Glenn Beck targets Raul Grijalva
U.S. Rep. Raul Grijalva is defending his friendship with labor activist Dolores Huerta after cable news personality Glenn Beck highlighted them in a recent show.
Huerta made the news in Tucson in 2006 for a speech she gave at Tucson High Magnet School, in which she said “Republicans hate Latinos.” Beck calls attention to her role as co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America and characterizes her as one of President Barack Obama’s “radical, 60s-type” friends.
Beck says she was at the high school because Grijalva brought her in to speak — and noted Grijalva is such a good friend of hers that he went to her birthday party.
Grijalva said he doesn’t agree with everything she said that day, and it was the Cesar Chavez Coalition that invited her, not him.
“Now, Glenn Beck is trying to use our friendship to destroy both our reputations,” Grijalva wrote on a Daily Kos online diary.
Because of his opposition to Arizona’s new immigration enforcement law and his position as co-chair of the progressive caucus, Grijalva says Beck is targeting him in his election year — which Grijalva said will actually be good for him.
“Now he’s put us on the radar,” Grijalva said. “We’re not just running against a Republican in our district, we’re running against a philosophy. Glenn Beck has helped us. Now there’s nothing taken for granted. We have a major political public figure in opposition to us and it’s motivation for our campaign.”
Andrea Kelly Arizona Daily Star
Friday, September 3, 2010
http://azstarnet.com/article_2a0f86f0-b789-11df-9b05-001cc4c002e0.html
Saturday, September 04, 2010
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