My friend, once I'm re-elected AZ Senator I'll really stick it to those conservative bastards now.
Juan McAmnesty, doing the job Conservatives won’t do.
McNuts and the idiot have plans for Arizona.
isn’t it about time to declare McLame irrelevant?
LLS
Excellent ad!
Gee I wonder what mac daddy offered to mccain THIS time?
Immigration laws are enforceable if we choose to enforce them. We've successfully done it before.
Support Americans and legal immigrants who 'play by the rules' by securing the border and encouraging illegals to self deport by making life difficult here instead of easy street.
It's not impossible or even that hard to do. Go after employers, landlords, schools, sanctuary cities, politicians, etc. who are breaking existing laws regarding illegal aliens.
Apparently Mr. Alcaraz is just another racist member of La Raza.
Just the snippet with Gibbs speaking would make a great ad.
Are You Smarter than a Peggy West?
Written by Aaron Rodriguez
Friday, 25 June 2010 11:38
Milwaukee Embarrassed Yet Again
peggy west boycott On a video that has quickly gone viral, County Supervisor Peggy West told attendees at a county meeting that if Arizona shared a border with Mexico, she would have to re-think her position on boycotting Arizona’s immigration law. The problem, however is that Arizona does indeed share a border with Mexico just like Texas, New Mexico and California.
The video of West’s remarks circulated on YouTube where it received nationwide attention from political pundits like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, and a hoarde of Arizona blogs and newspapers.
Local personalities like Charlie Sykes and Mark Belling also spent considerable time poking fun at it. Belling said that in his 21 years of doing his program, this was the dumbest thing any Milwaukee liberal has ever said. He went on to say how sorry he was for County Executive Scott Walker for having to deal with people like her on the County Board.
Oddly, and yet not surprising, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covered the story only after national news networks like Fox broke the story. Like other pundits, I have my opinions. There are so many things to say and so many ways to say it, so let’s get started.
First, this incident underscores a problem we have in liberal havens like Milwaukee sheltered from the rest of the real world. We have activists like Peggy West voting on measures that they know nothing about using little more than gut feelings to guide their way. Arizona passed an immigration bill precisely because it shares a border with Mexico. If it were not directly paired with Mexico, Arizona wouldn’t have episodes of violence with the Mexican drug cartels. Most people know this, and it is expected that a prominent leader in the Hispanic community should know this as well.
Second, the Milwaukee County Board was just moments away from a vote that could have negatively impacted Arizona’s economy. The supervisor who co-sponsored the resolution didn’t know where Arizona was on the map let alone the contents of the law she was allegedly protesting. Perhaps there should be a rule specifying that in order to boycott a state, you should know where it is and why you’re boycotting it. It’s not a terribly high standard to set.
At least one good thing resulted from all of this. Peggy West now knows where Arizona is thanks to Job Kyl, a U.S. Senator from Arizona, who sent Peggy West a letter accompanied by a handy map showing that Arizona was indeed on the border of Mexico. The letter also urged West to “actually read the Arizona law before forming an opinion about it.”
Third, Peggy West represents nearly 50,000 residents on the Milwaukee’s south side. She serves as Milwaukee County’s 2nd Vice Chair; she is the Chairwoman of the Health and Human Needs Committee; and she is a member of the Economic & Community Development and Finance & Audit Committees. In other words, she is very politically connected and has the ability to influence policy in Milwaukee County. The Milwaukee County Board, whether informed or not, should stick with issues that pertain to Milwaukee County, not the politics of other states. This is a safe and wise policy.
And fourth, in 2004, Peggy West won the Hispanic Woman of the Year award from UMOS - a non-profit that helps low income migrants. Does anyone see the irony here? Arizona is the biggest gateway for Hispanic immigration into the United States, and our Hispanic Woman of the Year doesn’t know that Arizona is attached to Mexico. Oh, and it gets better.
Peggy West is not just an award winning Hispanic woman, she is on the Cesar Chavez Drive Advancement Committee, on the Esperanza Unida Board of Directors, and on the Latina Resource Center Advisory Board. How does a person so involved in Hispanic issues know so little about both Arizona and Mexico? And even more interesting, news reports from Arizona are now saying Peggy West’s Facebook profile listed “Mexican History” as one of her interests. Since then, however, she has scrubbed it from her Facebook page. Apparently, she has some catching up to do on her own heritage.
http://www.thehispanicconservative.com/peggy-west-and-the-arizona-boycott.html
Hayworth should use that segment between 1:35 and 2:00 and blitz TV with it.