Please join the Maricopa County Republican Committee in welcoming the Republican Presidential Candidates to Arizona on Wednesday, February 22nd (Mesa Arts Center, 1 East Main St., Mesa, AZ).
We are raffling off two sets of two tickets each for the event. At $200 per ticket, each two ticket set is worth $400!
Raffle price is ten dollars ($10.00) per ticket.*
*6 tickets for $50 and 13 tickets for $100
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Bonus: We have 60 adult tickets to the Celebrities Baseball Game to be held Sunday, January 29 (Scottsdale Stadium, 7408 East Osborn Road, Scottsdale, gates open 11am game starts 1pm) and will be given to the early Raffle Ticket purchasers (two per raffle ticket) on a first come basis. (Kids and seniors get in free.)Rules:
House Speaker moves forward to address problems with IRC
The Arizona Capitol Times is reporting that House Speaker Andy Tobin has introduced a host of measures that would set a special election enabling voters to decide whether to use legislative and congressional maps drawn by elected legislators representing constituencies – as was the practice prior to the passage of Prop. 106 in 2000. Democrats and Republicans worked together to draw the lines.
Arizonans are currently faced with oddly configured and decidedly partisan maps approved last month by Arizona’s Independent Redistricting Commission.
Fresh from his overwhelming re-election victory, Gov. Bobby Jindal has unveiled an audacious education reform agenda that built around an expanded school voucher program, new charter schools, a rigorous teacher evaluation system and a revamped tenure system. With the Louisiana state legislature set to go back into session this coming March, the governor is expected to win broad support for many of the proposed changes.
If so, the voucher program, which is now limited to New Orleans, would go statewide. Low-income families with a child enrolled in a school that has received a C rating or lower could use public dollars to cover the cost of private school tuition.
Maricopa County Republican Briefs
Maricopa County West GOP Office,
10050 W Bell Road #49, Sun City, AZ 85351-1291
Voice: 623-977-4532 Fax: 623-518-6340
www.maricopagop.org Donations
Officers: Executive Guidance Committee (EGC)
Frosty Taylor – Communications: RepComm@cox.net
Kevin Myers – Webmaster: slak@cox.net
January 26, 2012
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Arizona House Speaker To ‘Put Some Light On Fast And Furious’
Maricopa County Republican Briefs
Maricopa County West GOP Office,
10050 W Bell Road #49, Sun City, AZ 85351-1291
Voice: 623-977-4532 Fax: 623-518-6340
www.maricopagop.org Donations
Officers: Executive Guidance Committee (EGC)
Frosty Taylor – Communications: RepComm@cox.net
Kevin Myers – Webmaster: slak@cox.net
January 25, 2012
Sheriff Joe Supporters are asked to politely call or e-mail Republican members of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, prior to the Boards 1 pm, Jan. 26 meeting, with the subject line “NO to PARRAZ” to counter the movement by Randy Parraz to force Sheriff Joe’s resignation. Parraza led the movement that cost Sen. Russell Pearce his senate seat. Parraza is also leading the “repeal SB 1070″ movement that protested at the Capitol this week.
Max W. Wilson (R) – Chairman of the Board – Maricopa County District 4 Supervisor, (602) 506-7642 mwwilson@mail.maricopa.gov
Fulton Brock (R) – Maricopa County District 1 Supervisor, (602) 506-1776 fbrock@mail.maricopa.gov
Don Stapley (R), Maricopa County District 2 Supervisor, (602) 506-7431 dstapley@mail.maricopa.gov
Andrew W. Kunasek (R) – Maricopa County District 3 Supervisor, (602) 506-7562 akunasek@mail.maricopa.gov
He died in 1972, at the age of sixty-three, a marginalized figure in his own obscure field and seldom mentioned outside of it.
But to close followers of the topsy-turvy GOP presidential primary, the late Saul Alinsky is suddenly becoming a household word. This is due, in large measure, to the mantra-like repetition of the name by Newt Gingrich, who invokes it every day on the campaign trail as part of his stump-speech indictment of President Obama.
“We need somebody who is a conservative and who can stand up to him and debate and who can clearly draw the contrast between the Declaration of Independence and the writings of Saul Alinsky,” Gingrich told a large crowd outside the Wings Plus restaurant in Coral Springs, Florida Wednesday.
