How dare she deny Schumer his golden opportunity to pander to the party’s far-left base!
(The Hill) — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is not done calling out Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer for turning down his request to testify before a Senate hearing on immigration legislation.
Schumer’s office announced on Tuesday that former Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce (R), one of the authors of Arizona’s controversial immigration bill, will testify on the bill before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security.
“Other Arizona officials responsible for this law are willing to come and defend it, but not Gov. Brewer,” Schumer said in a statement on Tuesday. “The governor is the one who signed this bill into law; she shouldn’t leave the defense of it to others.”
Brewer’s spokesman said last month that the governor would turn down the invitation to testify at the hearing because the timing of the hearing, scheduled for April 24, the day before the Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments in defense of the law, gave it “every mark of a publicity stunt.”