Arizona’s Republican Gov. Jan Brewer made news earlier this year when she claimed that the deserts in her state were littered with headless bodies — corpse of the victims of bloodthirsty illegal aliens who were crossing the border to wreak havoc on Arizonans. And though that claim was proven to be false, she never admitted she had lied.
In an interview on with Greta Van Susteren on Fox this week, Brewer has been caught lying again. This time, she has falsely claimed that Arizona is continuing to pay for life-saving transplant operations for state residents who can’t afford them:
GOV. JAN BREWER: It’s part of the Cadillac program that Arizona has. Even your private insurance don’t cover a lot of those procedures. A lot of those transplants are being provided in the state of Arizona.
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN: By the state of Arizona or privately?
BREWER: By the state of Arizona. We provide heart transplants, liver, kidney transplants, pancreas and kidney.
OLBERMANN: The state is absolutely not providing a liver transplant to Francisco Felix or a heart transplant to Randy Sheppard.
Rough transcript from MSBNC:
>>>> an arizona columnist is calling her governor grim reaper. there are 100 people living in arizona who don’t know if they’ll make it another 32 days for the arizona legislature to remedy the death panel created by governor jan brewer. the only hope before then is for brewer to cut state funding for transplants in a special session. in the third story, the governor continues to refuse to do that. it’s not clear if she’s aware of the conditions affecting the people she’s representing. state funding for certain organ transplants halted at the direction of arizona’s legislature and governor brewer. some 98, mostly lower-income people were kicked often the donor on list. if they want new organs, they have to come up with the money themselves. the governor ignored suggestions for finding 5,000 people that would restore the people to the state’s donor list. the governor refuses to say where additional money is allocated. the governor says the state transplants are optional and something the state can’t afford, like a cattle act.
>> it’s part of the cadillac program that arizona has. even your private insurance don’t cover a lot of those procedures. a lot of those transplants are being provided in the state of arizona?
>> by the state of arizona or privately?
>> by the stays of arizona. we provide heart transplants, liver, kidney transplants, pancreas and kidney.
>> the state is absolutely not providing a liver transplant to francisco or a heart transplant to randy sheppard. both appeared on this broadcast with their families last month. on tuesday, along sided tiffany tate, the men held a news conference with democratic lawmakers.
>> i’m not here on my behalf to fight for my case. i’m here to fight for my kids’ father. i have three children who need me.
>> sandra spoke on behalf of her uncle and about governor brewer.
>> she thinks it’s an option. everyone who voted with her thinks it’s an option. i don’t think it’s an option for anyone’s kids or anyone’s parents, family members to have to deal with what we’re all going through.
>> joining me from tucson, david hernandez. six months ago, arizona told him he was a candidate for a lung transplant. then they reversed themselves and said he would have to fund it himself.
>> how are you feeling?
>> pretty good tonight. thank god i’m here today on the show.
>> your condition is called interstitial fibrosis. how would a lung transplant help you?
>> it would help me to breathe again and keep my life going. without it, there’s scar tissue. what happens is it just keeps on going up your lungs. as much as it moves up, it’s getti deadening the whole scar tissue. once that’s done, the breathing cells are done. it looks spotty. looks like it’s going away on the x-rays, that part down there is gone, a quarter of it. it keeps on going until you get to the point where you can’t breathe anymore. it’s been getting worse and worse.
>> the governor still insists that transplants, even lung transplants like the one you have been denied are optional. what do you say to that? when you hear that word, optional?
>> it can’t be optional. it’s not like going to dairy queen or something. this is life or death. optional. if you need it to save your life, you’ve got to have it. these turn-downs that they did, access, i think they made their decision too quick. they need to get some experts together and check their options out. the hospitals are saying, we can save you this much money from doing this way. i don’t think jan brewer yet gave them a phone call back yet.
>> you have a rather large family. five children, four grandchildren. how have they been helping you through this?
>> a lot of support. we all get up and walk. we do a lot of stuff together. support. we don’t have a lot of money. you support yourself with family and love. but to hear something like this, it’s like a ton of bricks right on your back. but on the positive side, it will change. you know, we live in america, the united states. this is the best country. so when everybody hears this, you know, to me it’s going to change. i know this is going to change. going back to the family. they just give me a lot of support, a lot of phone calls. dad, do you need anything, this and that? stuff i used to do. a lot of construction and heavy equipment operating, always digging. i was always busy. i was always you gone at 3:00 in the morning. that stopped. that all stopped. you just wake up. you’re trying to figure out, what am i going to do today? you get busy. to get this from the state, that we were on the list was one thing. it was great. even loved it. to get that letter back again saying, if you don’t hurry up and get this before october 1st, you’re done. that’s not the way the transplants work. nobody is going to rush out there and do that. it comes when it comes. we’re locked out. we’re locked out until they do something about it. it’s going national. i love it. now more people are going to start hearing it and not just hidden here in arizona.
>> amen. david hernandez, many thanks for your time this evening and good luck.
>>> and the generosity of you viewers to all the arizona residents continues to inspire and overwhelm us. the national transplant assistance fund has received $150,000 that will go toward funding the transplant surgeries for randy and francisco and tiffany. david hernandez has his own found. ntafund.org or call them at that number.
1-800-642-8399.
This video should be shown on the largest LCD screen and played 24/7/365 in front of Palin’s house in Wasilla, because this was her creation that she sold to the lazy and gullible during the HCR debate. I seriously doubt whether those who voted for Brewer last month care about their fellow citizens having their transplant procedures cancelled. I’ve found that with many people, they’re fine with it happening to someone else and their family as long as it doesn’t happen to them and their family. And these kind of folks are in church almost every time the doors are open, but they never stop to ask themselves who among the sick would Jesus refuse to heal?
I pray to the baby Jesus jan brewer gets terminal cunt cancer.
Power to the people…all you have to do is stand up for yourself and others who can’t stand up for themselves because they are too sick. This is NOT right people! Get a grip Gov. Brewer…you have NO RIGHT to sentence people to their death!! What an idiot!!
Go Baby Jesus and Bamboo Harvester!
Jan Brewer should be made to account for the money her state has recieved. She allocated a large portion of it to the Arizona prizon system, more interested in imprisioning than saving the lives of people in need of organ transplants.
She has $30 million unaccounted for. Where is it? $5 million would benefit those whose lives will be cut short without necessary transplants.
terminal cunt cancer would be poetic, since she is one