As you can read below, we are catching up on the press releases we received today. We apologize for the delay to the candidates and our readers.
PR: Brewer Announces Bid for Second Term
November 5, 2009 By 12 Comments
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, November 5, 2009
Governor Jan Brewer Announces Bid for Second Term
Former Attorney General Grant Woods and Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Mary Peters announced as Campaign Co-Chairs
PHOENIX –– Arizona Governor Jan Brewer today formally announced her candidacy for a second term as the Governor of the State of Arizona. Brewer, who took the helm as Governor last January in the midst of Arizona’s record financial crisis, pledged to continue to make the tough choices and renewed her steadfast commitment to serving the people of Arizona.
“When I took office, I inherited a budget deficit created from years of overspending and living beyond our means. We have worked hard to start fixing this problem, and made some very tough, but necessary decisions,” said Governor Brewer.
She said her decision to run for election next year is based on a simple philosophy. “I have always been a mother first and an elected official second and have made every decision to run for office based on whether I believed I could help people. I have never run for an office because I was looking to move on to some other office.”
Governor Brewer also proudly announced two distinguished supporters as the co-chairs who will help lead her campaign committee: Former Attorney General Grant Woods and Former United States Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters.
Former Attorney General Grant Woods served as Arizona’s chief law enforcement agent and prosecutor from 1991 to 1999. During his time in office, Arizona reinstated the death penalty in Arizona. Woods was known as a populist Attorney General and a staunch consumer protection advocate and was selected by his peers as the nation’s top attorney general in 1995.
Woods said, “I have known Jan for a long time, and I can say that tough times call for a tough leader,” explained Woods, “She understands that the budget isn’t our only policy issue – there are going to be more tough decisions to make, and she has pledged that over the course of her term, she will address the big challenges such as healthcare including mental health, transportation, infrastructure, and protecting our environment.”
Mary Peters, a fourth generation Arizonan, served as the United States Secretary of Transportation under President George W. Bush from 2006 to 2009. Prior to her appointment, Peters served as Administrator of the Federal Highway Administration from 2001 to 2005. She also headed the Arizona Department of Transportation from 1998 to 2001, where she started her career as an administrative assistant 16 years earlier. Throughout her career, Peters, has been a champion for more responsive and smaller government focused on delivering maximum value for taxpayers. She continues to be an advocate for solutions that engage both the public and private sector and shares Governor Brewer’s passion for driving solutions intended to help people.
Peters said, Peters said, “Governor Brewer understands that we must create a business friendly climate to attract high paying jobs and business investment in Arizona. As we prepare Arizona for the next 100 years of economic growth, not only will we need tax reform, but education reform, creating more opportunities and a highly skilled workforce. Jan Brewer is the best candidate to lead Arizona for the next four years.”
Governor Brewer thanked Woods and Peters for their long-time service to the State of Arizona and the United States as well as for their willingness to serve as co-chairs in her bid for a second term. She also thanked all of her supporters for their already overwhelming response.
“There is still a lot of work to be done and it is clear to me to that this is the moment that I was born to serve. I am in this race to win and I expect great things for Arizona,” said Governor Brewer, “I would be honored for your vote.”
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STATEMENT BY GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE JOHN MUNGER ON JAN BREWER’S DECISION TO SEEK RE-ELECTION
November 5, 2009 By 24 Comments
John Munger for Governor 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 5, 2009
STATEMENT BY GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE JOHN MUNGER
ON JAN BREWER’S DECISION TO SEEK RE-ELECTION
“Jan Brewer did not ask to become our Governor. She was not elected by the voters. She did the best she could during the short and troubled term she inherited from her predecessor.”
“Her commitment to raise taxes is fundamentally out of step with the Republican Party and the exact opposite of what Arizona needs right now. My program of lower taxes, regulatory reform and private stimulus will create jobs and broad-based prosperity. My campaign offers voters a clear choice and a viable alternative to the failed
policies and economic stagnation that have marked Jan Brewer’s time in office.”
“I also find it sad that Jan Brewer has decided to seek taxpayer funds to pay for her campaign at a time when our state is virtually bankrupt. This not only underscores her utter lack of popular support but her lack of awareness about the seriousness of our fiscal situation.”
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PR: Blackburn Endorses Kelly in AZ CD-8
November 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, November 5, 2009
Rep. Marsha Blackburn endorses Jesse Kelly for Congress.
Tucson, AZ. Recognizing the strength of his candidacy, Congressman Marsha Blackburn (TN-7) has endorsed Jesse Kelly for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District.
Rep. Blackburn stated, “Jesse Kelly is what we need in Congress: strong leadership, unwavering honesty and principle. Under Jesse’s leadership, working families will be able to achieve the American dream without the heavy yoke of government. That is why I endorse Jesse Kelly for Congress.”
