A m e r i c a n P o s t – G a z e t t e
Distributed by C O M M O N S E N S E , in Arizona
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Real Conservative Rich Davis fights back!
press release
Last week Adam Driggs sent out a mail piece that was full of half-truths, distortions and even some outright lies, demonstrating that Driggs’ campaign is desperate and that Adam is no statesman.
When this race began, Driggs was the front-runner, leading in the polls. Over the past few weeks that appears to have changed. As a result, Driggs will likely continue his desperate attacks and mudslinging for the next two weeks.
On the positive side, since the Driggs attack piece, Davis has received an outpouring of support from people who were turned off by the dishonest campaigning. It seems that people are disgusted by Driggs’ approach and it is backfiring against him, particularly amongst undecided voters. In this political climate, people want to replace incumbents with new leadership and Driggs is reminding them why.
Here are some of Drigg’s falsehoods:
• One of Rich Davis’ most compelling qualities is the time he spent as an advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security and later as the Director of Terrorism Prevention at The White House. Driggs tries to undercut this by quoting from an article that has nothing to do with Rich Davis and which hints that everyone at the Department of Homeland Security is some sort of unqualified political crony. Driggs ignored Davis’ senior position and ignored Davis’ promotion to The White House. There is something pathetic about a politician who mocks those who serve our nation in an effort to score cheap political points. Adam Driggs may not think too much of our national security, as his open-borders voting record will attest to, but as a husband and a father, he owes a real debt of gratitude to the men and women who serve our country and keep him and his family safe. Attacking that service is shameful.
• Driggs intentionally deceived people by implying, on one side of the mailer, that Rich Davis lives in Washington DC. He used a paperwork error (which has already been rectified) in the District of Columbia to try and create doubt in the minds of people about where Rich Davis lives. Of course, on the other side of the same mailer Driggs refers to Rich Davis’ Arizona home. And Rich Davis is on the ballot right here in Arizona, a fact that we’re sure Adam Driggs is fully aware of each and every day. So why lie and try to confuse voters? Driggs knows exactly where Rich Davis lives on one side of his mailer and is just playing dumb on the other.
• Driggs claims that Rich Davis made up his job as Chancellor and claims that it was a school of 80 students. The role and title of Chancellor was established by the school system’s Board of Trustees, and Driggs only used the population of the smallest school to create the false perception that Davis was embellishing his resume. The embellishment was Driggs’, because he ignored the other schools in the system.
• Driggs tries to portray Rich Davis as a Washington, D.C. insider and says that his Washington D.C. contributions show that Rich has no interest in representing Arizona. Rich Davis’ campaign finance reports show a measly eight contributions from Washington, D.C. By comparison, Driggs gets over 61% of his money from PACs, lobbyists, their families and associates. Most of Davis’ money comes from Arizona and he has not taken money from PACs or special interest groups. So if we believe Driggs that where your money comes from indicates who you are going to represent, then Rich Davis will be representing the people while Adam Driggs will be representing the lobbyists. Probably not the point Adam Driggs was hoping to make.
• Driggs attempts to minimize the work of ARTIS Research (one of Davis’ companies) because the statutory address on the corporate documents is Rich Davis’ home. ARTIS works to reduce violence emanating from conflict zones. ARTIS researchers, including Rich Davis, go into harm’s way to improve understanding about terrorism and insurgencies in an effort to save lives and reduce the threat of violent actors reaching the United States. ARTIS personnel includes some of the great minds in the world, like Lord John Alderdice, the man who led the IRA and Great Britain to the Good Friday Accords and Robert Axelrod, who is on the short list for a Nobel Prize for his work. ARTIS employs people in four states and has consultants in even more. So why paint a false picture based on a statutory address? Maybe Adam Driggs just doesn’t want us focusing on his record anymore?
Adam Driggs continues to try and take credit for SB1070 in spite of working against the bill so long and so hard that its author, Russell Pearce, endorsed Rich Davis for this race. Adam ignores his open-borders record and Rich Davis’ endorsement from Sheriff Joe Arpaio. He ignores his record on the budget because he has used the very same accounting gimmicks he campaigned against. Adam Driggs continues to reveal himself to be just another desperate politician trying to hang on to elected office in spite of his job performance.
So we have to tell the truth for him. To each of our friends and neighbors. Driggs and his buddies have a lot of money, and they’re going to keep on repeating their lies for the next two weeks. We have to continue to spread the truth and trust that God knows what is going on and that He will prepare people’s eyes and ears for what they need to see and hear.
Feel free to pass this along to your friends in the district and thank you for doing your part to elect real, honest leadership to the State Senate.
ABOUT RICH
• Rich Davis is a business man and owns two companies – ARTIS Research (a research company that studies human behavior and cognition in Conflict Zones) and Davis Energy. Previously his background includes:
• Director of Terrorism Prevention, The White House under George W. Bush
• Advisor to the Secretary of Homeland Security
• Director of an educational development non-profit
• School Administrator and Teacher
• Education – M.A. Naval War College; M.P.A. Harvard University; M.A. Azusa Pacific University; and B.A. Hope International University.
Saw the Driggs mailer and believed a lot of what it said, until a friend pointed out some of the lies in it. Whatever positive I felt about Driggs at that point was destroyed, and I hope and pray that Rich Davis wins this race.
I still believe the Driggs mailer. A paperwork error that has been rectified? Awesome, how many of those do we get?
I don’t care if he was the chancellor of a 10,000 student school, how did that qualify him to be the director of gobbledegook at Homeland Security — heck of a job Brownie! Everyone knows that should not be a Cabinet level agency and that it has been an absolute trainwreck from the start.
