{"id":12511,"date":"2012-01-30T15:46:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T20:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12511"},"modified":"2012-01-30T15:46:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T20:46:39","slug":"president-obama-arizona-gov-jan-brewer-share-tense-tarmac-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12511","title":{"rendered":"President Obama, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Share Tense Tarmac Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longstanding tension between Republican Arizona <strong>Gov. Jan Brewer<\/strong> and <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong> flared into the public spotlight just after Air Force One touched down in Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>Brewer, who was on the tarmac to greet<strong> Obama<\/strong>, hand-delivered a letter before engaging the president \u201cintensely\u201d for several minutes, including pointing her finger directly at him.<\/p>\n<p>Accounts from both camps later said the terse talk focused on Brewer\u2019s book \u2014 \u201c<em>Scorpions for Breakfast: My Fight Against Special Interests, Liberal Media and Cynical Politicos to Secure America\u2019s Border<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book, which was released in November, describes a June 2010 Oval Office meeting between <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> and <strong>Brewer<\/strong> aimed at diffusing conflicts surrounding Arizona\u2019s controversial state immigration law and the administration\u2019s immigration policy.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the White House called it a \u201cgood meeting,\u201d while<strong> Brewer\u2019s<\/strong> staff said it was \u201ccordial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But <strong>Brewer<\/strong> paints a much different picture in her book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brewer<\/strong> complains in<em> \u201cScorpions for Breakfast<\/em>\u201d that she and her staff were treated coldly by White House aides, prevented from taking pictures in the holding room outside the Oval Office and that their cell phones and cameras were\u00a0 \u201cconfiscated\u201d by Secret Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToo bad we weren\u2019t illegal aliens, or we could have sued them,\u201d she writes.<\/p>\n<p>During her meeting with the president, <strong>Brewer<\/strong> said <strong>Pres. Obama<\/strong> was \u201ccondescending\u201d and professorial, \u201clecturing\u201d on his efforts to promote comprehensive immigration reform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longstanding tension between Republican Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and President Barack Obama flared into the public spotlight just after Air Force One touched down in Phoenix. Brewer, who was on the tarmac to greet Obama, hand-delivered a letter before engaging the president \u201cintensely\u201d for several minutes, including pointing her finger directly at him. Accounts from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}