Sheriff Paul Babeu

The New Enigma Machine

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Sheriff Babeu is quoted in CNSnews as follows:

“Our own government has become our enemy and is taking us to court at a time when we need help,” Babeu said.

One question to the self described "There's a new tough talking sheriff in Arizona".

Why are you, Sheriff Babeu, appearing in campaign ads with John McCain, arguably the person most responsible for the mess we are in?

Is it because you want the money and other support you believe can come from the McCain forces with your sellout?

We challenge you to walk your talk. Shame on you for your double dealing!

New poll on SB1070 and other facts

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There is a new poll that we can pretty much guarantee will not be the subject of a news article in the Republic. As we go to press there is a poll on Arizona Central about the image of Arizona as a result of SB1070.

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The results will not shock anyone but the Republic itself which has an article today headlined -- Amid immigration conflict, Arizona's image takes a beating

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Well it seems even its dwindling readership disagrees.

62.25% Arizona's image is ENHANCED

25.83% Arizona's image is damaged, and

11% who are brain dead

We encourage you to participate in the poll

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Even the Republic had to acknowledge in its yellow sheet article that a MAJORITY of the "protesters" here this week were paid SEIU Union Obama supporters bused in from Los Angeles. PS: Thanks for contributing to our economy with food, lodging and bail money!

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When two Mexican flag waving law breakers interrupted a Diamondbacks game yesterday, the stands broke out in chants of USA, USA, USA in support of our stand.

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All the opponents, including the Chambers who support illegals for the cheap labor, warned, with slashing of wrists, that the tourism industry would suffer dire consequences due to SB1070, and now we have the facts from the Hotel Industry that Arizona is alone in America with a 10.7% INCREASE in hotel guests compared to last year. It appears that the boycott funded with union funds has turned into a buycott with NO mega bucks support.

The Republic article states the followng: And from outside the state, the portrayals have been scathing. The reality is that according to Rasmussen Reports, 66% of American voters support their state passing a law similar to SB1070.

Doug Ducey -

worse than we even thought

First, there is well documented evidence that Doug Ducey left a trail of devastation and bankruptcies for those who invested in his business escapades. One of the causes for this sorry outcome is the fact that franchisees were required purchase 100% of their product from one vendor and if they didn't they were in breech of contract. With Ducey's reputation for being a great businessman, people wondered why this vendor's prices were the highest in the marketplace. An in-depth investigation uncovered the fact that Ducey's sole vendor was required to remit to corporate (Ducey) a percentage of the gross cost of everything the franchisee ordered. This looks and functions similar to schemes called "kickbacks".

Then we were amazed when his financial disclosure forms listed fewer resources than the homeless under the Seventh Avenue bridge. NO investments, NO stocks, NO bonds, NO holdings, nothing but a family trust. In addition, Ducey is listed as Chairman of the Board of IMemories, yet he shows NO debtors, NO creditors and NO property for the company. This is especially troubling for a candidate who would be investing billions of taxpayer dollars if he should be successful. How would anyone know if the investments were beneficial to "the family trust?"

Next his contributors are dominated by the McCain Amnesty crowd - The Hensley gang (Yonko, Delgado, Delgado, and Chiocca), Andrew McCain, Mac Magruder and spouse, Don Budinger, and the LeVecke gang (Carl, Neisha and Margaret). Does anyone know of any candidate supported by the McCain/amnesty group who was not politically beholden to follow the dictates of the group?

With those revelations as a background, we were still surprised that Ducey has only voted in the Primary Elections one time in the last decade. He is now asking Republican Primary voters to vote for him in this Primary Election when he almost totally refused to participate in that same system himself.

To recap - horrible business track record, unable or unwilling to complete candidate financial disclosure forms with transparency, financed by the McCain Amnesty cabal, and a personal slackard in his voting history.

Thayer Verschoor is the only true conservative running for State Treasurer; a conservative who voted for the largest tax cuts in the history of the state; a Reagan Republican who is one of only six legislators to ever be awarded the prestigious "Spirit of '76" honor by the Pachyderm Coalition; a fiscal watchdog who received the coveted "Champion of the Taxpayer" award from Americans for Prosperity on multiple occasions; a patriot endorsed by Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Senator Russell Pearce; and a leader endorsed by 25 of his fellow legislators - men and women who worked with him on a daily basis. That is a track record to be valued and supported. A record few, if any, can match.

