s political action committee and its lobbyists contributed another $60,000 to Brewer???s top legislative priority, Proposition 100, a sales tax to help avoid budget cuts to education.
    Caroline Isaacs from the American Friends Service Committee, which advocates for social justice issues, said the money is evidence of influence the company has on the governor.
    Isaacs said private prison companies have been buying influence in Arizona politics for years. The number of private prisons and jails operating across the state shows the result of that influence, he said. Currently, there are at least 12 for-profit prison, jail and detention facilities in Arizona.
    Isaacs said the state has something else that attracts these companies.
    ???The other Holy Grail, if you will, of private prison construction is immigrant detention,??? Isaacs said.
    Corrections Corporation of America holds the contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to lock up illegal immigrants picked up in Arizona. Tough immigration laws such as Arizona's SB 1070 could send thousands of new bodies its way, and millions of dollars.
    Coughlin told CBS 5 News and other media outlets that there is no connection between Brewer and illegal immigrants arrested by local law enforcement.
    Coughlin appeared on KAET TV???s ???Horizon??? two weeks ago. ???When somebody gets arrested, they go to jail. There are no private jails. Those are public jails. ICE has said they are not taking prisoners arrested under that, so there would be no transport into the state prison system when this happens,??? he told the host of ???Horizon.???
    But ICE???s spokesman in Phoenix told CBS 5 News the agency gets most of its detainees from local law enforcement. Records obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request show Arizona agencies turned over 23,000 illegal immigrants to ICE over the past three years. Hundreds of them ended in up CCA facilities.
    ???Anyone who is a serious criminal or is a flight risk is more than likely going to end up in detention here in Arizona,??? said Vinnie Picard from ICE.
    CBS 5 News invited Coughlin to explain what he told the governor about the effects of SB 1070 on CCA, but after weeks of negotiating through e-mail, Coughlin backed out of an on-camera interview.
    He sent CBS 5 News e-mail from CCA, which stated: ???CCA has neither directly, nor indirectly attempted to influence immigration policy, including SB 1070, and absolutely did not engage anyone in the Governor???s Office on signature of that bill.???
    People such as Isaacs, who study the private prison industry, said they don???t buy it.
    ???My reaction to that statement is then why did they give them all that money???? she said.
    Coughlin???s company has canceled all of the governor???s campaign advertising on CBS 5 News.
  • walter_chronwalter_chron 347 Posts
    here's the whole thing if anyone's interested.

  • walter_chronwalter_chron 347 Posts
    walter_chron said:
    here's the whole thing if anyone's interested.


    quoted for "red X"
  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    QUIT WITH THE LIB FLIP'N'CHOP IT'S SO OBVIOUS
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    dukeofdelridge said:
    QUIT WITH THE LIB FLIP'N'CHOP IT'S SO OBVIOUS

    Kind of hard to resist when the cons keep trotting out these retarded/insane candidates.
  • mannybolonemannybolone Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
    PelvicDust said:
    dukeofdelridge said:
    QUIT WITH THE LIB FLIP'N'CHOP IT'S SO OBVIOUS

    Kind of hard to resist when the cons keep trotting out these retarded/insane candidates.

    Why do you hate Real Americans?
  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    U PROBABLY SAYING CON AS IN ANTI BUT IN ESPANOL DOESNT CON MEAN WITH AS IN WITH AMERICA AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS

    ALSO: GO BRISTOL DWTS !!! RELOAD!!!
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    dukeofdelridge said:
    U PROBABLY SAYING CON AS IN ANTI BUT IN ESPANOL DOESNT CON MEAN WITH AS IN WITH AMERICA AND THE FOUNDING FATHERS

    ALSO: GO BRISTOL DWTS !!! RELOAD!!!

    I hope she gets knocked up by the Situation.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    I just watched the whole debate.

    Brewer pulled it together, said Goddard was exactly like Obama, said she has added jobs to the state (no.) said some other patently false things.
    Her and Goddard went at it tooth and nail.
    She never looked at the other candidates and showed no grasp of details.
    She did nail her closing statement.

