Arizona Latino Republican Association Chairman Joins Federal Immigration Lawsuit to Defend Arizona and SB 1070

REVISED – UPDATED PRESS CONFERENCE TIME IS 9 AM

ALRA Chairman Joins Federal Immigration Lawsuit to Defend Arizona and SB 1070

Phoenix, AZ – The Chairman of the Arizona Latino Republican Association (ALRA), Jesse Hernandez, is expected to announce that he and ALRA have signed on to a federal immigration lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice.

ALRA will be represented by Freedom Watch, Inc. – a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting and promoting freedom in the United States and around the world.  The organization is participating in the lawsuit to demonstrate support for Arizona and challenge the Obama Administration on the issue of states’ rights.

ALRA is the first Hispanic organization to publicly challenge the U.S. Department of Justice in support of SB 1070.

WHO:                    Arizona Latino Republican Association

Freedom Watch, Inc.

WHAT:                  Joint Press Conference

WHERE:                Phoenix Law Enforcement Association (PLEA) Headquarters

1102 West Adams Street

Phoenix, AZ 85007

WHEN:                  Thursday, July 22, 2010

9 a.m. (Revised Time)

About ALRA

The mission of the Arizona Latino Republican Association (ALRA) is to foster the conservative principles of the Republican Party in Arizona’s Latino community creating an empowered network of Republican Latino leaders and grassroots activists.

Jesse Hernandez, Chairman

mexgop@yahoo.com

AG Candidate Andrew Thomas Unveils First TV Commercial: “Conservative vs. Con Man”

Attorney General Candidate Andrew Thomas Unveils First Commercial of Campaign: “Conservative vs. Con Man”

PHOENIX, ARIZONA JULY 20, 2010.  Andrew Thomas’ campaign for Arizona Attorney General unveiled its first television commercial today: “Conservative vs. Con Man”.  It is scheduled to begin airing statewide.
The video can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtJgeuXLA_0
The spot highlights Thomas’ success reducing crime and illegal immigration, as well as Tom Horne’s banishment for life by the SEC for financial fraud.
Thomas has been endorsed by notable Arizona law enforcement leaders including Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Yavapai County Sheriff Steve Waugh, Mohave County Attorney Matthew Smith, Mohave County Sheriff Tom Sheahan, Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu, Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever, Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, Arizona Police Association and former Arizona Attorney General and NRA President Bob Corbin.  Former Arizona State Senator Jonathan Paton, Arizona Right to Life and former Congressman Tom Tancredo have endorsed Thomas as well.
During Thomas’ time in office, crime rates plummeted.  The 19 percent drop is more than twice the national rate of decline, in despite of an 11 percent increase in the county’s population during that time.  The illegal immigrant population has dropped by anywhere from 18 percent (Dept. of Homeland Security estimate) to 30 percent (Center for Immigration Studies estimate). Like the fall in crime rates, this dramatic decline in illegal immigration is far greater than the average in the rest of the nation.
Thomas has a track record of successfully defending illegal immigration crackdowns in our courts, including his successful efforts to prosecute illegal immigrants for conspiring to violate the state’s human-smuggling law and to defend Prop 200′s voter ID requirements and the employer-sanctions law, which he defended along with the Attorney General’s Office.
If elected Attorney General Thomas has pledged to expand that office’s prosecutions of illegal immigrants under the state’s human smuggling laws. The office is not currently pursuing such prosecutions.
Thomas is married with four children.  He is a graduate of Harvard Law School.  Prior to serving as Maricopa County Attorney, Thomas served as an assistant attorney general for Arizona, deputy counsel and criminal justice policy advisor to the Governor, special assistant to the Director of the Arizona Department of Corrections, and a deputy county attorney.
To schedule an interview please contact Jason Rose.  For more information about Andrew Thomas, please go to www.ThomasforArizona.com.

Paid for by Thomas for AG

Sheriff Arpaio and John Huppenthal to Hold Education Town Hall in Scottsdale

Press Release

Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Senator John Huppenthal, Chairman of the Senate Education Committee and Candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction, will be hosting an Education Town Hall on July 22 at 6:30 pm at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library Auditorium.

