For Immediate Release: Monday, March 22, 2010

“Arizonans across the state have spoken, and the overwhelming message is that you do not want the health care bill that was passed last night,” US Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth said today.

“Devoted to your concerns, I have already pledged to do everything in my power to repeal a federal health care takeover by signing the ‘Repeal It!’ Pledge issued by the Club for Growth. I urge my opponent to do so as well.”

“From the onset, I have opposed a federal health care takeover. On my radio program, I regularly spoke with Arizonans about the disastrous effects the proposed, and now passed, health care legislation could have on Arizonans. As a broadcaster, my role was simply to engage in dialogue. As a U.S. Senator, I will be duty bound to act. Had I been serving in the U.S. Senate in December when the Senate voted on this bill, I would have done everything in my power to stop it. Unlike my opponent, I would have demanded the bill be read in its entirety, even though it would have meant keeping the Senate in session over Christmas.”

“The health care bill is estimated to cost Arizona taxpayers $4 billion in unfunded mandates, while making $500 billion in cuts to Medicare and massive reductions in Veterans’ health care. Furthermore, the legislation creates an avalanche of new agencies, rules and regulations that will vastly expand federal power over the most intimate aspects of each of our lives. It also contains unsustainable, unconstitutional and unaffordable mandates on the states and on individuals alike, including an unprecedented requirement that citizens buy private insurance policies.”

“I support legal challenges to the health care bill’s enforcement as well as legislative efforts toward its repeal.”

For Immediate Release: Monday, March 22, 2010

Tucson, AZ. Jesse Kelly releases the following statement in reaction to last night’s health care vote: “I am deeply disappointed that Representative Giffords has so blatantly voted against the majority of voters in her district. Her vote for a large, new federal health care entitlement will both increase deficit spending and restrict free market health care options available to residents of District 8. When I am in Congress, I will do everything in my power to reverse Obamacare and enact real free market solutions that truly increase competition and lower costs.”

Jesse supports market-based solutions to increase competition. He will work to legalize the purchase of insurance across state lines and permit groups of individuals to pool together to negotiate the terms of their insurance coverage. Moreover, he advocates tax policies that encourage individual ownership of insurance coverage and increased use of health care savings accounts.

Jesse also supports real tort reform that would lower the cost of malpractice coverage through a cap on punitive damages. Tort reform will also lower costs by lessening the practice of defensive medicine.

“Rep. Giffords chose party loyalty over the residents of her district. My pledge to repeal the government takeover of health care will be a central theme of my campaign from now until November,” stated Kelly.

Jesse Kelly is a Republican 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 or send an e-mail to jesse@votejessekelly.com.

For Immediate Release: Monday, March 22, 2010

President Should Veto Federal Abortion Funding

FLAGSTAFF – Today, Dr. Paul Gosar called out President Obama for the unconstitutional Executive Order he used as a bargaining tool to persuade Democrats to vote for his national health care legislation.

“It is a disgrace when the President of the United States resorts to unconstitutional acts in order to pass legislation,” said Dr. Paul Gosar. “When his executive order is declared unconstitutional all Members of Congress who voted for nationalized health care, including Ann Kirpatrick, will have voted for federal funding of abortions. I am vehemently opposed to this legislation and the federal funding of abortions.”

Questions have started to surface whether the President can, by executive order, stop a lawfully authorized expenditure program enacted by Congress by an Executive Order. The most constitutional method for a President to strike a piece of legislation is by veto.

“President Obama should simply veto this provision if he truly does not want federal money to be used for abortions,” stated Dr. Paul Gosar.

BACKGROUND ON EXECUTIVE ORDERS

Executive Orders are temporary. The President can sign it today, and revoke it tomorrow. Indeed, upon taking office, President Obama revoked several executive orders signed by President Bush.

More importantly, Presidential Executive Orders have traditionally been used only in time of national emergency, such as President Lincoln’s executive orders shutting down certain newspapers and suspending the right of habeus corpus for prisoners. President Roosevelt used an Executive Order to intern over 100,000 Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor. Assuming Presidents Lincoln and Roosevelt acted constitutionally (many question whether they did) where is the national emergency here? This is a simple domestic policy issue. There is no war from a foreign country and there is no civil war and there is no emergency. In this circumstance, Article I, Section 1 of the United States Constitution is concise: “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”

So the question remains: Did Congressman Stupak and the other pro-live Democrats get duped? To be constitutional, Presidential Executive Orders have to be enacted pursuant to a provision of the Constitution or pursuant to a Congressional delegation of power, that is, from Congress to the President. Here, Obama’s Executive Order purports to contravene Congressional intent, not further it. Again, the method to stop legislation is by veto, not Executive Order.

