Jan Brewer corrects the record on headless bodies in the desert
OK, glad we got that straightened out.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer now admits she 鈥渕isspoke鈥� when she said decapitated bodies had been found by 鈥渙ur law enforcement agencies鈥� along the US-Mexico border.
Following a disastrous gubernatorial candidates鈥� debate Wednesday in which Gov. Brewer blanked out for what must have seemed an eternity while giving her opening statement, the Republican front-runner has been scrambling to repair the damage 鈥tarting with her overstating the nature of the bad stuff along the border.
Some drug- and gang-related violence has spilled over the border, the Associated Press reports, but 鈥渘one of the southern Arizona coroners who handle immigrant cases have seen headless bodies.鈥�
Without getting too eww-inducing, let鈥檚 just say that according to the experts, there are ways of telling how a skull may have become separated from the rest of a corpse. Wild animals, for example.
"That was an error, if I said that," Brewer on Friday. "I misspoke, but you know, let me be clear, I am concerned about the border region because it continues to be reported in Mexico that there's a lot of violence going on and we don't want that going into Arizona."
Brewer isn鈥檛 the only Arizonan who鈥檚 made provocative (and questionable) statements regarding immigration.
In April, Sen. John McCain (R), who was in a tough primary fight, that 鈥渄rivers of cars with illegals in it 鈥� are intentionally causing accidents on the freeway."
McCain used to be for comprehensive immigration reform 鈥� until he encountered a primary opponent to his right and found the need to get enthusiastic about Arizona鈥檚 new tough law on illegal immigration, which is being challenged by the US Justice Department.
Meanwhile, Brewer (who was named to fill the governorship when Janet Napolitano joined the Obama administration as homeland security secretary) is playing her election campaign very carefully. No more debates with Democrat Terry Goddard, the state鈥檚 attorney general, for one thing. And no more talk of decapitated bodies.
