Brewer, beheadings, and those pesky facts

You’re entitled to your own opinions but not your own set of facts.
— Senator Harry Reid, during the televised bipartisan healthcare negotiations.

Those pesky facts. We don’t like facts in Arizona– or science for that matter.

Arizona Legislator Russel Pearce’s penchant for making up facts about undocumented workers has catapulted him and his baby (SB1070) to national notoriety.

Not to be outdone, unelected Republican Governor Jan Brewer has started ginning up fear-mongering sound bites about beheadings and drug-smuggling illegal immigrants to keep ahead of her fellow reactionary ideologue Republican challengers in the governor’s race.

Although right-wingers would like to blame convention cancellations and a tourism slump on Congressman Raul Grijalva’s call for an Arizona boycott, Brewer is doing her part to further destroy the state’s economy by signing SB 1070 and continuing to tell blatant lies about undocumented border crossers, the drug trade, and violence in Arizona.

Rather than rehash the facts — or lack of them. Here are a few well-written blog posts on the subject:

Follow the Yellow Brick Road… “Gun-Fighting, Drug-Smuggling, Be-Headings, Oh My!”

Beheadings & Tourism. That’s the Ticket.

Gov. Jan Brewer and Sen. John McCain lying with impunity
This one includes a video link to Brewer lying about illegals beheading innocent Arizonans.

Quick Thought of the Day

And here are 2 stories about the $250,000 public relations campaign– started by Governor Brewer to combat the boycott Arizona fervor. Now it looks as if the PR folks also will be battling Brewer’s own negative campaign tactics. (And this woman is somehow ahead in the polls???)

AZ battles negative image

JAN BREWER GETS $250K TO COUNTERACT HER OWN RHETORIC.

I hope Brewer enjoys the protest rallies at the governors’ conference this coming weekend.

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This entry was posted on July 6, 2010 by Pamela Powers in 2010 elections, Arizona, Drugs, economy, Immigration, Jan Brewer, Raul Grijalva, reform, SB 1070 and tagged immigration, Jan Brewer, SB1070.

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UA Tech Park

Arizonans for New Economy co-directors Jim Hannley and Pamela Powers Hannley with UA Tech Park VP Bruce Wright.

Local First Arizona

The Living Economy event was very informative; we had a great time hob-nobbing. My husband Jim is a small business owner and a member of Local First Arizona. I have owned two small businesses in the past– Powers/Queen Associates and Wind Dancer Design. We support Local First Arizona and buying/investing locally. We believe that supporting local small businesses with low-interest loans through a public/private partnership between a public bank and community banks and credit unions is the sustainable route to improving our local economy. Trickle down economics doesn’t work; it’s time for new ideas.

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with Red For Ed

We often hear that corporations need migrant workers because Americans “don’t want to do these jobs.” When I hear this statement, I picture farm workers picking vegetables. Recently, I toured two dairies and an animal feed packing plant in Pinal County. The photo above from the Zinke Dairy shows a giant cow milking carousel. Nine migrant workers milk 4000 cows three times a day at this dairy. Legislators watched the two men pictured here– working at a brisk pace– bend over and pick up, lift, and attach large electronic suction cups to the cows as they ride the carousel around the giant facility. This level of automation is the wave of the future for industrial jobs.

We often hear that corporations need migrant workers because Americans “don’t want to do these jobs.” When I hear this statement, I picture farm workers picking vegetables. Recently, I toured two dairies and an animal feed packing plant in Pinal County. The photo above from the Zinke Dairy shows a giant cow milking carousel. Nine migrant workers milk 4000 cows three times a day at this dairy. Legislators watched the two men pictured here– working at a brisk pace– bend over and pick up, lift, and attach large electronic suction cups to the cows as they ride the carousel around the giant facility. This level of automation is the wave of the future for industrial jobs.

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Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

Protesting migrant deaths in the Arizona desert.

Thanks for the poverty

ERA house women

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Desconocido (unknown)

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

Martin Luther King, Jr. march.

It was truly a honor to meet Nevada State Senator Patricia Spearman (center) in October and to confer with her regarding our efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in Arizona. Spearman led the successful Nevada efforts to ratify the ERA in 2017. Here we are with activist and NOW leader Dainne Post after the ERA workshop at the We the People Conference in Phoenix. There are a lot of Arizona women who are ready to make history in 2018. Watch my blog here and my Facebook page here for ERA updates.

It was truly a honor to meet Nevada State Senator Patricia Spearman (center) in October and to confer with her regarding our efforts to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in Arizona. Spearman led the successful Nevada efforts to ratify the ERA in 2017. Here we are with activist and NOW leader Dainne Post after the ERA workshop at the We the People Conference in Phoenix. There are a lot of Arizona women who are ready to make history in 2018. Watch my blog here and my Facebook page here for ERA updates.

