MARICOPA COUNTY
REPUBLICAN BRIEFS
RepComm@cox.net
May 13, 2010
Send the FREE FAX urging President Barack Obama to support Arizona’s immigration enforcement law! http://www.numbersusa.com/dfax?series=diener10MAY10
Poll Shows Broad Support for Arizona Immigration Law: Phoenix (AP) – A new poll shows that 59 percent of Americans approve of Arizona’s new law cracking down on illegal immigrants while only 32 percent disapprove. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/65829
Two programs produced by a news station in ATLANTA, GEORGIA!! Our national security is being threatened! Video #1 – http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438021/index.html Video #2 – http://www.wsbtv.com/video/23438712/index.html
OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF AMERICANS SUPPORT ARIZONA’S NEW ANTI-ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION LAW By Frosty Wooldridge
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Gov Christie, New Jersy, calls S-L columnist thin-skinned for inquiring about his ‘confrontational tone’ |
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who has been critical of Arizona’s new immigration law, said Thursday he hasn’t yet read the law and is going by what he’s read in newspapers or seen on television.
Mr. Holder is conducting a review of the law, at President Obama’s request, to see if the federal government should challenge it in court. He said he expects he will read the law by the time his staff briefs him on their conclusions.
“I’ve just expressed concerns on the basis of what I’ve heard about the law. But I’m not in a position to say at this point, not having read the law, not having had the chance to interact with people are doing the review, exactly what my position is,” Mr. Holder told the House Judiciary Committee.
Digging for copper. Underneath the surface is one of the world’s largest untapped copper deposits — by some estimates, enough to supply a quarter of America’s annual demand for more than 50 years.
The chairman of the nearby San Carlos Apache Tribe, the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona, former miners and environmentalists vehemently oppose the land exchange. They’re up against Resolution Copper Co., its congressional allies and a town hungry for the jobs the mine would bring.
The state’s economy is in the doldrums, and the Copper Triangle region in the heart of Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick’s (D-Ariz.) district is no exception.
Her reelection prospects, and to some extent those of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who has pushed the land swap bill in the Senate, may hinge on getting the legislation passed.
McCain is in a challenging primary race and Kirkpatrick represents a district he carried by 10 percentage points in the 2008 presidential election.
Phoenix Deputy City Manager David Krieter told the Phoenix City Council this week that Phoenix stands to lose $90 million in convention business because of the passage of SB 1070.
We have an image and public relations problem of what might be unprecedented proportions,” Krietor said.
Yet, if you ask anyone–including Mayor Gordon–who is familiar with both the law and the national reaction, he will confirm that the national perception of the law is wildly inaccurate. So our image problem and resulting $90 million of exposure is based on inaccurate information.
Of course that inaccurate information came from the very people who are now decrying the effects of the law–The Arizona Republic, Robert Sarver (through Steve Kerr) and indeed, Mayor Gordon himself.
It’s fun to play with fire, get some attention, express some angst, rally your troops, impress your mom…but when that fire spreads, it’s hard to put it out.
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Your property tax is about to go up. In the last four months, the City of Phoenix has imposed on you and your family:
- A new food tax (up $50 million per year)
- Increased water rates ($30 million per year; a 40% increase over 5 years)
- Increased sewer rates ($3 million this year)
- Increased fees on small business
And now the City of Phoenix wants to raise your property tax rate, even though your property values have gone down.
All of these fees and taxes were imposed to afford an average cost of $100,000 per city employee – that’s for all 14,000 employees. This could all be fixed if Phoenix simply would restructure operations. My office has asked Phoenix to address the high cost of labor at City Hall. Instead, the city has chosen the easy route of raising taxes and fees on you, the public; all of which I opposed.
At 2 p.m. May 25, Phoenix will consider raising your property tax rate under the guise of a “floating rate.” That means your taxes will “float” up.
I need your help. Phoenix taxpayers need your help. Please call or e-mail my office and let me know we don’t need anymore taxes. I will pass your information along to the rest of the Council.
Please help get the word out and pass this information along.
Respectfully,
Sal DiCiccio
Phoenix Councilman
Council.district.6@phoenix.gov
200 W. Washington St. 11th Floor
Phoenix , AZ 85003
(602) 262-7491
“We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told us just weeks before Congress passed President Barack Obama’s health care plan. Well, the nation’s post-passage Obamacare education continued yesterday when the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) confirmed that the federal government will have to spend an additional $115 billion implementing the law, bringing the total estimated cost to over $1 trillion. The estimate had been requested before passage of the bill by Rep. Jerry Lewis (R-CA), but the CBO was too overwhelmed with the Democrats’ other constant revisions to the law to get back to Lewis before the final vote.
This is by far not the only nasty little surprise that has come back to bite Obamacare after passage. Shortly after it became law, U.S. employers began reporting hundreds of millions if dollars in losses thanks to tax changes in the bill. AT&T and Verizon alone pegged their Obamacare tax losses at around $1 billion each. At first, Democrats in Congress were outraged by the announcements and threatened to hold hearings persecuting these companies. But then the Democrats not only found out the companies were obligated by law to report their Obamacare related losses, but that the losses were a signal these companies might have to dump their employees’ and retirees’ health care coverage all together.
