Tomorrow at 1:30 PM MST, American Bridge 21st Century will host an audio protest outside Rep. Martha McSally’s campaign event in Scottsdale, Arizona. The event is co-hosted by NextGen America.

American Bridge will force McSally to confront the ramifications of President Trump’s cruel immigration policy by playing audio recorded by ProPublica of migrant children separated from their families.

“McSally may have glossed over Trump’s cruelty in her public statements, but we will force her to confront the consequences of her inaction firsthand,” said American Bridge spokesperson Amelia Penniman.“The heartbreaking audio we will play sends a powerful message: voters will not forget that McSally refused to stand up to Trump with young lives on the line.”

WHAT: American Bridge audio protest

WHEN: TOMORROW, June 23, at 1:30 PM MST

WHERE: Denny’s
7000 E. Mayo Blvd
Scottsdale, Arizona

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Rep. Martha McSally failed a basic leadership test this week: with young lives at stake, she chose to prioritize her political career over families cruelly separated by the Trump administration.

McSally’s feckless political opportunism hasn’t gone unnoticed. Here’s what Arizonans are reading this morning:

Arizona Daily Star: Steller’s Friday Notebook: Who took a stand, fell in line on familyseparation?
By Tim Steller | June 22, 2018

“The policy of deliberately separating children from their parents, turning children accompanied by their families into unaccompanied children — that’s not so complicated.”
“And it served as a gut check for Arizona politicians, one of those rare issues in immigration where…there was a clear right or wrong answer.”

“Rep. Martha McSally, the congresswoman who is running for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate, said Monday: ‘We need to enforce our lawsin a consistent and humane manner, and DHS should […]

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After a botched attempt to remake herself as an immigration hardliner, D.C. insiders are trying to makeover McSally’s image

Rep. Martha McSally has spent much of her Senate primary staving off attacks from her opponents that she’s too soft on immigration. In her desperation to win the primary, she’s committed herself to a new hardliner persona — even going so far as to scrub a video in which she praised DACA from her official pages. She won’t explain why she removed the video — and her office is perpetually unreachable.

McSally’s “virtually unrecognizable” flip-flopping is so egregious, Sen. Mitch McConnell and his allies are wading in in an attempt to rescue her campaign.

Politico writes:

“Allies of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell dove into the middle of a major Senate race Thursday, airing ads to help remake Rep. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.) as a border […]

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Rep. Martha McSally has endured weeks of bad press after she scrubbed her official accounts of a year-old video in which she endorsed a path to citizenship for DACA recipients — a position that doesn’t jibe with her new extremist views on immigration.

We went to Capitol Hill to ask McSally herself: “Why’d you take that video off your website?”

And McSally directed us to contact her team. But there’s just one problem: asked multiple times why the video was removed, McSally’s office has offered nothing but crickets:

CNN: “Representatives of McSally’s office and her Senate campaign did not respondto CNN’s multiple requests for comment.”
Arizona Republic: “McSally’s office did not respond to repeated requests for comment.”
The Hill: “McSally’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the 2017 video.”
Newsweek: “McSally’s office did not respond to a request for comment.”
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“Martha McSally’s taken her already blatant immigration flip-flop a step further — actually erasing evidence that she once supported a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers,” said American Bridge spokesperson Amelia Penniman. “McSally’s political pandering is transparent and cynical. Even worse, in her rush to embrace a new right-wing persona to compete with her extreme primary opponents, McSally has harmed thousands of Dreamers.”

CNN: GOP Senate candidate Martha McSally’s office removes video of her praising DACA

By Nathan McDermott | June 7, 2018

Martha McSally “has removed from public view a video on YouTube of her defending the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.”

“A press release from her office in June 2017, before her Senate bid, highlighted McSally’s questioning of then-Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly about immigration and border issues at a House committee hearing.”

“‘These children were brought here at no fault of their own. In Arizona, there are 57,000 of them,’ McSally said […]

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“Martha McSally’s hypocrisy seemingly knows no end. Between her blatant flip-flop on DACA and her shoddy coverup of a mortgage that doesn’t seem to exist, McSally is making a powerful case to Arizonans that she can’t be trusted,” said American Bridge spokesperson Amelia Penniman. 

ThinkProgress: Arizona Senate candidate kept talking about her mortgage. We can’t find it anywhere.
Josh Israel | May 15, 2018

Martha McSally “promised during her 2012 Congressional campaign that ‘truthfulness’ and ‘integrity’ would be ‘core values’ of her campaigns. But that truthfulness may not have applied to her required disclosure statements.”
“As a House candidate, McSally argued that the federal government should not take action to help underwater mortgage holders — even those who were victims of predatory lending and misleading terms — because she believed in ‘individual responsibility.’”
In 2012, McSally “noted that she could relate to those who owed more on their mortgages than the properties were even worth because […]

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