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U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday will speak about border security to ranchers from across Arizona who are gathered in Tucson this week for their 106th annual convention.
During the convention, Giffords also will receive the organization’s Public Service Award for her work to secure the border.
By Elise Viebeck
The Hill.com
Arizona Democrat Gabrielle Giffords used Twitter Friday to express her anger that a border security appropriation in the $59 billion war funding bill was rejected by the Senate Thursday night.
Today Giffords for Congress is releasing “Gets It,” in which Cochise County rancher Warner Glenn testifies that Gabrielle Giffords is fighting to secure our border.
In “Gets It,” the Republican Glenn, whose family has ranched along the U.S.-Mexico border for 100 years, explains what Giffords is doing to keep southern Arizona safe from smugglers and border violence.
Cochise County rancher Warner Glenn, whose family has ranched along the U.S.-Mexico border for 100 years, testifies that Gabrielle Giffords is fighting to secure our border.
Click here to watch "Gets It."
Giffords’ work fighting to stop boycotts, rebuild Arizona’s economy recognized at statewide tourism conference.
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has gained statewide recognition as Arizona’s biggest champion for tourism for her work to stop the misplaced and harmful economic boycott against Arizona.
Brian Johnson, managing director of Loews Ventana Canyon Resort located in Giffords’ district in Tucson, and other tourism industry officials at last week’s Governor’s Conference on Tourism lauded Giffords for her fight against the boycott.
As reported by The Arizona Republic‘s Dawn Gilbertson on Sunday, July 18, Johnson “singled out U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., as the industry’s biggest supporter during the backlash. She has gone on national television to tout the industry’s economic impact in Arizona and to argue against boycotts. She also has called, at individual hoteliers’ requests, groups that are thinking of canceling meetings because they don’t want to face the controversy. ‘She has really stepped up to the plate as our tourism champion,’ Brian Johnson said. He and others suggested that attendees write her a thank-you note and/or make a campaign contribution.” (“Tourism industry: Elect candidates who back us,” The Arizona Republic, Jul. 18, 2010.) Read the full article here.
Gabrielle strongly opposes any boycott of Arizona. These boycotts are ill-conceived and counterproductive. They harm innocent workers and businesses just as our state’s economy is beginning to recover from the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Boycotts will drain needed tourism and tax dollars from our already struggling state and hurt Arizona hospitality workers more than any other segment of our economy. In recent weeks, Gabrielle has written to 43 cities and organizations and two federal agencies urging them to support Arizona’s workers and reverse plans to boycott in protest of Arizona’s new immigration law.
by Dawn Gilbertson
The Arizona Republic
The tourism fallout from the state’s new immigration law is sparking calls for more political activism by industry members.
At the annual Governor’s Conference on Tourism in Tucson last week, industry leaders encouraged attendees to support politicians who have come to their support in the wake of meeting cancellations and calls for travel boycotts of the state and to vote out anyone they feel has caused some of the damage.
Phoenix Business Journal
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., is upset with two federal agencies that canceled Arizona meetings because of the state’s new immigration law.
Giffords – who represents Tucson, Tombstone and Sierra Vista – is writing groups, cities and federal agencies asking them to reconsider boycotts of the state.
by Dan Nowicki
The Arizona Republic
WASHINGTON – Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is on a letter-writing crusade to counter the economic boycott of Arizona over the state’s controversial immigration law.
Giffords, a two-term Democrat who represents a southern Arizona congressional district, opposes the measure signed April 23 by Gov. Jan Brewer. But Giffords also worries that economic protests ultimately will unfairly punish struggling hospitality workers and businesses rather than the Arizona Legislature.
By Gabrielle Giffords
The Hill
Our nation’s border security efforts are a litany of failure.
Robert Krentz was a victim of that failure, murdered by a suspected drug smuggler on a Southern Arizona ranch that has been in his family since territorial days.
Pinal County Sheriff’s Deputy Louie Puroll was a victim of that failure, shot by a suspected drug smuggler while on patrol in a remote stretch of desert south of Phoenix.
By Nathan Thornburgh
Time Magazine
Published June 14, 2010
The trackers mustered at Tex Canyon Road, 20 miles north of the Mexican border, on the afternoon of March 27. There were border-patrol agents, six search-and-rescue units from the Cochise County sheriff’s department and dogs trained to track escaped inmates from nearby Douglas State Prison. Several ranchers were also there, many of them descendants of the Germans and Irish who came to the San Bernardino Valley a hundred years or more ago. Back then, the ranchers settled here in part to feed the U.S. troops stationed at the border. One military mission in those days: prevent the chaos of the Mexican Revolution from spilling into the Territory of Arizona. Now another period of powerful unrest in Mexico had brought a different kind of war to the valley, and the ranchers were mindful that the violence might have claimed one of their own, a man named Rob Krentz.
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