We will leave it up to the reader to determine whether Jon Kyl has made serious errors in in judgment. Jon has supported a Conservative Far Right Christian position especially when it comes to Church and State issues. But, it is apparent from the data collected, that the first amendment may be in danger from his past and future actions as well as other constitutional sections. He has supported deregulation of banks and the SEC causing the current economic Depression. He has placed lies and other non-factual comments in the congressional record by reading them on the floor of congress.

He eats small children for Breakfast (that last is #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement). In fact everything Jon Kyle says from now on is suspect! We know he lies since he admitted it!!!! Jon Kyl's office stated that his position is that Certain Religions aren't "Real" religions. What is a real religion, Mr. Kyl? What you have been practicing? Does it condone Lying to the American public? He says on the one hand that only certain Christian denominations are valid. Read the following and remember: "By their Works may they be known." This is a summary of information collected from several sources about Jon Kyl.

(Remember it is best to investigate on your own when looking at allegations about anyone. Don't believe us, think for yourself and investigate for yourself! And remember, the First Amendment Coalition and Religious Freedom Coalition of the South East do not represent any political party nor do we recommend any political candidate, nor are we involving ourselves in the political process.)

Jon Kyl Is Sorry If He Gave Anyone The Impression That The Things He Says In Public Are Factual

This piece contains excerpts from an article on huffingtonpost.com posted 04/08/2011.

As you may recall, during the lengthy Pap Smear Armageddon/Government Shutdown 2011 pageant play, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) stood on the floor of the upper chamber, telling the C-Span cameras and gathered attendees that abortion was "well over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does."

That prompted many people to remark, "Uhm, actually, you have got those statistics just about as wrong as you possibly could."

But now, Kyl's office has walked back the statement, in perhaps the most hilarious and cowardly way possible. Alex Seitz-Wald, at ThinkProgress said it best:

This afternoon, CNN brought on Planned Parenthood's Judy Tabar to discuss his comment. During the interview, CNN anchor Don Lemon relayed a statement from Kyl's office walking back the comment, claiming the statement was not meant to be "factual":
LEMON: We did call his office trying to ask what he was talking about there. And I just want to give it you verbatim here. It says, 'his remark was not intended to be a factual statement, but rather to illustrate that Planned Parenthood, a organization that receives millions of dollars in taxpayer funding, does subsidize abortions.'

Oh, ha ha, did you think that the things Kyl says aloud on television that go into the Congressional Record and that he attaches his name to are meant to be some sort of true facts or something? Well, the joke's on you, because sometimes, Jon Kyl just likes to spit straight verbal nonsense at you to "illustrate" things that he wishes were true, but aren't.

Once upon a time, a Jon Kyl would call this little move of his "Clintonian," so maybe we have to chalk this up to 1995 shutdown nostalgia. But noted: most of what Jon Kyl says on the Senate floor is intended to be complete horsecrap.

By the way, Jon Kyle, you must have missed this somehow:

   JOB 13

   [4] But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no
   value. [5] O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it
   should be your wisdom. [6] Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to
   the pleadings of my lips. [7] Will ye speak wickedly for God?
   and talk deceitfully for him? [8] Will ye accept his person?
   will ye contend for God? [9] Is it good that he should search
   you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? [10]
   He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
   [11] Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread
   fall upon you? [12] Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your
   bodies to bodies of clay.

#NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement: Stephen Colbert's Best Non-Facts About Sen. Jon Kyl (TWEETS)

An excerpt of a note posted on the Colbert Report 04-13-11

When Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) made the claim that "well over 90%" of Planned Parenthood's activity is devoted to abortion, he could never have imagined that a firestorm would erupt. The real number of around 3%, none of which is subsidized by federal funds, is the actual truth.

In an attempt to backpedal, Kyl's office clarified that the Senator's claim was "not intended to be a factual statement." (Obviously, citizens should expect their elected officials to knowingly tell giant lies on the floor of the Senate during speeches, and it's excusable as long as the lie fits their party's narrative? Simple!) Nobody had more fun with this exercise in vanity than Stephen Colbert, who lambasted Kyl on his show in his typical satirical manner.

He then took the joke to Twitter, where he spent all of Tuesday unleashing a string of falsities using Kyl's favorite catchphrase: "Not intended to be a factual statement." Vote for your favorite, and watch Colbert's hilarious follow-up segment from his Wednesday night show here.