Education is one of the most critical issues facing our state:

  • How do we reduce the school drop-out rate?  How do we prevent juvenile delinquency?  What effect will reducing the drop-out rate have on juvenile crime?
  • What every parent should know about drugs and substance abuse in our schools.
  • How do we ensure the continued use of English immersion in our schools?
  • How can we ground our students with respect for the Constitution and our Founding Fathers and imbue them with a proper sense of our country’s history?
  • Why are only half of our students reading by the end of the 4th grade; how do we improve literacy and reading proficiency? What are the effects of illiteracy on crime?
  • Can Arizona compete on a national or world stage in math and science?

Discussion will focus on how to improve education in Arizona, the challenges we face, our education standing relative to other states and related issues. Come join a lively discussion!

Details: Thursday, July 22, 2010,  6:30-8:30 pm, Scottsdale Civic Center Library Auditorium, 3839 N. Drinkwater Blvd., Scottsdale, AZ 85251-4452

Paid for by John Huppenthal 2010.

JPD: DISHONEST BLOGGER/CAMPAIGN HACK REVEALED!

By Steven Robinson

Since I first joined Arizona Tea Party and Greater Phoenix Tea Party networks, six months ago, I have found blogging to be both exhilarating and exhausting.  I’ve enjoyed it, been extremely upset and energized by what others post.  People can be as anonymous or open as they choose, for a variety of reasons.  Most often it is to protect their privacy from those who would use deign to harm them.  However, most everyone who are members those two Tea Party sites, and others, plus anyone following the US Senate race on these sites are familiar with many Jim Deakin supporters; and most certainly are well aware of one JPD.  I became aware of his blogs shortly after JD Hayworth entered the race four months ago, when this person began accusing Hayworth of being nothing like a “Consistent Conservative”.  JPD has called JD a “progressive”, “porker”, “earmark lover” among many other claims.  He has misrepresented votes on bills as something they are not, being a very active member of Jim Deakin’s campaign though probably not in an official capacity.  That is simply to provide cover for this nameless, faceless attack dog for Jim Deakin, who indeed loves this ‘cover of darkness.

I have to thank JPD for these accusations though; it made me dig into JD’s congressional record to research his votes.  What I found out by reviewing American Conservative Union, National Journal and “Ontheissues.org” among others was that NOTHING could be further from the truth!  JD’s record of supporting tax cuts, border enforcement and other key issues were so fundamentally solid that one rating service went so far as to describe JD as a “Hard Core Conservative”!

So, I do understand why JPD chose to misrepresent JD’s record, HE supports Jim Deakin and when JD Hayworth entered the race, whatever support Deakin envisioned would come from the conservative camp dried up like a lonely poppy plant in the scorching Mojave Desert.  This is exactly why Chris Simcox exited the race and supported JD.  Yet Jim Deakin had no intention of leaving the race, and very much needed whatever exposure occurred from the blogosphere.  However, JPD was certainly NOT justified in his misleading, lying and distortion-filled attacks on JD’s record.  He simply lied on behalf of Jim Deakin and that is unacceptable!

What always troubled me about JPD’s attacks, were that he did NOT simply focus on JD Hayworth’s record.  He began attacking JD’s supporters and especially me since my posts early on were disproving JPD’s and other supporters of Jim Deakin to be blatantly false!  Yes, JD voted for “No Child Left Behind” and the “Patriot Act”; and well meaning patriots can disagree without being disagreeable about their constitutionality.  But more than that, JPD and other like-minded supporters began making personal attacks, questioning my integrity, and calling me names. They were also getting control of groups like ICaucus and the Arizona group of Resistnet, then banning me for trumped up reasons.  I was even viciously attacked by a LD3 candidate who strongly supported Jim Deakin for a perceived attempt to derail his campaign!  In that case NOTHING could be further from the truth!  Ultimately due to his false claims I researched his records and found out that he was NOT qualified to run in the LD3 GOP legislative race and he had to withdraw.  I don’t know, but it’s even possible that he could be prosecuted for filing a false affidavit with the State of Arizona.

