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Arizona Senator Kyl Confirms His State is on the Mexico Border
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37925684 ^ | June/25/10 | MSNBC

Posted on 06/25/2010 11:58:41 AM PDT by goods

Arizona Senator Jon Kyl has confirmed, Arizona is, in fact, on the border with Mexico. Kyl sent Milwaukee County Supervisor Peggy West a letter in which he says, "You will be interested to learn that Arizona does indeed share a border with Mexico. I have enclosed a map for your convenience." Kyl goes on to urge West to, "actually read the Arizona law before forming an opinion about it." West appeared confused about Arizona's location during debate about a measure that would have had the county boycott the state over its controversial new immigration law. She said, "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." RELATED CONTENT: Senator Kyl's Letter West did continue to talk about troops on Arizona's border. She later explained that she meant to say Texas had a longer border. "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 told Newsradio 620 WTMJ. The county sent the measure back to a committee.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: aliens; arizona; county; milwaukee; peggy; supervisor; west
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1 posted on 06/25/2010 11:58:44 AM PDT by goods
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To: goods

Good one!.....


2 posted on 06/25/2010 12:00:06 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: goods

Can you imagine being her poor husband this morning, waking up to her finding out she is the laughing stock of the entire country, even on liberal stations like MSNBC.


3 posted on 06/25/2010 12:00:55 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: goods

lol. That lady is a hot mess. Funny Stuff. and Kudos to Kyl for stomping on this one.


4 posted on 06/25/2010 12:01:15 PM PDT by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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To: goods

Nice try on the clarification there Ms. West but we’re not buying it.


5 posted on 06/25/2010 12:02:56 PM PDT by hometoroost (Obama is pulling an OJ he's at the ball games and on the golf course looking for the real spillers)
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To: goods

Public schools, anyone?


6 posted on 06/25/2010 12:04:38 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I wear a yellow ribbon for my army hero grandson, and for the intrepid CG explorer!)
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To: GoCards

LOL, I just heard Kyl sent her a map.


7 posted on 06/25/2010 12:05:49 PM PDT by MaxMax (Conservatism isn't a party)
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To: goods

Supervisor West grew up in Milwaukee and graduated with a degree in Human Services from the Milwaukee Area Technical College. Prior to her election to the Board, Supervisor West worked for 10 years in the human service field.

Supervisor West is currently Chairwoman of the Health and Human Needs Committee and is a member of the Economic & Community Development and Finance & Audit Committees.

Active in her community, Supervisor West was named the 2004 Hispanic Woman of the Year by UMOS, Inc.

A committed believer in community service, Supervisor West volunteers for UMOS, Inc. and Mexican Fiesta and serves as a mentor at Notre Dame Middle School.


8 posted on 06/25/2010 12:05:54 PM PDT by doodad
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To: goods

I heard her voice on the radio, and she sounds like a dumb 15-year-old who must have been writing notes to her boyfriend instead of paying attention during geography class.


9 posted on 06/25/2010 12:06:08 PM PDT by 1951Boomer
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To: goods

I am not so sure Democrats can read maps, or the writen word for that matter.


10 posted on 06/25/2010 12:06:16 PM PDT by Upstate NY Guy (Gen 15:16 The iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.)
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To: goods

I am not so sure Democrats can read maps, or the writen word for that matter.


11 posted on 06/25/2010 12:06:21 PM PDT by Upstate NY Guy (Gen 15:16 The iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.)
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To: doodad

Another community organizer and just as stupid.


12 posted on 06/25/2010 12:06:50 PM PDT by doodad
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To: hometoroost

Yeah, it’s really hard to say you misspoke when you say that Arizona is “far removed” from the border. Admit it, Sweetheart, you had no idea where Arizona is. And you DO know that the troops on the border are not allowed to actually DO anything, don’t you.

You must have one really, really, stupid district if they elected you. And they’ll border on morons if they RE-elect you.


13 posted on 06/25/2010 12:09:09 PM PDT by Right Cal Gal (Ronald Reagan: "our liberal friends....know so much that isn't so...")
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To: doodad

I’ve known people (usually female...not to be sexist though) who, due to a lack of spacial understanding, just couldn’t read a map....


