Jan Brewer

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Janice Kay "Jan" Brewer (born September 26, 1944 in Hollywood , California ) is an American politician of the Republican Party . She was governor of the state of Arizona from 2009 to 2015 .

The Arizona constitution does not provide for the post of lieutenant governor , so when Democrat Janet Napolitano left her post as governor to join the Department of Homeland Security , Brewer succeeded her as Secretary of State of Arizona.

Early years and political advancement

Brewer, daughter of Perry and Edna Drinkwine, was born on September 26, 1944 in Los Angeles . Her father died of a respiratory disease when she was eleven years old. She married John Brewer and worked in Glendale, California before moving to his hometown of Phoenix with her husband in 1970 . They later moved to Glendale, Arizona where he became a successful chiropractor and real estate agent. She has three sons, one of whom died in 2007.

Brewer decided to embark on a political career in 1982 when she ran for a seat in the House of Representatives from Arizona , where she remained after a successful election until 1986. She then held a seat in the Arizona Senate from 1987 to 1996 . During her last three years as a Senator, she held the position of Majority Whip . Brewer then ran for chairmanship of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors in 1996 , defeated incumbent Ed King and served there for six years. She was elected Secretary of State of Arizona in 2002 and held this office from 2003 to early 2009. She also represented her state at the Republican National Convention in 2004 .

Brewer is a member of the following organizations: Luke Fighter Country Partnership , Hope and a Future , Child Help USA , Arizonans for Children , Arrowhead Republican Women's Club , the Maricopa County SMI Commission , the Arizona Rifle and Pistol Association, and the Japanese-American Citizens League . She is also a member of the Christ Lutheran Church in Peoria .

Governor of Arizona

Governor Janet Napolitano was appointed Secretary of Homeland Security by US President Barack Obama , so that on January 21, 2009 Brewer officially became Governor of Arizona. She is the third consecutive female governor of Arizona and the fourth female governor in the state. After the end of the current term of office, she successfully ran for a full four years as head of government. On November 2, 2010, Brewer was re-elected with 54 percent of the vote, defeating Democrat Terry Goddard . In January 2011, she then took on a full term.

Brewer's term expired on January 5, 2015 after she was banned from running for the November 2014 gubernatorial election . Her Republican party colleague Doug Ducey was elected as the new governor .

Immigration law

A conflict has arisen with the federal authorities over a tightened immigration law for Arizona. According to Karl Manheim, a law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, the state is responsible for regulating immigration.

The law states that the police should arrest anyone they suspect of being illegally in the country. Opponents of the law in the United States such as former Mexican President Felipe Calderón (2006–2012) consider it to be racially discriminatory and have called for a boycott of Arizona.

Controversy

After being labeled a Nazi in connection with the signing of the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act, Brewer responded indignantly, claiming that her father died fighting Nazi Germany. In fact, her father had died of lung cancer in 1955. Brewer's spokesman later said that she was misleading. After Brewer claimed, "Our law enforcement agencies found beheaded bodies in the desert," a team of Fox News journalists investigated the claim. The journalists concluded that a human skull had been found in the past two years. Here animals would have partially eaten a corpse. Six medics from Yuma, Pima, Santa Cruz, Cochise, Pinal and Maricopa said they had not received any reports of beheaded people. Brewer later said, “That was a mistake. But let me make one thing clear: I'm worried about the border region. There is supposed to be a lot of violence in Mexico and we don't want that in Arizona. "

death penalty

Of the 37 people executed by the death penalty in Arizona since 1976, 14 were killed during her tenure. That corresponds to 37 percent.

Number of executions per year during her tenure:

year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
number 1 4th 6th 2 1

After the governorship

After her tenure as governor ended in January 2015, Brewer largely withdrew into private life. As part of the Republican primaries for the 2016 US presidential election , she declared her support for real estate billionaire Donald Trump at the end of February 2016 . According to the former governor, the New York businessman had put forward the most effective proposal for combating illegal immigration and border crime , especially with his proposal to build a wall on the Mexican border .

Web links

Commons : Jan Brewer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Napolitano tells staff not to be distracted. In: KTAR , November 20, 2008 (English).
  2. ↑ Laura Meckler, Miriam Jordan: Obama Blasts Arizona Law. In: The Wall Street Journal , April 24, 2010.
  3. ↑ Tim Reid: Calls to boycott Arizona after Governor signs new immigration law. ( Memento from May 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: The Times via Archive.is , April 29, 2010 (English).
  4. ↑ Bruce Drake: Jan Brewer Claims Her Father 'Died Fighting the Nazi Regime' . Politicsdaily.com. Retrieved July 19, 2013.
  5. ^ Jan Brewer: I Made "Error" in Beheadings Claim . In: CBS News , September 3, 2010. Retrieved September 11, 2010. 
  6. ↑ Jan Brewer endorses Donald Trump , Politico, February 27, 2016 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Brewer, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brewer, Janice Kay (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Republican Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Hollywood , California