Thread: Arizona Democrats in Danger

October 15, 2010 4:00 A.M.

Arizona Democrats in Danger

For an angry electorate, Democrats’ attempts to backtrack on earlier positions may be too little, too late.


Rep. Raul Grijalva (D.) serves a district, the Arizona 7th, that is almost 55 percent Hispanic. He probably wasn’t surprised to hear the crowd cheering in Spanish at Wednesday night’s congressional debate. But he almost certainly wasn’t expecting those cheers to be directed at his opponent. “¡Viva Ruth! ¡Viva Ruth! ¡Viva Ruth!â€

Grijalva’s seat had long seemed one of the safest in the country (the four-term Democrat has never received less than 59 percent of the vote). So safe, in fact, that Grijalva apparently had no qualms about promoting an economic boycott of his own state, which has the second-highest poverty rate in the country. He did so in response to S.B. 1070, Arizona’s controversial immigration law, which he vocally opposed. These positions could end up costing him his seat.

I pray this jackass loses his seat after that stunt! By urging a boycott against his own state, he confirmed that he cares more about illegal aliens (hispanic) than his voting constituents. Did he really believe that voters in his district would vote for him just because of his ethnicity?
Stupid is as stupid does Luis, you are toast.

Arizona residents (many who are hispanic) want SB1070, guess you were listening to the wrong crowd, no?

Giffords, Mitchell, Kirkpatrick, and now Grijalva are scrambling to make things right with an angry electorate, whether by apologizing for the ill-advised boycott or by abandoning the national party line altogether. For Arizona voters, though, it could be too little, too late.

I laugh at you, Ha! Ha!