14 posted on 06/25/2010 12:09:32 PM PDT by AnalogReigns
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To: goods

“Supervisor West was named the 2004 Hispanic Woman of the Year “

My impression is that education may not have been a terribly important qualification for this office. She evidently did have the “correct” ethnic background, however, which too many times is all that matters these days.


15 posted on 06/25/2010 12:09:40 PM PDT by DrC
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To: goods

First of all, this is a weak lie... but even if she means it, at least Texas has the Rio Grande as a natural barrier, you ditz. Arizona’s border is just dirt.


16 posted on 06/25/2010 12:12:58 PM PDT by Sloth (Civil disobedience? I'm afraid only the uncivil kind is going to cut it this time.)
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17 posted on 06/25/2010 12:13:57 PM PDT by Sloth (Civil disobedience? I'm afraid only the uncivil kind is going to cut it this time.)
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Moonbat:


18 posted on 06/25/2010 12:14:34 PM PDT by Rio (Plug the hole, Daddy!)
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To: goods

LOL!

Outstanding!


19 posted on 06/25/2010 12:15:24 PM PDT by jazusamo (But there really is no free lunch, except in the world of political rhetoric,.: Thomas Sowell)
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To: AnalogReigns

Don’t we all.

I still married her, though...

But I do the driving.


20 posted on 06/25/2010 12:17:10 PM PDT by benewton (Life sucks, then you die)
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To: 1951Boomer
I heard her voice on the radio, and she sounds like a dumb 15-year-old who must have been writing notes to her boyfriend instead of paying attention during geography class.

LOL. What geography class?

21 posted on 06/25/2010 12:17:18 PM PDT by Genoa (Titus 2:13)
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To: goods

Had Senator Kyl sent the message written in icing on a cake, the sow would have possibly read it, assuming the cake was large enough to allow big enough letters for her small beady eyes and little mind to comprehend.


22 posted on 06/25/2010 12:20:27 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

This isnt fair, she just didnt know that Arizona was one of the 57 states, maybe odumbo will give her his version


23 posted on 06/25/2010 12:21:26 PM PDT by italianquaker (obama all hat no cattle)
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To: MaxMax

Everybody on FR should send her a map, with the border highlighted in yellow.


24 posted on 06/25/2010 12:22:48 PM PDT by FrankR (Standing against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future belongs to the tyrants.)
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To: Sloth

That is NOT the state of West Peggy. As any Messican can tell you, it a county in the state of Azitlan.


25 posted on 06/25/2010 12:23:20 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: goods
Peggie West | DemoRAT Zombies

26 posted on 06/25/2010 12:23:32 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: doodad
Big deal...they're trying to use the fact that she is from Milwaukee as an excuse for her stupidity.

I'm from Georgia, never been to Arizona, but I did take Geography in school...and I know Arizona is a border state.

I should think that if I had applied for the position as County Supervisor in Arizona - or any state - I would make it my business to know the geography and some of the history of the state.

I hope whomever hired her, seriously rethinks their decision.
27 posted on 06/25/2010 12:25:26 PM PDT by FrankR (Standing against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future belongs to the tyrants.)
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To: goods
"I can see Russia Mexico from my border."
28 posted on 06/25/2010 12:25:41 PM PDT by choirboy
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To: FrankR

Her constituents hired her, ie elected. And I doubt they could read a map either or formulate an opinion without it being given to them.


29 posted on 06/25/2010 12:29:20 PM PDT by doodad
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To: mnehring

“…laughing stock…”

Is he upset because;

1. People call her fat, ugly and stuuppid,

2. She is fat, ugly and stuuppid

3. Or he has to face the fact he is married to fat, ugly and stuuppid.


30 posted on 06/25/2010 12:29:42 PM PDT by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: doodad

I still think about 100,000 of us freepers should send her a map of Arizona...just to celebrate “piss off a liberal” day.


31 posted on 06/25/2010 12:32:02 PM PDT by FrankR (Standing against tyranny must start somewhere, or the future belongs to the tyrants.)
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To: choirboy

Actually, closer to “I can’t see Mexico from my border,” therefore the problem does not exist.


