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 | | Subject: GOP Governor Lies to People Fri Mar 19, 2021 8:19 pm | |
| 3-19-2021
GOP governor's press release results in
brutal fact check from his state's largest newspaper.
The Arizona Republic on Friday broke down the methodology behind a misleading press release from Gov. Doug Ducey (R-AZ).
"Ahead of his visit to the border, intended to draw attention to what he has called a security problem of increasing immigration, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey's office issued a news release Thursday touting drug busts supposedly made by its Border Strike Force.
However, each of the highlighted seizures appeared to have been made through the solid, and routine, work of troopers patrolling the state's highways. And none took place near the border," the newspaper reported.
The press release Ducey's office released featured dramatic photos of three drug seizures.
However, when one clicks the link for the details, it turns out the bust occurred hours from the border in Phoenix. The newspaper noted another dramatic image from a stop in Tuscon.
"And the third occurred near Littlefield, a small community northwest of the Grand Canyon. It is so isolated that one would have to leave the state and circle back to reach it," the newspaper noted.
The newspaper broke down the excuse the GOP governor is using.
"The highlighted busts in the news release follow a pattern:
The Border Strike Force has produced eye-popping statistics about drug seizures.
But that is because, records show, drug seizures made by state troopers as part of traffic stops all across Arizona are chalked up to the Strike Force," the newspaper noted.
"The strike force became a major talking point of his 2018 re-election bid. Campaign commercials and official news releases trumpeted the force as one that would stop drug smuggling in what was described as the wide-open Arizona desert.
A Republic investigation, however, showed that the impressive drug seizure numbers attributed to the Strike Force were, in large measure, the result of the solid, but routine, work of state troopers patrolling Arizona's highways," the newspaper reported.
"A list of Strike Force cases provided by the Department of Public Safety showed that, through 2018, most of the task force activity took place away from Arizona's four border counties."
The newspaper noted Ducey's Border Strike Force has received more than $90 million in funding. |
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