Portrait Of Gabrielle Giffords: Democrat Who Repeatedly Won In Conservative District

Giffords: Dem who wins in conservative district
(01-09) 04:04 PST PHOENIX (AP) -- Gabrielle Giffords, one of her state's most high-profile Democrats, seems at first glance to be an unlikely choice of voters in conservative-leaning southern Arizona. But she has managed to remain popular, winning election three times in the Tucson-area Congressional District by holding Centrist positions, reaching out to constituents and bucking her party's position on many issues as a key member of the "Blue Dog Coalition" Democrats. She has been tough on bo...

Giffords Opposed D.C. Handgun Ban; Tough on Border Security, But Supports Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Sunday, January 09, 2011 By Bob Christie and Paul Davenport, Associated Press Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., at her swearing in on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2011. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Phoenix (AP) - Gabrielle Giffords, one of her state's most high-profile Democrats, seems at first glance to be an unlikely choice of voters in conservative-leaning southern Arizona. But she has managed to remain popular, winning election three times in the Tucson-area Congressional District by ho...

Giffords: Dem who wins in conservative district
PHOENIX (AP) - Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, one of Arizona's most high-profile Democats, always has seemed an unlikely voter choice in the state's conservative-leaning 8th Congressional District. But the Democrat from Tucson has managed to win election three times by holding Centrist positions, reaching out to constituents and bucking her party's position on many issues as a key member of the "Blue Dog Coalition" Democrats. She has been tough on Border Security, but supports comprehensive immigrat...

Giffords: Dem who wins in conservative district
PHOENIX (AP) — Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, one of Arizona’s most high-profile Democats, always has seemed an unlikely voter choice in the state’s conservative-leaning 8th Congressional District. But the Democrat from Tucson has managed to win election three times by holding Centrist positions, reaching out to constituents and bucking her party’s position on many issues as a key member of the “Blue Dog Coalition” Democrats. She has been tough on Border Security, b...

Giffords: An unlikely Democratic choice in a conservative state
Gabrielle Giffords, one of her state’s most high-profile Democrats, seems at first glance to be an unlikely choice of voters in conservative-leaning southern Arizona. But she has managed to remain popular, winning election three times in the Tucson-area Congressional District by holding Centrist positions, reaching out to constituents and bucking her party’s position on many issues as a key member of the “Blue Dog Coalition” Democrats. She has been tough on border securit...

Alaska, Gabrielle Giffords and Sarah Palins Map
There wasn’t much that was amusing about the finale of Sarah Palin’s Alaska.  It was hard to find anything to latch onto, hard to find that moment that revealed what her true agenda really was or that quirky exchange that revealed how much her Children really do resent her.  My inability to critically connect was the result of the overwhelming feeling that the shootings in Arizona were always there in the backdrop.  And, I simply couldn’t remove the image of Sara...

Shooting could tame tough political rhetoric
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Protesters parade an altered photo of President Barack Obama sporting an Adolf Hitler-like mustache. A Candidate for the Senate muses about gun "remedies" if Election Results don't go the right way. Members of Congress are spat on and taunted with racial epithets before casting votes for a Healthcare Reform bill. Welcome to politics American-style. For the past few years, some public officeholders and pundits have warned that the political Rhetoric has gotten a little too ...

Arizona Sheriff Admits There's No Evidence 'Vitriolic Rhetoric' Incited Giffords Shooter
Since making his claim Saturday that the Tucson shootings were caused by "vitriolic Rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business," Pima County Arizona Sheriff Clarence Dupnik has become a media darling being regularly quoted by press outlets from coast to coast. Megyn Kelly: I just want to ask you whether there’s anything you’ve uncovered in your investigation so far that suggests the suspected killer was list...

Arizona saddled with reputation as Wild West
TUSCON, Ariz. - In the wake of the Mass Shooting that critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and left six dead, the nation looks upon the Grand Canyon State with perplexity, if not disgust. For the Arizona tragedy has revealed a roiling political culture marked by extraordinary anger and a toxic dialogue over issues ranging from Immigration to the role of government to Gun Ownership rights, leading many to wonder what role all of it played in influencing a deranged gunman to shoot a congre...

Gabrielle Giffords and Political Courage
I have little to add to the ongoing discussions about the horrible events that occurred in Tucson yesterday. I would strongly encourage everyone to read James Fallows' piece on political shootings. I assume we'll learn more in the coming days and weeks about the shooter's motivations, but chances are, they won't turn out to be much more intelligible than they seem today. I did want to mention one thing about Giffords -- her political courage. She represents a district that McCain won in 2008 an...

Gabrielle Giffords' shooting leads lawmakers to carry weapons
WASHINGTON - Two lawmakers said Sunday they'll pack heat back home after the deadly attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. The decision by Reps. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) raises new questions about whether lawmakers should carry guns for self defense - or need to. "After the Elections, I let my guard down," Shuler, an ex-NFL player, told Politico. "Now I know I need to have [my gun] on me." Shuler and Chaffetz won't be the first lawmakers to be strapped. The U.S. Marsh...

Weekend rampage brings calls to cool rhetoric, add security for lawmakers
The Assassination attempt on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords over the weekend prompted lawmakers on Sunday to blame, in part, the nation's political Rhetoric as overheated and also push such issues as congressional security and gun-control laws. "We need to stop, pause and reflect," Sen. Lamar Alexander, Tennessee Republican, said just hours after leaders of the Republican-controlled House announced there will be no votes this week in the chamber, including one scheduled to Repeal the Health Care law. T...

