God bless you Rachel Maddow!!! You just handed Terry Goddard the election for Gov in AZ!!!

[jillan]

She is exposing about Brewer's ties to privatized prisons & how much money she could gain with lots of new prisoners!!!!

Many of us in Az knew about this, but now Brewer is an embarrassment nation-wide.

Have I told you lately how much I LOVE Rachel???

Come meet Terry, our next Governor
http://www.terrygoddard.com/

[eleny]

1. kr

[Mz Pip]

2. Hopefully it will get

more media attention. THis info needs to hit the AZ airwaves far and wide.

[jillan]

3. Goddard is all over the place - today Rick Sanchez had him on CNN.

He needs help getting the truth out.

[Oceansaway]

4. K&R...n/t

[malaise]

5. K & R

You all need to make the ties to the private prisons and the murder of that elderly Oklahoma couple the center of the campaign.

[bigwillq]

6. K and R (nt)

[Upton]

7. No offense..

but all the polls I've seen have Goddard down by double digits. Assuming those polls are correct, it's going to take a lot more than Rachel to make up that kind of ground.

[malaise]

10. Well if I were Goddard I'd be working on that ad

linking escapees from private prisons to the murder of that elderly couple from Oklahoma.

[jillan]

26. He did today! Press release included a link to Rachel's show last nite.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

12. Never mind the fact.....

....that assholes who support the likes of Brewer don't give a shit.

[liberalla]

13. I think we'll hear more from Goddard after the Primary...

The Repug candidates have been making all the noise and getting all the attention because Brewer has been challenged for the 'R' nomination by multiple candidates.

[jillan]

14. That's because nutcases love Brewer BUT - you get Moveon and some of the other "professional left"

on this story and those numbers can change. Rachel is the one who made this a national issue, tonite.

[liberalla]

15. hi jillian - have you seen the new rodney glassman TV ad?

"We are excited to announce our first television ad today, "Arizona First." This is the first television ad against John McCain by a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate in nearly 20 years.

Our ad highlights the fact that John McCain has spent the last 28 years ignoring Arizona and it's time we elect a U.S. Senator who will put Arizona first."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjE5U9O6ljw

I saw the last 10 seconds or so this morning on ABC, then got an email from the campaign this afternoon. Finally! I'm so glad to see something on TV for him.

[jillan]

16. Yes - finally!!! The latest poll has him 19 pts behind McCain...

Not too worried yet, we haven't even had the primary.

Liberalla - if you want a Glassman bumpersticker or sign - let me know :)

[liberalla]

19. You know what I want?

A calendar or schedule of events where he'll be... There's not one on the website (at least not that I can find), and I emailed the campaign asking about this, but no response.

I'm hoping he won't be so 'private' after the primary.

So, if you can get info on that, I'd be interested. They went all out getting the bus, and having a contest to name it... but no itinerary or schedule of events? Maybe they're being mum so as not to attract a crowd of RW crazies? I don't know.

See what you can find out, OK?

[jillan]

20. I'll see what I can find out.

If you want to ever volunteer - let me know. The head of OFA is always looking for more volunteers.

I want to go meet him too. I bet there will be more of a schedule if he wins the primary.

[saracat]

25. Well if the AZ State Dem party would get off its ass And the National Democratic Party would do

something other than counting their money and actually start working toward a Goddard election we might see better results. They OWE Terry big time and yet all they seem to do is try to raise money for themselves. All they did is send some OFA kids who are somewhat indifferently qualified down to assist who mostly don't. The usual stuff we get burdened with during a presidential campaign except we got them "early". Sheesh. There should be tons of ads littering the airways by now.( and they don't have to do it themselves, they could get the various constituency grioups to do it) Hopefully we will see some after the Primary! Some of them are criticizingTerry for not stepping down as AG but thank god he didn't.He wouldn't have got a nickels worth of airtime if he didn't!

People should be making calls for Goddard from all over the nation.Yes.it is THAT important. You can't donate money, but you CAN donate TIME. Please call Goddard HQ and ask for call lists and a script.

[pinboy3niner]

8. It helps

Rachel's viewership alone is not enough. But everybody is now paying more attention to her, and tomorrow other sites, like mediaite, likely will have some "look what Rachel did" stories that will increase this story's circulation.

In AZ, KPHO-TV's Morgan Loew (who broke the story last month and was Rachel's guest) is staying on it, and other AZ reporters probably are trying to catch up to him.

It's not a win for Goddard yet (and he's had his own problems), but this story is still developing and can only hurt Brewer.

[stellanoir]

9. hallelujah

Thank greatness that Rachel exposed this more recent travesty.

some background info. . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2729853

[pinboy3niner]

11. Thanks for the link

That's a very good OP--don't know how I missed it. Bookmarked.

[saltpoint]

17. It's just terrible when reporters bring up stuff

that isn't what candidates like them to ask. Sharron Angle was speaking the Lord's Truth about reporters.

And now there they go again, with that liberal Rachel Maddow intimidating that nice Gov. Brewer.

With facts, no less!

[SheilaT]

18. Terry Goddard is running

for Governor of AZ? How fantastic!

We had just moved to Phoenix when he won his election for mayor there. We moved away four years later, and I hadn't paid attention to what he'd done since then.

Oh, this is interesting. Checking out his bio on wikipedia, I see I was living in Tucson back when his father was Governor.

[Blue Owl]

21. The Prison Industrial Complex is pure evil

That someone would see fit to profit from it says a lot about the ethical and moral depravity of that individual.

Fuck Brewer and any scum who seeks to force their bullshit on us simply so they can make a dirty dollar off it.

[Dappleganger]

22. Even my conservative-indy dh was amazed at this...

he appreciates how Rachel deals with FACTS so much on her show. He told me about this issue when I was still in the hospital this week (gotta love how he tries to keep me up to date on politics from 'my side', LOL).

[myrna minx]

23. Rachel is the most important voice in the media today.

Thank you Rachel.

[Nikki Stone1]

24. Ah, the professional left

:)