I am sick and tired of people like Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and other Republican governors waiting at the airport to “welcome” the President of the United States to their state and then handing him a “letter” and trying to get publicity for “standing” up to or telling off the President of the United States.
There are times and places when you need to show respect to people. One of them is when the President of the United States visit your state. At least if you are the governor and it is your job to “welcome” him, or her, to the state.
You can see now that we are going to have more of these sort of GOP publicity stunts. If you fucking hate the President of the United States so much and have so little respect for the office of the President of the United States then do not welcome him. Have someone else welcome him.
If I were the President of the United States I would refuse to take a “letter” handed to me as I get off of Air Force One. Or else I would have one in my pocket that I would hand back to the Republican governor blasting him or her and as soon as the exchange took place I would release the content of the letters to the public. If we are going to play fucking children’s games then let us play them.
There is a time and a place for some of this stuff but not greeting the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. In stead of this getting votes for the Republican governor of a state it should cause them to be not be re-elected or it should be the cause of them being recalled.
To not show respect for the President of the United States should not get you votes.
Gov. Jan Brewer is of course a fucking joke.
“…Controversies
Brewer's signing of Arizona SB 1070 and her position of Governor made her the recipient of much of the bill's criticism. In response to the various personal attacks launched against her, many of which called her a Nazi, she responded: "Knowing that my father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany, that I lost him when I was 11 because of that... and then to have them call me Hitler's daughter. It hurts. It's ugliness beyond anything I've ever experienced." However Brewer's father died in 1955 (ten years after World War II ended) from lung cancer, believed to be caused from constant exposure to chemicals while working as a civilian supervisor at the Hawthorne Army Depot in Nevada. Brewer's father never served in the military nor was he overseas during the war.[38]
After Brewer's statement that "Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded," a Fox News team investigated the claim. They concluded that in the last two years only one human skull had been found, and that had been the result of animals. Six medical examiners in Arizona from Yuma, Pima, Santa Cruz, Cochise, Pinal and Maricopa confirmed that they had no records of decapitated bodies.[28][29] Brewer later retracted her previous statement, saying, "That was an error, if I said that. I misspoke, but you know, let me be clear, I am concerned about the border region because it continues to be reported in Mexico that there's a lot of violence going on and we don't want that going into Arizona".[39]
The Brewer administration has also been investigated by KPHO for hiring Chuck Coughlin and Paul Senseman, both lobbyists for Corrections Corporation of America, as a policy advisor and communications director.[40] Although Coughlin continues work as both a lobbyist and policy advisor, Senseman no longer does work for CCA. CCA operates six private, for-profit prisons in Arizona.[41] After KPHO published its investigative report, Brewer's re-election campaign retaliated by pulling all campaign ads from KPHO.[40]
Personal life
Brewer attended Glendale Community College in Glendale, Arizona,[1] receiving certification as a radiological technologist.[42]
Brewer and her husband have had three sons, one of whom died of cancer in 2007.[43] Another son was declared criminally insane for the rape of a Phoenix woman in 1989; he has served 20 years in the Arizona Mental Hospital…”