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Vote for integrity.

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Vote for transparency.

Arizona Hotels Thriving

in the middle of the Boycott!!!

The latest news from national sources show that what was supposed to be a boycott of Arizona over SB1070, has actually turned into a Buycott! According to a new study from the hotel industry research firm STR, hotel occupancy was up 5.7 percent in May and up 8.3 percent in June compared with the same time a year ago.

In a repudiation of the Boycott Arizona open borders gangsters, Phoenix hotel occupancy was up 10.6 percent in June; in Scottsdale, it was up 10.7 percent for the same period. Revenue also was up, with Arizona hotels raking in $148 million last month -- up more than 11 percent from a year ago.

Growing Our Party has been told for a couple of months now about people who were coming to Arizona from around the country specifically to support the rule of law and protection of our sovereignty. This is the first data available that substantiates those anecdotal stories and confirms the fact that good things happen when you do the right thing for the right reasons.

Maybe the Chamber of Commerce, the Greater Phoenix Leadership, ATRA, and the Republic should re-evaluate their position on SB1070. Of course, that won't happen. In fact, the Republic will continue to live in denial, since they won't even print this story.

Rocky Mountain Poll now
discredited by journalists

Earl deBerge and his polling institutions (Rocky Mountain and Behavioral Research) have finally gone where no one ever has gone before. In the latest Senate poll? that they released, the number of independents included amounted to 40% of those called. With over 30% of the registered voters being independents, that might not seem too ridiculous, however, the record is that independents participating in Republican primaries falls in the 2% range.

In addition, Earl de McCain, refuses to release the specific questions used in the poll. It is a major point of credibility for pollsters to release the questions, the setup information relayed to the person being polled and the sequence the questions are asked. These actions are consistent with the actions of John McCain, which may be why there seems to be a blood-brother relationship between these two.

McCain confesses in his own book, Worth the Fighting for, that when he has had the option of losing or lying, he has chosen lying. What an incredible statement to make, especially when it is done without regret or repentance. To vote for a person because you believe in him, when he states that he will lie without equivocation is non-sensical.

Now to the important point. Conservatives need to redouble their efforts over the next fourteen days. Reliable information in the Republic this morning indicates that Hayworth and McCain are within the Deakin margin. Earl only missed the correct result by the omission of a dash. Instead of 45 points, the correct answer is 4-5 points. Additionally, Deakin damaged himself in the two televised debates this week and it is clear that a vote for Jimmie is a vote for McCain.

Moral victories can make a difference in some occasions, however, real victories change the course of history. Barry Goldwater won a moral victory over the Rockefeller liberals, but it took the Reagan victory to actually change the policies of our country.

JD's victory will change the landscape of Arizona politics as we have known it. The influence of the McCain gang throughout cities, counties, chambers of commerce, special interest lobbying organizations, etc. cannot be overstated. Now is the time to light the afterburners. Victory is in sight, but can only be accomplished with conservatives doing the hard work in the summer heat.

Where's the Soap?

When we were young, it was common practice for parents to wash out the mouth of children who lied. Obviously, John McCain's parents never took the effort to apply the Ivory to Johnny's mouth.

As a state and as a nation, there must be a foundation even more basic than the Constitution and that is the integrity of our leaders. We say that because even the socialists and communists use the Constitution falsely to confound and mislead the public. A man's word should be his bond, and a graduate of the United States Naval Academy should have learned this prior to getting his uniform, if he didn't know it before.

Here is the bottom line:

McCAIN'S AMNESTY:
ONCE WORTH THE FIGHTING FOR;
NOW WORTH THE LYING FOR

Phoenix, AZ (JULY 17) - Sen. John McCain looked the people of Arizona in the eye during last night's televised debate and lied when he said "And by the way I never supported amnesty."

"In his book Worth The Fighting For, John said that he was faced with a tough choice during his 2000 bid for the Presidency," said U.S. Senate Candidate J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ). "John, in his own words, decided lying was the best way out of a difficult situation. He made the same decision when faced with his continuing support for amnesty last night."