When I began blogging, I had chosen to be anonymous, using the name “Radical American Patriot”. Shortly after, I decided that I was willing to stand behind my words, and began using my real name and my picture.  I must confess that I was really ‘hacked’ that JPD would make his sneak attacks and run back and hide in his hovel, smirking about how he got someone good!  Now what I say next is really despicable.  JPD was being fed information from either Les White or Kelly Townsend of Greater Phoenix Tea Party website about me and their site!  He recently posted a comment on some website, stating that Suzanne and I had been reinstated.  What? I had NOT received notice to that effect, so HOW did JPD know other than Les or Kelly told him?  Further, somehow they found out information on an unaffiliated Tea Party in Phoenix and ALSO revealed private information about this Tea Party to JPD! In my opinion these two, as well as JPD are thoroughly discredited by their actions.  It truly bothers me when people make vicious personal attacks from their anonymity. So I decided to do some research into JPD, and HERE IS WHAT I FOUND!

JPD is none other than Joseph Peter Danielek, residing in Avondale, Arizona.  He has a son named S***** (I will not reveal his name, he is not involved, unless he’s using an alias as well.). His wife, Carlene recently joined ICAUCUS, under the name “Carlene D”.  I even believe that she has joined in the past two or three days again, under simply “Carlene”. Joseph Peter recently stated that he is 54 years old and that is correct.  To his credit a friend of mine who had spoken with him at the Bullhead City Tea Party, thought he looked much younger.  Unfortunately, she said he looked “unkempt”, like he could be someone who sat in his mother’s basement all day in his underwear, blogging, hacking and whatever computer geeks do all day, besides making money!  Oh well, there’s much more research I could do to find out if he owns his home, works for someone, etc.  My point simply is to inform people about two matters.  JUST WHO is Jim Deakin’s greatest promoter, propagandist and prevaricator; and ALSO you can’t trust the Greater Phoenix Tea Party website with ANY personal information!  Be careful about joining that site, because, IF they will ‘provide’ personal information when such actions suits them.

So, from now one, when you see JPD on any post, you’ll know who he is and why he makes the claims he does.  I suspect that he will disappear into the woodwork, just like Jim Deakin plans to do after this election.  Neither of them will have any future in the Republican Party here in Arizona, maybe with the Green Party, or any party supporting Jon Lovitz!  But neither of them has any future here on any political level.  They will have to ask themselves, was it really worth it all, becoming pariahs in the political community JUST to get John McCain re-elected?

Transformers aren’t just for kids…

Have You Seen Me?

Recently it has come to the attention of many Arizona conservative activists and tea party members that there are a number of Teachers Union candidates posing as Republicans in our legislative races — make no mistake about it, these are Trojan Horse candidates…also known as “Democrats in Disguise”, or “DID’s” for short.  They are supported by the Arizona Educational Association, Teach for America, the ASU bureaucracy and most administrative organizations.

Parents who choose Christian schooling, online education, charters, secular private schools and home schooling should be particularly alarmed because these DID candidates are instinctively opposed to expanding school choice.

These chameleon candidates have been emboldened by the passage of a $3 Billion tax hike; also known as Proposition 100. Their plan is to cross the tax hike threshold by planting DIDs in a few heavily Republican districts.  Voters will be fooled into thinking they are voting for a fiscally Republican conservative, but they aren’t, and by the time they’d find out who these candidates really are – the damages will have already been done. The Arizona Republic and Citizens for Tax Justice (www.CTJ.org) claimed that Arizonans want to pay higher taxes, but the elected representatives in the legislature weren’t listening. So, this is their plan to implore candidates to vote for higher taxes for public education.

