Tuesday, July 06, 2010

West Digs Deeper

Ummmm… riiiiiiightt...

Milwaukee County Supervisor Peggy West, who drew a tidal wave of reaction when she said last month that Arizona had no border with Mexico, attributes that remark to distractions of other issues being heard by the board.

“Of course, Arizona is on the border with Mexico and I made a speaking error that many people have been unable to forgive,” West said during a radio interview that aired Monday on WISN-AM (1130).

She said Arizona had no border with Mexico during a debate on a resolution calling for the county to boycott doing business with Arizona over its new immigration law.  Other issues before the County Board at its June meeting—censuring Supervisor Lynne De Bruin and state-ordered repairs to the Mental Health Compex—distracted her, West said on the County Board-produced radio show.

“I should have better organized my comments,” she said. She intended to make the point that it would have been more understandable if a state like Texas with several populous cities on the Mexico border had passed an immigration law like Arizona, West said.

She meant to say that “the large population centers of Arizona are much further from the border” than Texas cities, according to West.

Hmmmm… let’s look at the 5 biggest cities in Texas and their distance from the Mexican border (measured as the crow flies on Google Earth).

Houston - 300 miles from border
Dallas - 350 miles from border
San Antonio - 130 miles from border
Austin - 200 miles from border
El Paso - ON the border

And Arizona:

Phoenix - 110 miles from border
Tucson - 65 miles from border
Mesa - 120 miles from border
Glendale - 120 miles from border
Scottsdale - 118 miles from border

So… Texas has precisely one of its top 5 cities that is closer to the border than ALL of Arizona’s top 5 cities.  What was West’s alleged point?

(8) Comments
Posted by Owen at 2021 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. She needs to remember Rule #1—stop digging…

    Posted by Jed on July 06, 2010 at 2039 hrs


  2. Unfortunately, Rule #1 lies somewhere between El Paso and Yuma, and Ms. West was unable to find it.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 06, 2010 at 2043 hrs


  3. Let me guess.

    You get your jollies pilling-on people that aren’t very bright?

    Tsk.Tsk.

    Owen.  I thought you a gentleman…

    Posted by Swamp Gas on July 06, 2010 at 2121 hrs


  4. Yet this not “very bright” woman is on the group of people running Milwaukee County.

    Pile on people!  Its the only way to get the word out about the complete morons that are “serving” you in office.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 06, 2010 at 2144 hrs


  5. I think the rule she needs to learn is to keep her mouth shut. So you got yourself into this mess by running on at the mouth on something you know nothing about - so continuing to talk about it makes you look smarter??

    Yikes. Who votes for these 85 IQ people anyway?

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 06, 2010 at 2231 hrs


  6. Correct me if I’m off base on this, but I think Peggy “the piled-on” West gets $52K per year, taxpayer funded health insurance and a retirement for her inability to hit the state she’s shooting at, opting instead to shoot herself in the foot, reload and shoot the other foot.

    Milwaukee County needs part-time County Board Supervisors.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 07, 2010 at 0003 hrs


  7. So, being a dim-wit wasn’t enough for Peggy. She has apparently decided to add “liar” to her list of personal adjectives. Disgraceful.

    Had she simply stated that she is geographically challenged, reversed her opinion on the issue as promised, and moved on, that would have offered her some quarter. Instead, she has decided to lie her way out of being the poster child for all of the dim bulbs who are against the Arizona law but don’t know why.

    Dumb you can forgive… dishonest is a different story.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 07, 2010 at 1059 hrs


  8. I presume her point was that the Texas-Mexico border has a much, much larger population than the Arizona-Mexico border. It’s not even close. If you take the top 4 Arizona cities you listed, they have about the same population as the top 4 Texas cities that are directly on the Mexican border (El Paso, Brownsville, McAllen, Laredo).

    Still, Peggy West really isn’t smart enough to be a County Supervisor. Her overall point, that because of the above fact she discounts Arizona’s concern about border security, is not at all compelling.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on July 07, 2010 at 1406 hrs


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