By Raoul Lowery Contreras (CA Leader of Cafe Con Leche Republicans – original blog post)

Not since the armies of the United States and Mexico chased Apache hero Geronimo all over Arizona and Northern Mexico has the United States paid much attention to Arizona until a car bomb killed a reporter who was investigating deep corruption of Arizona Republican politicians who were bought and paid for by gambling interests.

The bomb’s target died and Arizona press reporters mobilized to expose his murderers and in the process started a deep political anal examination that would eventually run two Republican governors out of office and into jail.

The state’s well-connected non-profit Fiesta Bowl Association’s bowl game would be exposed for a corrupt organization that had politicians enjoying five-star hotels (e.g.: in Chicago) and who-knows-what-else on tax free dollars including State Senate President – Russell Pearce — who the press exposed for taking $40,000 in “goodies” that led along with other political foibles to his being thrown out of office by his district voters.

To prove the deep-seated corruption of Arizona politics, that same recalled State Senate President had previously been fired from his governor-appointed job as Director of the state’s Motor Vehicle Department for criminally tampering with a woman’s driving record. Why? That was a felony. Unfortunately he was not prosecuted for political reasons.

Now, a new investigation is under way of the newly elected (2010) state Attorney General of Arizona, Republican Tom Horne, for illegally working with a Political Action Committee on fundraising, comingling of funds and campaign direction of his campaign. Already under the microscope for appointing a woman lawyer to a lucrative job in his office who has been in legal trouble with the State Bar more than once and has demonstrated that she is a terrible lawyer,

Attorney General Tom Horne previously served as the State Superintendent of Education and banned teaching of subjects he doesn’t care for in the Tucson schools that are available all over the Southwest. That case is in the courts.

Into this cesspool of corruption AKA The State of Arizona is the continuing saga of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the 78-year-old former federal drug cop who runs the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) in and around Phoenix. He has been investigated by the federal government starting with complaints filed in 2008 to the Bush Department of Justice that accused him of running the worst racial profiling department in the entire country – an illegal activity by any department.

Famous for massive raids on Hispanic neighborhoods in his 24/7 hunt of illegally present aliens, specifically those of the Mexican bloodline, the irascible sheriff is to be dragged into court. A judge has ordered a July 19 trial for the case of Melendez v. Arpaio in which Arpaio is being sued for racial profiling which is illegal by all public agencies, including Arpaio’s MCSO.

This is bad news for Arpaio for he stalked out of a mediation conference with the federal government recently. It was ordered when the federal government released a report of the illegal racial profiling used by Arpaio deputies. He continues his hysterical hunt for bus boys, dishwashers, plant-tending nursery workers and waitresses.

The federal government will now sue. Arpaio says he will fight with taxpayer dollars, of course.

Arpaio’s next door neighboring Sheriff Paul Babeu (Boo-Boo) is being investigated by the State and Federal governments for allegedly threatening his former boy friend the (self-admitted) homosexual sheriff dumped when he announced for a congressional Republican nomination.

Amidst investigations, extensive racial profiling and massive corruption that has sent two governors to prison, the disgraced recalled former State Senate President Pearce has announced a run for a new unoccupied state senate seat this fall.

Worse, his pet project, the anti-illegal alien/immigrant SB 1070 law, will be scrutinized by the U.S. Supreme Court after it has been stopped cold by an Arizona federal judge and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

The corrupt State of Arizona, its corrupt Republican Party, a failed politician that was fired for committing felonies as Director of the state Motor Vehicle Department and recalled by voters, lie exposed under a bright sun’s light in more ways than one.

Currently being offered by those very same corrupt legislators and politicians is a bill that would punish “offensive” “offending” online speech, photos and references that tend to aggravate or bother people like former State Senate President Russell Pearce or Sheriffs Arpaio or Boo-boo or Attorney General Horne – like this very article. It will be e-mailed to over 600 newspapers, media and readers. In Arizona under this proposed law I could be arrested.

Arizona may or may not be a good place to visit or to do business in but it obviously is not a good place in which to live if one has brown skin and/or believes in the U.S. Constitution that is respected by 49 other states.

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Raoul Lowery Contreras (1941) was born in Mexico, raised in the USA. Former U.S. Marine, athlete, Dean’s List at San Diego State. Professional political consultant and California Republican Party official(1963-65)…Television news commentator, radio talk show host…published Op-Ed writer (1988 to present)…author of 12 books (as of 1-05-12). His books are available on Amazon.com.

By Raoul Lowery Contreras (California Leader of Cafe Con Leche Republicans – original blog)

P. T. Barnum’s oft-quoted “There’s a sucker born every minute” is appropriate today in the US of A. Why? Because of illegal immigration that has generated an April session in the Supreme Court of the United States on the State of Arizona’s declaration of war on the United States and the Constitution that formed and governs the country.

Defenders of Arizona’s anti-Mexican SB 1070 law often insist that the infamous law enjoys considerable public support. It certainly doesn’t have much support in the federal courts what with an Arizona-based federal district judge stopping the law’s critical provisions cold. The 9th Circuit upheld the judge’s injunctions and now those injunctions are up for review by the United States Supreme Court.

Most polls taken after the law’s passage showed something between 60 and 70% public support nationally. Of course, most people are ignorant of the Constitution as a whole in particular of Article 1, Section 8 which explicitly enumerates the power of the United States Congress “to establish a uniform rule of naturalization,” which means immigration.

Millions of people are unaware of the constitutional congressional mandate on naturalization/immigration, nonetheless P.T. Barnum “suckers” line up to support the Arizona law, especially the “usual suspects” who apparently lack detailed knowledge of the Constitution.

When I speak, I speak of people like Bill O’Reilly at Fox News and Laura Ingrahm, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity of radio fame and myriad other constitutionally unread public figures, the “suckers.”