President Obama and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer had what was described as an intense encounter on the tarmac after the president arrived in the Grand Canyon state on Wednesday.
Brewer greeted the president as he arrived off Air Force One, as governors often do when the president visits a state, and handed him a letter that she described as a “welcome” note to the state, and an invitation to talk about a comeback for her state.
Obama put the letter in the limo before going to greet Arizonans waiting nearby.
The Republican governor later told pool reporters accompanying the president that Obama brought up that he was a little disturbed (her wording) by the book she published last year called “Scorpions for Breakfast.” In the tome, she said the president was “patronizing” in a one-on-one meeting about border security.
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FN Five-sevens were among the weapons allowed to walk. Photo: Wikipedia
As I wrote in a post for Big Government this past Sunday, January 22, the Arizona’s legislature has decided once more to do the job the feds won’t do, and has launched its own investigation into Fast and Furious. And during an appearance on FOX NEWS this morning, Arizona House Speaker Andy Tobin explained why they’ve taken this step. He said that constituents were flooding their offices with questions about the gun-running operation, and he said one recurring question was, “You’re not waiting for the feds [to do something] are you?” He then said the answer to that question was “No.”
Said Tobin:
This is an incident that occurred on Arizona soil, with Arizona business owners, [where we lost] an Arizona agent (Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry), and quite frankly we felt it needed a lot more attention. We felt our citizens needed a place to go to share their stories. Maybe there’s more there. This was a failed program right from the start and I think the idea is to put more light on it.
FN Five-sevens were among the weapons allowed to walk. Photo: Wikipedia
PHOENIX – Two men pleaded guilty to buying guns that were destined to be smuggled into Mexico, the first convictions in the federal government’s botched Operation Fast and Furious.
The men were so-called “straw buyers” who acknowledged purchasing guns that they knew were headed to Mexican drug gangs.
The goal of the federal government’s investigation was to catch weapons-trafficking kingpins, but firearms agents lost track of many weapons they were trying to trace to smuggling ringleaders, and some guns ended up at crime scenes in Mexico and the U.S.
Jacob Wayne Chambers and Jacob Anthony Montelongo each pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to a conspiracy charge. Montelongo also pleaded guilty to dealing guns without a license.
The pair admitted being part of a 20-person smuggling ring that is accused of running guns into Mexico for use by the Sinaloa drug cartel.
Maricopa County Republican Briefs
Maricopa County West GOP Office,
10050 W Bell Road #49, Sun City, AZ 85351-1291
Voice: 623-977-4532 Fax: 623-518-6340
www.maricopagop.org Donations
Officers: Executive Guidance Committee (EGC)
Frosty Taylor – Communications: RepComm@cox.net
Kevin Myers – Webmaster: slak@cox.net
January 24, 2012
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Congratulations, Senator Burges!
Montgomery Says He Will Run For Re-Election
Burges Senate Bill Offers Way To Restore Some Funds
Attorney General Tom Horne, the architect of the effort to eliminate race-based “Ethnic Studies” from schools in Arizona, shares his thoughts in an interview with the BBC. (World Service Interview) ethnic studies interview
Group urging supervisors to remove him
Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s political foes vowed to disrupt Wednesday’s Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting to demand Arpaio’s resignation or removal, but the board is suggesting an alternative venue for the activists to air their concerns.
Local activists for the past two months have demanded supervisors schedule a forum on Wednesday’s board agenda to discuss recent events involving the Sheriff’s Office. The forum will not be held Wednesday, however.
Supervisors instead plan to accommodate protesters at an update meeting on the sheriff’s budget, where controls placed in that budget and audits of his operations will be discussed. Sheriff’s staff and the county attorney are expected to attend. Supervisors consider it a more appropriate venue to address public concerns.
Board Chairman Max Wilson also is planning a private meeting with Randy “Open Borders” Parraz, president of Citizens for a Better Arizona, in an attempt to quell that group’s public protests.
Parraz has agreed to meet, but protesters are unlikely to back down, vowing to pressure supervisors until November, when the sheriff, the supervisors and the county attorney are up for re-election. Parraz led a similar effort in 2008.
