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Accidental Governor Jan Brewer Melts Down

Posted by on Sep 2nd, 2010 in News, Politics | 10 comments

Jan Brewer

Accidental Governor Jan Brewer

If you missed watching the initial broadcast of last night’s Gubernatorial Debate, from what I’ve seen today, you really missed a doozy!  The debate was an absolute train wreck for our accidental governor, Jan Brewer.  From the 15 seconds of dead air during her opening statement to her repeated dodging questions over her statements on headless bodies to her ditching the press to a chorus of catcalls and boos, one thing is abundantly clear.

Jan Brewer is completely unqualified and incapable to be Governor of Arizona.

I would put her level of competence and qualification on par with her campaign buddy, Sarah Palin.  From her faux “folksy” demeanor to  her butchering of the English language with words like “unlegal” to her inability to answer questions with anything except trite, off-topic campaign talking points, she proved herself to be “Sarah of the Desert”.

I can make this guarantee…after last night’s debate, the voters of Arizona will not see her in public outside of a tightly controlled friendly arena before the November election.

Let’s go to the tape, shall we?  First up, Brewer’s opening statement:

Next up, dodging reporters after the debate:

It is embarrassing, to say the least.

  • Mickey

    Cool, Brewer lied.

    Is the sheriff of Pinal County lying?
    He said his deputies are outmanned and outgunned by drug traffickers in the rough-hewn desert stretches of his own county.

    “Mexican drug cartels literally do control parts of Arizona,” he said. “They literally have scouts on the high points in the mountains and in the hills and they literally control movement. They have radios, they have optics, they have night-vision goggles as good as anything law enforcement has.

    “This is going on here in Arizona,” he said. “This is 70 to 80 miles from the border – 30 miles from the fifth-largest city in the United States.”

    Is your imperial federal government lying?
    The federal government has posted signs along a major interstate highway in Arizona, more than 100 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, warning travelers the area is unsafe because of drug and alien smugglers, and a local sheriff says Mexican drug cartels now control some parts of the state.

    The signs were posted by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) along a 60-mile stretch of Interstate 8 between Casa Grande and Gila Bend, a major east-west corridor linking Tucson and Phoenix with San Diego.

    They warn travelers that they are entering an “active drug and human smuggling area” and they may encounter “armed criminals and smuggling vehicles traveling at high rates of speed.” Beginning less than 50 miles south of Phoenix, the signs encourage travelers to “use public lands north of Interstate 8″ and to call 911 if they “see suspicious activity.”

    What if she had more accurately described the dead bodies? What if she hadnt specifically said they were beheaded? Would you be supporting her then?Which is more important? That people are being killed, or that your governor gave an inaccurate description on HOW they were killed?

  • joshua

    I don’t think anybody claims there is absolutely no crime and we’re prancing around in fields of daisys south of I-8. We just don’t believe the governor’s actions of targeting hard working immigrants is the manner to go about solving the problem. In fact, it distracts from real law-enforcement issues. If we round up every undocumented immigrant in the state it will do nothing to stem the murderous activities of the cartels. The problem with her statements is they are inflamatory and do nothing to help the issue.

    Look, I can’t say the Pinal County Sherriff is lying. I can only speak from my experience traveling in southern Arizona. I have seen people entering the country on numerous occasions. I have never seen the scene he describes, and nobody has ever messed with me. Can’t say it doesn’t happen, it’s just not my experience.

  • http://illuminateyourworld.wordpress.com Tiffany

    Wow. Really? This is the best we can do AZ??? That is the only polite thing I can even say….

  • mickey

    I can buy that Joshua.

    At least youre neither saying, nor implying that Arizona or this country doesnt have an immigration problem.

    I also dont agree with “attacking” hard working immigrants. But I dont think we should go out of our way to support them and make it so easy for them to be here and multiply- especially when WE have to pay for those children. Something has to be done to mitigate the problem. You have to punish those who hire them more harshly, and the govt needs to do more to secure the borders. If the feds wont act, then someone has to. You should be proud of your governor for at least taking charge and trying to mitigate this.