Senator Kyle and Republican Party Supports Rape by Defense Contractors!!!

I think that all homo sapiens can understand how the mere thought of an organization that receives government money through contract mechanisms being tangentially involved in setting up a fake tax shelter for a fake pimp and his fake prostitution ring of fake prostitutes can justifiably lead to lawmakers going absolutely cross-eyed with white-hot, impotent rage. But what happens when a similarly taxpayer-endowed contractor attempts to cover up employee-on-employee gang rape by locking up the victim in a shipping container without food and water and threatening her with reprisals if she report the incident? Somehow, it doesn't engender the same level of anger!

30 misogynist Republicans in the U.S. Senate are totally OK with rape, at least where women are concerned. Predictably in yet another routine attempt to serve their corporate masters, (this time the GOP stood by Halliburton) Republicans voted against women and for corporate contempt of rape victims.

Some Republican senators are taking heat for voting against an amendment that would allow employees of military contractors to sue their employers if they are raped at work -- and they want the Democratic senator who wrote the amendment to help them fight off the bad publicity.
In October, 30 Republicans voted against Sen. Al Franken's amendment to a defense appropriations bill that would de-fund contractors who prevent their employees from suing if they are raped by co-workers. Since then, those Republicans have faced outrage for what critics say amounts to support for rape.

Instead of standing up to take responsibility for or clarifying their disgraceful votes, Republican cowards are instead attacking Al Franken, blaming him for their votes.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) accused Franken exploiting the story of Jamie Leigh Jones -- a former KBR employee who says she was locked in a container in Iraq after alleging she was raped by co-workers -- to further his political agenda.
"Trying to tap into the natural sympathy that we have for this victim of this rape --and use that as a justification to frankly misrepresent and embarrass his colleagues, I don't think it's a very constructive thing," Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said in an interview.

I guess Franken held a sledge hammer over Cornyn's head and said if he did not vote against the anti-rape amendment Franken would crack it over his head.

What shameless cowards.

To summarize the Republican position: As women, we are not "average Americans," and gang rape is not a "serious" issue. As women, no matter how powerful we become on our own merits, the Republican establishment will still be hoping for a man to come along and put us in our place.

Not every Republican signs onto these views -- indeed, 10 Senate Republicans voted for the Franken amendment, giving the lie to the NRSC's claim of partisanship -- but this is the undercurrent of the party's policies. This is what they're hoping to get voters to overlook when they run a Sarah Palin or a Kelly Ayotte for office. This is why Bob McDonnell's campaign for Virginia governor has been such a popular campaign stop for 2012 prospects: because of, not despite, his opposition to marital contraception and women in the workplace. This is why David Vitter (who voted against the Franken amendment) is still a senator in good standing with the party of alleged sexual morality.

You don't have to go very far beneath the Republican surface claims of equality-but-not-really to get to the rock-bottom sense that women just don't count, that our rights and our wellbeing are always subordinate to whatever interest of men they might conflict with. When it comes to it, even the (themselves sexist) notions of chivalry and protecting women come behind protecting the right of corporations to imprison their female employees to shield their male employees from rape charges and still get government contracts.

Credit new Senator Al Franken however, for introducing an amendment to the Defense Appropriations bill that would punish contractors if they "restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court." You'd think that this would be a no-brainer, actually, but that didn't stop Jeff Sessions from labeling Franken's effort a "political attack directed at Halliburton." Franken, of course, pointed out that his amendment would apply broadly, to all contractors, because otherwise, 'twould be a bill of attainder, right? Right?

Franken's amendment ended up passing, 68-30. Here's a list of the Senators who showed broad support for Rapists and Pedophiles by voting against it: (Click on their names to find out more about them).

Alexander (R-TN)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Kyl (R-AZ)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)

ADDENDUM: It's been pointed out to me that the U.S. Chamber of Commerce lobbied against the Franken amendment as well:

Republicans point out that the amendment was opposed by a host of business interests, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and applies to a wide range of companies, including IBM and Boeing.

I guess we must cover up crimes like rape in order to save capitalism.

