Brahm Resnick of 12 News writes in his blog:
"This would be Lewis' first run for elected office. He is a former senior manager in the tax department at the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche. He is now assistant superintendent at Sequoia Schools, a statewide operator of charter schools, including the former Pappas school for homeless kids."
RUSSELL PEARCE RECALL IS OFFICIAL. HE WILL HAVE TO FACE A CHALLENGER ON NOVEMBER 8TH, 2011
Thanks the dedicated work of campaign organizers and volunteers of the recall group, Citizens for a Better Arizona, a special recall election will take place on November 8th. A candidate who will challenge Pearce in November will soon step forward. Please stay tuned. It's an exciting time in Arizona!
LAST CHANCE TO RECALL RUSSELL PEARCE (R-MESA)
Tomorrow, May 30th, is the last and final day to walk neighborhoods and collect signatures for the recall of Russell Pearce (R-Mesa). Join all the great volunteers at 628 N Center Street, Mesa, from 10:30AM-9:00PM. This is your last chance to be part of a truly historic effort in Arizona.
Help secure a brighter future for Arizona. Citizens for a Better Arizona invite you to make history with them. Join the movement for a better Arizona!
ELIMINATING AHCCCS
If shutting down the state's health-care program for indigents sounds drastic, that's because it's supposed to.
While other states have just talked about it, Arizona on Wednesday became the first to take official action toward killing its Medicaid program.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/02/24/20110224xgr-ahcccs0224.html#ixzz1F1RqCerl
AZ ENDING MEDICAID
Senate Bill 1519, approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee on an 8-5 vote, would end the nearly 30-year-old safety-net program, which now covers more than 1.3 million Arizonans, about half of them children.
The state would forego more than $7.5 billion in federal matching funds, and most of the $2 billion in state funding would be redirected to the general fund, with about $1 billion earmarked for the developmentally disabled, behavioral health care and the "medically indigent."
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/02/23/20110223arizona-medicaid-repeal-effects.html#ixzz1F1RNlJRy
The state would forego more than $7.5 billion in federal matching funds, and most of the $2 billion in state funding would be redirected to the general fund, with about $1 billion earmarked for the developmentally disabled, behavioral health care and the "medically indigent."
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/02/23/20110223arizona-medicaid-repeal-effects.html#ixzz1F1RNlJRy
RECENT CONTROVERSIAL LAWS PASSED BY AZ LAWMAKERS
Some Arizona lawmakers are tired of the federal government telling the state what to do.
They don't believe federal requirements, Supreme Court rulings or decades of precedent are good reasons to require state taxpayers to pay to educate illegal immigrants or provide them with health care. And, this year, they're doing something about it.
Lawmakers have proposed more than a dozen bills that attempt to reassert states' rights or fix problems they say the federal government hasn't addressed.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/02/24/20110224arizona-bills-test-federal-government-authority.html#ixzz1F1Q5B9rZ
AZ HEALTH-CARE PROVIDERS CONCERNED
Doctors are concerned that language in Senate Bill 1611, an omnibus immigration bill, could require anyone who accepts public funding, such as payments through the state's Medicaid program, to report patients to immigration authorities if they can't prove citizenship. They also worry that Gov. Jan Brewer's budget proposal to eliminate at least 280,000 people from the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System would have ripple effects throughout the health-care system and ultimately doom many health-care providers.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/02/25/20110225arizona-health-care-providers-concerned-about-bills.html#ixzz1F1PHUkDY
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/02/25/20110225arizona-health-care-providers-concerned-about-bills.html#ixzz1F1PHUkDY
AZ SPENDS $ TO DEFEND UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND CUTS $ TO AHCCCS
Gov. Jan Brewer has spent more than $1.5 million in donated funds defending herself and the state against lawsuits stemming from Senate Bill 1070, Arizona's controversial immigration law.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/02/25/20110225arizona-immigration-bill-lawsuit-cost-millions.html#ixzz1F1OMFFTa
RECALL PEARCE FOR A BETTER ARIZONA!
Join the effort to recall Russell Pearce (R-Mesa), the architect of SB 1070 and the recent initiative to nullify federal laws. Volunteers are needed for the collection of signatures in LD 18 (West Mesa).
THE ERASURE OF MEXICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES
Legislators in Arizona are pursuing a campaign to erase Mexican-American presence from teaching.
RECALL RUSSELL PEARCE
Backers of a drive to recall Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce from office plan to canvass west Mesa neighborhoods to collect signatures on Saturday, attacking one of Arizona's most powerful lawmakers on his own turf.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/02/03/20110203russell-pearce-recall-effort-mesa0204.html#ixzz1D22mB6ZU
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/02/03/20110203russell-pearce-recall-effort-mesa0204.html#ixzz1D22mB6ZU
BREWER'S ACTIONS NOT IN ARIZONA'S BEST INTEREST
"I think Arizona is just closer to our American heritage," said Nick Dranias, director for the center of constitutional government at the Goldwater Institute. "From what I've encountered, the people have more respect for and are closer to the frontiers that America once was."