The U.S. Supreme Court overruled President Truman’s use of the Executive Order (EO# 10340) in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 343 US 579 (1952), whereby President Truman nationalized all the country’s steel mills because that order “made law” as opposed to acting pursuant to law. Here, if Congress authorizes federally paid abortions, how can an Executive Order constitutionally countermand that law? And if it can, why have Congress at all?

For Immediate Release: Saturday, March 20, 2010

Tempe, AZ – Today Dr. Chris Salvino applauded ABC 15 for covering the ObamaCare debate and for exposing the lies told by fifth district Congressman Harry Mitchell.

“Last night on ABC 15′s ten o’clock newscast they caught Harry lying on the abortion question. Mitchell said there is no funding for abortion in the ObamaCare legislation. That’s a lie and Harry knows it, but it didn’t stop him from lying to thousands of Arizonans last night,” said Dr. Chris Salvino..

“Perhaps Mr. Mitchell should consult with his own Democrat Congressman Bart Stupak who has publicly said he cannot support the bill because it DOES fund abortions. Shame on Mitchell for trying to deceive us, and for agreeing to vote yes on this legislation,” concluded Salvino.

For Immediate Release: Saturday, March 20, 2010

(PHOENIX, AZ) March 20, 2010 – Jim Ward, Republican candidate for Arizona’s 5th Congressional District, released the following statement today:

“Congressman Harry Mitchell is making a colossal mistake if he follows through with his stated plans to support the Democrat-led government takeover of our health care system. This misguided legislation will saddle our economy with enormous costs and trigger an unwarranted expansion of government into the private lives of our citizens.

“I have spoken to countless voters throughout Congressional District 5 since announcing my candidacy and they are clear in their firm opposition to this bill. I held a public, health care town hall meeting and delivered messages from attendees to Congressman Mitchell letting him know his constituents simply do not want the government making their health care decisions. I call on them to urge Congressman Mitchell to reverse his planned, party-line vote and instead support the wishes of the people he represents. Send him an unequivocal message that Arizonans will not accept this so-called reform and will hold him accountable for his vote.”

For Immediate Release: Saturday, March 20

Prescott, Arizona-Rusty Bowers, a conservative Republican candidate for Congress in Arizona’s First Congressional District, is setting the record straight on Congresswoman Anne Kirkpatrick’s promise to vote for a big government takeover of America’s health care system. Rusty Bowers is a nine year veteran of the Arizona’s State legislature and former State Senate Majority Leader.

Kirkpatrick claimed that she “will be working to improve the bill moving forward, including addressing the potential costs for AHCCCS (Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System) and eliminating politics-as-usual special deals like the Cornhusker Kickback.” Because of Senate rules, making major changes to the Senate bill is all but impossible, notwithstanding her claim.

Worse, Kirkpatrick knows this. Senate Minority Whip, John Kyl, sent Kirkpatrick a memo informing her that many of the things she wishes to change in the Senate bill cannot be modified because of the nature of the reconciliation process. Kirkpatrick has ignored this reality by making promises she knows she cannot deliver.

“These promises mislead Arizona,” says Bowers. “Her vote would add eight to ten billion dollars in the next few years to Arizona’s budget woes. She knows this bill cannot be changed in the Senate. She has been forewarned by Senator Kyl. Please, Congresswoman, don’t make us spend trillions we don’t have.”

For Immediate Release: Friday March 19, 2010

PHOENIX, AZ (March 19) – Republican U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth, Arizona’s Consistent Conservative, today called on Arizona voters to join him in bringing ObamaCare to a halt:

“As Arizonans, you and I have an important stake in what this runaway Congress is voting on – or trying to pass without voting on, as the case may be. Our own Democrat representatives in Congress from Arizona – Gabrielle Giffords, Raul Grijalva, Ann Kirkpatrick, Harry Mitchell and Ed Pastor – need to hear from you, early, often and now!

“Urge them in the strongest terms that you oppose the disastrous, expensive and unconstitutional federal takeover of our health care system being imposed on America this weekend by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Obama administration.

“Besides extending the grasp of the Washington bureaucrats into the most intimate aspects of our lives and giving them effective control of one-sixth of our economy, their scheme would cut $500 billion from Medicare and impose massive reductions in Veterans’ health care. It is a lethal combination of new agencies, complex new rules and unrestrained spending that will jeopardize our nation’s fragile recovery from recession.

“This weekend’s vote represents an added $4 billion in costs to our state over the next decade – money Arizona can’t afford for programs Arizonans don’t need.”

For more information, please visit www.JDforSenate.com.

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