“The illegal immigrant has in Governor Napolitano (his or her) best friend in the state.” - Rep. Tom Boone, Glendale AZ.

As a professional wordsmith, my heart warms to a politician who can turn a phrase. Most of the time it is uncomfortably chilly. American elected officials are generally pitifully inarticulate. Westminster trains people better—which is why a pretty fair specimen like George Galloway was able to devastate Washington this week.

Rep Tom Boone here was acidly commenting on the extraordinary action of the Arizona Governor in vetoing two bills, one of which he sponsored, intended to make Arizona less of a free lunch for invading illegals.

Indeed it is highly significant that Governor Napolitano feels able to ignore not only the popular triumph of the Minuteman Project, but also the victory of Proposition 200 last November, continuing to align herself with the open-borders orthodoxy of the Beltway and the Main Stream Media.

Is she hoping for National Office?

Complain to Governor Napolitano. Applaud Tom Boone.

The American Enterprise has a good article about the consequences of affirmative action in police hiring. In order to attract minorities, a police department has to compete with private industry, which offers jobs where you can stay home at night, and nobody shoots at you. This is true for recruiting and retention of white officers, too, but good minority candidates are very much sought after by quota-driven industries.

That means much lower standards for minority cops, especially in the area of background checks, and that means…

Although it did not receive much attention in the mainstream media, an embarrassing truth was exposed: Many L.A. cops had been corrupted by black gangsters (just as many New York cops were corrupted in another era by the Italian mob). “Rampart wasn’t about cops who became gangsters,” explained former LAPD deputy chief Downing. “It was about gangsters who became cops.”

The American Enterprise: How Racial P.C. Corrupted the LAPD By Jan Golab, June 2005