Tag: Arizona Republican Party

Washington (CNN)The Arizona Republican Party is calling on a Republican state lawmaker to resign after he said that "immigration today represents an existential threat to the United States" and "there aren't enough white kids to go around." David Stringer, a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, can be seen criticizing immigration in a video posted to Twitter on Tuesday that has since gone viral. The video shows him saying, "There aren't enough white kids to go around ... immigration is politically destabilizing ... immigration today represents an existential threat to the United States. If we don't do something about immigration very, very soon the demographics of our country will be irrevocably changed and we will be a very different country." "In light of today's reports detailing Representative David Stringer's comments, I am calling on him to resign immediately," Arizona GOP Chairman Jonathan Lines said. In response to a request for comment, Stringer emailed a statement to CNN accusing his political opponents of attempting to "distort" what he had to say. "My political opponents have taken 51 seconds out of a 16-minute speech to try to distort my message and mislead voters. We recognize the tactic. I'm not interested in taking the fake news bait," he said in the statement. The statement said his remarks touched on a number of issues, "including immigration -- both legal and illegal -- and the challenge of successfully assimilating large numbers of immigrants over a short period of time."

Even before the felony case, William Tierney had been involved years ago in what some people saw as underhanded politics and he had been embroiled in a fight over millions of dollars in a family fortune from a gardening business. This week's criminal case, filed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, jarred some who worked with Tierney in Arizona and left others surprised by the allegations of fundraising fraud in politics. “You have not made my day.” 'Scam PACs" The brothers are charged with operating nine PACs that took in millions from small-dollar donors, usually in the name of helping conservative causes. Prosecutors allege the scam was a bonanza for the brothers, who pocketed at least $3.5 million but spent less than 1 percent toward political contributions. After that, the family no longer trusted that daughter and intended to provide for her mental health needs, but never wanted her to control the family estate, the case claimed. Instead, William Tierney was in control of the family’s money for years, but later found that his aunt had taken control of the estate a year before his grandmother’s 2002 death. The family later learned their lawyer had personal problems and wanted the lawyer and his firm held liable for their counsel. Like all the PACs authorities tied to the Tierneys, the National Campaign’s records show it overwhelmingly took in its money in small amounts and gave little to actual campaigns or politically active organizations. None of the political candidates they gave to were from Arizona, either. Similar to the National Campaign, Voter Education also had no publicly identified donors from Arizona or candidates it supported in Arizona.