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/02/04/20110204arizona-limits-federal-government-authority.html#ixzz1D20PvRE4
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/02/04/20110204arizona-limits-federal-government-authority.html#ixzz1D20PvRE4
LESS MONEY TO HEALTHCARE, LESS MONEY TO EDUCATION = A BETTER ARIZONA?
This month, Arizona became the first state to ask the federal government's permission to eliminate Medicaid coverage for hundreds of thousands of low-income residents to help close a budget deficit.
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2011/01/30/20110130arizona-campaign-stresses-duty-fund-education.html#ixzz1CdJBjN23
ART REFLECTS IMMIGRATION DEBATE
For centuries, artists have reflected political and social trends using the most heated debates of the day to inspire their work. Now 24-year-old Ernesto Yerena is carrying on that tradition, crafting posters that reflect his take on the immigration debate in America. Drawing on his cross-cultural upbringing, Yerena is now fighting back against what he sees as attacks on immigrants. FULL STORY
TIME FOR HEALING
We recognize our own mortality, and are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame – but rather, how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in bettering the lives of others.
OFFICERS STOPPED SUPECT FOR RUNNING RED LIGHT ON DAY OF ARIZ. SHOOTING- LET HIM OFF
Jared Lougher ran a red light but was let off with a warning at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, the Arizona Game and Fish Department said. READ MORE
ARIZONA TEA PARTY SPIN
FLASHBACK A MONTH BEFORE: In Dec. 2010, Pearce publicly claimed President Obama had waged "Jihad" on the US and Arizona. In the same month, Pearce also suggested Obama wasn't a US citizen when saying President Obama wouldn't be visiting Arizona anytime soon because "Arizona requires papers."- If this is not promoting hate, not sure what is. story here
Russell Pearce has a political career built on open hate and intolerance. We knew he was a bigot, now we know he's also a hypocrite.
RADICAL MILITANCY IN OUR POLITICAL DISCOURSE
Whether Jared Lee Loughner was inspired by right wing ideology is unknown. However, we do know the right wing promotes the use of guns, threats and hate as political tools. They have attempted to normalize radical militancy within our political discourse. With tea party politicians like Jesse Kelly, staging events offering the chance to shoot military-grade assault rifles as motivation to "remove Giffords from office" and other tea party candidates suggesting "2nd Amendment remedies" to achieve their political ambitions, it's easy to see why many are thinking tea party right now. Even if a direct connection between Loughner and the right is never found - the point is - it's a recipe for disaster to promote hate, violent threats, and guns as political solutions.
-PRO AZ
-PRO AZ
OTHER THREATENED AZ POLITICIANS DECRY AZ'S HISTORY OF EXTREMISM
Jared Lee Loughner
GIFFORDS COMMUNICATING WITH DOCTORS
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was "able to communicate with us this morning" by responding to simple commands, say her doctors. "We are very encouraged by that," says Dr. Michael Lemole, the chief of neurosurgery at the University Medical Center in Tuscon. In a press conference today, doctors said she is sedated and being awakened periodically, the Arizona Republic reports.
ECHOES OF GLENN BECK AND TEA PARTY REVEALED IN LOUGHNER'S INTERNET POSTS?
In a series of videos, Jared Lee Loughner, gave a rambling account of obsessions and paranoias that appeared to be troubling him with increasing intensity up to the catastrophe. They included references to conscious dreaming, or "conscience dreaming" as he called it, a process of directing one's own dreams that he is thought to have practised. Another was a belief in the gold and silver standard of currency – a favourite topic of the rightwing of American politics that is regularly propounded by the Fox News commentator Glenn Beck.
The tone of Loughner's rantings is almost exclusively conservative and anti-government, with echoes of the populist campaigning of the Tea Party movement. "Don't trust the government listener!" he said in one video, accusing Washington of mind control. FULL STORY
FLASHBACK: GIFFORDS TEA PARTY OPPONENT HAD M16 SHOOTING EVENT 'HELP REMOVE GIFFORD FROM OFFICE
Back in June 2010, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's (D-AZ) Republican opponent Jesse Kelly had an event at which voters could shoot an assault rifle with the candidate, promoted as thus:
Get on Target for Victory in November Help remove Gabrielle Giffords from office Shoot a fully automatic M16 with Jesse Kelly
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/flashback-giffords-opponent-had-m16-shooting-event-help-remove-gabrielle-giffords-from-office.php
PHOENIX POLICE UNION LOSING MEMBERS
Phoenix police union loses members over politics
Many officers have left in protest of the union's support of Senate Bill 1070, Arizona's controversial new immigration law, or because of the ongoing, bitter battle between union leaders and Phoenix Public Safety Manager Jack Harris.
Many officers have left in protest of the union's support of Senate Bill 1070, Arizona's controversial new immigration law, or because of the ongoing, bitter battle between union leaders and Phoenix Public Safety Manager Jack Harris.
REMEMBER AMERICA
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
The tea party wishes to reject this American Story.
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2011/0105/Rights-groups-denounce-proposed-bills-to-remove-birthright-citizenship
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