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Morlock moves back primary 4 days.

July 1, 2008 By 1 Comment

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     Veteran political writer Blake Morlock has moved the primary date back 4 days to September 6th. Early reports are that the Joe Higgins campaign is ordering reprints of the article so they can mail the story to each one of Ann Day’s supporters. They are also having a special stamp made to use on the outside of the envelope saying “Don’t forget to Vote on September 6th!”

     No doubt the Tucson Citizen does not share our sense of humor and will quickly change the online version as soon as they see this story. Read the blogs for breaking news but make sure to check the traditional media for the correct facts.

     Speaking of newspapers, shares of Arizona Daily Star owner Lee Enterprises have sunk to a 27 year low. Way to go, they may have done worse than Gannett.

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Michael Johns Says Sealing America’s Border with Mexico Requires Urgency

July 1, 2008 By 4 Comments

Conservative leader and writer Michael Johns, a former White House speechwriter and Heritage Foundation foreign policy analyst, said last night that the United States needs to act with great urgency to secure its southern border with Mexico if it hopes to protect the nation’s security interests and begin reversing the many economic and other crises spurred by the nation’s apparent unwillingness to enforce federal immigration laws by fully securing its southern border.

Replays of Johns’ interview with the Grizzly Groundswell Network on Blog Talk Radio are available globally for replay from the 61.30 to 120 minute mark of the network’s June 30, 2008 show, available at:

http://grizzlygroundswell.com/archives/2849

In the interview, Johns challenges the conventional wisdom that Mexico’s illegal aliens in the U.S. are only filling jobs that Americans do not want, stating that nearly half of them–10.5 million of the 21.6 million illegal Mexicans in this nation–are illegally filling skilled jobs that almost certainly would be appealing to Americans at a time when unemployment is standing at 5.5 percent nationally. Johns stated further that the failure of the U.S. to seal its southern border from illegals represents one of the greatest ongoing security threats to the nation at a time when the U.S. continues to be embroiled in a global conflict against al-Qaeda and Islamic extremism.

Johns stated that the 21.6 million illegal Mexican aliens in the U.S. are ill-serving the U.S. economy, costing the nation approximately $397 billion annually in education, health care and other social services. Meanwhile, Johns says, Mexican illegals are returning large sums of their earnings–approximately $33 billion annually to Mexico and $283 billion annually to all of Latin America. He also said that the U.S. has spent approximately $1.5 billion since 2001 in costs associated with the incarceration of approximately 370,000 illegal aliens in the U.S.

As President of Phoenix’s Coalition for a Conservative Majority (CCM), Johns and his organization are actively supporting two Arizona ballot initiatives that would strengthen the state’s illegal immigration enforcement capabilities by empowering Arizona’s law enforcement officials to enforce federal immigration laws and make the state’s criminal trespass statutes applicable to illegal aliens in the state. The deadline for the submission of signatures for these two ballot initiatives is this Thursday, July 3, 2008.

Filed Under: Border, Campaigns & Elections, Crime and Punishment, Economic Development, Education, Government, Health Care, Illegal Aliens, Illegal Employment, Illegal Immigration, Interview, National Security, State Economy, State Government, Welfare Tagged With:

The Cisco Kid.

July 1, 2008 By 5 Comments

     In his gotcha piece on voting records Jim Nintzel went as far back as 1994 to knock a candidate for missing the primary. But you do not have to go back 14 years to find this years worst offender for election participation. Juan Ciscomani never voted in an election prior to November 2006. In fact Juan did not even bother registering to vote before Fall of that year. Now he wants to serve in the legislature. In Juan’s case it is a good thing that he did not register to vote prior to September 2006 because that is the month when he became a U.S. citizen.

     In a year when Republicans were suppose to lose the Hispanic vote they have two Hispanics running for the legislature, Juan Ciscomani in District 29 and Steve Montenegro in District 12. Two candidates may pale in comparison to the number of Hispanics on the Democrat side of the aisle but it does show that no voting bloc is monolithic. But Ciscomani may be the only legislative candidate actually born in Mexico. He moved here (yes, legally) in 1994 when he was in the 7th grade and hasn’t looked back since. After graduating from Rincon High he enrolled at Pima Community College, serving as the Student Body President. Next he attended the University of Arizona and graduated Cum Laude in 2005.

     When Juan became a citizen he signed up to vote right then and there as a Republican. Although there was pressure to register as a Democrat, Juan decided that his views of personally accountability, self reliance, and moral values were a better fit with the Republican Party. Juan’s three main issues of improving education, strengthening the economy, and bolstering public safety would play well in most any district in Arizona. But Juan is not running in just any district in Arizona, he is running in LD 29. The area is heavily Democrat and Republicans normally do not expect to win there. Just as Juan is running for one of the two Republican primary slots the Democrats have decided to field 7 (seven) candidates! Depending on who wins the Democrat Primary (my two favorites would be Matt Heinz and Daniel Patterson) Juan may have an excellent chance of being sworn in to the house come January 2009. One of the other LD 29 Democrat candidates, Ephraim Cruz, has become Nintzel’s favorite candidate to write about this season. We are not holding our breath for him to make it out of the primary.

     We could not resist the reference the 1950′s TV series as a way of helping people pronounce and remember Juan’s last name, Ciscomani. Instead or Pancho, his sidekick is the more attractive Laura Ciscomani. But don’t let looks fool you, she holds her own within the campaign’s brain trust. If that were not enough Laura is pregnant with their first child, a baby girl, and is expecting this Fall. Talk about a race to watch. We do not yet know if the campaign is planning on releasing updated sonograms.