Their website (www.ExpectMoreArizona.org) says nothing about better education, just higher taxes. In fact here is a snipit from a “blogger” on their  ”Expect More Blog” by a supposed small buisiness owner:

“As a small business owner I believe we, the taxpayers of Arizona, should invest heavily in our public education system.  In fact, I am willing to step up and pay more in personal and business taxes so that we can hire the best teachers, build modern infrastructure and attract the most innovative and brilliant leaders…”

If successful, this group will turn the Arizona Legislature into a tax hike playground.  Most of the DIDs are teachers and school board members who are registered as Republicans but carry the platform of the teachers union and the Democratic Party. Make no mistake, these are NOT TRUE REPUBLICANS!

The Vote 4 Education DIDs generally file their petition signatures close to the deadline, and are running as traditionally funded candidates. Most have had no prior visible involvement in Republican Party politics and many are unknown to local Republican activists. Contrary to Conservative Republican views, they are proud supporters of government run education.  Many of these fake Republicans have endorsements from the infrastructure spending lobby, and have received significant PAC donations after the campaign finance filing deadlines so as to delay full disclosure to potential voters.

Take, for example, Heather Carter, Clinical Associate Professor at Arizona State University in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and now Republican House candidate in Legislative District 7 that touts she is registered Republican since 1988 and is a “A REPUBLICAN EDUCATOR WHO IS PRO BUSINESS” on her website.  Carter has stated she was for Prop 100, against tax limiting Prop 13 Arizona, and for more taxpayer money for schools.  She talks about balancing the state budget and fiscal responsibility, but no where can we see that she is about lowering taxes. More taxpayer funds (meaning increased taxes) and pro-business are two phrases that just don’t go hand-in-hand on a Republican ticket. She claims to have more than $20,000 in PAC donations and has teachers and union members working on her campaign, going door to door on her behalf.

Carter is currently involved with Teach for America in the education department at ASU.  She is closely linked with the education lobby. Her website shows endorsements from the Arizona Education Association teachers union, the Professional Firefighters of Arizona PAC, and the big government advocates at the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Craig Barton, former Professor at Ottawa University and University of Phoenix and now Republican House candidate in LD 7, is also a Vote 4 Education supporter.  Barton operates charter schools which depend on tax revenue to operate.  If elected, Barton will be able to vote more money to his and other charter schools.  Barton says he supports Prop 100 yet signed Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform (www.ATR.org) pledge not to raise taxes.

Note: LD7 Heather Carter and LD6′s David Braswell have teamed up for a fundraiser sponsored by the teacher’s union, on 22 July.   This needs to be exposed.  Quickly.  Voters need to know what they stand for, and who they really are.

Legislative Districts 6, 8, 10, 11, 21 and 22 all have known DIDs running for legislative seats.  The following candidates should be heavily scrutinized before the primary elections as all of them are suspected DID’s. Each one can potentially hold up a conservative reform agenda; not just educational reform, but tax and budget cuts.

  • David Braswell, LD6 Senate
  • Karen Fann, LD1 House
  • Venessa Whitener, LD21 House
  • Paul Howell, LD22 House
  • Steve Urie, LD22 House
  • Wade McLean, LD26 House
  • Doug Sposito, LD30 House

The Arizona Education Association claims 81% of its members believe the State Legislature is the biggest obstacle to achieving success in our schools.  All they need is more of your hard earned money. They say the legislature is standing in the way of their “success”. If you vote for one of their candidates you are moving us one step closer to a 2/3 majority in the legislature required to raise your taxes. Vote 4 Education is nothing more than a Vote 4 Higher Taxes plain and simple, and these candidates are aware of this. They are fooling the Arizona public into thinking that they are fiscal Republicans only because they know they would have no chance at winning an election as a Democrat in these districts. Do not be fooled. Please spread the word.

Grassroots Interviews with LD 6 Senate candidate Dave Braswell

Last night on GrassrootsInterviews.com, I interviewed LD 6 Senate candidate Dave Braswell.  He weathered one of my tougher interviews with a lot of aplomb. He’s one of two Senate candidates hoping to be nominated in the August 24 Republican primary. I wish him luck!

Dave Braswell interview