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Dennis Burke: Obama’s Man in Arizona
March 8, 2010 by 17 Comments
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I don’t know anyone who reads the Republic anymore, I get all my news online from sites like this and from TV/radio. I didn’t even realize there was a federal investigation of Arpaio until I read it here, and from what I can tell, the feds are investigating the Supervisors finally so it’s a good thing. I wouldn’t want to read how the Republic is spinning it
is this a surprise to anyone? I think everyone knew this already anyway…
Of course he gives to Democrats, of course the GOP kicked him out of his job when they took power. Politics is partisan, you reward people that are loyal to you with certain jobs. THIS IS POLITICS. Shocker Alert CONSERVATIVES DO IT TOO. Wasn’t it the Bush DOJ that got in trouble for politicizing these EXACT JOBS.
I dont know why this is even a guest opinion it doesn’t tell you anything new.
er yeah it’s a surprise, I’m a diehard Republican and I haven’t given anywhere near that amount of money to Republican candidates. This guy is an extreme partisan activist. No wonder Obama appointed him. I feel sorry for Sheriff Arpaio, he won’t get a fair shake from someone like that.
johnny,
Please don’t question the veracity of a post by an anonymous author as a guest editor from a biased blog posing as a fake newspaper column. Just play along.
Travis,
While I appreciate the comment I don’t go as far as you. I understand where DSW he is very open and let’s people like you and I who don’t agree with him on everything post. This is all I can ask for.
I seem to have forgotten some words… I mean I understand where DSW is coming from in this blog.
Also first year law student,
If you are in law schools odds are you are between 23-30 so of course you have nt given as much. Burke is a tad bit older and has made more money in his career than you.
When Ken Star was investigating Bill Clinton I remember the media making a BIG deal about Star’s Republican credentials
This looks like the same issue to me, but when it is a democrat in the role of investigator the media doesn’t question their motivations
What a difference a party can make. If you are a Democrat and muster $30K for the benefit of their party over 12 years you get a presidential appointment.
If you are a Republican and you muster $40K during just 2 election cycles the Wack-a-doodles call you a RINO, and try to stone you or tie you to a rail and ship you out of town.
johnny, I think Dennis Burke is about 45 years old – my age
First year law student,
So you are a 1L at 45? Just curious as someone who went straight after undergrad to law school, what made you decide so much later?
Also Burke was born in 1962 so couple years older than 45.
Why don’t you ask Greg Patterson? He went to law school about the same age as I did, and he has no problem expressing explaining publicly why. My reasons were somewhat similar to his.
I could ask him… but I asked you… you can just say you dont want to tell me. No need to pawn it off on Greg.
Gee whiz. So Dennis Burke is a liberal Democrat who used to work for Big Sis, whom RINO Joe got into the Governor’s chair.
Maybe if RINO Joe had not betrayed us conservative Republicans and put Big Sis in the Governor’s chair in 2002, Burke would be just one more liberal Democrat wannabe. But since RINO Joe put Big Sis in the Governor’s chair, she was able to put Burke in the US Attorney’s chair.
If RINO Joe had not betrayed the rest of us in 2002, Matt Salmon would have been Governor, Big Sis would have gone back to law practice, and Dennis Burke never would have left it.
RINO Joe made his bed. Let him sleep in it.
It’s hard to feel sorry for a turncoat.
James:
I hate to kick over your hobby horse but Matt Salmon beat Matt Salmon in 2002. He didn’t need assistance.
Unfortunately, we haven’t had a Republican candidate for Governor run a competent campaign for at least 18 years!
Horst:
If you continually spend your money on Republicans who govern like Democrats and share their ideology and social beliefs you’d better expect opposition within the party as you’re getting this time around.
Travis: In your case an open mind, turns into an open mouth with little of substance coming from it. Vapid blatherings regarding those with whom you disagree instead of principled criticism indicates a basic lack of intellectual depth!
If you don’t like the political or philosophical stances of the blog’s contributors, by all means, you should start your own. Horst will fork over the finances!
“How ’bout ‘Rinos n’ Hacks United”?
As for the matter at hand regarding the Fed Atty for Arizona, this should come as no surprise to anyone!
Joe and Andy have alienated a goodly portion of both Democrat and Republican establishments for having the temerity to enforce immigration laws.
Ah, the HORROR of it all!
Why, if not brought to heal, they just might preclude the Dems from getting these folks on the registration and welfare rolls and prevent another California.
And damn, they might force our Hoteliers, Restaurant Owners, Developers, and Burger Barons to employ genuine Arizonan citizens, and ugh, pay them living wages!
Jeeez! We might even have to extend benefits to them and not let the taxpayers pick up the slack and furthermore Joe and Andy, if left to their own devices, will close off another source of wages for our help by denying them the privelege of “muling” for the coyotes who brought them here!
No, Joe and Andy must go….And let Arizona be Arizona!
Yeah! That’s the ticket!
Carlist,
Did Salmon beat Salmon? Maybe, but that’s not how I see it. Big Sis could not win if she showed her true colors as a liberal Democrat, so she faked it and claimed to be a centrist. The newspaper’s echo chamber picked it up and she got a transplant from liberal to centrist. RINO Joe’s endorsement and commercial for her validated the phony transplant. She won by 11,000 votes and change, out of more than a million cast. That’s about a tenth of a percent, and it took three weeks to find out who won.
Could she have won without RINO Joe’s support? We can never know for sure, since it was a road not taken. My opinion is that she would have lost. You see it differently. Okay, we disagree.
What we do know, however, is that RINO Joe wanted her to win and campaigned for her to win. So he got his way, to the vast disappoitnment of us conservatives.
So she got Burke appointed, and she dropped RINO Joe like a hot potato.
As I wrote before, he made his bed. Let him sleep in it.
“So far the media have given Mr. Burke a pass on his highly partisan record. His record would seem important because it wasn’t until the Obama administration took over the Justice Department and replaced the apolitical former U.S. Attorney with Burke that the U.S. Attorney’s Office started looking into Arpaio.”
LOL! The FBI investigation of Arpaio started under Bush!
VSB: Actually, Joe received I.C.E. training for his deputies under Bush.
But that being said, Bush’s policies regarding the rule of law in immigration matters duplicates Obama’s, Nappy’s and that of the Maricopa County B.O.S. which is bound and determined to have a sanctuary entity to match that of the cities.
Mr. Davidson: Matt Salmon made the critical strategic mistake of refusing to a run clean election campaign. He had a very difficult time trying to raise money from the usual sources, and as a result didn’t get his message across until October.
On the other hand, Napolitano’s folks initiated a massive T.V. blitz in August and September pilloring Salmon on his Social Security votes. He was never able to effectively respond due to cash shortages and the retiree community vote went up for grabs!
Matt entered August with a 10% lead in the polls and by early October was down about the same percentage.
Another factor was the reservation vote. In an attempt to solidify a wary “religious right” crowd, Salmon campaigned to renegotiate Indian Gaming rights and put the issue back to the square one of 1992. All that did was stir up a hornet’s nest and guarantee the largest reservation turnout in modern AZ politics.
In fairness, Salmon wasn’t the only GOPPER to committ suicide over this issue. Steve Largent turned what should have been a pushover to the Oklahoma Statehouse into a defeat that year!
Beleive me, our guys don’t need others to screw them over.
We’re not referred to as “The Stupid Party” for nothing!