Jesse is honored to have the support of such a strong leader within the conservative movement and among the grassroots. Jesse looks forward to working with Rep. Blackburn to reduce taxes, reign in deficit spending, and restore the strength of American economy.
Jesse Kelly is a candidate for Arizona’s Eighth Congressional District in the southeastern region of the state. For more information on the Jesse Kelly campaign please visit VoteJesseKelly.com.
PR: Vernon Parker: From Poverty to Paradise Valley
November 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 5, 2009
PV Mayor Vernon Parker Launches First Campaign Commercial of 2010
Potential Candidate for AZ Governor Beat the Odds All His Life; Ready to Take on State’s Challenges
PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz – November 5, 2009 – When life provided Paradise Valley Mayor Vernon Parker with its toughest challenges, he not only rose to meet those challenges, he overcame them.
A new two-minute campaign spot, released today, tells his amazing story. It’s a story that could have ended in despair instead of triumph – if it weren’t for Parker’s tenacious spirit and drive.
“Without” can be viewed at www.Parker2010.com.
Parker grew up without a father in a neighborhood that beat down many people with its gangs, violence and drugs. He was raised by his grandmother, who cleaned houses to support the family. Although she had a limited education and couldn’t read, she taught him his most important lesson: never take the easy way out.
Parker not only became the first member of his family to graduate college, he went on to Georgetown University Law Center. He not only became a lawyer, he served as General Counsel of the United States Office of Personnel Management before he was 30 and was asked by President George H.W. Bush to serve as Special Assistant in the White House.
Parker returned to federal service after a two-year stint as interim pastor at his church in Paradise Valley.
Parker was nominated by President George W. Bush and unanimously confirmed by the U. S. Senate as the first ever Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Agriculture.
For more information, please contact Jason Rose.
Uncoupling responsibility and liability
November 5, 2009 By 10 Comments
by Clint Bolick
Goldwater Institute
The redistribution of wealth is a central theme of our current political era. That trend just received a boost from a decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which reinstated a lawsuit that, if successful, could fundamentally transform the concept of liability and enrich scores of environmental and personal-injury lawyers.
The plaintiffs in Comer v. Murphy Oil USA allege that “defendants’ operation of energy, fossil fuels, and chemical industries in the United States caused the emission of greenhouse gasses that contributed to global warming . . . that in turn caused a rise in sea levels and added to the ferocity of Hurricane Katrina, which combined to destroy the plaintiffs’ private property, as well as public property useful to them.” For which the plaintiffs, of course, seek massive compensatory and punitive damages.
Under federal law, in order to have “standing” to sue, a plaintiff must show an injury that is “fairly traceable” to the defendant’s conduct. Standing typically is so narrowly construed that some unconstitutional government actions cannot be challenged at all. So it was not surprising that the district court dismissed the lawsuit as presenting a political “debate” over global warming rather than a true legal controversy.
But the appeals court reversed, holding that “the plaintiffs have standing to assert their public and private nuisance, trespass, and negligence claims.” The company will have to spend untold thousands of dollars (which will increase prices or reduce investment returns) to fend off a lawsuit that could never prevail under standard tort concepts of fault.
The next time you’re in California, be careful to walk softly lest your footstep be the one to set off the long-forecast earthquake that might render you liable for billions in damages. But if you do, make sure you’re carrying a hot cup of coffee so that when you spill it on yourself during the earthquake, you can get McDonald’s to pick up part of the tab.
Clint Bolick is director of the Goldwater Institute Scharf-Norton Center for Constitutional Litigation.
What is Governor Brewer Thinking!?!?
November 5, 2009 By 35 Comments
Before I launch into my dissent over the current Governor, I do have to give her credit for getting a lot of good things accomplished. With that said, many of us political consultants are asking, “What is Governor Brewer thinking?!?!”
Has her political consultant/advisor got her jacked up on political PCP?
Brewer’s polling numbers are in the tank and recent polls indicate she would get her head handed to her by voters in a match up against Terry Goddard.
While national trends that Democrats and incumbents will be the primary targets in 2010, I believe that Governor Brewer has put her own party in jeopardy here in Arizona. While many other states will turn red as Republicans return, here in Arizona I fear we will see the opposite take place thus defying the national trend to conservatives great dismay. We have one of the best conservative pro-taxpayer, pro-family legislatures since I can remember and we missed incredible opportunities to turn our local economy around through major tax, regulation and trade policy initiatives.
Frankly, we blew it because of a stubborn refusal to acknowledge economic reality and do the right thing.
Tonight, Governor Brewer has indicated she will announce her campaign for Governor in 2010. Instead, I would hope she would do the opposite and quietly retire.
The next legislative session hasn’t even started and I have to wonder how much more damage will be done.