Giffords a leading voce in immigration debate
U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) (center), who was shot during an appearance in Tucson, Arizona on January 8, 2011 is seen meeting with constituents in Douglas, Arizona in an undated 2010 handout photo provided by her congressional campaign. Rep. Giffords, 40, a Democrat, took office in January 2007, emphasizing issues such as Immigration Reform, embryonic stem-cell research, Alternative Energy sources and a higher Minimum Wage. Giffords was alive but in surgery at a Hospital on Sat...

Gabrielle Giffords: Who is She?
Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona is in critical condition today after being shot in the head during a town hall-style meeting with her constituents in Tuscon. The 40-year-old Democrat, born and raised in Arizona, has built a reputation as a true Centrist. She supported President Obama last year on Controversial issues like Health Care reform, but she has also taken a firm stance on ratcheting up security along the U.S.-Mexico border. "Whether you are a Republican rancher, an indepen...

No More Mister Nice Blog
PICK YOUR FALLACY: EITHER PALIN IS TO BLAME OR EVERYONE IS TO BLAME Look, it's not as if I'll shed a tear if Sarah Palin continues to take heat for including Gabrielle Giffords on her crosshair map -- she's gotten away with so much poisonous Rhetoric for so long, Rhetoric that's actually harming the country, that a wave of genuinely bad press coverage that she can't dodge or explain away would be karmically appropriate. And yet I continue to suspect that she had nothing to do with the Tucson s...

Shooting spotlights 'toxic' US politics
A debate has erupted in the US over whether an inflamed political climate influenced a gunman to shoot a congresswoman and 19 other people in Arizona. From the left and the right, politicians and commentators seized on the attempted Assassination of Representative Gabrielle Giffords on Saturday as either a reflection of the passions stirred up by rabble-rousing Conservatives or the isolated act of an unhinged psychopath. Liberals highlighted a map posted online ahead of the November Elections by...

Bulls-Mouth
Excerpts From A Time For Choosing By Gary P Jackson The radical left and their allies in the media have been working over time trying to blame the tragic mass Murder in Arizona Saturday morning on Sarah Palin. The “smoking gun” they claim is the “Take Back The 20” campaign Sarah launched last year. This was an effort to defeat vulnerable Democrats in Congressional Districts that she and John McCain won in 2008. It was a targeted effort. Most ad campaigns for ANYTHING are targeted e

Gabrielle Giffords: Tragic Prophet
Emergency personnel attend to a Shooting Victim outside a shopping center in Tucson, Ariz. on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011 where U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and others were shot as the congresswoman was meeting with constituents. Editor’s note: This is a special E.J. Dionne column written after the deadly shooting Saturday in Arizona. To read a 2009 column by the same author about the threat of such violence in our politics, click here. There is one commentator whose words should enl...

US charges sole gunman in lawmaker shooting
US prosecutors charged a lone young gunman over the attempted Assassination of a congresswoman as doctors voiced guarded hope she would recover from the attack that killed six others. President Barack Obama called on Americans to observe a moment of silence on Monday for Victims of the attack in Arizona as some officials asked if the nation's often divisive politics had spiraled out of control. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, 40, was in an induced coma as doctors treated bullet wounds to he...

Tea party's message: Don't blame us
Across the political spectrum, the first reactions to the news of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ shooting Saturday were horror and grief. For many in the Tea Party movement, another reaction quickly followed: Don’t try blaming this on us, too. The Populist Conservative Movement – which exploded across the political landscape in 2009 in angry opposition to what Activists saw as the overreaching Big Government agenda pushed by President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats &ndash...;

GOP lawmakers: Shooting not a result of lax gun laws
Congressional Republicans said Sunday that the weekend shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Arizona Democrat, was not the result of lax U.S. Gun Laws and that the incident should not result in tougher regulations. We have to be careful, Rep. Raul Lab......

Will's Links
From Will at The Other News: Hospital: Rep. Giffords expected to recover from Tucson shooting that killed six including a child and Federal Judge Tucson - The surgeon who operated on Arizona Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords said he was "optimistic" she would recover from being shot in the head by a man with a semi-automatic weapon outside a Grocery Store.Six others at the congressional outreach event did not. Federal Law Enforcement sources said that John M. Roll, the senior U.S. District j...

Arizona tragedy gives Congress a moment to pause
(01-09) 18:12 PST WASHINGTON, CA (AP) -- The shooting rampage in Arizona seems to have created a reset moment for confrontational politics, as lawmakers reflect on the repercussions of the overheated Rhetoric traded on the airwaves and on the Campaign Trail. Members of Congress from both parties called Sunday for civility over belligerence as the House temporarily shelved the contentious debate over repealing the Health Care law and lawmakers paused to contemplate the tragedy. Critically wound...

Congressthingy Carolyn McCarthy (D-imwit) To Push Gun Control Bill
(Politico) - One of the fiercest gun-control advocates in Congress, Rep. Carolyn Mccarthy (D-N.Y.), pounced on the shooting massacre in Tucson Sunday, promising to introduce Legislation as soon as Monday. McCarthy ran for Congress after her husband was gunned down and her son seriously injured in a shooting in 1993 on a Long Island commuter train. “My staff is working on looking at the different Legislation fixes that we might be able to do and we might be able to introduce as early...

'My assassination' message found as charges laid over mall rampage
Provide feedback to the multimedia producers. Thank you. Your feedback was successfully sent. Video will begin in 5 seconds. What type of connection do you have? Your video format settings have been saved. An Arizona sheriff and a former classmate describe the alleged gunman involved in the shooting of a US lawmaker at the weekend. Federal Prosecutors in the US have brought charges against the gunman accused of attempting to assassinate congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and killing six people at ...