  • http://homebrewedtheology.com Christian

    Is Paul Babeu lying?

    The jury is still out on that one. Although the story about the deputy getting shot, and shot at, by 6 armed drug smugglers is falling apart.

    Again I ask. If drug cartels “control parts of Arizona”, how come things like, oh, violent crime stats don’t prove that out? Violent crime in Pinal County, like everywhere else in AZ, is down.

    Like Josh said, nobody is saying “we’re prancing around in fields of daisys south of I-8.” Are there smugglers (human and drug)? Yup.

    Is it as bad as Babeau, Arpaio, Brewer, etc. says? Jury is out, but initial evidence says “no”.

  • http://homebrewedtheology.com Christian

    You have to punish those who hire them more harshly…

    In 2006/2007 the Arizona Employer Sanctions law was passed, making it a crime for business to hire illegal immigrants with punishment being revoking of the business license.

    When was the first business charged? March 2010.
    What was the fine? $431.
    How long was the business closed? Two days.
    What was the business? A Subway restaurant.

    Perhaps if the raving loonies here in AZ were serious about illegal immigration they’d “enforce the law on the books”, and start going after businesses. Arresting migrants and slapping the people who hire them on the wrist makes as much sense as arresting drug users, not drug dealers.

    But, that would get in the way of campaign contributions, and we couldn’t have that, now could we.

    SB1070 did nothing to secure the border, address the cartels, or anything of that kind. It’s a publicity stunt like Employer Sanctions is.

  • joshua

    (This is a total joke) if the cartels want the area those signs are at, heck, give it them. It’s some of the most desolate, harsh desert that we have. No daisies there!

    I like it when people can say, “yeah, there’s problems. We disagree on how to handle those problems.” It helps get beyond muckraking. Hopefully politicians can do that.

    Christian, do you have a link on the “falling apart” of the deputy’s story? I’ve been wondering about that. I didn’t hear anything about it after the incident and the whole thing was fishy.

  • mickey

    I’d like a link to that one as well. Either a deputy got shot or he didnt. You cant spin that kinda stuff.

    Why would having cartels controlling parts of the state automatically mean violent crime rates would increase (or at least those that are reported)? Lots of things come into play with this. First of all, those most likely to be killed by a cartel are likely not even known to exist. Theyre “off the books” so to speak. Also, some cities, such as New Orleans, often under report violent crimes or change what defines a violent crime for the sake of making the numbers look better. There is simply no advantage for a sheriff to report violent crime rates if they are really bad. On one hand he can make a case against immigrants, but on the other hand it makes him look bad. The point is that its not automatic that crime rates would go up if cartels are there. Or at least its not guaranteed that youd ever know about them (the crimes).

    Why would the federal govt put up the signs if there were nothing going on in those areas or if it werent dangerous to be there?
    ____
    I agree with you 100% about the laws regarding employers. If its the law, then it should be enforced, and enforced to the MAX nonetheless. However, I cant take comments like this too seriously from you because you seem to pick and choose which laws you want enforced. You want employers punished, but you dont want the immigration laws enforced. You can leave HB1070 out of this…..I dont think you would applaud the feds moving in and enforcing their law either.

  • joshua

    Well, there was a bullet involved in the deputy incident, but there were questions since the beginning regarding the caliber, the trajectory, and whether anyone else was even involved. That’s why the thing was fishy when it happened.

  • http://homebrewedtheology.com Christian

    It’s in the New Times, so take it for what it’s worth, but considering nothing has happened after that, it does make it possible.

    New Times Story 1

    New Times Story 2

    Even AZCentral hasn’t been able to get the PCSO’s office to talk or release documents.

    Nobody is denying Deputy Puroll got shot. What’s being debated and questioned are the facts that he, and the PCSO’s office laid out about the incident. We’ve now learned that:
    a) No helicopters were shot at, as Sheriff Babeau once said.
    b) No “bales of marijuana” were confiscated, which is unusual since that’s what Puroll said people were carrying.
    c) Nobody has been arrested that was involved with the shooting.

    So, yeah, there’s questions.

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