There really aren’t that many suckers because if there were the Supreme Court would have been inundated by mountains of legal briefs supporting Arizona’s law. It wasn’t and those that were submitted look like “cut and paste” jobs by legal shops that represent a monolithic Arizona defense that is at best ludicrous and unconstitutional in spirit and in word. These silly supporting briefs are mostly from ultra-conservative congress people, a few other conservative officials and a number of hate groups organized by the country’s most active racist, Dr. John Tanton. These are hate groups like FAIR and its non-profit arm, the Center for Immigration Studies (organized by Tanton to fight any immigration including legal especially Catholics from Mexico).

Numerous well-known and influential outside parties oppose the law:

• Sixteen current and former chief law enforcement officers filed briefs opposing SB 1070, including the former Phoenix police chief and the sheriff of Pima County, Arizona, which shares a longer border with Mexico than any county in Arizona. Two law enforcement officials – only – filed supporting SB 1070, including Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio who is being investigated by the federal government that accuses his deputies of the worst racial profiling in the country.
• One brief filed to oppose SB 1070 was joined by a former Secretary of State (Madeline Albright, Democrat), a former Secretary of Defense (William Cohen, Republican), and two former ambassadors to the United Nations (Albright and John Negroponte, Republican).
• Another was submitted on behalf of two former commissioners of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (Doris Meissner, Republican and James Ziglar, Republican). No member of any prior Presidential administration (Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II) joined a brief supporting SB 1070.
• Eleven states with a combined population of nearly 100 million—submitted a brief opposing SB 1070, including California, New York, and Illinois. More than 40 cities and counties filed opposition to 1070, three of which are in Arizona (Tucson, Flagstaff, and San Luis).
• A brief filed on behalf of 68 pro-immigrant members of Congress was joined by Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other high-ranking members of the House Democratic leadership. No member of the House Republican leadership signed a pro-SB 1070 brief filed on behalf of fifty conservative lawmakers.
• The government of Mexico filed opposition to SB 1070 that was joined by sixteen other Latin American countries.
• Finally, a dozen briefs were filed on behalf of more than 50 national organizations ranging from the ultra-liberal ACLU, to the AFL/CIO, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the conservative U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Briefs here, briefs there, briefs everywhere. None with pro-signatures from the Republican Congressional leadership, none with pro-Governors other than the high school-only educated Arizona governor who did not attend a four year college or took academic college courses even in community college unless they came under her medical office worker certificate program.

The law’s sponsor, Russell Pearce (who was the Arizona Senate President then) was flushed down a recall toilet last November when his conservative constituency threw him out of office.

Arpaio is being investigated by the feds for alleged criminal acts. SB1070 supporting Arizona sheriff Paul Babeu (Boo-Boo) is also being investigated for criminal acts.

Support for and supporters of SB1070 are narrow in scope and numbers. Question: do they have five “sucker” supporters on the Court?

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Raoul Lowery Contreras (1941) was born in Mexico, raised in the USA. Former U.S. Marine, athlete, Dean’s List at San Diego State. Professional political consultant and California Republican Party official(1963-65)…Television news commentator, radio talk show host…published Op-Ed writer (1988 to present)…author of 12 books (as of 1-05-12). His books are available on Amazon.com.

Dear Sheriff Babeu,

We are stunned at the allegations of extortion and intimidation from your former lover, as reported by the Phoenix New Times and other media outlets. These allegations are serious, and there is evidence such as text messages that support his claims.

You also posted semi-nude photos of yourself on a web site accessible to the general public merely by registering for the dating service. This shows extremely poor judgment, much as former Congressman Anthony Weiner showed poor judgement in a similar situation and left Congress.

At your press conference on Saturday, you claimed you have no power to deport Jose, but your department does have 287(g) authority from the federal government, which means you have the power to arrest suspected undocumented immigrants. If you knew José or his family are here illegally, then why didn’t you act?

Even if José is here legally, as a prominent figure nationally, with an ongoing relationship with DHS through 287(g), most immigrants would readily perceive that you are in a position to influence revoking of visas, and denial of visa extensions. As a Congressman, you would have even more influence over DHS. José is entirely right to perceive your threat to his legal status, as well as that of his family members.

Evidence that you have or may abuse your power are extremely relevant in the upcoming elections. You did the right thing by stepping down as Mitt Romney’s Arizona campaign co-chairman, though it’s likely you would have been asked to step down had you not preempted the firing by resigning first.

You should also withdraw from the congressional race immediately. The obvious lack of judgement you demonstrated, and these serious allegations hanging over your campaign make you unelectable. Leaving the race will clear the field for the two credible Republican candidates in the race now, and open the door for other qualified republicans to step forward and run for this office. Note that we are not supporting either of the two other Republican candidates.

You are not a credible candidate, due to your constant fear mongering about border violence, the apparently self-inflicted shooting of one of your deputies, and now this scandalous behavior, all of which call into question your leadership and integrity. Several border area mayors even wrote you a letter debunking your constant claims of border violence spiraling out of control, when in fact FBI statistics show that our border communities are among the safest.

The constant drumbeat of Arizona politicians that our border is insecure has fomented a national hysteria about border security, when in fact border security has been greatly enhanced in recent years and recently net illegal immigration from Mexico dropped to zero.

America needs to fix it’s dysfunctional legal immigration system, but unfortunately with the misinformation emanating from you and other Arizona politicians, many Americans have been misled about the true situation near our borders. We need problem solvers in Washington, not politicians such as yourself who use wedge issues such as immigration to play on the fears and emotions of Americans.

Please step down from the congressional race, and allow more electable Republicans to run in your place.

yours truly,

Bob Quasius
President, Cafe Con Leche Republicans
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