Paid for by something called the "Republican Majority Campaign," Gabriela Saucedo Mercer launched a new attack on Raul Grijalva Oct 3 with a new YouTube video featuring Grijalva's call for boycott in 2010.
Much akin to the Tea Party's recent aim at President Obama, in which they unveiled a video that has been available online for 5 years and ended up teaching us nothing new, this "attack" vid merely intersperses tea party rhetoric between snippets of Grijalva's call for boycott in 2010 with some real bad music. Same Tea Party strategy - nothing new, not a game changer, and clearly very low budget.
The PAC also posted a video in support of Sharon Angle which is equally unimpressive.
The PAC also posted a video in support of Sharon Angle which is equally unimpressive.
We covered the backlash to SB 1070 in depth here but just to recap, the response to the poorly written, one sided and dangerously xenophobic bill was nationally universal in 2010. Even Major League Baseball threatened to boycott Arizona but was one of the few entities not to. Grijalva's call was a mirror of the country's rage at Arizona, and he had had success with boycotts in the past.
Grijalva was representing his constituents by adding to the pressure already on the state legislature to turn away from their ill advised effort to deal with the serious border problem posed by the federal government, and it would have happened anyway. To suggest that he was soley responsible is simply ludicrous. Grijalva has been critical of the Administration's border policies, and rated president Obama with a "D"on the matter.
Grijalva was representing his constituents by adding to the pressure already on the state legislature to turn away from their ill advised effort to deal with the serious border problem posed by the federal government, and it would have happened anyway. To suggest that he was soley responsible is simply ludicrous. Grijalva has been critical of the Administration's border policies, and rated president Obama with a "D"on the matter.
Never the less, Republicans have little else to throw at Grijalva outside of criticizing his weight or his appearance or to fabricate that a 5 term representative "is more radical than Obama," and has done nothing in his career, an argument that fails to explain how he got reelected 5 times. Also, in this race the Republicans aren't spending any money, and one look at this hit piece makes that clear. Despite their best efforts, the congressman has been labeled "unbeatable" so the Tea Party has nothing to lose and appears willing to try anything.
The video ends with a picture of Saucedo Merecer; They must have figured she has said enough already.
Grijalva's call for a boycott of his own state only served to hurt the people he is supposed to be looking out for... his own constituents and all Arizonans. Worst of all, the people it hurt the most were people in the hospitality industry... and many of those people are Hispanics.
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