Geography Fail: Arizona “a ways removed from the border”? 07/05/2010

Supervisor Peggy West, from Milwaukee WI, is apparently confused about geography. In a debate on June 24, West said that: “If this [Arizona] was Texas, which is a state that is directly on the border with Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this saying that they had a major issue with undocumented people flooding their borders, I would have to look twice at this. But this is a state that is a ways removed from the border.”

Yet another fail of the American Education System…

Read More:
http://tucsoncitizen.com/the-cholla-jumps/2010/06/24/county-supervisor-peggy-west-dumbest-poltician-east-of-the-mississippi/

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2010/06/where_is_arizona_dont_ask_pegg.html

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/06/24/dem-county-supervisor-arizonas-law-might-have-been-justifiable-if-it-was-a-border-state/