    There was also a Green Party candidate and a Libertarian.
    Green guy didn't know what he was doing or why.

    The Libertarian won the debate straight out best I could tell.
  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    PelvicDust said:

    I hope she gets knocked up by the Situation.

    SITUATION'S SHOOTING BLANKS FROM THE TANNING AND ROIDS COMEON
  • dukeofdelridgedukeofdelridge urgent.monkey.mice 2,453 Posts
    I'D WATCH THE HOFF THO
    HE WILL RAVAGE HER LIKE NUDEBURGER KITCHEN FLOOR OOOOOOOO
  • fishmongerfunkfishmongerfunk 4,154 Posts
    If at first you awkwardly stumble through your opening statement, why bother trying again?

    Gov. Jan Brewer (R) has put the kibosh on all future debates with her Arizona gubernatorial opponent Terry Goddard (D), after her rather embarrassing display at Wednesday's debate. "I don't believe that things come out in proper context in an adversarial atmosphere," she defended herself.

    According to the Arizona Daily Star, Brewer says she only partook in the debate to try qualify for the $1.7 million-plus public funds for her campaign.

    So after her poor showing, which involved a flubbed opening statement that made the internet rounds yesterday, Brewer has had enough: "I think it's pretty defined what [Goddard] stands for and what I stand for."

    Brewer was also hit for dodging reporters' questions about her erroneous claim that undocumented immigrants beheaded people in her state.

    "All you guys were doing and talking were beheadings, beheadings, beheadings," Brewer told the Daily Star. "That is something that has stuck with you all for so long, and I just felt we needed to move on."

    She also contended that when discussing the headless bodies, she "never said 'Arizona,' and it's unfortunate that it was construed as 'Arizona.'"

    As TPM reported, Brewer said on Fox News in July: "We cannot afford all this illegal immigration and everything that comes with it, everything from the crime and to the drugs and the kidnappings and the extortion and the beheadings."

    The anchor later asked: "Which beheadings in Arizona were you were referring to?" Brewer responded: "Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert, either buried or just lying out there, that have been beheaded."

    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/jan-brewer-im-done-with-debates.php

  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Then her spokesperson said she meant in Mexico along the board.
    But there have been no beheadings in the boarder states. Much less along the boarder.

    Her supporters only support her signing of 1070. She was wildly unpopular before then and has done nothing since.
  • RockadelicRockadelic Out Digging 13,993 Posts
    LaserWolf said:
    Then her spokesperson said she meant in Mexico along the board.
    But there have been no beheadings in the boarder states. Much less along the boarder.

    Her supporters only support her signing of 1070. She was wildly unpopular before then and has done nothing since.

    Since 2006 there have been 28,000 drug/gang related murders in Mexico...that's one every 75 minutes.

    Some small percentage of those have been beheadings.

    And yes, some of those beheadings took place on the Mex side of border towns.

    The 72 bodies found a week or so ago were just outside of Matamoras.

    Very little of this violence has made it's way to the U.S.
  • kitchenknightkitchenknight 4,922 Posts
    I listened to a PA campaign commercial yesterday that was trying to get people to vote AGAINST cutting Medicare, and begin with :10 seconds of ANTI government health care.

    That was the moment I gave up... I mean, fuck it. The morons won, godspeed and good luck.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Rockadelic said:
    LaserWolf said:
    Then her spokesperson said she meant in Mexico along the board.
    But there have been no beheadings in the boarder states. Much less along the boarder.

    Her supporters only support her signing of 1070. She was wildly unpopular before then and has done nothing since.

    Since 2006 there have been 28,000 drug/gang related murders in Mexico...that's one every 75 minutes.

    Some small percentage of those have been beheadings.

    And yes, some of those beheadings took place on the Mex side of border towns.

    The 72 bodies found a week or so ago were just outside of Matamoras.

    Very little of this violence has made it's way to the U.S.

    There truly is a war going on in Mexico.
    Our country should have some kind of serious response, but we don't.
    We could end the war tomorrow by legalizing drugs.
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