PREVIOUSLY, on the HUFFINGTON POST:
Franken Gets His First Amendment Passed By Roll Call Vote

Jon Kyl: GOP Willing To Filibuster Obama's Next Supreme Court Nominee

Excerpts from an article by Sam Stine on huffingtonpost.com

The second-ranking Republican in the Senate suggested on Sunday that the party would filibuster the next appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"It will all depend on what kind of a person it is," Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) declared during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday." "I think the president should nominate a qualified person. I hope, however, he does not nominate an overly ideological person. That will be the test, and if he doesn't nominate someone who is overly ideological, you may see Republicans voting against, but I don't think you will see them engage in a filibuster."

Speculation about a upcoming Court opening was ignited Sunday morning after Justice John Paul Stevens gave a set of interviews in which he hinted heavily that his retirement was in the near future. Appearing alongside Kyl on the Fox News panel, Sen. Arlen Specter was asked about what the nomination and confirmation process would look like for the replacement Justice. And he seemed particularly un-enthused about the political circus that would ensue.

"I hope ... that Justice Stevens does not retire this year," Specter said. "I think the gridlock in the Senate might well produce a filibuster, which would tie up the Senate [with the] Supreme Court nominee. I think if a year passes there's a much better chance we could come to a consensus."

Specter went on to tout the need for a Justice who, like Stevens, had a skeptical view of executive power and a more diverse legal (or even political) background. Asked if he had a few names for nominees in mind, the Senator said he did and promised to share them with the president.

"I hope to see the president at the opening of the baseball season, and I intend to tell him my thoughts on that," he said. "But I will reserve it for the president instead of Fox News if you don't mind."

Given the partisan rancor that has brought the Senate to a standstill much of this past year, the notion that a Supreme Court nominee would be subjected to a filibuster attempt doesn't seem all that dubious. And yet, if successful, it would resemble something of a high-water-mark for the politicization of the Court confirmation process. Robert Bork's nomination, for instance, was not filibustered. It was defeated in the Senate by a vote of 58-42.

Asked whether Republicans would appear hypocritical should they block the next Obama Court nominee after having decried the treatment of Bork and Bush-nominees by Democrats in Congress, Kyl acknowledged that the filibuster was "wrong and it shouldn't be done."

Nevertheless, the Arizona Republican still wouldn't rule it out. "I think you would agree that if only one side is permitted to do it -- the Democrats and not the Republicans -- then you have a very unfair system," he said. "I would prefer to go back to the situation where it is not done by either party. But the Democrats won that fight. They filibustered Miguel Estrada."

Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) Holds Up Unemployment Extension. Thanks to Him, Hundreds Of Thousands Fall Off Rolls. It's The Party of No!

If your unemployment ran out this week, you can thank Sen. Jon Kyl. Yes, the Republican whip objected to a quick vote that would have helped all those people. You can contact him here and thank him for his compassion:

Washington -- Key Senate Democrats tried unsuccessfully today to quickly pass legislation to give jobless workers in Michigan and other hard-hit states an additional 20 weeks of unemployment benefits.

That delays action on the high-stakes issue until at least next week.

Tom Clementson, a 58-year-old unemployed construction worker in Indian River, expressed frustration by the Senate's slow pace.

"So many people are out of work and need this extra money to put food on the table," said Clementson, who cashed his last check six weeks ago. "It seems like the Senate should spend more time on getting this passed."

Today's failed effort to quickly pass a bill followed the unveiling of a compromise bill by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and key allies. The bill would give all states an extra 14 weeks of jobless benefits, plus an extra six weeks for states with unemployment rates of 8.5 percent or greater.

[...] Reid introduced the bill after reaching a deal with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, who had balked at the House-passed bill, which only gives extra benefits to the hardest-hit states.

[...] But when Reid asked senators to quickly pass the bill under a speedy procedure, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., objected. That's enough to prevent a quick vote.

Kyl said he wanted to have time to look at the proposal and consider possible Republican amendments, and also ask the independent Congressional Budget Office to estimate its cost.

[...] While objecting to quick passage, Kyl said he expects "at the appropriate time," Republicans will "be able to work out some kind of agreement."

Kyl helped cause this mess. It's only good manners to help clean it up - but then, Republicans aren't big on personal responsibility, are they?

Kyl: 'I Don't Need Maternity Care.' Stabenow: 'Your Mom Probably Did'

Rachel Slajda | September 25, 2009, 12:22PM

Just before the Senate Finance Committee wrapped up for the long weekend, members debated one of Sen. Jon Kyl's (R-AZ) amendments, which would strike language defining which benefits employers are required to cover.

