AZ Governor Jan Brewer Conflates the Facts

David Streeter — June 2, 2010 – 4:31 pm | Abusive Holocaust Rhetoric | GOP Hypocrisies | Republicans Comments (0) Add a comment

Arizona’s Republican Governor Jan Brewer (R-AZ) appears to have recently disseminated incorrect information about both her and her father’s biographies in an effort to counter the unacceptable Hitler comparisons thrown at her (which are shameful and objectionable on their own).

 

According to AZ Central:

 

Gov. Jan Brewer, who has been the subject of some unflattering criticism since signing Senate Bill 1070 into law on April 23, appears to have misspoken about the death of her father and his war service in a recent interview with The Arizona Republic.

 

Her comments have led some media outlets and political opponents to speculate that she lied about her father’s service in World War II, or deliberately inflated it — an allegation her office is denying.

 

In The Republic interview, Brewer talks about how hurt she has been by remarks that have likened her to a Nazi, and comments that her action on the state’s tough new immigration law makes her akin to “Hitler’s daughter.”

 

In the interview, she says the criticism has been especially painful because her father, Wilford Drinkwine died trying to fight the Nazis.

 

“The Nazi comments…they are awful,” she told The Republic. “Knowing that my father died fighting the Nazi regime in Germany, that I lost him when I was 11 because of that…and then to have them call me Hitler’s daughter…It hurts. It’s ugliness beyond anything I’ve ever experienced.”

 

The quote could certainly be read to imply that Drinkwine served overseas and gave his life during World War II.

 

But that’s not the case. He died a decade later.

 

The governor’s father did fight the Nazis and support the war effort, but he did it here a munitions plant in the United States, not as a soldier in the European theater.

 

 

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