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Arizona politician mistakes YMCA campers for migrant children

Republican congressional candidate and state legislator Adam Kwasman had just raced up to Phoenix Tuesday morning from the Oracle protest over the expected arrival of dozens of migrant children at a shelter.

He had tweeted from the scene, "Bus coming in. This is not compassion. This is the abrogation of the rule of law." He included a photo of the back of a yellow school bus.



Kwasman later told me he saw the migrant children. "I was actually able to see some of the children in the buses. The fear on their faces.... This is not compassion," he said.

But there was a problem with Kwasman's story: There was no fear on their faces. Those weren't the migrant children in the school bus. Those were children from the Marana school district. They were heading to the YMCA's Triangle Y Camp, not far from the Rite of Passage shelter for the migrants, at the base of Mt. Lemmon

12 News reporter Will Pitts, who was at the protest scene, says he saw the children laughing and taking pictures of the media.

I had to break it to Kwasman that those weren't migrant children. Kwasman later deleted the tweet. He did back flips trying to take back the story he told me.

And while the YMCA kids showed up, the bus that Kwasman and other protesters were waiting for -- packed with migrant children -- won't be going to the shelter today, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Kwasman is running in the 1st Congressional District GOP primary against House Speaker Andy Tobin and businessman Gary Kiehne. The winner will face Democratic Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick in the general election.

Grizalltheway wrote:Got anything more recent than 2010?

(CNN) - After his strong criticism of the Obama administration's plans to return thousands of young undocumented migrants back to Central America, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley asked a top White House official that the children not be sent to a site that was under consideration in his home state, sources familiar with the conversation said.

"He privately said 'please don't send these kids to Western Maryland,'" a Democratic source told CNN. The heated discussion between O'Malley and White House domestic policy adviser Cecilia Munoz occurred during a phone call late Friday evening, sources familiar with the conversation added.

A potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, O'Malley surprised some in his party when he sharply criticized a White House proposal to give new legal authorities to the Department of Homeland Security to expedite the deportation of the unaccompanied minors and their families.

“We are not a country that should turn children away and send them back to certain death,” O’Malley said last week at a National Governors Association meeting in Nashville.

Baldy wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:Got anything more recent than 2010?

Seriously???

First on CNN: After criticizing White House over unaccompanied minors, Martin O'Malley said don't send them to Maryland site

(CNN) - After his strong criticism of the Obama administration's plans to return thousands of young undocumented migrants back to Central America, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley asked a top White House official that the children not be sent to a site that was under consideration in his home state, sources familiar with the conversation said.

"He privately said 'please don't send these kids to Western Maryland,'" a Democratic source told CNN. The heated discussion between O'Malley and White House domestic policy adviser Cecilia Munoz occurred during a phone call late Friday evening, sources familiar with the conversation added.

A potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, O'Malley surprised some in his party when he sharply criticized a White House proposal to give new legal authorities to the Department of Homeland Security to expedite the deportation of the unaccompanied minors and their families.

“We are not a country that should turn children away and send them back to certain death,” O’Malley said last week at a National Governors Association meeting in Nashville.

Grizalltheway wrote:

Baldy wrote: Seriously???

First on CNN: After criticizing White House over unaccompanied minors, Martin O'Malley said don't send them to Maryland site

See Flaggy, was that so hard? Take notes.

Baldy wrote:

Grizalltheway wrote:Got anything more recent than 2010?

Seriously???

First on CNN: After criticizing White House over unaccompanied minors, Martin O'Malley said don't send them to Maryland site

(CNN) - After his strong criticism of the Obama administration's plans to return thousands of young undocumented migrants back to Central America, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley asked a top White House official that the children not be sent to a site that was under consideration in his home state, sources familiar with the conversation said.

"He privately said 'please don't send these kids to Western Maryland,'" a Democratic source told CNN. The heated discussion between O'Malley and White House domestic policy adviser Cecilia Munoz occurred during a phone call late Friday evening, sources familiar with the conversation added.

