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
Feb 5, 2012
Briefs computers will be shut down for several days,
so this will be the last Briefs for a little while.
The Maricopa County Republican Committee (MCRC) Lincoln Day Luncheon & Straw Poll will be held from 11 am to 2 pm, Feb. 21 at the El-Zaribah Shriner Hall auditorium, 552 N. 40th St., Phx. The Lincoln Bust and Reagan Plaque will be awarded to exceptional precinct committeemen. Special guests: Republican National Committee Co-Chair Sharon Day, Sen. Russell Pearce, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and other leading Republicans. $30 per seat (includes one presidential straw poll ballot) There are 8 seats per table. Table sponsorships available for $200 (includes 2 seats & 2 ballots & recognition at the table). To purchase your tickets by credit card call 623-977-4532.
The winners of the Presidential Debate tickets are Peter Ottosen and Ian Murray.
Special thanks to all our great Republicans who supported the MCRC raffle and contributed to its success. – Chairman Rob Haney
It appears that Attorney General Eric Holder didn’t read the executive order President Obama issued on his first day in the White House. Obama pledged that his administration would provide the American people with “an unprecedented level of openness in government.” Either he didn’t read it or Holder thinks the executive order doesn’t cover Operation Fast and Furious, the misguided Justice Department program that allowed thousands of weapons to be sold in the United States to known gunrunners for Mexican drug cartels. The idea was the government would then track the “walked” guns, thus enabling prosecution of cartel figures by linking them to particular weapons found at crime scenes. But officials lost track of an estimated 1,400 such guns, two of which turned up at the scene of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s slaying in Arizona in December 2010.
Terry’s slaying sparked a national uproar and prompted an investigation by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chaired by Rep. Darrell Issa. The committee described the response of Holder’s department to that investigation in a report released last Thursday:
Jay Sekulow, ACLJ Chief Counsel, appeared on Fox News to discuss the latest revelations that Attorney General Holder knew about Fast & Furious the day a U.S. Border Patrol agent was killed by guns from the failed DOJ operation. Jay also discussed AG Holder’s latest testimony before Congress, and called for the truth from the Obama Justice Department.
The pressure is on the rest of the Republican presidential field to knock Mitt Romney down a peg after the former Massachusetts governor sailed to victory in the Nevada caucuses following his big Florida win earlier in the week.
Romney won Nevada by a decisive double-digit margin. The field charges next into a quartet of contests that will either fuel or check Romney’s momentum.
Newt Gingrich, who just two weeks ago looked like the comeback candidate, held an unusual press conference late Saturday night to, among other things, assure the public he is not dropping out and take a series of swipes at Romney.
The former House speaker predicted his chances would improve the longer the race goes on. He predicted that by the Texas primary in April, he might be able to reclaim “frontrunner” status.