In the 1980s, the Tucson Weekly called Tucson the "Baked Apple".

In the 1980s, the Tucson Weekly called Tucson the “Baked Apple”.

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A giant poet’s head made up of stainless steel letters marks the stop near the UA Poetry Center.

Jim Hannley

PDA Tucson Coordinator Jim Hannley speaks against both the crowd management ordinance and the urban camping ban at the City Council meeting.

Giving the LD9 update at the June meeting. What a great crowd!

Giving the LD9 update at the June meeting. What a great crowd!

Tucson education rally

Governor Ducey had proposed increasing prison beds and funding, while cutting education. Protesters took issue with that short-sighted idea.

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Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

Congressman Ron Barber and Pamela Powers Hannley at Cyclovia

PDA members, including Advisory Board Chair Mimi Kennedy, protested food stamp cuts in front of Congressman Henry Waxman's office.

PDA members, including Advisory Board Chair Mimi Kennedy, protested food stamp cuts in front of Congressman Henry Waxman’s office.

Pamela Powers Hannley

Pamela Powers Hannley, Progressive Democrat for Arizona House, LD9

#RedForEd

#RedForEd teachers and supporters in the Arizona House Gallery, 2018.

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tax-giveaways

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Safe Park, downtown Tucson

Ironically, I posted this blog post on the anniversary of this election on June 19. 1970ish.

Ironically, I posted this blog post on the anniversary of this election on June 19. 1970ish.

Protesters hand deliver symbolic big check from corporate American to McCain.

Protesters hand deliver symbolic big check from corporate American to McCain.

ACA public option

Pamela Powers Hannley

I have a background in research. Help me build Tucson’s tech industry and grow our own local businesses.

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Arizona House

There have been many lively debates in the Arizona House in 2018. This team of House Democrats fought for consumer protections and fought against risky financial deals in a “regulatory sandbox.” (Pictured are Reps. Mitzi Epstein, Kelli Butler, Athena Salman, Pamela Powers Hannley, Ken Clark and Isela Blanc.)

Visiting with PALF chairman Fred Yamashita at the 2016 Labor Day Picnic.

Visiting with PALF chairman Fred Yamashita at the 2016 Labor Day Picnic.

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Rev. Ron Phares and Pamela Powers Hannley

Jim and I were part of a contingent of Unitarian Universalists who came up from Tucson. Here I am with Rev. Ron Phares from the Mountain Vista UU Church in my district. (Jim is photobombing us.)

We are the 99%.

We are the 99%.

Oberlin Rescuers

The Oberlin Rescuers outside of the Cuyahoga County Jail.

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley

Occupy encampment in Armory Park-- before it was cleared out in the middle of the night by Tucson Police.

Occupy encampment in Armory Park– before it was cleared out in the middle of the night by Tucson Police.

Jobs with Justice marching with Occupy Tucson in support of postal workers.

Jobs with Justice marching with Occupy Tucson in support of postal workers.

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley with members of the Tucson Chapter of NOW on opening day at the Arizona Legislature, 2018.

Phoenix anti-hate rally

Rep. Sally Ann Gonzales and I were interviewed by NBC at the Phoenix rally.

Rep. Sally Ann Gonzales and I were interviewed by NBC at the Phoenix rally.

Pamela Powers Hannley on Labor Day

Despite the sweltering heat, Jim and I had a great time at the Labor Day Picnic. We collected a lot of Clean Elections $5 donations and signatures. Here I am with LD9 chair Michael Dues.

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Protesting cuts to education

Protesting cuts to education

broken sink

This is a broken sink in the Ladies’ Room at the Arizona State Building in downtown Tucson. One of the elevators also was broken. It’s time to fix Arizona government.

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

A homeless man sleeps in the shadow of corporate America.

John Nichols of ‘The Nation’ addressed progressives and unionists at a Tucson event.

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

Protesting anti-woman laws at the Arizona state capitol.

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley

Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley

The Tucson Progressive: Pamela J. Powers

I stand on the side of Love. I believe in kindness to all creatures on Earth and the inherent self-worth of all individuals–not just people who agree with me or look like me.

Widespread economic and social injustice prompted me to become a candidate for the Arizona House, representing Legislative District 9 in the 2016 election.

My platform focused on economic reforms to grow Arizona’s economy, establish a state-based public bank, fix our infrastructure, fully fund public education, grow local small businesses and community banks, and put people back to work at good-paying jobs.

In the Arizona House, I was a strong voice for fiscal responsibility a moratorium on corporate tax breaks until the schools were fully funded, increased cash assistance to the poor, expansion of maternal healthcare benefits, equal rights, choice, unions, education at all levels and protecting our water supply.

After three terms, I retired from the Arizona Legislature in January 2023 but will continue to blog and produce my podcast “A View from the Left Side.”

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