Jan Brewer's fearmongering is destroying Arizona's economy -- but hey, it wins votes
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and her misbegotten immigration law, SB1070, may be popular with Arizonans looking for a handy scapegoat right now, but they may not be so popular a little down the road, after they've completely destroyed what's left of the state's economy.
KPHO-TV in Phoenix, for instance, found that her fearmongering about "headless corpses" was driving tourists away from the state in droves:
Veronica and Richard Schultz have owned the guest ranch for the past 14 years. The operation’s close proximity to the border used to be a selling point for guests. Now, it’s more of a repellent.
“We’ve definitely lost guests and we've had guests call us. We’ve had friends call us from all over the country and say, ‘Hey, are you safe?’” Richard Schultz said.
Between the economy and boycotts related to Arizona’s tough new immigration law, SB 1070, tourism in the state is down 10 percent.
The Shultzes said state politicians are not helping matters. Every day on cable news, anchors and reporters are discussing an invasion at the border, headless bodies in the desert or a rash of kidnappings.
During this election cycle, Arizona politicians are touting the potential dangers of illegal immigration. Gov. Jan Brewer is one of the loudest voices.
She has made several statements to the national media, the validity of which CBS 5 Investigates could not confirm. The governor told one media outlet that almost all illegal immigrants are bringing drugs across the border. U.S. Border Patrol officials said that statement is false.
Brewer also said law enforcement officials have found decapitated bodies in the desert. Calls to all of Arizona’s border county medical examiners revealed no decapitated bodies have been reported to them.
You've also gotta love how, when asked about her rhetoric in the segment above, Brewer simply fled. She must be getting her lessons in media relations from Sharron Angle.
Then there was the LA Times piece reporting how Latinos are fleeing the state in droves -- and how it's killing businesses:
No one has measured the effect of SB 1070 on businesses, or the number of immigrants it has prompted to leave Arizona. But merchants say the repercussions are clear — not just in how it's prompted many families to leave the state, but scared others enough to curtail their regular activities.
"The economy's already bad, but on top of it [SB 1070] is like a bullet in the head to us," said Osameh Odeh, 35, whose Eden Wear clothing store was empty one recent afternoon. "People don't come out of their houses anymore."
Of course, we not only predicted this outcome, we reported on its early manifestations already awhile back. You know the political price for this may be a steep one -- considering that wrecking the economy is not usually a popular outcome. Even Judge Bolton's ruling, staving off the law's enactment, can't prevent these outcomes.
And it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.
Can i be the first to say that this woman looks absolutely miserable.
unpleasant.
untoward.
anti-social.
This is where she would take Arizona? Arizona?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
this is what happens to a state economy when
the governor looks, acts and talks like the
trailer trash she is.
look like California's. Please, please, no Whitman!!!!
Like any other far right-winger, Brewer only cares about power and getting votes over what's best for her state.
Ya, it's reThuglican in her.
It drives them all mad in the end.
They'll go out in a burst of flames, rather than fade away like they
should. Like they will, God willing.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
it won't get her the votes. This whole thing looks like it was a setup for increasing private prison populations.
Fascist is as Fascist does and she does Fascist.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
that turns Arizona rethugs into redneck, cracker racists?
.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
it's the muggy monsoons - boo!
Judge Blocks Arizona Immigration Law:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-106...
The children of the colonies
They've got a different tale to tell
I'm goin' down to the city
tell my folks that I'm doing well
Jan Brewer another GOP fascist who hates America.
that read "I May Be Illegal" for all my friends here in Arizona. land of the reddest necks and the great big hole in the ground that is the state capitol.
By the way, my mother is a naturalized US citizen, her parents were from Germany and had a lot of anchor babies - in the 1920's!
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. -- Mark Twain
Lower Power Than Part 73
and
Higher Power Than Part 15
should wear it if something forces me to go to Arizona...
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Hate the nazis in Arizona, then take their money for ads...
I've got Adblock 1.2.1
Don't tell anyone.
sometimes I turn it off and allow all the ads. Then I click them, and browse around them, to help the site get some money.
me-oww!
Lizards on the patio, rattle snakes in the shed, scorpions in your shoes, desert, slums in Phoenix...there, not you don't have to go.
"Ironic, isn't it Smithers? This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you." --Mr. Burns
the thought of people paying in real time for their idiotic political choices and their racism warms the cockles of my heart.
