Greetings Everyone,

Senator Pearce asked me to give a quick update on some bills.

HB2632 immigration; law enforcement; safe neighborhoods will be 3rd read on Tuesday, March 23rd at around 1:30 PM.  I know there has been some confusion on the bills status but House Speaker Kirk Adams has promised Senator Pearce that it will be heard and voted on. If HB2632 is passed it will be joined with SB1070.  SB1070 immigration; law enforcement; safe neighborhoods has the same exact language as HB2632.  SB1070 and was passed by the Senate on February 25th.  If HB2632 passes the House and since both of these bills are exactly the same, they can be joined and sent directly to the Governor for her signature.

Senator Pearce also wanted me to pass along his appreciation to House Speaker Adams for his efforts in getting the bill moved through the house. If you get a chance, please send a nice letter to Speaker Adams thanking him for getting this bill heard. Is e-mail address is kadams@azleg.gov

Also send an e-mail or call the House members and ask them to vote yes on HB2632 immigration; law enforcement; safe neighborhoods.

On another note: Obama Healthcare.

Many of you have been asking the Senator about the Obama Healthcare Bill and is there anything we can do about it. YES! State Representative Judy Burges has a bill called HB2001 taxpayer voluntary contribution; fund. This bill was passed out of the house and sent to the senate. Representative Burges is going to do a “strike everything” to that bill, HB2001 and add the text from the IDAHO HEALTH FREEDOM ACT that was passed and signed by their Governor.

HB2001 has passed first read in the Senate and is going to the Finance committee, chaired by Senator Jack Harper, who has stated that he will allow the bill to be heard in committee this coming Wednesday the 23rd. Please call or e-mail the Finance committee asking them to support HB2001. The Finance Committee meets at 1:30PM.

For that Great American, Senator Russell Pearce,

Eric Johnson

Legislative Liaison for Senator Russell Pearce

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After spending a lifetime in politics John C. Calhoun (U.S. Senator, Vice President of the United States, Secretary of War) wrote his brilliant treatise, A Disquisition on Government, which was published posthumously shortly after his death in 1850. In it Calhoun warned that it is an error to believe that a written constitution alone is “sufficient, of itself, without the aid of any organism except such as is necessary to separate its several departments, and render them independent of each other to counteract the tendency of the numerical majority to oppression and abuse of power” (p. 26). The separation of powers is fine as far as it goes, in other words, but it would never be a sufficient defense against governmental tyranny, said Calhoun.

Moreover, it is a “great mistake,” Calhoun wrote, to suppose that “the mere insertion of provisions to restrict and limit the powers of the government, without investing those for whose protection they are inserted, with the means of enforcing their observance, will be sufficient to prevent the major and dominant party from abusing its powers” (emphasis added). The party “in possession of the government” will always be opposed to any and all restrictions on its powers. They “will have no need of these restrictions” and “would come, in time, to regard these limitations as unnecessary and improper restraints and endeavor to elude them . . .”

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We make no secret about our negative view of this legislation as bad public policy. But something far more important is at work here. We would rather have the House pass the bill in normal fashion even if only by a tiny margin (as they did with their first version in November 2009) and have it properly enacted into law, than to use trickery and deceit to get their way.

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Thomas McKean might just represent an ideal study of how far political engagement can be carried by one man. One can scarcely believe the number of concurrent offices and duties this man performed during the course of his long career. He served three states* and many more cities and county governments, often performing duties in two or more jurisdictions, even while engaged in federal office. 

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