Ariz. seeking donations to build border fence

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Ariz. seeking donations to build border fence
Cash-strapped state’s plan would use web marketing
Today's News-Herald
Published Sunday, May 8, 2011 10:07 PM MST
Associated Press

PHOENIX — Arizona lawmakers want more fence along the border with Mexico — whether the federal government thinks it's necessary or not.

They've got a plan that could get a project started using online donations and prison labor. If they get enough money, all they would have to do is get cooperation from landowners and construction could begin as soon as this year.

Gov. Jan Brewer recently signed a bill that sets the state on a course that begins with launching a website to raise money for the work, said state Sen. Steve Smith, the bill's sponsor.

"We're going to build this site as fast as we can, and promote it, and market the heck out of it," said Smith, a first-term Republican senator from Maricopa.






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[onpatrol98]

1. Market it???

Who is his target audience? Come on down...the fence is bigger???

[roguevalley]

9. what fools. Cupcake sales are faster.

[alp227]

11. maybe tacos? n/t

[lib2DaBone]

2. Or.. they could build a fence around Arizona to keep Jan Brewer in...

Mission accomplished.


The Republican Brain

[ehrnst]

3. They'll be looking for low cost construction labor, won't they? (nt)

[sasquuatch55]

4. Fuck Arizona! nt

nt

[pampango]

5. "Build a wall to keep the 'others' out". China-200 BC; France-pre-WWII; East Germany-1961;

tea party-land-2011. (Respectively, the Great Wall of China, the Maginot Line, the Berlin Wall, and our Great Southwestern Wall to protect "us" from barbarians, Germans, West Germans/West Berliners and Hispanics.)

The allure of a "magic wall" that will keep all of "them" away from "us". It would almost be funny that teabaggers would want to waste their money on a "magic wall", if it weren't so sad and dangerous.

Unfortunately, the promotion and building of such a wall tends to stoke the very fear of "others" that is the whole reason for its being. (If we need a wall to protect us from "them", then "they" must be very bad indeed.) If the "they" that a wall is intended to protect "us" from were gays, blacks or women (and those groups are none too popular with teabaggers either), the real fear-based intent of focusing on building a wall would be more apparent.

By focusing their fear and wall-building on "illegal" Hispanics (rather than gays, blacks or women) the tea party wisely chooses a "them" that is more likely to enable them to reach out to non-rw fanatics, including some liberals. I wouldn't give too much credit to teabaggers in general, but their advisors are giving them "good" advice (in a perverse sort of way) in this case.

[dgibby]

6. Maybe Mexico will help fund it.

I suspect they'd be more than happy to keep those fundie, bigoted, tea party racists out of their country.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. I might contribute to a fence

on Arizona's other borders, with CA, NM, UT, NV.

:hi:

[KamaAina]

8. I'll bet Anonymous is licking its chops

waiting for that site to launch...

[classysassy]

10. Those wonderful days of yesteryear

Before all of the Arizona lawmakers aka lawbreakers arrived.McCain was in Viet Nam,Kyl was back in Colorado,Jan the hag was in California after moving from Minnisota,Russell Pearce was in Utah,Sheriff Joe was back in New England,Tom Horne was back in the Mid west,myMexican friends and I wish all of them would just go back to where they came from,good riddance of Arizona's trash.