Raul Grijalva
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%BAl_Grijalva
It's not a complete loss down here in Southern Arizona.
And that Borat song about throwing the jew down the well -
it's only a movie - it's only a movie - it's only a movie....
but I was obviously speaking more to those idiots who would elect such a horrible person for governor.
That's the thing: No one elected Governor Brewer to be governor. She was elected to be Arizona Secretary of State and came to be governor when then Governor Napolitano stepped down to become Secretary of Department of Homeland Security.
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than those who voted for Nixon in 1972
Or
Arizona Governor Evan Mecham in 1986.
They have their reasons and I have mine.
The biggest danger I've seen during an election cycle is
failing to notice what makes sense among voters.
If all that were required to vote would be an idiot test then
no one would need to vote.
David Neiwert makes intelligent and well researched articles but in this
one for example, the whole piece ends with "And it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people."
These kinds of equalizing snark bites puts C&L and the issues up there with cheap blogs and counter hate anonymous sites.
It's one thing to watch major news nets bring on a "guest" that
cheapens the debate but if David stays on the high road, he may follow or even lead a Maddow type program some day without the cutting remark of the day club.
name be woody wuss!
anything you say.
You're the boss and everything is happening as it should be.
who support 1070 and be nice to them. Fuck that, and fuck them.
How's this for snark: Oh yes, we should be so worried about hurting the feelings of those poor Arizona racists! *wringing hands*
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Anna, not everybody living in Arizona is a racist. By your logic, everyone in America from 2001-2008 was a war-loving fuckhead. A lot of people are going to get hurt by this who had nothing to do with making that law. Keep that in mind when you sneer at everyone living down there.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
1070, not all of Arizona. And I still have no interest in worrying about the feelings of 1070's supporters, since they don't care about those they hurt with their bigotry.
"The greatest tyranny is censoring information in order to be better able to control people." - Cristina Saralegui
Geeeez what happen to the "Support Arizona against Obama" ad at the bottom of this page?..it was just there! Maybe it's a revolving spot...
It is!! It's back....
haven't seen it.
It is a beautiful state, more scenically diverse than any other place I have lived. The idiot politicians are the ugly flipside of that, more closed minds, and small brains trying, always to line their own pockets.
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. -- Mark Twain
Here in NM we are having an influx of
people from AZ.
We are a hispanic friendly state.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
I have seen the effects of the so called conservatives penchant for driving out the "brown" person, no matter their denials. Our sales tax receipts have been plummeting ever since the war on the "browns" was declared. For a state that relies heavily on sales taxes for its funding, our budgets have been destroyed. Education and funding for the least among us have been slashed.
This is what driving people out of a state does and the so called conservatives refuse to see it.
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Arizona, can be armed to the teeth but still wetting their pants over mythological headhunters. Maybe too much sun?
For all their dick-waving belligerence, advocates of the NRA guns-for-everyone mindset are really just a bunch of scared pussies. I've noticed for years that when the chips are down, the pacifists are the brave ones.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
From an article at Fox News (and virtually no one else, despite the specific data referenced and direct quotes):
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"Fundamentally, the boycotts have been unsuccessful," said Barry Broome, president of the Greater Phoenix Economic Council.
The data from hotel industry research firm STR showed that for the state of Arizona, hotel occupancy was up 5.7 percent in May and up 8.3 percent in June compared with the same time a year ago.
In Phoenix, occupancy was up 10.6 percent in June; in Scottsdale, it was up 10.7 percent for the same period. Revenue also was up, with Arizona hotels raking in $148 million last month -- up more than 11 percent from a year ago.
Broome said the state also has been able to attract new businesses to locate in Arizona despite bad publicity. He said his group plans to announce 2,000 to 3,000 new jobs thanks to investment from California, where Arizona boycotts are in place in several major cities, over the next few months.
"Business continues," said Garrick Taylor, spokesman with the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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Does that look like Arizona's economy is hurting to you?
I wonder how many of those bookings were made by people from places that, supposedly, are "boycotting" Arizona........
Because Fox News is SUCH a fount of reliable information. And goodness knows, chambers of commerce and tourism industry execs NEVER fudge numbers or spin PR in order to make a bad situation look better. Yeah.
Try not to be so gullible, dude.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
Those data were not pumped out by Fox or by the chamber of commerce. They are from STR, an independent research venue which has specialized in surveying hotel activity for 25 years and is used by virtually every major hotel chain.
