Despite Giffords' gripe, ad still on air (Graf opponent whining about truth)

The Arizona (Red) Daily Star ^ | 1 October 2006 | Daniel Scarpinato

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Tucson Region

Political Notebook

Despite Giffords' gripe, ad still on air

By Daniel Scarpinato

arizona daily star

Tucson, Arizona | Published: 10.01.2006

Democrat Gabrielle Giffords wants a new television ad criticizing her taken off the air, but Cox Media has no plans to pull it.

In a letter sent Wednesday from Giffords' attorney to Cox Media, the campaign urges the company to take an ad paid for by the Minuteman Political Action Committee off the air since the Minutemen haven't been able to clearly back up claims they make about Congressional District 8 candidate Giffords in the ad.

In the letter, the campaign says the "cable system should immediately prevent broadcast of the advertisement and deny any future sale of time."

But for Cox general manager Holly Capps it's a free-speech issue.

"We facilitate a political dialogue and allow the voters to make up their own minds," she said. "Giffords is allowed to run her own ads stating her side."

The 30-second spot says Giffords supports Social Security, welfare and food stamps for illegal immigrants. Giffords says those claims simply are not true, and the group hasn't provided any hard evidence to the contrary.

In an interview the day the ad premiered, Minuteman spokes-man Rick Shaftan said the statements were based on Giffords' opposition to Proposition 200 in 2004, which didn't deal with those things but did prevent illegal residents from getting state benefits.

Shaftan questions why Giffords would oppose such assistance on the state level, but not on the federal level. Giffords says her opposition to 200 had to do with voter disenfranchisement.

After a story focusing on the ad and its lack of references ran last week in the Star, Shaftan e-mailed with his explanation as to why part of the ad is correct: "Illegal aliens get food stamps through children they have who were born in the United States. Giffords opposes banning children of illegals from automatic U.S. citizenship and therefore supports allowing illegal aliens to receive food stamps, even if it is 'technically' for their U.S. citizen children."

Shaftan said the Minutemen, who support Republican Randy Graf, plan to run a lot more ads before Election Day to increase Graf's chances of winning over Giffords.

But in the sea of political propaganda there's still something missing in this general election race: an ad that explains why voters should support Graf.

Grijalva's mustache

Have you seen those Raúl Grijalva bumper stickers around town? The ones that are a big bushy mustache, mimicking Grijalva's.

Well, that 'stache is now getting national attention. In a recent issue of The Hill, Grijalva's mustache is described as "spectacular, trailing down around his mouth and dipping into a perfect frown in brown, gray and caramel."

Grijalva is not the only one playing off looks. A new flier is out in support of Grijalva's Republican competitor in Congressional District 7, Ron Drake. The flier, which the Drake campaign says it does not endorse, shows pictures of Drake and Grijalva side by side, with the title "leadership you can look up to."

Drake, former mayor of Avondale, is 6'7". Grijalva's campaign says he's 5'7" — "with boots on a good day."

Candidate says sorry

Last week, Notebook brought you some spicy comments Democrats had made about their Republican competitors. At that get-together, state Rep. Tom Prezelski called competitor Bruce Murchison "stupid."

Prezelski called to tell us he contacted Murchison and apologized after the comments were published.

● Contact political reporter Daniel Scarpinato at 807-7789 or dscarpinato@azstarnet.com.

[axes_of_weezles]

They allow ads from the DNC to slime Graf, but scream bloody murder when the truth is told about Giffords.

Giffords, the Democrat "Small Business Owner" who drove the company bankrupt.

Another amoral democrat.

[nopendejos]

Have you seen the bumper sticker that says, "Deport Grijalva" ?

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Nope. Who has them?

[ASOC]

Just what, pray tell, is a Grijalva?

A form of coffee bean? An exotic fruit? A polition?

Thanks in advance.

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Raul Grijalva (D-Rat-Mechista). Congressman representing the west side of Tucson.

He's an ATZATLAN'er, Member of MECHA too.

Another Socialist DemocRAT.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raul_Grijalva


http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/Grijalva-Raul.html


http://grades.betterimmigration.com/testgrades.php3?District=AZ07&VIPID=1088

[conservativehistorian]

What is the background on Gifford's management of her family's business? She touts her business experience in her political ads. Of course, I am not surprised that her track record, as is the case for most democrats, is something else.

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She inherited the family business - El Campo tire, and ran it into the ground and sold it off.

The family business had been going for over 40 years. 2 years of her mismanagement and they were losing money. She sold out to another chain.

[Baboquivari]

Anyone who thinks Giffords will change things in DC is kidding themselves. Just read about this sweetheart deal she before going into the state legislature, After she ran El Campo into the ground, fired management level workers and somehow kept their paid benefits
http://giffordssweetdeal.com/
http://votegraf.com/giffordssweetdeal/response.php
Just imagine what she will be willing to do with the contacts she makes in DC to enrich her corp. further. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!