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) argued that insurers must be required to cover basic maternity care. (In several states there are no such requirements.)

"I don't need maternity care," Kyl said. "So requiring that on my insurance policy is something that I don't need and will make the policy more expensive."

Stabenow interrupted: "I think your mom probably did."

The amendment was defeated, nine to 14.

General Information

Jon Llewellyn Kyl (born April 5, 1942) is the Republican junior U.S. Senator representing Arizona. He is currently the Senate Minority Whip, tasked with maintaining party discipline. Jon Kyl was born in the Midwest and moved to Arizona for College and Law School. He later married and launched his career in Arizona. He ran for the House of Representatives in 1986 and then the United States Senate in 1994. He has been in the Senate since 1995.

Background

Kyl was born in Oakland, Nebraska, the son of Arlene Pearl (née Griffith) and John Henry Kyl, a teacher at Nebraska State Teachers College. His father served as a Congressman from Iowa after moving his family to Bloomfield, Iowa. After graduating from high school in 1960, Kyl attended the University of Arizona where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1964, graduating with honors. Kyl was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He then earned a law degree in 1966 at the University of Arizona's James E. Rogers College of Law, and served as editor-in-chief of the Arizona Law Review. Before entering politics, he was a lawyer and lobbyist with Jennings, Strouss & Salmon in Phoenix, Arizona.

Kyl is married to Caryll Collins, with whom he has had two children, Kristine Kyl Gavin and John Kyl. He has four grandchildren, Frances Kyl, Christopher Gavin, Jonathan Kyl, and Alicia Gavin.

U.S House of Representatives

Kyl served in the House of Representatives from 1987 to 1995. He won his initial election in 1986 against Democrat Philip R. Davis, 64.5% to 35.5%; won in 1988 against Gary Sprunk of the Libertarian party, 87% to 13%, and won in 1990 against Democrat Mark Ivey, Jr., 61% to 39%.

U.S. Senate

Elections

1994 and 2000

Kyl was first elected to the Senate in 1994, defeating Samuel G. Coppersmith (D), then a member of the House of Representatives, 54% to 40%. Libertarian Party candidate Scott Grainger got 6% of the votes.

Kyl was reelected in 2000 without major-party opposition, with 79.3% of the vote. Independent William Toel got 7.8%; Green Party candidate Vance Hansen also got 7.8%; and Barry Hess of the Libertarian Party got 5.1%.

2006 re-election campaign

Main article: Arizona United States Senate election, 2006

On November 7, 2006, Kyl defeated real estate developer and former Arizona Democratic Party chairman Jim Pederson to win his third term in the Senate. Kyl won with 53.3% of the vote; Pederson received 43.5%; and Libertarian Party candidate Richard Mack received 3.2%.

The race was one of the most expensive in Arizona history, with Kyl raising more than $15 million and Pederson raising just shy of that amount.

A major issue in the campaign was illegal immigration. While in the Senate, Kyl cosponsored legislation that would give illegal immigrants up to five years to leave the country. Once there, they could apply for permanent residence or be guest workers. Since fellow Arizona Senator John McCain opposed this legislation, Pederson tried to use the issue as a way of allying with McCain and dividing the Republicans in Arizona. Controversy also arose when each candidate accused the other of supporting the amnesty provisions in a 1986 immigration bill, although both candidates deny ever supporting those provisions.

Kyl appeared in the U.S. national news near the end of the campaign as an example of a case where some bloggers were attempting to influence search engine results for searches on Kyl's name, using Google bombs.

Leadership positions

Kyl has been elected by his fellow Senate Republicans to a succession of leadership posts: Policy Committee chairman (2003–2007), Conference chairman (2007), and most recently (in December 2007), Senate Minority Whip.

Kyl's ascension to Minority Whip makes him the first Arizonan to hold such an influential Senate leadership post since Democrat Ernest W. McFarland served as Senate Majority Leader from 1951 to 1953. Kyl is the only Arizona Republican to hold such a powerful leadership position.

Political positions and actions

Kyl is considered to be a conservative, and was ranked by National Journal as the fourth-most conservative United States Senator in their March 2007 conservative/liberal rankings.