32 posted on 06/25/2010 12:32:02 PM PDT by ntmxx (I am not so sure about this misdirection!)
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To: goods

Not only does Arizona border Mexico (Old Mexico) ...It borders New Mexico ( a whole other country)


33 posted on 06/25/2010 12:34:52 PM PDT by woofie
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To: Rio; Lazamataz

Laz would hit it.


34 posted on 06/25/2010 12:35:02 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Upstate NY Guy
I am not so sure Democrats can read maps, or the writen word for that matter.

Billy Crystal (in City Slickers), why are you telling me we're going north ? Is it because we're going up ?
35 posted on 06/25/2010 12:35:29 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: Right Cal Gal
Unless the favored minority are given 5 votes to each 1 given to whitey. There was a recent local election in Westchester County NY where this occurred. Port Jarvis (sp?) NY I think. Scary. The whole country will look like Detroit in 20 years, Haiti in 40 then Zimbabwe in 60.
36 posted on 06/25/2010 12:37:20 PM PDT by 30 Govt.
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To: goods
A Map of the American-Mexican border for those who graduated from public school :


37 posted on 06/25/2010 12:40:23 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: circumbendibus

Ping
This is the story I was telling you about.


38 posted on 06/25/2010 12:45:39 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty ( I CAN SEE NOVEMBER FROM MY BACK FORTY -Lady NRA Member)
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To: doodad
No doubt she'd been well served to have broadened her education by attending at least 3 more colleges or universities.

These Democrats are so dull ~ they think you go to one, you've seen 'em all.

39 posted on 06/25/2010 12:47:28 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: 1951Boomer

Did you hear her on audio tape on Vicki McKenna’s radio show out of Milwaukee this morning? It was great wasn’t it? (snicker)


40 posted on 06/25/2010 12:48:16 PM PDT by TheConservativeParty ( I CAN SEE NOVEMBER FROM MY BACK FORTY -Lady NRA Member)
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To: goods

I watched that video on YouTube and I was dying. Sometimes things are so sad that you just have to laugh about them or you’ll go insane.


41 posted on 06/25/2010 12:48:57 PM PDT by Sic Parvis Magna
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To: goods
Gentelmen, start your engines:

Peggy West - 12th District
▪ (414) 278-4269
▪ peggy.west@milwcnty.com

Source:

Linky Thing: Moonbat Contact Info

42 posted on 06/25/2010 12:50:17 PM PDT by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: AnalogReigns

“I’ve known people (usually female...not to be sexist though) who, due to a lack of spacial understanding, just couldn’t read a map....”

Me too. I was born to one, and married another.


43 posted on 06/25/2010 12:54:21 PM PDT by ZirconEncrustedTweezers (Just leave this long-haired conservative alone.)
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To: goods
What the hell is she trying to do???...kick Patty Murray out as president of Dim-Bulbs United???? What?????....
44 posted on 06/25/2010 12:57:14 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: tx_eggman

Hey, if every sent her a map of the US-Mexican border, pretty soon, they’ll have enough to give every kid a map (and more).

Good for their geography class I guess.


45 posted on 06/25/2010 12:58:43 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: tx_eggman

This is going to be fun!....Thank you!


46 posted on 06/25/2010 12:58:43 PM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: goods

Peggy West is an ignorant rhymes-with-hunt.


47 posted on 06/25/2010 1:01:52 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: goods

Whats scary is that her IQ may be higher than the average democrat voter.


48 posted on 06/25/2010 1:02:40 PM PDT by jesseam (Been there, done that)
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To: doodad

what is the “Human Service Field”? Is that part of the Human fund?


49 posted on 06/25/2010 1:04:28 PM PDT by Newton ('No arsenal is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.' -Ronald Reagan)
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To: goods
"If this was Texas, which is a state that is directly on the border with Mexico . . ."

She obviously didn't know Arizona was one of the 4 states that border Mexico.

She must have thought it was one of the 49 that didn't, like 0.

50 posted on 06/25/2010 1:07:25 PM PDT by Quiller (When you're fighting to survive, there is no "try" -- there is only do, or do not.)
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