Granny Grizzly's Latest Endorsement

by: susanthe

Thu Jul 22, 2010 at 17:50:01 PM EDT

Ayotte Can't Stop Lying About Arizona

by: Dean Barker

Tue Jul 20, 2010 at 07:54:59 AM EDT

At a recent ice cream social where she spoke to voters, Ayotte kept her message extremely simple, calling for lower taxes, a crackdown on illegal immigrants (remarking, incorrectly, that Arizona has the second-highest rate of kidnapping in the world), and a repeal of the health care overhaul law that requires nearly all Americans to have insurance by 2014.

But this is far more disturbing, because she's already been called on this before.  Nor is it the first falsehood about Arizona she's tried.

I guess NHPR now has the answer to the question Ayotte never answered:

The campaign did not respond when asked if Ayotte will continue to make her claims about Arizona and kidnapping.

(h/t FrankLoydMike)

Ayotte Caught Peddling Bogus AZ Myth (Again)

by: Dean Barker

Wed Jul 07, 2010 at 21:25:22 PM EDT

"They have a serious public safety issue in Arizona. They have the second highest kidnapping rate in the world."

"It's a media anecdote run amok."

..."John McCain has said it. We (Bill Adair of non-partisan Politfact) first checked it when it was said at the Texas state republican convention. And this is an anecdote that seems to have originated with the Phoenix police department which doesn't have anything to back it up."

The campaign did not respond when asked if Ayotte will continue to make her claims about Arizona and kidnapping.

Which reminds me: has anyone found out yet if she supports Judd Gregg's successful effort to strip taxpaying Americans of their jobless benefits?

Public Funding of State Elections In Trouble?

by: Kathy Sullivan 2

Tue Jun 08, 2010 at 16:26:15 PM EDT

A group of mostly conservative groups -- including several current and former Republican state legislators -- filed the emergency appeal with the high court, saying their free speech rights were being hurt, and their private fundraising efforts would be stifled because of public election financing. They have succeeded in their efforts for now, while state campaigning is under way in an election year.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITI...

We don't know yet how the Supreme Court will finally rule, but, this is not good news for proponents of public financing of state electtions. If a publically financed candidate cannot receive matching funds to compete with independent spending by either corporations or labor unions, then who is going to take public financing, knowing they are going to be overwhelmed by (non-disclosed) organizational money? If the Supreme Court continues to go down this path, then public financing may be on life support, as the matching funds component is the only way for a publically funded candidate to compete against either a rich self funder, or a candidate supported by organizations willing to do massive independent expenditures.
 

Operation Terraform, The Secret Obama Administration Plan For Arizona, Is Revealed

by: fake consultant

Wed May 05, 2010 at 05:52:32 AM EDT

The plan depends upon American authorities cooperating with the Canadian, Mexican, and North American Governments, and the plan will require one of the largest transport efforts since D-Day.

Until today, no one outside the involved agencies had been aware of the existence of the plan, much less its details, and as of today, no official will admit, on the record, that the plan is already in effect.

Kelly Ayotte's Fact-Free Support for Racial Profiling

by: Dean Barker

Mon May 03, 2010 at 21:16:22 PM EDT

But why exactly is the former Attorney General fine with it?

AYOTTE: "...they are dealing with tremendous violence in Arizona.  Not just people coming over the border to get a job, people coming over for drug dealing, murder, and kidnapping. And what Arizona passed in their law, they passed it because it's been an abject failure in Washington to take on the fundamental responsibility of government, which is to keep us safe. And so we have a duty as a federal government to secure that border."

NOGALES, Ariz. - Assistant Police Chief Roy Bermudez shakes his head and smiles when he hears politicians and pundits declaring that Mexican cartel violence is overrunning his Arizona border town.

"We have not, thank God, witnessed any spillover violence from Mexico," Bermudez says emphatically. "You can look at the crime stats. I think Nogales, Arizona, is one of the safest places to live in all of America."

FBI Uniform Crime Reports and statistics provided by police agencies, in fact, show that the crime rates in Nogales, Douglas, Yuma and other Arizona border towns have remained essentially flat for the past decade, even as drug-related violence has spiraled out of control on the other side of the international line. Statewide, rates of violent crime also are down.

"That's politics," he said, shrugging. "It's all about votes. . . . We have plenty of law enforcement."

and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome;

by: kite

Tue Apr 27, 2010 at 20:27:15 PM EDT

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

I remember being incredibly proud of that period of history when I learned about it. Arizona shames our history, and makes our nation less great than we once were.