Instead of summarily rejecting facts because they have been presented by Fox News - even referenced ones that are easily checked - maybe your focus should involve wondering why other media are not reporting those facts, thus intentionally leaving you misinformed.
First, there are only two basic problems being considered:
1) the preemptive problem involving Federal sovereignty over immigration laws.
2) the practical problem involving the probability of the law, if applied as written, resulting in violation of individual civil rights.
A third issue is more prosaic, since it involves whether or not police should be required to enforce the law, and the problems and safety issues
it raises. This has been emphasized by chiefs of police opposed to the law as written.
However, what we need to do is to frame our response to the anti-Obama
crowd, using simple facts:
That Obama has employed enforcement more than Bush or Clinton. Both in the number of agents sent to the border and the number of deporatations (up 25% from 2007). In addition, there has been a slow down in illegal immigrants and a downturn in ARizona in violent crime.
Second, this Administration and most Dems favor the exact kinds of approaches that most Americans do: adequate border enforcement, tamper-proof national ID or some sort with a databank, and enforcement against employers.
So what's holding up an immigration reform Bill? The certainly of Republican opposition to anything pragmatic taking into account those immigrants who have been in the country literally for years, and being both tax payers and law abiding people. This is the "amnesty" fear-mongering courtesy of Lou Dobbs and Fox News. The Dem idea now is to have an intermediary "legal status" opportunity, and the path to citizenship would be further down the road.
In other words...it was this opposition that torpedoed the 2006 Bush Immigration reform, which would probably have made Arizona's law unnecessary. In other words, there's a lot of hypocrisy out there that we need to bring to people's attention.
Oh this is too fucking funny. She shoots her stupid mouth off about an imaginary immigrant crime wave and it scares off the tourists?? Thank you, God, sometimes you do care.
Private prisons ought to be banned.
It is but one of many Constitutional Amendments sorely needed in this deteriorating country.
(While we're at it, let's ban private armies as well. There are just some things that absolutely MUST be run by the government, funded by taxes from the commons.)
Everyone is equally entitled to the pursuit of happiness. Wasn't that once self evident?
Private prisonsrape houses oughtto be bannednot exist.It is but one of many
ConstitutionalAmendments sorely needed in thiscountryworld.(While we're at it, let's ban private
armiesmurderers as well. There are just some things that absolutely MUST be run by the government, funded bytaxesstealing from the commons.And it's knee deep and getting deeper, also too.
The only people around dumber than the locals.
Since when do republicans care about the economy?
They like destroying the economy. They can use the destabilizing aspects to continue their non action agenda and squeeze out more tax cuts for the rich.
In general, they like to sit on the side lines and do nothing except criticize anyone trying to fix it.
She runs faster than Sharon Angle. They should be in a relay.
hates America.
NOBODY 2012
All these teabagging nutjobs hate America.
There's always free cheddar in the mousetrap, baby. - Tom Waits
"Jan Brewer's fear mongering is destroying Arizona's economy"
And it couldn't happen to a more deserving state.
How old is she
Half-past dead?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Qa3eeSVP8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwGKus5rlDM&fe...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Not so good now? Well it didn't work out so well for the Third one either.
Funny how dogmatic fascists like you eventually get what you deserve. You are a bitter hag who has no business being in public service. What's the matter, weren't there any prison warden jobs open and you had to settle for being Fuhrerin of AZ?
"We will find fulfillment not in the goods that we have, but in the good we can do for each other."
Robert F. Kennedy
Could you imagine having this psychotic b**ch (or any of these GOP b**ches) as a mother?
Holy cr*p!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
I would have asked for a retroactive abortion
the wicked witch of the west needs to fly off on her broom
Since when does a Repug give one damn about the economy ? The more in debt we become and the worse things get the happier they are , all they care about is getting re-elected , continuing to support and receive support from their Corporate bosses and continuing to transfer the nations wealth from the middle and lower class to the wealthiest , "comforting" the comfortable and themselves at the same time .
Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .
doesn't even have a college education. But then, the Repukes don't really care about the economy. In fact, they think the worse the economy is, the better for them. Republicans totally disgust me. Where were all these anti immigrant fascists when Bush (former governor of a border state) was president? Now that Obama is in the WH, they've decided this issue is the number one national emergency.
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