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from HuffPo: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/jan-brewer-pac-obama-fundraiser_n_1241794.html
Her book, "Scorpions for Breakfast," has seen a monumental increase in sales since the exchange.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (R) is seeking to fill her political action committee's coffers with a new fundraising effort based on her recent high-profile encounter with President Barack Obama on a Phoenix airport tarmac.
"When I met President Obama this week, I really wasn't pointing at him. I was telling him, 'You have ONE more year!' The President needs to be reminded that he is the President of the FEDERAL REPUBLIC and not a KING lording over state governors," Brewer writes in Jan PAC's new ask, beside a now-famous picture of the governor wagging her finger in Obama's face.
Jan PAC was created last year with the goal of supporting conservative, pro-immigration enforcement candidates for federal office.
read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/30/jan-brewer-pac-obama-fundraiser_n_1241794.html
Scuba
(53,475 posts)bigtree
(85,984 posts). . . for the public officials engaging in them. We jump on them fast and hard, but they bring their ilk out from under their rocks when they adopt centuries-old rhetoric and tried-and-true appeals to the lowest denominator. There's a ready industry for pols willing to adopt hateful acts and actions.
JustAnotherGen
(31,798 posts)I do think that she *thinks* she can get away with it because . . .
malaise
(268,844 posts)Fuck you Jan Brewer
BeyondGeography
(39,367 posts)Cognitive_Resonance
(1,546 posts)immoderate
(20,885 posts)some words are banned at DU.
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Muskypundit
(717 posts)Money. Disrespect sells more than anything else here.
Richardo
(38,391 posts)Response to bigtree (Original post)
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bigtree
(85,984 posts)The picture was probably shot when I was moving my hands around.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/27/obama_on_confronting_az_governor_brewer_this_was_really_not_a_big_deal.html
EC
(12,287 posts)When he told Diane Sawyer that is what she was doing, looking for a money making ad shot.
RDANGELO
(3,433 posts)Independents make up about 30% of the electorate. You can't win elections without them. Stunts like that will turn them off. Independents may have issues with the President, but overall, they respect him as a person, and they would expect other to do so.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Initech
(100,054 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)chowder66
(9,065 posts)I really wasn't pointing at him I was testing which way the wind was blowing
I was air drying my nail polish
I cut my finger and asked him to kiss my boo boo
I asked him to pull my finger
what's next Jan?
lpbk2713
(42,750 posts)I wonder if she used Failin's ghost writers?
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Disrespect, sickness, death, war they are all just money making schemes for right wingers.