3:54 pm By Maegan La Mala · arizona|Immigration|Media|U.S.-Mexico Border|Violence
10 Sep 2010Arizona Governor Janet Brewer is most recently known for 16 seconds of silence and way too much talking shit before those 16 seconds. From America’s Voice:
Brewer had to admit that she wasn’t exactly being accurate when she talked about headless bodies in the Arizona desert. Her false justification for SB1070 isn’t isolated however. Seems the whole country is doing it, it being exaggerating and/or just plain old misleading people when it comes to the situation along the U.S. Mexican border.
What Brewer, hasn’t addressed is the role that U.S. policy has on violence in Mexico. For example, a report from Mayors Against Illegal Guns (PDF file of the report here) states that 90 percent of the guns recovered at Mexican crime scenes originate from the U.S. nor has Brewer responded publicly regarding her possible connection with Corrections Corporation of America and how that connection may have played a role in her deciding to sign SB1070 into law. What Brewer has done, well what her campaign for governor has done anyway is stop ads from running on the TV station whose local news has been conducting an investigation on the possible CCA Brewer connection.
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6 Responses to Jan Brewer and the Headless Horsemen Coming Home to Roost
Amy S.
September 10th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Jan Brewer can kiss my white liberal ass. I am sending this post out to all my pals! More excellent writing!
Maegan La Mala
September 10th, 2010 at 8:40 pm
Gracias Amy!
Tom Torres
September 11th, 2010 at 8:53 am
I really hope her ‘hard week’ is just beginning. Thanks, Maegan.
Maegan La Mala
September 11th, 2010 at 9:39 am
ja ja…she’s got a shitload of hard weeks ahead of her I think and yes hope.
Katie
September 11th, 2010 at 11:25 pm
Meagan, I read 3/4 of this post thinking you were talking about Janet Napolitano. I was shaking my head, thinking, “Well, that explains a lot.”
No matter who it is, this makes me pissed.
Benito
September 13th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
In the last four months Jan Brewer has been caught lying, three times and counting.
The comments made on June 16, 2010, and June 27, 2010, clearly indicates that the Brewer says that immigrants are beheading people in the United States desert. She first ran away from the question and the press when confronted with the question. She finally when to FOX/ FAKE News to recant her lie.
When Brewer was confronted with the fact the two of her top Advisors (Paul Senseman, Chuck Coughlin) are lobbyist for “Private Prisons” giant CCA she first ran away from the question and the press.
In an attempt to gain sympathy, she first said her father had died in Germany fighting the Nazi in World War II (which ended 1945) but of course we find out the truth that her father was never in Germany and died in California in 1955. Do you see a trend here?
Brewer signed into law SB 1070 Bill (Did she even read it?), lied about the crime rates in AZ (even Janet Napolitano knows that all crimes rates went down), and now we find out that she is in the pockets of PRIVATE PRISONS who stand to benefit with the increase Federal jailing, and thus they will pay her back, I wonder if it has to do anything about the fact that her son was transferred to a brand new prison, he was convicted for rape and sexual assault, I guess the fruit does not fall far the tree.
“Private Prisons Lie”
youtube.com/watch?v=UMcgXxzcBeY
“AZ Crime Rates”
youtube.com/watch?v=0eb4mMk6XgQ
“Father Lie”
vodpod.com/watch/3771595-charles-krauthammer-rips-jan-brewer-for-lying-about-her-father-dying-in-ww2