     Either way the Republicans have an excellent candidate who would do well in any district in the state but who makes the election for LD 29 House very interesting. Game On!

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Lawsuit by domestic terrorist group BAMN against AZ Civil Rights Initiative doesn’t stand a chance

July 1, 2008 By 6 Comments

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The FBI-labeled domestic terrorist group BAMN (By Any Means Necessary) from Michigan has filed a lawsuit at the last minute against the Arizona Civil Rights Initiative, hoping to prevent it from getting on the ballot. They filed a similar lawsuit against the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative a few years ago, which was thrown out. This is more of their guerilla-like tactics. Last week an alleged BAMN protester was arrested for attacking a petition circulator. According to the victim, she asked two women if they were registered to vote. She got to the AZCRI petition and they said “no we don’t agree with that” and started harassing her. She turned around to walk away, and was grabbed by the back of the head thrown on the ground and they started beating her up. Her friend called the police who came and arrested the woman who had assaulted her.

BAMN claims in their lawsuit that “tens of thousands” of people were “defrauded” when they signed the petition. However, BAMN has failed to produce these “tens of thousands” of people. Maybe they’ve found one or two people so far who didn’t quite understand what they were signing (which is the case with any initiative), but as discussed in a prior post, the only person the press has reported is a Code Pink activist so she was likely set up to sign the petition and then claim she didn’t understand it.

BAMN also claims that some of the petition circulators were not Arizona residents, which would be a violation of state law. The AZCRI petition circulators were hired from several petition companies around town. Virtually all of the AZCRI circulators also circulated the other initiatives in the state, including the governor’s transportation tax initiative and probably AZCRI opponent Kyrsten Sinema’s own competing initiative. If there were any out of state circulators hired wrongly by the petition companies, they have also equally committed fraud in regards to the other initiatives. BAMN is asking the governor to investigate this. I doubt BAMN is accusing the governor of committing fraud.

BAMN asserts that AZCRI targeted homeless shelters looking for minorities to circulate the petitions. If you think about it, that’s a bit of an ironic accusation – AZCRI selecting people on the basis of their race? This isn’t true. AZCRI hired standard petition companies in town, just like any other initiative. A certain percentage of those circulators were minorities.

BAMN is a frightful group most likely funded by race-baiters like Jesse Jackson who extort their money from corporations. Since no one supports its radical agenda, BAMN resorts to contriving up protesters, driving buses into the inner city and luring minorities by telling them the Civil Rights Initiative will discriminate against them and “re-segregate” society. BAMN needs to take its hateful tactics back to Michigan where it came from.

Civil rights activists file lawsuit and demand Attorney General investigate ACRI voter fraud
PRESS CONFERENCE
Monday, June 30, 2008, 10:00am
In front of the Central Court Building (201 W. Jefferson St., Phoenix, AZ)

Read BAMN’s lawsuit
Read BAMN’s letter to the Arizona Attorney General

Former Phoenix City Councilman Calvin C. Goode, defrauded Latina/o and black Arizona citizens, and the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) will file suit in state court Monday morning to stop the fraudulent “Arizona Civil Rights Initiative” (ACRI) from getting on the ballot.

They will also file a formal complaint with Governor Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Terry Goddard calling on them to hold a public hearing and investigate the ACRI campaign and its petition companies’ racially-targeted voter fraud and the criminal violations of Arizona election law that occurred during the ACRI’s petition campaign.

BAMN will also submit dozens of notarized affidavits by voters asking that their names be removed from the ACRI’s petition.

“Tens of thousands of Latina/o, black, and Native American citizens of Arizona were defrauded and led to believe that by signing the ‘American Civil Rights Initiative’ (ACRI) they were banning racial discrimination and advancing the dreams of their children to have a better future,” said Shanta Driver, National Chair of BAMN and an attorney. “They are angry that the ACRI stole their signatures as support for a petition whose sole aim is to eliminate affirmative action, which is the only way that their children will have an equal chance for a future. The duly elected public officials of Arizona have a duty to protect them, their children, all the citizens of Arizona, and democratic norms from systematic, racially-targeted voter fraud.”

In only a short period of time, BAMN has uncovered extensive evidence of other systematic violations of Arizona’s election law. Whistleblowers who once circulated the ACRI petition and oither witnesses have verified that the ACRI targeted homeless shelters to recruit minority circulators to facilitate ACRI’s deception, offered poor voters food or money to sign the ACRI, forged signatures, and illegally used out-of-state residents, felons, and underage people as petition circulators.

“We also call on the governor and attorney general to take up the investigation of ACRI because we cannot trust County Attorney Andrew Thomas, chairman of the ACRI campaign, to investigate his own operation,” said Driver. “The whistleblowers who are coming forward need to be assured that they will be protected after standing up and telling the truth.”

Go to the FRAUD FINDER WEBSITE to see some of the growing evidence of ACRI’s fraudulent practices.

Media Information Page: http://www.bamn.com/stopacri/media
Fraud Finder Website: http://www.bamn.com/stopacri/fraudfinder.asp

Filed Under: Campaigns & Elections, Government, Race Relations

Ogsbury Airs 1st Ad

July 1, 2008 By Leave a Comment

CD-5 Republican, Jim Ogsbury, is scheduled to air the first ad in the CD-5 GOP Primary beginning today. The 30-second ad will be run on cable Fox News.

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