A potential Democratic presidential candidate in 2016, O'Malley surprised some in his party when he sharply criticized a White House proposal to give new legal authorities to the Department of Homeland Security to expedite the deportation of the unaccompanied minors and their families.

“We are not a country that should turn children away and send them back to certain death,” O’Malley said last week at a National Governors Association meeting in Nashville.

Col Hogan wrote:Harry Reid actually said the border is secure...with a straight face...talk about a face palm

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Skjellyfetti wrote:

Arizona politician mistakes YMCA campers for migrant children

Republican congressional candidate and state legislator Adam Kwasman had just raced up to Phoenix Tuesday morning from the Oracle protest over the expected arrival of dozens of migrant children at a shelter.

He had tweeted from the scene, "Bus coming in. This is not compassion. This is the abrogation of the rule of law." He included a photo of the back of a yellow school bus.



Kwasman later told me he saw the migrant children. "I was actually able to see some of the children in the buses. The fear on their faces.... This is not compassion," he said.

But there was a problem with Kwasman's story: There was no fear on their faces. Those weren't the migrant children in the school bus. Those were children from the Marana school district. They were heading to the YMCA's Triangle Y Camp, not far from the Rite of Passage shelter for the migrants, at the base of Mt. Lemmon

12 News reporter Will Pitts, who was at the protest scene, says he saw the children laughing and taking pictures of the media.

I had to break it to Kwasman that those weren't migrant children. Kwasman later deleted the tweet. He did back flips trying to take back the story he told me.

And while the YMCA kids showed up, the bus that Kwasman and other protesters were waiting for -- packed with migrant children -- won't be going to the shelter today, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Kwasman is running in the 1st Congressional District GOP primary against House Speaker Andy Tobin and businessman Gary Kiehne. The winner will face Democratic Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick in the general election.

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CID1990 wrote:

Skjellyfetti wrote:



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WELP,



FAIL



(on this issue maybe you had just better remain silent and be thought an idiot)

kalm wrote:

CID1990 wrote:
WELP,



FAIL



(on this issue maybe you had just better remain silent and be thought an idiot)

It was certainly no Guam tipping over... Amirite?

houndawg wrote:

kalm wrote:
It was certainly no Guam tipping over... Amirite?

It wasn't even wind turbines making the planet warmer.

The New York Times revealed Wednesday that Walsh had plagiarized major portions of a research paper he wrote while he earning degree, a charge Walsh initially responded to by saying that he was suffering from PTSD at the time. But in an interview with Yahoo News here Friday, Walsh said that PTSD “in no way” contributed to him breaking the Army War College’s honor code.

Other Democrats rose to his defense this week, saying that academics weren’t Walsh’s strong suit. “Look, Walsh is a soldier, he's not an academic,” Montana Democratic Sen. Jon Tester told the Los Angeles Times. “And I just think if a person bores down below the surface, it's not near as big a deal as it appears right now.”

Walsh retired from the National Guard in 2012 and was sworn in as Montana’s Lt. Governor the next year. He was appointed to the Senate earlier this year when Montana Democratic Sen. Max Baucus stepped down to become the U.S. Ambassador to China.

Grizalltheway wrote:Meh. He served his country honorably and had one of his soldiers commit suicide around that time.

And conk hero Rand Paul was accused of and admitted to the same thing.

Grizalltheway wrote:Meh. He served his country honorably and had one of his soldiers commit suicide around that time.

And conk hero Rand Paul was accused of and admitted to the same thing.

Skjellyfetti wrote:Did he at least use better sources than Wikipedia when he plagiarized?

(Rand Paul... cough cough)

Baldy wrote:

Skjellyfetti wrote:Did he at least use better sources than Wikipedia when he plagiarized?

(Rand Paul... cough cough)

Please...Paul cited the original source.

Are you actually trying to compare a speech (that was probably written by someone else) to academic plagiarism? (Martin Luther King,Jr...cough cough)