Pullen for the Party

PULLEN TO REID: IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO GO

PHOENIX, AZ – “Harry Reid does not believe our men and women in uniform can win in Iraq. He had the audacity to call General Petraeus and General Pace, two true American heroes, ‘incompetent’. He should step down immediately as Democrat majority leader of the U.S. Senate,” said Randy Pullen, chairman of the Arizona Republican Party. “Senator Reid is in such a hurry to surrender in Iraq, he hasn’t even given the new American plan a chance to work. This isn’t leadership; it’s politics. And the kind of politics Senator Reid is playing is putting American lives at terrible risk.

Pullen continued, “’Americans are growing weary of Mr. Reid’s inflammatory and defeatist rhetoric. He isn’t preaching for peace, which we all pray for. Senator Reid is preying on the worst fears of every voter with the ghoulish hope that it will protect his marginal Senate majority.

“In their short time in the majority, Senate Majority Leader Reid, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Congressional Democrats have admitted defeat, negotiated with state sponsors of terrorism, told the soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and guardsmen serving valiantly overseas that the job they are doing isn’t good enough, and created a great divide among the American people,” Pullen said. “They continue to cut-and-run at every turn, except from the corrupt special interests and morally-bankrupt political games that brought them to power last year.

“The American people don’t surrender to terrorism or fear, and neither should our elected leaders,” Pullen said. “Mr. Reid, it’s time for you to step down because your fitness to lead has been exhausted. Your comments border on treasonous and it’s time for you to go.”

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Harry Reid's Financials

MSNBC and the AP are reporting on Harry Reid's own land woes and his other convoluted financial statements. According to the story, he devalued 160 acres of property he owns in Arizona.  From the story:

The annual form, released by his office Wednesday, assigns a value of $250,001-$500,000 to the property in Bullhead City near the Nevada-Arizona border. In years past, Reid valued the property at $500,001-$1 million.

A Los Angeles Times story earlier this year questioned how Reid acquired full control of the property. The story noted that Reid had owned it jointly with a pension fund until 2002 when he paid $10,000 for the equivalent of 60 acres - less than one-tenth the assessed value of the property at the time - and got full control.

It kind of brings new meaning to the phrase: "Fuzzy Math." More from the story:

On another financial disclosure issue, Reid has not yet filed revised financial disclosure forms with the secretary of the Senate to account more fully for a Las Vegas land deal that allowed him to collect $1.1 million for property he hadn't personally owned in three years.

Well, it's nice to know that the Democrat leadership has such honest, upstanding citizens at the helm.  Message to Democrats: Those who live in glass house should not throw stones.

For the whole story go to : http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18716420/

Posted by Brett

 

SAY WHAT? NOT A HUGE TERRORIST PRESENCE IN IRAQ?

Reid declares war is lost while Giffords implies mission accomplished

PHOENIX, AZ – Randy Pullen, chairman of Arizona Republican Party blasted Gabrielle Giffords for her comments in the Douglas Daily Dispatch. Giffords is quoted as saying, "There is not a huge terrorist presence in Iraq." See: link

“On one hand we have Harry Reid saying the war is lost, on the other hand we have Gabrielle Giffords saying that there isn’t much of a terrorism problem in Iraq and therefore, mission accomplished,” said Pullen. “The Democrats can’t even agree on Iraq, yet they are trying to dictate strategy from Washington to the generals in the field. It makes you wonder who exactly Harry Reid surrendered to.” Pullen continued, “Gabrielle Giffords campaigned as a moderate Democrat but her voting record doesn’t match her campaign rhetoric and her actions are contrary to her campaign promises.”

“I’ll be happy in January of 2009 when I can safely say that there is not a huge Giffords presence in Arizona,” quipped Pullen.

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