By Christopher G. Adamo

by Thomas E. Woods, LewRockwell.com

Friends,

SB1102 is my legislation and I will not allow it to be used to push any anti Freedom measure I guarantee you. This will be fixed or the bill will not move forward as I stand firm with you and freedom loving Americans.

I have been law enforcement most of my life and the former Chief Deputy of the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and I have two boys that are law enforcement officers and we all support law abiding

citizens and our God given rights. Bad guys don’t follow the law only good guys. Any law abiding citizen can carry “open” in Arizona. We have laws for bad guys, we should not prohibit good guys. Training is nice and I believe in it, but it is voluntary as it should be. By the way you can still get a CCW under my bill if you want, and there is benefit to having one: Reciprocity with other states, eliminates background checks at gun stores, allows you to carry in places that are restricted to CCW holders, etc. The difference is having your shirt tucked in or untucked.

As Ted Nugent stated,”I do not need a document or a government to give me “permission” to defend the life that God gave me. God giveth and God taketh away.”

“I used to think it would take a great financial crisis to get both parties to the table, but we just had one,” said G. William Hoagland, a former adviser to the Senate Republican leadership on fiscal policy.

“These days, I wonder if this country is even governable.”

Quoted in the New York Times’ lead story, “Party Gridlock Feeds New Fear of a Debt Crisis,” Hoagland nailed it.

America faces a crisis of democracy.

At its heart is a fiscal crisis. After the 2009 deficit of $1.4 trillion, we are running a 2010 deficit of $1.6 trillion. Trillion-dollar deficits are projected through the Obama years, be they four or eight.

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On February 17, 2010 conservatives gathered on land once owned by George Washington to commit their organizations and members to a renewed set of principa

Known as the Mount Vernon Statement, the document includes the following:

• It applies the principle of limited government based on the
  rule of law to every proposal.
• It honors the central place of individual liberty in American
  politics and life.
• It encourages free enterprise, the individual entrepreneur, and
  economic reforms grounded in market solutions.
• It supports America’s national interest in advancing freedom
  and opposing tyranny in the world and prudently considers what we can and should do to that
  end.
• It informs conservatism’s firm defense of family, neighborhood,
  community, and faith.

Please visit http://www.themountvernonstatement.com .

Hi ,

My Bill, SB 1102, is the Senate version of Constitutional Carry that eliminates the prohibition and penalties for law-abiding adults who carry a concealed weapon without a permit.

A short while ago, the Senate placed SB 1102 on their Committee of the Whole (COW) agenda on Thursday, February 18, 2010.  It is critical that you immediately contact the Senate members and urge them to support SB 1102 during the COW debate. Life Liberty Freedom members, you know what to do.

Also in the Senate COW on Thursday is SB 1153, which establishes that state law preempts local rules and ordinances concerning the regulation of knives and knife making components.  I need your help in letting the Senate know that you support both of these bills.

I know many of you have become members of Life Liberty Freedom, and the guys at Life Liberty Freedom have told me that many of you are using the FREE tool they provide to contact the legislators at the capitol.

For those of you who have not registered to be a member at Life Liberty Freedom, I urge you to do so now at www.lifelibertyfreedom.com

You’re Voice for Families, Freedom, Constitutional and Limited Government and a Consistent Conservative Voice:  God… Family … Country

Russell Pearce

Follow all current bills on the Arizona ALIS system.

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Contact: Kimberly Yee February 16, 2010 (602) 604-7882

(STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX) – State Treasurer Dean Martin today unveiled a new website to provide government transparency to taxpayers. The new website called AZCheckbook.com provides the daily status and monthly comparisons of the state’s operating cash balance.

“This website is the result of two years of work to provide the greatest level of transparency in Arizona history and is a reflection of my commitment to provide Arizona taxpayers with a searchable, user-friendly website that discloses all revenues and expenditures for Arizona State government,” said Treasurer Dean Martin. “For the first time in Arizona history, we are providing online to the public, in an easy to read and searchable format, the same data that is normally locked away and archived in arcane computer systems.”

AZCheckbook.com provides users with detailed information about how the State of Arizona is spending taxpayer money, and how much they are receiving from all sources, including the federal government. The checkbook data appears as it is recorded in the official state accounting system and will eventually become part of the Annual Financial Report for the State of Arizona. The spending data is captured each month from data collected and stored by the General Accounting Office of the Department of Administration. It will be updated each month as new spending data is available.

“This project has been a two-year labor of love by our staff and has been completed without any special appropriation or budget,” said Treasurer Dean Martin. “Finally, taxpayers will have Arizona’s checkbook at their fingertips. Now they can see exactly where their hard-earned money is being spent by the government.”

On AZCheckbook.com, the Treasurer’s Office will post complete accounting data as it is available each month. However, the Governor’s General Accounting Office would only provide historical data from previous years for a fee of $800 for each and every additional month’s balance requested.

“Unfortunately, we have no appropriation to pay nearly $10,000 per year for this information. We will continue to capture this data monthly going forward, but until the fee is waived or an appropriation provided, year over year comparisons will be limited to fiscal year 2009 and forward,” said Treasurer Dean Martin.

Reporting from Washington – First there was the “tea party” protester. Now, meet the Tea-publican.

Conservative activists who once protested the political establishment are now flooding the lowest level of the Republican Party apparatus hoping to take over the party they once scorned — one precinct at a time.

Across the country, tea party groups that had focused on planning rallies are now educating members on how to run for local GOP precinct representative positions. The representatives help elect county party leaders, who write the platform and, in some places, determine endorsements.

“That’s where it all starts. That’s where the process of picking candidates begins. It’s not from [GOP leader] Michael Steele’s office down. It’s from the ground up,” said Philip Glass, whose National Precinct Alliance is among the groups advocating the strategy. “The party is over for the old guard.”

In Arizona and Ohio, Republican Party officials report an increase in candidates running for precinct positions, which often sit open due to lack of interest. In South Carolina, a coalition of tea party groups has made a formal agreement with the state GOP to urge its members to get engaged at the precinct level. In Nevada, a group of “constitutional conservatives” working under the tea party banner has already taken control of the Republican Party in the Las Vegas area, gaining enough strength to elect six of the seven members of the county executive committee.

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By Michelle Malkin  •  February 10, 2010 01:35 PM

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I grew up in New Jersey, and I can assure you this: all over the state, suddenly-embattled Democratic legislators and apparatchiks are now routinely referring to Gov. Christie as “that fat [insert expletive here]” – with a wide range of choices for the expletive. Why?

Because that fat [insert expletive here] just told the unions that elections have consequences, and he’s one of them.

To summarize: Christie is executive-ordering out 2.2 billion from the existing NJ budget to make up for the shortfalls from the previous administration (while noting that the days of optimistic estimated revenue projections from the state government were over); the centerpiece to this is a reduction of school aid by half a billion, tied to existing surpluses in districts – essentially, a spend-what-you-have program. This – coupled with a subsidy cut to NJ Transit, with an explicit instruction to the entity that it’s going to have to revisit its union contracts – is of course infuriating the union wing of the NJ Democratic party, particularly since Christie is not calling for offsetting tax hikes*. Christie’s response?

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