In McCain's book, he wrote: "I didn't want to do this. But I could tell from the desperate looks of my staff that we had an enormous problem. And that it could come down to lying or losing. I chose lying."

On December 15, 2000, McCain entered a statement into the Congressional record that said: "In particular, this bill makes meaningful but insufficient progress on amnesty for those wrongly denied it, and does not address legitimate concerns about Central American refugee parity."

On May 29, 2003, the Tucson Citizen quoted McCain saying: "Amnesty has to be an important part because there are people who have lived in this country for 20, 30 or 40 years, who have raised children here and pay taxes here and are not citizens."

He sponsored not once, but twice the McCain-Kennedy amnesty legislation that would cost American taxpayers $2.6 trillion in retirement benefits alone for illegal aliens who are granted amnesty.

And as late as April 10 of this year, his office was sending out letters that stated: "Considering our national interest in identifying these individuals (illegal aliens) and our inability to round up and deport all of them, we must provide these individuals with incentives to come forward, complete security background checks, pay any owed taxes and stiff penalties for breaking the law, learn to speak English, and regularize their status."

Hayworth said "regularize" is just McCain's latest code word for amnesty.

"First it was amnesty, and then it was comprehensive immigration reform, now a new one - regularize," he said. "But it is all the same amnesty pure and simple."

"John lied last night. Arizona deserves a Senator the people can trust," Hayworth said.

Growing Our Party is obligated to remind everyone that John McCain voted for the 1986 Amnesty fiasco. It appears that McCain has become a pathological liar and cannot discern truth from fiction. Arizona deserves a senator that it can trust. John McCain is not that man.

Why and who are we fighting?

I don't know about you, but it seems at times that even the best of us are forgetful about the reason that originally brought us to the political scene.

"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him." — G.K. Chesterton

In addition, many seem more concerned about the purity of their friends than the evil of those who would destroy the very foundations of our country.

"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor." — Ronald Reagan

The makeup of our next legislature may very well hinge on "conservative" Republicans backing other tried and true conservative Republicans instead of opening the door for RINO's.

We experienced this in 2008 with the Phony Tony escapades. Now it seems to have spread to the far reaches of the county.

With only three weeks until Primary early ballots are mailed out, "conservative" legislators, candidates and their friends would do well to read these two quotes every morning and every evening.

Democrat Poll Results:

The Donkey is in a Pile of Dung

Democratic Polling firm Democracy Corps (D) has a new survey out that should send chills up the spines of Democrats. Like the recent NPR survey, there's really no good news there for Democrats. Among the findings of the poll of likely voters:

•62% believe the country is on the wrong track.
•Republicans have a higher "thermometer" rating.
•Republicans lead in the generic ballot, 48%-42%.
•Democrats barely lead on environment.
•Republicans lead on ALL other issues.
•Obama's approval is under water, 45%-51%.
•Obamacare bill still appears to be a net drag.
•The President's personal ratings have all slid.
•55% think the label "socialist" describes Obama.
•Obama's done nothing to improve the economy.
•Cut taxes and spending to improve the economy.

And this is the good news from BO's friends.

Memo to

Legislative Candidates

According to Rasmussen Reports, only 13% of voters believe that state budget crises are due to a lack of taxes, while 75% believe that uncontrolled spending is the main cause of the problem. An amazing 12% don't have a clue. That 12% seems to be fairly consistent with every poll, regardless of the subject. We can only conclude that they are mental patients or live in a monastery.

Back to the usable information, this poll means that over 85% of people with demonstrated ability to form an opinion support cutting the spending. We actually believe this number will grow as more people receive information from sources other than the MSM and government union proponents.

CONCLUSION: CUT THE SPENDING AND DO IT NOW!

Supremacy
Preempt
Facilitate
Enforce

These are the important criteria to consider SB1070 and its relationship to the federal Code.

Almost everyone agrees that a state cannot pass and enforce a law that is contrary to federal law that is in line with the Constitution.

The federal government has just filed suit challenging the state of Arizona’s new anti-illegal immigration law. The basis? The Supremacy Clause, which says that federal law trumps state law.

