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 2, 2012
COUNT DOWN: Only 2 days left to purchase your raffle tickets for the Maricopa County Republican Committee raffle of two sets of two-tickets to the Arizona Presidential Preference Debate scheduled February 22 at the Mesa Arts Center. Tickets are $10 each, (6 for $50 or 13 for $100) which includes two debate tickets. Each two ticket set is worth $400. Tickets are available through Feb. 4. The drawing will be held at 4 pm, Feb. 5 (Sunday) at GOP Headquarters,3501 N. 24th St., Phx. – which gives the ticket winners time to get security clearance to attend the event.
The county must provide the name, address, phone number, e-dress, and date of birth of the winners to event security by Feb. 6. All debate attendees must be registered Republicans, 18 years of age or older and have a valid photo ID to get into the debate. Ticket holders must check in at 4 pm and be in their seats by 5 pm. Pre-debate program will start at 5:30 pm, debate at 6pm. Victory Rally will be just across the walkway after the debate at no additional cost.
To purchase tickets on line go to https://secure.piryx.com/donate/Xg6rHREY/default/Raffle
ATTN: State and county officials, candidates , LD Chairs and group officers. Feb 3 (noon Friday) is the deadline for any events or meeting changes between Feb 5-20. Due to other commitments there will be no Feb. 12 MCRC Calendar. The Feb 3 deadline applies to the Feb 5 MCRC Calendar.
Holder Hearings, Opening Salvo: Issa Goes for the Jugular, Democrats Attempt Smoke Screen for Holder
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Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA) opened this morning’s hearings by providing a timeline for Fast and Furious: a timeline that briefly described the role of every law enforcement agency involved. He spoke about the debt we owe Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, and agent Terry’s family. And he announced that ATF whistleblower John Dodson was present in the room for the hearings today. (Dodson is the Phoenix agent who risked his career and his life to inform Congress about details of Fast and Furious as they were visible to him on the street.)
Then Issa dug in deeper:
On Oct 11, 2011, after months and months and months of this committee trying to get further documents, we issued subpoenas for documents and were told they’re hard to get. Yet, ten times as many documents have been provided to the Inspector General. Mr. Attorney General, when is the primary investigative committee of congress going to be allowed the same access that the IG has? That the twelve thousand members of the IG have? We ask very little of government by contrast, ?but we believe we deserve those answers in at least as timely a fashion as your own IG gets.
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 2, 2012
How Arizona Congressmen Are Voting
US House Votes – Jan 31, 2012 & Feb. 1, 2012
H. Res. 522: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1173) to repeal the CLASS programPassed: Yea: Gosar, Franks, Quayle, Schweikert, Flake. Nay – Pastor. Not Voting – Grijalva.
H.Amdt. 910: An amendment numbered 2 printed in the Congressional Record to propose adding a new section requiring a study on the impact of not having long-term care insurance on the Federal, State and local governments.amending H.R. 1173: Fiscal Responsibility and Retirement Security Act of 2011 Failed: No – Gosar, Franks,Quayle,Schweikert, & Flake. Yes – Pastor & Grijalva.
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 1, 2012
COUNT DOWN: Only 3 days left to purchase your raffle tickets for the Maricopa County Republican Committee raffle of two sets of two-tickets to the Arizona Presidential Preference Debate scheduled February 22 at the Mesa Arts Center. Tickets are $10 each, (6 for $50 or 13 for $100) which includes two debate tickets. Each two ticket set is worth $400. Tickets are available through Feb. 4. The drawing will be held at 4 pm, Feb. 5 (Sunday) at GOP Headquarters,3501 N. 24th St., Phx. – which gives the ticket winners time to get security clearance to attend the event.
The county must provide the name, address, phone number, e-dress, and date of birth of the winners to event security by Feb. 6. All debate attendees must be registered Republicans, 18 years of age or older and have a valid photo ID to get into the debate. Ticket holders must check in at 4 pm and be in their seats by 5 pm. Pre-debate program will start at 5:30 pm, debate at 6pm. Victory Rally will be just across the walkway after the debate at no additional cost.
To purchase tickets on line go to https://secure.piryx.com/donate/Xg6rHREY/default/Raffle
ATTN: State and county officials, candidates , LD Chairs and group officers. Feb 3 (noon Friday) is the deadline for any events or meeting changes between Feb 5-20. Due to other commitments there will be no Feb. 12 MCRC Calendar. The Feb 3 deadline applies to the Feb 5 MCRC Calendar.
ATTN AZ CANDIDATES: The Wickenburg Republican Club float, that normally carries Republican candidates, will not be appearing in the Feb 18 Gold Rush Days Parade due to a conflict of scheduling with the Sun City West Republican Club Candidate’s Forum. The forum had already been announced when the club chairman discovered the overlapping events, so the float was cancelled so candidates won’t be caught in a time pinch in getting to the SCW Candidate’s Forum on time. Candidates wishing to appear on the SCW Forum agenda should immediately contact Jan Martinson at 623-546-3753 or jlmart15102@aol.com for speaking time allotments.