Senator Kyl was one of the original sponsors, along with Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, of an effort to amend the United States Constitution to protect crime victims' rights in the criminal justice system. When in 2004 it appeared that the constitutional amendment would not receive the requisite 2/3 support to pass the Senate, Senators Kyl and Feinstein authored the Crime Victims' Rights Act which listed a victims' bill of rights and provided mandamus relief in appellate court for any victim denied those rights. The act also offered sanctions against government officials who wantonly and willfully refused to comply with the Crime Victims' Rights Act. Senators Kyl and Feinstein described their collaboration as a high point of bipartisan collaboration in their careers. In front of the Senate, Senator Kyl said "This legislation would not be before us today without Senator Feinstein. That is simply a fact. For all of the hard work we have put in with her cooperation and her commitment to this, I thank Senator Feinstein deeply. She knows that bond of trust will continue to exist between us." Senator Kyl continued his support for victims rights, proposing, on June 29, 2007, a bill revising the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to enhance procedures for victims, guaranteeing a right to be free of delay and procedures to protect victim privacy.

In February 2006, Kyl joined Senator Lindsey Graham in filing an amicus brief in the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case. The brief presented to the Supreme Court of the United States an "extensive colloquy" added to the Congressional record. It was not, however, included in the December 21st debate as evidence that "Congress was aware" that the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 would strip the Court of jurisdiction to hear "pending cases, including this case" brought by the Guantanamo detainees.

In April 2006, Kyl was selected by Time Magazine as one of "America's 10 Best Senators"; the magazine cited his successful behind-the-scene efforts as head of the Senate Republican Policy Committee.

In September 2006, working with then-Congressman Jim Leach, Jon Kyl was a major Senate supporter of Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. The Act was passed at midnight the day Congress adjourned before the 2006 elections. Prior to it being added to the bill, the gambling provisions had not been debated by any Congressional committee, although the general issue had been debated in multiple times in the past. When the Obama administration delayed publication of the associated regulations until June 2010, Kyl responded by denying unanimous consent to confirm the appointment of 6 nominees to the US Treasury Department, none of whom specialized on gambling issues.

In February 2009 Kyl invited the Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders to show his film Fitna in the Capitol building in Washington.

In April 2009, Kyl opposed the nomination of Kathleen Sebelius for Secretary of Health and Human Services because of the Obama administration's support for research on the comparative effectiveness of various disease treatments.

References

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"GOP Senators Look for Compromise on Immigration Reform". Fox News. April 4, 2006. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,190550,00.html.

Josh Brodesky (September 25, 2006). "For both sides, McCain becomes all-purpose asset". Arizona Daily Star. http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/148147.

"Pederson, Kyl trade barbs about amnesty". Arizona Republic. http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0919kyl-amnesty0919.html.

Zweller, Tom, Jr. (2006-10-26). "A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/us/politics/26googlebomb.html?_r=1&sq=Jon%20Kyl%20google%20bomb&st=cse&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&scp=1&adxnnlx=1219511160-Y1LSTZu+13u7uaatm+pHBQ. Retrieved 2008-08-23.

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18 U.S.C. § 3771 (West 2008).

150 Cong Rec S 4260, April 22, 2004.

Cong. Rec. S8745, June 29, 2007

Emily Bazelon (March 27, 2006). "Invisible Men: Did Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl mislead the Supreme Court?". Slate Magazine. http://www.slate.com/id/2138750.

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Nelson Rose (2006). "The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 Analyzed". http://www.gamblingandthelaw.com/columns/2006_act.htm. Retrieved 2009-01-23.

"Kyl Blocking Treasury Nominees Because He Doesn’t Like Internet Gambling". http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/01/08/kyl-treasury-holds/. Retrieved 2010-01-11.

NY Times Feb. 26, 2009

"GOP Stymies Vote on Sebelius". http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/04/23/gop_stymies_vote_on_sebelius.html?wprss=44. Retrieved 2009-04-27.

External links

United States Senator Jon Kyl, U.S. Senate site
Jon Kyl for US Senate 2006, Campaign site
Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
Voting record maintained by The Washington Post
Campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org
Biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
Issue positions and quotes at On The Issues
Staff salaries, trips and personal finance at LegiStorm.com
Current Bills Sponsored at StateSurge.com
Congressional profile at GovTrack.us
Profile at SourceWatch Congresspedia