But that argument should only have credibility if a state law is contrary to the federal law. In this case, the state law mimics the US Code.

It basically gives the state a mechanism to enforce federal law, to turn over people police have a reasonable suspicion to believe may be illegal over to the feds.

Courts have consistently ruled that the states have “concurrent authority” when state law only mimics federal law. -- Five federal appeals courts have applied this in context of illegal aliens, upholding states’ rights to arrest illegals.

It is also being reported that the other ground for the legal challenge is racial profiling but the SB1070 specifically addresses that issue In fact, SB1070 contains specific language that makes it illegal for a police officer or other government official to use profiling when enforcing the law. Current United States Statutes does not contain this safeguard.

Finally, a 2002 memo from the Justice department concluded that state police have “inherent power” to arrest undocumented immigrant for violating federal law. That memo will come back to haunt them now.

To come to any other conclusion would mean that state laws against robbery, kidnapping, and murder or laws banning discrimination or health and safety laws, etc. are all illegal since there are national statutes covering such actions.

The ridiculous position of the Obama Justice Department seems to be that whenever a state has a law covering an action that is covered under federal law, it would be automatically illegal under the Supremacy Clause. This has never been the law and any attempt to implement it in this case by a District Court would be shocking.

BO = Bashing Occidentals

Yep, it is time to face the facts that Hussein hates everything occidental. He has an inbred antagonism for capitalism, personal liberty, limited government, parental choice, state sovereignty, gun rights, free speech, and on, and on, and on.

It is somewhat comforting that the American people are getting the picture. According to Rasmussen, only 25% of the public believe that the destimulus helped the workforce/economic picture, and only 15% support more government spending instead of lowered taxes. The American public also supports reduced government regulations on businesses. Lastly, 82% of the public believe that the federal government should cut the size of the deficit in half by 2013.

Are you listening BO? In case you can't figure it out on yourself, these numbers clearly demonstrate that your policies are opposed by more than just the occidentals you despise. We do not think you will listen, which is why we believe that the Republicans are odds-on favorites to take back the House, and even money to take back the Senate.

We know you are pushing the socialist/communist/progressive agenda. We are not sure if it is genes or jeans because you can't be this dumb occidentally.

DUGAN NEWS FLASH:

Humans successfully reverse the Theory of Evolution

That is a fact according to Margaret Dugan, as stated in the debate on KAET last night. Here is her quote: " Every animal on the face of the earth can successfully teach their young what they want them to learn. The only animal that cannot do that is the human animal."

I guess that means that we have devolved back past the monkeys to . . . - What? Even the host, Ted Simons was struck dumb as the camera panned to him immediately after this remarkable statement

Is that her way of saying that we cannot do without the Dept. of Ed. bureaucracy?

Is she a closet AEA supporter?

Maybe, since she is also the only Repubican candidate to take the AEA position that we must have taxpayer supported all-day Kindergarten.

And so many thought Margaret was the supreme conservative - with NO track record to substantiate that belief.

Once again, we must be careful about supporting those who say they believe in conservative values, but have never had to back up their purported position with a track record.

Orwell was only off 25 years

Yes, it can now be substantiated that Orwell's 1984 came into fruition a quarter century late. Barack Hussein Obama was inaugurated in 2009, and the world has been stood on its ear ever since. In fact, it seems that BO's 1984 mentality has infiltrated all the way down to the state, legislative and local levels of politics.

We have a proven left winger appointed to the post of interim countyattorney by a Republican dominated BOS for the purpose of protecting the unseemly and probably illegal actions of the board members - and no one exposes it.

We have one-time "conservatives" like Matt Salmon and Trent Franks endorsing big government progressives for a plethora of offices while refusing to return phone calls from those who faithfully supported them and the Constitution and Rule of Law for decades.

We have the governor crowing about a law that she did not support prior to a Rasmussen Poll showing 84% of Republican Primary voters favored it, simply to fool the public. The fact is SB1070 was written, pushed, argued and cajoled through the legislature by Russell Pearce without one sign of support from the ninth floor.

We have the Chambers of Commerce endorsing big government liberal candidates from both parties who will swear to pass legislation to enrich the filthy lucre of its members. Destroying the taxpayers in the course of their actions is of no mind to these self serving creatures.

