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A little help from their friends…

30 April 2010

The failed state of Arizona round-up:

From the Arizona Republic:

… a handful of neo-Nazis showed up at Montgomery’s news conference Friday morning claiming they were there to back Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

The members of the National Socialist Movement, decked out in riot gear and wearing rifles slung over their shoulders, said they were there to “support Sheriff Joe’s candidate for County Attorney,” according to ringleader J.T. Ready.

More on the Sheriff and his goose-marching buddies here.

The World Boxing Council, which is headquartered in Mexico City, has prohibited Mexican boxers from bouts in the State of Arizona — for their own protection.  Meanwhile, in the United States, a boycott of the Arizona Diamondbacks Major League Baseball team is picking up support.

Twenty-seven percent of the players in Major League Baseball are Latino.   Even if those players wanted to remain blissfully unaware of Arizona’s new policy, the law’s opponents aren’t about to let them.  As the face of Major League Baseball in Arizona, the Diamondbacks have been drawing protests on the road in Denver and Chicago this past week.

Entertainers, as well as sports figures (and trade groups in the United States and Latin America) have also begun to boycott. Comedian Paul Rodriguez (a naturalized U.S. citizen) was the latest.

The boycotts are going to help, but the real fun is going to begin when the Arizona farmers have to bring in their cotton and fruit.  Can you see those flabby ol’ viagra vigalantes and “tea-baggers” out in the fields?

4 Comments leave one →
  1. Brent's avatar
    Brent permalink
    30 April 2010 9:01 pm

    I live in Arizona. We are sorry for this mess, it has happened here before. Look up Evan Mecham, Fife Simington, and our MLK day boycotts. Things will change when we get another Governor in office. Until then, let us have it. Cheers

  2. Maggie Drake's avatar
    Maggie Drake permalink
    30 April 2010 11:43 pm

    I had to go into town today, my Vet is ready to kill, furious. Passed out bumper stickers from Cafe Press and became involved in a verbal dispute with one of these Republican gals who live here.

    It wasn’t my fault – really – she butted into a conversation I was having with the bagger guy re AZ and I almost fell dead on the spot – she was actually endorsing it. Endorsing it in Mexico in front of Mexicans! Of all the nerve, I mean these people think they are really something, unfreakinbelievable.

    You can imagine what happened next.

    Let’s just say everyone around knows she a nazi.

    It’s fair to say I was angry. I’m an angry surfer, no class. heehee.

  3. richmx2's avatar
    1 May 2010 12:23 am

    And that’s what makes you so lovable 🙂

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