The Family Loftus

A county super­vi­sor talks about how the Ari­zona law against ille­gal immi­gra­tion is a bad idea because Ari­zona doesn’t share a bor­der with Mex­ico. Demo­c­rat County Super­vi­sor Peggy West of Mil­wau­kee, serv­ing her 2^nd term, dur­ing a debate on a mea­sure boy­cotting the state of Ari­zona she asserts an uneasy knowl­edge of US geography.

Here’s some good quotes:

If this was Texas, which is a state <gig­gle> that’s directly on the bor­der with Mex­ico… but this is a state that is a ways removed from the border.

And because it’s on the inter­net, it must be true (I think that’s where she was going with this, I think):

And it doesn’t make sense to me that when you Google this sub­ject, and you put in “Ari­zona SB1070”  that you see a pic­ture of the gov­er­nor of Ari­zona meet­ing with Pres­i­dent Obama in May of 2010…

??? Yeah, that’s what I said.

The real shame in this video is:

1. Ms. West is an elected offi­cial (twice!);
2. She was actu­ally par­tic­i­pat­ing in a debate about boy­cotting Ari­zona over SB1070! This is a major deci­sion with poten­tially severe reper­cus­sions and she doesn’t even know the basics?!
3. This is bla­tant evi­dence of how so many peo­ple dumbly lis­ten to the language/talking points of their ide­o­log­i­cal lead­ers with­out inves­ti­gat­ing and under­stand­ing the issue for themselves.
4. After all, Obama, Pelosi, and Reid hadn’t even read the short law before pub­licly con­demn­ing it!

Now more impor­tantly, since this story has taken on a huge inter­net life of its own, is that Ms. West said she would rethink the issue if Ari­zona did indeed share a bor­der with Mex­ico, like Texas does. So far, in my (very) lim­ited research of Milwaukee’s esteemed press corps, I haven’t found any jour­nal­ists who have asked her–or commented–if she has rethought her posi­tion. Well, Ms. West: have you? Appar­ently, she’ll be address­ing this issue on a local cable sta­tion in Mil­wau­kee Sun­day night. I’ll have to see if I can find any report­ing on it.

Here’s the video…

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