Luis Heredia

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s fact-twisting and fear-mongering continued this week as she repeated her unfounded claims about beheadings and violence in Arizona. Why call for a boycott when Brewer does such a great job of scaring people away all by herself? Her reckless comments are hurting Arizona’s tourism industry and economy. The Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank writes:

The Arizona governor, seemingly determined to repel every last tourist dollar from her pariah state, has sounded a new alarm about border violence. "Our law enforcement agencies have found bodies in the desert either buried or just lying out there that have been beheaded," she announced on local television.
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But those in fear of losing parts north of the neckline can relax. There’s not a follicle of evidence to support Brewer’s claim.
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Brewer also recently claimed that "the majority" of people immigrating illegally "are coming here and they’re bringing drugs, and they’re doing drop houses and they’re extorting people and they’re terrorizing the families. That is the truth." No, Governor Brewer, it isn’t. The Border Patrol’s Tucson Sector has apprehended more than 170,000 undocumented immigrants since Oct. 1, but only about 1,100 drug prosecutions have been filed in Arizona in that time.

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer seems to be replacing Sarah Palin as Fox News’ right-wing darling du jour. Brewer was just interviewed — again — for Fox News, making this at least the 5th time Fox has pitched softball questions at Brewer since she signed SB1070.

Jan Brewer and other out-of-touch officials continue to make Arizona famous for all the wrong reasons. Our accidental governor recently signed into law a ban on ethnic studies and a ban on human-animal hybrids. And just last week, a Prescott city councilman publicly called for artists to “lighten the skin” on images of children in a school mural. Check out our new video to see how Arizonans really feel about what’s happening in our state.

This week, Gov. Jan Brewer was at the center of yet another firestorm, this one ignited by a story in the Arizona Guardian, which pointed out Brewer had inaccurately claimed her father “died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany.” National media and blogs had plenty to say about Brewer’s comments.

In the past week, two distinct messages were delivered to Arizonans.

One came from Gov. Jan Brewer in the form of a singing sock-puppet on YouTube.

The other came from Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, who announced that President Obama will deploy 1,200 National Guard troops along the U.S.-Mexico border and ask Congress for $500 million in funding for border security.

Instead of bringing us real leadership on Arizona’s border-security problems, Gov. Jan Brewer brought us Sarah Palin, a leader on … um… seeing Russia’s border from Alaska.

Thanks to SB1070, the rest of the nation recently learned what Arizona Democrats have long known: Extremist Republicans control our state government. But now there is momentum in Arizona and a unique chance to take back our state. The Arizona Democratic Party has launched a nationwide campaign – Arizona Fights Back (www.arizonafightsback.com) to send a strong message: Don’t boycott Arizona. Instead, help us change Arizona by electing Democrats.

Please join us in the fight to take back our state. We launched a new website this week, http://www.arizonafightsback.com/