Grass roots activists, the next 60 days will determine our fate. Senate races like Bundgaard v Bouie, Allen v Konopnicki, Klein v Braswell, Davis v Driggs, Silver v Nelson, Molina v Crandall, Smith v Byars, Griffin v Smith, Antenori v McClure.

House races where big government advocates are challenging true conservatives like Tobin/Campbell, McLain/Goodale, Burges/Harper, Seel/Fitzgerald, Smith/Sprague, Kavanagh/Ugenti, Douglas/Lesko, Weiers/Yee, Forese/Mesnard, Hendrix/Petillo.

It extends to statewide offices where Andrew Thomas and Thayer Verschoor are being challenged by certifiable left-wing big money candidates with a strong history of supporting Democrat candidates throughout their adult life. And, of course, Montgomery v Romley.

There are many other races at the federal level and legislative levels where there is a clear difference however, the races above are where the contrast is stark and very dangerous. Conservatives must not assume that they will have a strong candidate to rally around in November.

Early ballots will be sent out within the month. Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their state.

How do you identify 'CRAZY'?

It is suspected when a person has run for office for decades who never reached a 2% support level in a general electioncomplains that new recruits to his party are destroying his ability to win.

BH (we refuse to dramatically raise his name ID by printing it) has consistently blamed Matt Salmon for keeping him from being governor in 2002. Now he is shooting new Libertarian candidates because they did not contribute to his historically abysmal losses.

In addition, he accuses Tea Party activists of being thieves for "stealing" their connection to the Ron Paul legacy. BH actually believes that he owns that.

It is a short trip from lack of credibility to certifiable lunacy. Get the rubber room ready.

News Flash TO the Republic

The imminent Death of you and your industry

Rasmussen Reports that Sixty-six percent (66%) of U.S. voters describe themselves as at least somewhat angry at the media, including 33% who are Very Angry.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone poll finds that 31% say they are not overly angry at the media, but that includes just nine percent (9%) who say they are not at all angry.

Voters have consistently said in polls that the national media has a liberal bias and that most reporters try to help the candidates they want to be victorious. If organizations like the Republic continue to anger over two-thirds of the public, their demise will be sure and swift.

The Conservative Clarion Call

In her acceptance speech last night, South Carolina Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Nikki Haley clearly stated the problem that currently exists within the Republican Party across this nation.

"South Carolina has been 'settling'. We have been 'settling' for a Republican House, a Republican Senate and a Republican Governor. I won't stop until we get a conservative House, a conservative Senate and a conservative Governor."

This message needs to be sent to Randy Pullen and staff on 24th Street, the Ninth Floor of the Capitol, and the Second Floors in the House and Senate on the Mall:

We cannot any longer have our "conservative" leaders support programs, set up by socialists in the form of the Gulletts, like "Twelve in '10" that supports candidates like Meyer(D), Konopnicki, Fann, Driggs, Nelson, Reeve, and Crandall against tried and true conservative candidates;

We can no longer turn a blind eye to elected "conservatives" who give power and authority to personages like Grant Woods;

We can no longer accept Party Leadership who run as conservatives then spend the next two years working with the McCain, Chamber, Brewer Troika that tries to oust our conservative Precinct Committeemen.

It is time for a leader like Nikki Haley to rise up in Arizona. The voting public is looking for true conservative leadership in Arizona.

Brewer, McCain and Woods --

Protection Plan: All Bark - No Bite!

Here we go again with Grunt Woods, former Chief of Staff to John McCain and current Campaign Chairman for Jan Brewer yapping like a crazed Chihuahua. Woods has been an embarrassment to Republicans, Independents and Democrats alike in his public pronouncements over the years. Now he has managed to top his own litany of irrational inanities.

To quote this sick and possibly deranged purveyor of socialist, open borders dogma: "I believe that the image of Arizona as intolerant will stick until we rise above it. To be an Arizonan is to be a part of Mexico." WHAT?

News flash to Grant: To be an Arizonan is to be a part of the United States of America!

Whenever you want to migrate your pompous personage to Mexico, I am sure there will be many willing hands and trailers to provide free packaging and transport!