The family of murdered Border Patrol agent Brian Terry has filed a $25 million wrongful death suit against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives claiming Terry was killed with AK-47s that were knowingly sold under the Fast and Furious gunrunning probe to a straw purchaser for drug cartels.
In a 65-page complaint, filed in Arizona state court on Wednesday, attorneys for the family claim ATF “wrongdoing” in Operation Fast and Furious.
“ATF’s failures were not only negligent but in violation of ATF’s own policies and procedures,” the complaint claims.
The family has also filed a suit against the Lone Wolf Trading Company seeking unspecified damages for negligence in selling the weapons to the purchaser and aiding and abetting in Mexican drug cartels’ conduct.
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 31, 2012
COUNT DOWN: Only 4 days left to purchase your raffle tickets for the Maricopa County Republican Committee raffle of two sets of two-tickets to the Arizona Presidential Preference Debate scheduled February 22 at the Mesa Arts Center. Tickets are $10 each, (6 for $50 or 13 for $100) which includes two debate tickets. Each two ticket set is worth $400. Tickets are available through Feb. 4. The drawing will be held at 4 pm, Feb. 5 (Sunday) at GOP Headquarters,3501 N. 24th St., Phx. – which gives the ticket winners time to get security clearance to attend the event.
The county must provide the name, address, phone number, e-dress, and date of birth of the winners to event security by Feb. 6. All debate attendees must be registered Republicans, 18 years of age or older and have a valid photo ID to get into the debate. Ticket holders must check in at 4 pm and be in their seats by 5 pm. Pre-debate program will start at 5:30 pm, debate at 6pm. Victory Rally will be just across the walkway after the debate at no additional cost.
To purchase tickets on line go to https://secure.piryx.com/donate/Xg6rHREY/default/Raffle
Mitt Romney crushed Newt Gingrich in the Florida Republican presidential primary Tuesday night, surging from a second-place finish in South Carolina to sweep the winner-take-all contest and reassert his front-runner status.
The victory, in the biggest GOP contest to date, is likely to give the former Massachusetts governor a burst of momentum as he, Gingrich, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul head west to battle in what has become an increasingly negative race.
At his victory speech in Tampa, the site of the Republican National Convention, Romney glided over his opponents and focused his remarks almost exclusively on President Obama.
“I stand ready to lead this party and to lead our nation,” Romney said. “My leadership will end the Obama era and begin a new era of American prosperity.”
But the former House speaker is vowing a drawn-out battle for delegates as the Republican race turns next to Nevada, and then a batch of primaries in western and midwestern states. Gingrich said at his Florida rally that the latest primary showed the election has come down to a “two-person race” between him and the “Massachusetts moderate.”
A m e r i c a n P o s t – G a z e t t e
Distributed by C O M M O N S E N S E , in Arizona
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Regarding that “scathing” Dept of Justice report being used as a club against Sheriff Arpaio, isn’t this the Dept of Justice, under Eric Holder, who attacked SB1070 before he had even read the bill?
Isn’t Eric Holder under investigation for Fast and Furious for deliberately allowing guns to flow to Mexican drug cartels, and that resulted in the death of Arizona Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry?
Isn’t the Civil Rights Division, under Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, the same one that has been sanctioned for more than $4 million for frivolous lawsuits and misconduct?
Thomas Perez once served as president of Casa de Maryland, a radical open borders group that encourages ILLEGAL aliens not to speak with the police and urges local governments not to enforce federal fugitive warrants against them.
Randy “Open Borders” Parraz at the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors meeting 1/31/12.
The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office provided members of the Board of Supervisors with a public update on a handful of the controversial topics afflicting the agency right now, but the airing of the sheriff’s laundry did little to change the minds of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s ardent supporters and critics who packed a county auditorium Tuesday morning.
Sheriff’s Chief Deputy Jerry Sheridan told board members Arpaio’s agency has made mistakes but has worked with county officials in the last 18 months to address many of the office’s shortcomings, including misappropriated funds and inadequately investigated sex crimes.
But those explanations did little to placate dozens of Arpaio critics who had come to ask questions of Sheridan and Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery and share their concerns with members of the Board.
When it became apparent that a question-and-answer session would have to wait until the end of the sheriff’s presentation, dozens of Arpaio critics left the hearing in protest.
Later, Chad Snow, a vocal critic of the Sheriff’s Office, told board members the group refused to listen to Arpaio apologists make excuses for the behavior that has led to accusations of mismanagement and discrimination within the Sheriff’s Office.
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 30, 2012
The Arizona Republican Party headquarters in Phoenix will stay open until 10 pm, Jan. 30 to accommodate voters wishing to register or re-register to vote in the February 28 Presidential Preference Election. Registration deadline is midnight, Jan. 30. Voters can also register at https://servicearizona.com/webapp/evoter/selectLanguage. According to Arizona state law, any qualified Arizona resident who desires to vote in the Republican Presidential Preference Election must be registered as a Republican in order to obtain a Republican ballot. Arizona’s Presidential Preference Election is a closed primary.
