Posts Tagged ‘Steve Farley’

Farley’s at it again. On the Friday roundtable Farley dropped a story about a 16 year old that won’t get a heart lung transfer because of budget cuts.  Given his track record for throwing out sensational stories we’re starting to wonder if these things are even true.

Obama used this technique during his campaign to relate with his audience by talking about ‘Martha from Podunk loosing her job because of a big bad corporation….blah blah blah’.

We did a post a while back about his interview on AZ Illustrated with Representative Frank Antenori. Farley told a story about his daughter and sadness about TUSD teacher cuts. Antenori points out the cuts are due to loss of students by TUSD caused by a myriad of reasons including people switching away from ineffective schools and choosing charter schools and leaving the community for greener pastures.

A few months back, the Star’s Scarpinato called him for embelishing a story on his weekly “Farley Report”:

Well, in Rep. Steve Farley‘s latest “Farley Report” that he emails to constituents and supporters, the Tucson Democrat recalls the incident. But most of the reporters saw one glaring fabrication in his retelling.

“As she told her story, even hardened Capitol reporters were brought to tears,” Farley wrote.

Farley is away in Ireland for a week and has not yet responded to an email asking for details. But no one — including this reporter — remember reporters turning on the waterworks, although Becca’s compelling story clearly did move many of the lawmakers in the room.

Both the “hardened” reporters — and those of us of softy sorts — stayed composed from what we remember.

Antenori and Farley were on Arizona Illustrated back in March (at 9:29) talking about the State Budget. Farley relayed a story about his young daughter coming home one day from school sad over a favorite teacher that had been let go due to budget layoffs. Antenori responded that state cuts to education to date have been minuscule and the real reason for TUSD’s layoffs were caused by 1600 less students choosing charter schools or moving away.  The drama was in full swing from the Farley camp.

It appears that Farley’s up to it the high drama again. This time Scarpinato took a swipe at him.

Better than the big summer blockbuster.

Dry eyes in the House…