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The chairman for Herman Cain’s Iowa effort says the campaign “relied more on the word of farmers than Washington regulators” in deciding to run an ad containing claims the Environmental Protection Agency says are false.
The Iowa Senate will remain under the control of a slim 26-25 Democratic majority when it reconvenes in January 2012.
Responding to a call by U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., for Americans to boycott his state until it overturns a controversial new immigration law, U.S. Rep. Steve King suggested Grijalva’s district has been ceded to Mexico and that the Democrat is “advocating for Mexico rather than the United States and against the rule of law.”
Grijalva believes the new law, which requires law enforcement officials to demand papers from anyone they suspect is in the country illegally, is racist and does little more than “propagate the idea separate but equal treatment under the law can be codified.”
Here is transcript of King’s response to Grijalva during the Fox News interview:
He’s trying to scare the businesses out of Arizona, or he’s trying to get the businesses to change their position and press the legislature to reverse the law that was just signed by the governor the other day. I’m wondering if we look at the map of Congressman Grijalva’s congressional district, if we haven’t already ceded that component of Arizona to Mexico, judging by the voice that comes out of him. He’s advocating for Mexico rather than the United States and against the rule of law, which is one of the central pillars of American exceptionalism.
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