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Quayle is a moron? Some people think so!!!!
From this article it seems like Quayle is one of those morons who wants to continue the drug war full speed ahead and refuses to look at any facts. Quayle: Gov. Brewer was right in removing chairwoman by Ofelia Madrid - Nov. 10, 2011 09:18 AM The Arizona Republic U.S. Rep. Ben Quayle says he stands behind Gov. Jan Brewer's decision to remove the chairwoman of the Independent Redistricting Commission, the panel in charge of creating Arizona's congressional maps. Quayle spoke Tuesday night before a group of about 200 at a town-hall meeting at Horizon High School in northeast Phoenix. "The governor made the decision that the chairwoman engaged in gross misconduct, and it was the right decision," Quayle said. "That was the check that was put in the Constitution by the people." Brewer removed Chairwoman Colleen Mathis last week, saying the Tucson independent was guilty of a "failure to apply the Arizona Constitution's provisions in an honest, independent and impartial fashion." Attorneys for the commission have filed suit alleging that the governor and state Senate went beyond their authority to remove Mathis. Quayle, a Republican, was elected in 2010 to represent Arizona's 3rd Congressional District, which includes Phoenix, Scottsdale and Paradise Valley. He addressed a rumor that his mother, Marilyn Quayle, wife of former Vice President Dan Quayle, called Brewer and suggested that she oust Mathis. "That is a lie," he said. A proposed map would place Quayle on the edge of a competitive congressional district that stretches from north-central Phoenix through Tempe. He has hinted that he may move into a neighboring GOP-dominated district whose boundary is four blocks from his home. Quayle fielded questions for about an hour after a PowerPoint presentation where he highlighted some federal bills, including one that would give more power to small-business owners and another that would allow states to opt out of the federal Affordable Care Act. Phoenix resident Valarie Klein told Quayle the story of her son, who had a brain tumor removed two years ago. KidsCare, Arizona's version of Medicaid, paid all the bills. Before the tumor, her son was healthy, Klein said. "How is it that you can allow 125,000 children not be allowed to have KidsCare?" she asked. "To continue to have a freeze on KidsCare when you never know when your child is going to have something happen to them?" To remain on KidsCare, Klein said she cannot make more than $6,700 per year because her son's child-support payments are counted as income. "I went from upper middle class to zero because the expenses to maintain my son are through the roof," she said. "Could you please tell me, sir, how would you live on $6,700 a year? Because I'm having a difficult time doing that." Quayle explained that the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System is a state program, not federal. "I'm sorry for all that you've been dealing with," Quayle said. "Obviously, AHCCCS and KidsCare is on the state side. . . . I do think we need to have proper health-care reform so that folks who do have pre-existing conditions and high-risk conditions can be part of a high-risk pool." Klein urged him to have a conversation with the decision makers at the state level. Proponents of medical marijuana also were in the audience. One person asked Quayle his thoughts on a bill that would reschedule medical pot as having medicinal benefit for sick people. Quayle didn't think rescheduling marijuana was a good idea. "What we have right now is a cartel system in Mexico that derives an enormous amount of their revenue from marijuana sales in the United States," he said. "If you reschedule marijuana, that will increase the demand for that product coming over. It will bring in more product." Despite Quayle's request at the beginning of the meeting that audience members remain civil, many booed him and one man yelled out, "Do the research, moron!" after hearing Quayle's answer. The congressman replied, "You can agree or disagree, but I hope we can continue doing this in a nice, neighborly manner." |