Desperate Huppenthal resorts to throwing refugee childen under the school bus

Bob Lord has posted in great detail about his “magical year” with Thucky, aka John Huppenthal, Blog for Arizona’s sock puppet blog troll. Bob posted on Facebook today:

So, Huppenthal does a flip-flop-flip. Who knew? First, he bashes immigrants in anonymous blog comments. Then, he cries and says the comments are not what is in his heart. Now, he’s back to bashing immigrants.

The Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) reports on the final act of desperation of John Huppenthal flip-flopping his way to a defeat, by throwing refugee children from Central America under the school bus. Huppenthal calls press conference about illegal immigration, then denies he is pandering:

Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal called a press conference today to talk about the impact of illegal immigration on Arizona education.

He ended up explaining he isn’t a racist and he wasn’t pandering for the purpose of winning the Aug. 26 GOP primary.

“People who know me think it’s an absurd question,” Huppenthal said, referring to a question of whether he is racist and hates Latinos.

See Bob Lord’s “magical year” with Thucky posts; it’s not absurd at all. To parody Jeff Foxworthy’s “you might be a redneck” – you might be a racist when you fear monger over refugee children in a desperate attempt to appeal to the GOP crazy base when you are losing your GOP primary because of your previous racist blog comments in “ThuckyGate.” Huppenthal is entirely lacking self-awareness.

Huppenthal said he called the press conference because the Department of Education had received many media inquiries about the department’s role in dealing with the arrival in Arizona of unaccompanied Central American children who had been detained after crossing the border. He later conceded the department got two media inquiries and two large requests for data.

Huppenthal said he sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan asking for the federal government to pay for the schooling of the unaccompanied children.

Huppenthal said the cost for the 202 children known to have been placed with sponsor families in Arizona is $1.03 million. He said he also wants solid information on the total number of children and where they are located.

Huppenthal said he is worried about the influx of “amnesty-seekers” who will cross the border if President Obama grants amnesty to illegal immigrants already here.

Wild-ass speculation and fear mongering over that “Black man in the White house” and “amnesty” for illegal immigrants! But I’m not a racist.

The first question Huppenthal received from a reporter, however, was whether his actions were a shameless act to try to win the primary. [Yes. Yes it is. What’s your point?]

“We’ve been analyzing this issue and working with the federal government for months. We realized that we aren’t getting the information we need to be able to properly analyze this,” Huppenthal said. “We also realize the federal government has not been forthcoming on border security numbers.”

Huppenthal also fielded the question of whether he is a racist. He said he grew up in the highest poverty, highest minority area in Tucson and his social circle included several Hispanics. He said he has a record of helping students and being welcomed in poverty-stricken areas where there are no votes for him.

More on this from Howard Fischer. Huppenthal claims influx of immigrant students would cost state millions:

The state’s top education official warned Wednesday that Arizona schools could be inundated with tens of thousands of immigrant children at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars if President Obama enacts some kind of amnesty.

But John Huppenthal conceded he has absolutely nothing to back that up. In fact, Huppenthal acknowledged that federal law already requires Arizona — and all states — to educate children regardless of their immigration status. [Doh!] That, he said, means the children who he fears might be granted amnesty likely already are here and in Arizona schools.

“Perhaps,” he said, saying there is no way to know “all of the implications” of what the president might order.

Again, wild-ass speculation and fear mongering over that “Black man in the White house” and “amnesty” for illegal immigrants! But I’m not a racist.

[Huppenthal said] his press conference was called for Wednesday because of the “imminent” threat of an Obama declaration, one he wants to impact.

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Huppenthal, who had the press conference in his state office, insisted there was nothing political about it. [Because that would be a violation of the Hatch Act.] He said just those approximately 200 children will have a $1 million effect on the state budget, what with average state aid to public schools in the $5,100-per-student range.

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But Huppenthal acknowledged he has absolutely no basis for any of his estimates of new students. He also brushed aside repeated questions of whether the Republican-controlled U.S. House might have created the need or opportunity for executive action by refusing to vote on a comprehensive immigration reform proposal.

The superintendent appeared taken aback by a question from a reporter asking if he is a racist, pointing out some of his anonymous blog posts like one where he wrote, “This is America, speak English.”

“I grew up on the south side of Tucson,” saying the elementary school he went to was in the “highest minority, highest poverty, lowest income area of Tucson.”

“My social circle was Marcelino Lucero, Manny Gonzales, Jimmy Ortega, Louie Rodriguez,” Huppenthal continued. “Those were my buddies for eight straight years.”

You will recall that Thucky’s name dropping of Tucsonans was one way that he screwed up in his blog troll comments and we were able to identify him as Huppenthal. He is hoping that voters have forgotten about the “ThuckyGate” controversy.

Based upon the questions from reporters at his press conference, it looks like this ain’t happening. It’s time to kick the corrupt Huppenthal to the curb.