Governor Brewer admits that this administration is doing more towards securing the border than the previous administration. Yet she turns on her heel and states that the federal government is not doing its job. The governor got twice as many border guards as she asked for.
John Kings asks the same question I have been asking: How does SB 1070 help with border control? Gov. Brewer cannot ask the question. Yet, the good governor keeps using the need for border control as justification for needing to enforce SB 1070. It still seems like Brewer’s tenacity centers on getting re-elected.
The logic seems to be missing. Apparently Judge Bolton has been getting threats!
UPDATE FROM PHOENIX 7/31/10
From the Washington Times:
PHOENIX (AP) — The fight over Arizona’s immigration law showed no signs of letting up Friday as the federal judge who blunted its force faced threats and the Republican governor who signed it considered changes to address any faults.
In the days since U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton put on hold the most controversial parts of the law, hundreds of e-mails and phone calls — including some threats — have poured into the courthouse.
Seventy people have been arrested in demonstrations.
And a fund set up to help defend the new law added $75,000 Wednesday alone, giving the state more than $1.6 million to get Bolton’s ruling overturned.
Gov. Jan Brewer, who signed the law and appealed the ruling, has vowed not to back down, saying she’ll challenge Bolton’s decision all the way to the Supreme Court.
But Brewer said Friday she’d consider changes to “tweak” the law to respond to the parts Bolton faulted.
“Basically we believe (the law) is constitutional but she obviously pointed out faults that can possibly be fixed, and that’s what we would do,” Brewer told The Associated Press. She said she’s talking to legislative leaders about the possibility of a special session, but said no specific changes had been identified.
I find it amazing that no one has come along to defend Governor Brewer. How can she say that Obama is doing more than Bush, how can she say that she got twice as much as she asked for, and still act like the feds are picking on her? How can she still make the accusation that they “aren’t doing their job?”
Politics, politics, politics, first get nominated, then re-elected, then worry about the details.
Sounds familiar, doesn’t it, Ivan?