It is time for conservatives to oppose not only Grant Woods, but those who continue to bestow positions of authority upon him. Votes against Brewer and McCain are votes against Grant Woods and what he stands for.

THE FUTURE IS IN YOUR HANDS - AND FEET

Yes, the future of the Republican Party in this state is in your hands and feet. And the time to take charge of the future is down to 45 hours.

Precinct Committeemen and State Committeemen will elect our Party Officials at the Precinct, District, County and State Levels later this year, but those eligible to participate in those organization meetings are restricted by state law to those who have submitted their paperwork to the County Recorder no later than 5pm on June 9 - this Wednesday.

True Republicans AND Republicans-In-Name-Only will decide the direction of the Party - toward Constitutional Ronald Reagan conservativism or toward the pro-amnesty, pro-death Rockefeller/McCain liberal agenda.

45 hours is a very short time, but it is enough if the priority is high enough.

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Proposition 100 - -

The Saul Alinsky Connection

For those who are not aware, Saul ALinsky was a card carrying member of the Communist Party of the USA made in the mold of Karl Marx. Alinsky wrote many books on how to destroy the American system of free enterprise, capitalism and democracy including Rules for Radicals.

In fact, his goal was to foment enough public discontent, moral confusion, and outright chaos to spark the social upheaval that Marx, Engels, and Lenin predicted -- a revolution whose foot soldiers view the status quo as fatally flawed and wholly unworthy of salvation.

He advised organizers and their disciples to quietly, subtly gain influence within the decision-making ranks of the media, publicschools, unions, churches and political parties. This background on Saul Alinsky is important to every parent, taxpayer and resident of Arizona for one reason.

Why are we talking about Saul Alinsky when talking Prop 100? It is fairly simple, Prop 100 is primarily being pushed by the Arizona Education Association, an arm of the National Education Association. The National Education Association, on its website, encourages its members to buy, read, and implement the philosophy of Saul Alinsky. Click HERE to see their website strongly recommending reading the communist rants of Alinsky.

As a footnote to this article, but, in the total picture, the agenda of the Obama socialists is clearly documented by Saul Alinsky's son, L. David Alinsky, who praises Obama for “learning his lesson well” from the Communist guru. As long as the AEA and its parent organization is supporting the communist manifesto through such works, NO more dollars should be given to the districts who operate under their leadership.

This is enough reason for any American who espouses the principals on which this country was founded to support vouchers, charters, private, long distance and home educational options - any and every avenue to protect our children from the indoctrination of these zealots.

Vote NO on Prop 100. It will be wasted by the bureaucracy, and will be diverted to expanding the socialist agenda.

THE WHOPPER

AND IT IS NOT FROM BURGER KING

IT IS TIME FOR THE TEACHERS TO DISCOVER THAT THEIR PROBLEM IS NOT AT THE LEGISLATURE, BUT WITH THE SUPERINTENDENTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES.

IN ADDITION, THEIR UNION, THE AEA, IS COMPLICIT IN THE MISREPRESENTATIONS.

Any educational funds from this tax will go to districts ONLY.

The brochure we received from the YES people states there are 140,000 more enrolled than in 2004. THAT IS A BLATANT LIE.

The fact is that in the district system there were 887,489 TOTAL ADMs in 2004 and the current district TOTAL ADMs are 931,844. These numbers are straight from the Superintendents AnnualFinancial Report, prepared and submitted by the district business offices to Department of Ed. That is an INCREASE of only 44,345 more children, NOT 140,000 during the years the YES people chose, and that is only a 4.9% increase.

Now to look at tax load: According to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee report on Expenditures to the Districts Maintenance and Operations Budgets, in FY2004 the state General Fund appropriated $3,349,554,200 to the districts while in FY2009, the state General Fund appropriated $5,079,427,900 to the districts. That is a 51.64% increase.

Let me repeat that, because it is a startling set of figures - - the average daily membership increased by a mere 4.9% since 2004 - the time span they chose - while appropriations increased by a whopping 51.64%.

Teachers say that they have not had pay increases for seven years, or they have had pay cuts the last three years. If that is true, they need to be asking their administration where the dollars went. The funds were appropriated from the state General Fund and if they did not receive those funds there is only one stop from the legislature to them - the district offices.