Is Rich going to bring jobs to Arizona through his “connections” with Lord Applesauce and Burger King? Wouldn’t that be a conflict of interest?
Finally, didn’t Driggs vote the same way on the budget as Pearce? Oh, no, Driggs didn’t vote to put the sales tax on the ballot, while Pearce did….
Davis is a carpetbagger, a DC hack and a endorsement fabricator.
Sorry, just not buying the spin. A paperwork error? Like he didn’t know he was getting a massive tax break for declaring DC his primary home? Does he not read his property tax bill?
Constanin’s response when confronted with the homestead carpet bagger mailer was ‘So what it’s not that much money he got back.’ Yeah that’s real conservative Rich. Emphasis on the con. Another tea party candidate with failure to launch syndrome…say hi to James Molina for us
Adam Driggs is a true conservative and a great guy. He has lived in D11 his whole life. There is not a dishonest bone in his body. Davis is desperate and knows the writing is on the wall for him. Adam Driggs will win this race.
Not a dishonest bone is right. He ‘s completely spineless.
If Davis was a Bush anti-terror guy, then wasn’t border security part of that?
So, just curious if Davis can answer – where’s the fence?
Amateur hour from the Davis campaign. I love his mailer about Driggs selling the Capitol (not true) and the other mailer showing all his great celebrity endorsements (not!) including General Petraeus (not true). Let’s see, since the race has started Davis has been caught taking tax credits illegally, and using a picture of an acting General in his campaign pieces (to which the Department of Defense contacted the campaign immediately to cease and desist). Who is running his campaign anyway? Nice work boys.
Here is some research anyone can do on the Davis bullet points:
• Rich Davis is a business man and owns two companies – ARTIS Research and Davis Energy. (Both have their world-wide headquarters in his condo in Central Phoenix) ARTIS is dependent on Federal Gov’t for its existence, yet a recent Davis mailer say “I know how to creat jobs and how government gets in the way.” What a joke. Government signs his checks!!!
• Director of Terrorism Prevention, The White House under George W. Bush
(Google “Director of Terrorism Prevention” and the only websites you will find are Rich Davis’s. No official government acknowledgement of this title. Was it top secret??? I doubt it, more likely that was not really his title.)
• Director of an educational development non-profit. (This is a good one. This is a non-profit that also has its worldwide headquarters in his condo in Phoenix. It is currently inactive and does no business according to various websites. It is called RAISON and is listed as a Int’l student exchange organization. However, his palm card says it “strengthens American Values in Foreign Countries.” An old press release says it is “an international non-governmental organization dedicated to economic and democratic development.”
Rich Davis is filled with bull. Raison doesn’t even have a website. I can’t find “Davis Energy” anywhere on the internet. I can only deduct that Rich Davis is a figment of his own imagination.
The Democrats will have a field day with Davis if by some chance he wins against Driggs. It is bad enough having Eric Meyer in the House, I can’t handle a Democrat in the Senate.
Lots of rehashed attacks here from the Driggs camp. I guess you have to give him credit for being organized if nothing else. Just saw the Davis response piece to Driggs’ earlier attack piece though. Answered lots of questions about Davis and raises a whole bunch of new ones about Driggs. I’m sure you all will spin quite freely on those new topics for a few days.
T Johnson, I’ve seen the pieces and there are pictures of Davis with people on them, but nothing that says endorsement. Why are you falsely claiming otherwise? And your insider knowledge about the department of defense’s communication with the Davis campaign? Why you must be someone very special indeed. A Driggs supporter who sees Davis’ mail? Very impressive if true.
Hi Mary, would you please send us a link to the answer you quoted about “So what its not that much money he got back”? I can’t seem to find that anywhere, but since you’re quoting it, you could really help us out to learn more about the truth here. That was a real quote you’re quoting right? Not just something you made up to help your guy Driggs make Davis look bad?
PV…it was reported in the Capitol Times that the DOD asked him to remove all pictures of General Petreaus…not exactly insider information. This is from the article:
The U.S. Army has directed his campaign to stop using a photo of him and Gen. David Petraeus because it violates U.S. law and Department of Defense code that prohibits active duty military members from engaging in certain political activities. Davis had used the photo in a mailer and on his campaign website. “If not addressed, continued use of this photograph by Mr. Davis’ campaign might have caused some to come to the mistaken impression that General Petraeus somehow supported or endorsed Mr. Davis’ campaign. He does not. Indeed, General Petraeus does not support any political candidate for any office,” Lt. Col. Kurt Mieth, a military attorney stationed at U.S. Central Command headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, said to our reporter in an e-mail. Mieth later told YS in a phone interview that he spoke with Davis’ campaign this morning, and the candidate agreed to stop using the photo. Mieth said the Army takes such “misuse” of photographs of military personnel seriously, and Petraeus is especially sensitive to those issues.
AZ Capitol Times 8-5-10
Even this military officer comes to the conclusion that putting a well known figure on your mailer implies endorsement, as he stated above, otherwise why put it there. Stock photographs of actors does not imply endorsements, but when you put a picture of a candidate posing with a “real” person, it does imply endorsements. Was he trying to get the point across that he went to several political dinners and stood in line to take pictures with celebrities? How does that help a campaign? He implied support and endorsements from these people by putting these pictures on mailers pure and simple.
There’s no other way to spin it.
I have seen Driggs’ mailer with REAL endorsements from REAL people. Governor Brewer, Senator Kyl, Congressman Shadegg, along with a bunch of REAL voters from the district. These people KNOW Driggs and ENDORSE Driggs. I’ll take that over photo-ops with famous people Davis has met once any day of the week.