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	<title>If Bush Did It &#187; arizona</title>
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		<title>Navy names ship for former congresswoman Giffords 
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:48:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DusenberyGarratt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ AP - Gabrielle Giffords, the recently retired congresswoman from Arizona who was shot in an assassination attempt 13 months ago, returned to Washington Friday for double honors. The Navy named a ship after her and she saw President Barack Obama sign the last piece of legislation she authored into law. ]]></description>
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		<title>Romney Country Seems Like No Sure Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Mitt Romney losing three GOP nominating races Tuesday, doubts have arisen about how he'll do Feb. 28 in the contests in Michigan and Arizona, where he polled strongly four years ago.]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Supreme Court Rules to Keep Limited-English Candidate Off the Ballot</title>
		<link>http://www.ifbushdidit.com/2012/02/08/arizona-supreme-court-rules-to-keep-limited-english-candidate-off-the-ballot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LowekKohatsu683</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, chalk that up for common sense, for the moment at least. At LAT , " Arizona Supreme Court bars candidate with limited English ": A would-be city council candidate in Arizona will not appear on an upcoming ballot because her English skills are insufficient, the state's Supreme Court decided Tuesday. In a brief two-page order, the high court affirmed a Superior Court judge's ruling, which struck Alejandrina Cabrera's name from the March ballot in the town of San Luis. The case, which attracted international media attention, was closely watched because of possible legal repercussions for other border communities where Spanish predominates. Cabrera's lawyers argued that the court should not set a standard for English and that the issue should be decided by San Luis voters. Cabrera acknowledged her English is weak, but said she knew enough of the language to represent San Luis. Almost 99% of the town's residents are Latino, and Spanish is spoken virtually everywhere. Continue reading . ]]></description>
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		<title>Supreme Court to hear Arizona immigration arguments April 25 
    (Reuters)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BiddieDezeeuw515</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Friday it will hear arguments on April 25 on the power of states to adopt tough immigration laws, concluding the term's scheduled oral arguments with a major case pitting Arizona against the Obama administration. ]]></description>
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		<title>Did AZ Gov. Jan Brewer use a quill for her letter to Obama?</title>
		<link>http://www.ifbushdidit.com/2012/01/27/did-az-gov-jan-brewer-use-a-quill-for-her-letter-to-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early Friday morning Tiffany Gabbay , one of our assistant editors, published the actual handwritten letter Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer presented to President Barack Obama on his Wednesday visit to her state. Take a look at it here . The letter welcomes Obama to Arizona, touts Arizona's recovering economy and invites him to lunch (on Brewer). After reading it a couple thoughts came to mind and I'd like to share them with you: 1. People still write notes by hand?! And in cursive ?! Some schools don't even teach that anymore. 2. The note looks like it was written with a Harry Potter pen: ]]></description>
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		<title>Secret Service probes bullet-ridden Obama image on Facebook 
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BiddieDezeeuw515</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters - The U.S. Secret Service is investigating the origins of a photo on an Arizona police officer's Facebook page that shows a group of armed youths posing in the desert with what appears to be a bullet-ridden image of President Barack Obama on a T-shirt.]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Candidate&#8217;s English Under Challenge</title>
		<link>http://www.ifbushdidit.com/2012/01/27/arizona-candidates-english-under-challenge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MarkBeestler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last night's debate , Newt Gingrich indicated that English should be the official language of government business. Perhaps he had this article in mind, at New York Times , " Arizona Candidate Challenged Over English Skills ": SAN LUIS, Ariz. — When Alejandrina Cabrera speaks English, her face takes on an expression somewhere between deep discomfort and outright despair. Her tongue, which darts around her mouth in her native Spanish, slows to a crawl. “I speak little English,” she said in a hesitant and heavily accented interview in her lawyer’s office. “But my English is fine for San Luis.” Mrs. Cabrera may be able to get her point across in English, but whether she is proficient enough in the language to serve on the governing board of this bilingual border city has deeply divided the 25,000 residents. What began as an effort by political opponents to block Mrs. Cabrera from the ballot for a seat on the City Council has mushroomed into an uncomfortable discussion of just how fluent Arizona officeholders need to be. Like many other states, Arizona has long required politicians at all levels to speak, read and write English, but the law fails to spell out just what that means. Is grade-school knowledge enough? Must one speak flawlessly? Who is to decide? “I do feel this opening a box of Pandora, and we don’t know where it’s going to lead,” said Mayor Juan Carlos Escamilla, who filed a legal challenge of Mrs. Cabrera’s English ability. He acknowledged on local television that his own English was far from perfect. “I feel I don’t dominate 100 percent, but I can still get by,” said Mr. Escamilla, who graduated from the same Arizona high school as Mrs. Cabrera. “I can write, read and understand it very well.” It was Guillermina Fuentes, a former San Luis mayor, who first raised Mrs. Cabrera’s English skills as an issue last month. Former friends, the two women had a political falling out. “You’re hearing my broken English,” Ms. Fuentes said in a telephone interview. “I know people have a hard time understanding me at times, but I understand the language and I was the one always interpreting for Alejandrina Cabrera.” Ultimately, the matter is to be decided in court. On Jan. 13, Judge John Nelson of the Yuma County Superior Court ordered a linguist to evaluate Mrs. Cabrera after she took the stand and failed to answer a straightforward question from her lawyer, John Minore, about where she went to high school. Mrs. Cabrera explained later that it was anxiety, not failure to understand the question, that had her tongue tied. She went to a hearing specialist in an effort to show that auditory problems were also an issue. “I was in shock,” she said. “My brain, my mind was white. That was my first time in court.” Continue reading . I think this lady should forget about running for office and instead focus on learning the language. This is utterly ridiculous. That said, the town's 90 percent Mexican-American and everybody speaks Spanish. At city council meetings an interpreter is on hand and participants can wear audio headphones to follow the discussions. This is where things are going in the U.S. Honestly, we're to the point where candidates for office feel as though English proficiency is irrelevant. And who can blame them? Who needs English anyway? This is exactly what Samuel Huntington warned about years ago, and he was widely attacked as "racist." It's going to take some political willpower among state officials to prevent the elimination of the language requirement for public office, which has been on the books since 1910. Clearly, many in the Hispanic population simply to not care. Reconquista anybody? ]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Start Lining Up for Giffords&#8217; Seat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:08:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry Munz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I am told that Jesse Kelly , who lost to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords by 1.5 percentage points in 2010, will run in the special election for her seat. Other names being mentioned in Arizona are Frank Antenori , state senator and retired Green Beret, sportscaster Dave Sitton , retired Air Force officer Benny White , and former 2010 candidate from a neighboring district Ruth McClung . ]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Gov. Brewer gets book critique from Obama 
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BennyCarlob</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ AP - Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer came to greet President Barack Obama upon his arrival outside Phoenix Wednesday. What she got was a critique. Of her book. ]]></description>
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		<title>Obama has tense exchange with Arizona governor 
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>prsnlinjurys</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters - A day after his confrontational election-year State of the Union address, President Barack Obama had a tense exchange with Arizona's Republican governor on Wednesday as she greeted Air Force One in Phoenix.]]></description>
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