There are also comments about how many teachers have lost their position. Some teachers have been let go, but lets look at why that is happening.

In 2008, the number of district pupils was 950,815, however, as stated above, the current number has decreased to 931,844 - a loss of 18,971. If you figure the average class size is 30, that is a loss of 632 classrooms and subsequently a lack of need for 632 teachers. Teacher reductions are NOT because of low appropriations, but a lack of pupils. That pupil count, by the way, is continuing to decline every month and will for the foreseeable future.

Any government agency that has a 4.9% growth in caseload and has received a 51.64% increase in funding has too much taxpayer money, not too little. These figures are readily available and published on the JLBC and ADE websites, so you can use them with comfort to inform your friends and neighbors about the real education story.

Vote NO on Prop 100!!

It is a scam, it is unnecessary, it will harm seniors on fixed incomes and it will further damage our economy by costing the Arizona job market 24,000 to 40,000 jobs.

National Guard 4 Crime Suppression

Good for Chicago - Bad for Arizona

Talk about a double standard.

Go to this revealing story and learn how it is viewed in Obamaland.

The new face of Educators

We have a crisis around the world that has caused the deepest downturn since the 1930's. Arizona Tax receipts are DOWN more than 40%. The k-12 piece of the state tax revenue pie has grown from 43% to nearly 90% in the last decade - - - AND THEY WANT MORE.

Student SAT scores are DOWN, teacher pay UP, % of revenues to the classroom is DOWN, the number of Administrators is UP.

WHY ARE WE IN THIS SPOT? GREED, plain and simple.

Watch the video from the teachers in Chicago. At least they have honesty on their side as opposed to the junk being sold here.

http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/04/22/chicago-teacher-on-tax-hike-give-up-the-bucks/

We have found the enemy

and it's Barry Hess and the Hessians

We went to a Tea Party last night and were energized once again by the patriotic fervor of ten thousand patriots that was facilitated by Tom Jenney and AFP, Thayer Verschoor and Ax-the-Tax, and NO on 100. It was so hot and yet so cool to see new passionate activists that have decided to join the fight against a socialist takeover of our country and state.

It was all wonderful, that is, until we ventured into the nether world created by Barry and the Bumpkins. Never forget, this is the self-centered hippopotamus that gave us Janet Napolitano. Now this narcissistic waster of good oxygen wants to take the opportunity to give us Terry Goddard. If he truly cared about Arizona and the return to a Constitutional government, he would take a lesson from history but the only way he can get any visibility is to serve his Kool-Aid to the uninformed.

That is bad enough, but this crazy, psycho-babble spouting, cracked head has decided that the one person to be singled out for attack by his rabid band of wolves should be Russell Pearce. That's right Russell Pearce. Not Kyrsten Sinema, Not Daniel Patterson, Not Paula Aboud or even Not Rich Crandall, Russ Jones or Bill Konopnicki - but Russell Pearce. Last week, he even went out and recruited a Hessian lackey to run against Russell Pearce.

We couldn't even leave the event without enduring a loud-mouth confrontational Hessian attacking Sen. Pearce. Russell Pearce has faults like everyone else, but the objects of such personal attacks should be those who are working every day to kill our system of government. We firmly believe that Hess would have found fault with George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and he would have led a motor-mouthed attack on their lack of purity according to the Book of Barry.

Go away, Barry, and take the toadies who cannot recognize who is on our side and who is destroying America and Arizona with you. Whatever service you might have been able to provide is lost in your egomanic duplicity. Serve your Kool-Aid at Progressive, Democrat functions. If you are going to kill people, let it be the enemy.

We can only say WOW!

Governor Jan Brewer names CEO of a failed bank as the next AZ financial institutions chief

Gov. Jan Brewer yesterday named former Valley Capital Bank CEO Lauren Kingry as the next Superintendent of the Arizona Department of Financial Institutions.

Mr. Kingry was the CEO of the failed bank that went into receivership with federal officials in December. Now, he will be Arizona's next top banking regulator. How does making decisions that led to a bank failure qualify a person to be the top banking regulator?

Just a thought, wouldn't it be better to have someone with a successful track record to represent the state during these perilous times?