Video: County Supervisor Who Supports AZ Boycott Doesn’t Realize the Arizona Is Located on the Border - Since the YouTube Video was disabled, CLICK HERE to watch the video! - Left the youtube to show you who quickly things vanish from the Internet and youtube anymore… in hours, minutes or less!!
70% of Arizonians… Black, White, Asian and Hispanics support the AZ Law and Gov Jan Brewer. People, like this gal… a County Supervisor yet… who don’t have a clue support a boycott of AZ. God help Milwaukee County!!
U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl sent off a letter this morning to Milwaukee County Supervisor Peggy West, suggesting a geography lesson.
In a speech arguing for her city to boycott Arizona over SB 1070, West said she might consider 1070 if this was Texas “which is a state that is directly on the border with Mexico.” But, she continued — in a statement forever immortalized on YouTube — “This is a state that is a ways removed from the border.”
Kyl sent her a letter noting West might be interested to know Arizona shares a border with Mexico. He also enclosed a map of the United States for her convenience, highlighting Arizona with yellow marker and scrawling “Arizona” on the margin. Read more ...
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County Board Delays Vote on Arizona Boycott
By Jon Byman - TMJ4
MILWAUKEE - The Milwaukee County Board spent part of the day debating a measure that would call for the county to boycott doing business with companies in Arizona.
Communities around the nation have passed similar measures in response to a law in Arizona that makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally.
There was an odd moment during the debate when Supervisor Peggy West stood up and seemed to be confused about her geography. "If this was Texas, which is a state that is directly on the border with Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this saying that they had a major issue with undocumented people flooding their borders, I would have to look twice at this. But this is a state that is a ways removed from the border," West said during debate.
Her colleague, Joe Rice, quickly corrected her, "I just want to assure my colleague that Arizona does in fact share a border with the country of Mexico."
While speaking at the meeting, West did go on to talk about National Guard troops on the border in Arizona. West points to that as she tells us that she simply misspoke.
"I did get a passing grade in Geography in high school and in college and I do obviously know that Arizona is on the border," West said in an interview after today's meeting.
West claims that the point she was trying to make is that because Texas has a much larger border with Mexico, she might feel differently about such a law in that state. "Had Texas come out with the legislation, having the largest border, I think that I would be more receptive to the fact that there was a problem. But having it be Arizona, having it be the second largest boarder and knowing there are troops on the border in Arizona, it didn't seem to me that this legislation was particularly necessary at this moment in time," West said.
The board sent the measure back to a committee, taking no action on it today.
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