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Arizona Election Spending Levels at Record Highs

August 14, 2010 By 5 Comments

Dateline: A private lunch at  Charley Clark’s in Pinetop, August 15, 2010

POP QUIZ KIDDIES…

Is this Governor Brewer rewarding Konopnicki and McCain for their single handed economic stimulus of Arizona’s economy this campaign season?  McCain tops $20 million spent while Konopnicki tops $110,000 for a $24,000/yr State Senate seat.

Is this a photo of Arizona’s Border Hawks standing strong on Comprehensive Immigration Reform?

Are these the true (Tea Party) conservatives who’ll roll back big government and reduce taxes?

Does this photo give Jeff Vath a warm tingle down his leg?

Does Jan Brewer really know what these guys represent?

Is this how John McCain rewards  the GOP Chairman (guy on the far right) who verbally harassed a senior woman voter into removing a JD Hayworth sign from her yard?  Guess he made up his own version of that story for the governor.

Or are these the Hero’s of the New Republican Party that will wrest power away from the Democrats come November and lead this county and state to a greater tomorrow??

We wish to thank the gentleman from Graham County on the far right for making this photo available.  Be sure to share this link with voters in Eastern Arizona.

Filed Under: Campaign Finance, Campaigns & Elections, Voters Guide

When we nominate a RINO like John McCain for President, we get a disaster like Barack Obama

August 14, 2010 By 17 Comments

Let’s take a little trip down memory lane back to the 2008 Presidential Election. Here is a clip where John McCain told us that Barack Obama was a decent man and that we had nothing to fear from him.

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Hmmm… Sounds as if John McCain was trying to defend another one of his “friends?” It may have even sounded like endorsement.

Fast forward to 2010 and our Constitutional Republic is on the verge of social and economic collapse and people are wondering how we got where we are.

The old “mavericky” John McCain tried to play nice and tell us we didn’t have to worry about Barack Obama. John McCain wouldn’t fight and the result is that we have one of the worse presidents in US history.

Meanwhile here in Arizona, John McCain, aka “Mr. Campaign Finance Reform,”  has  spent around $20 Million dollars attacking JD Hayworth. McCain even raided his 2008 Presidential fund in order to spend it on expensive Washington insider spinmeisters to create more attack ads!

Where was this John McCain in 2008?

Why didn’t he fight for us against Barack Obama back then?

Why did McCain treat Barack Obama better than fellow Republican JD Hayworth?

The honest reason why we have Barack Obama today is because of John McCain. If you want to blame someone for the direction of the country now, blame John McCain for not fighting in 2008.

When we nominate a RINO (Republican In Name Only) like John McCain, we get a disaster like Barack Obama.

Filed Under: Campaigns & Elections, Political Correctness, Political Parties

Romley swipes funds from Arpaio’s immigration sweeps and creates new $130k “illegal immigration” job as payback to crony

August 14, 2010 By 15 Comments

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 14, 2010

Tribune exposes Romley’s fake police database campaign trick

Romley swipes funds from Arpaio’s immigration sweeps and creates new $130k “illegal immigration” job as payback to crony

Democrat-supporting County Attorney Rick Romley has only been in office a little over three months and the corruption has begun in full force. In yet another sleazy campaign move, he hoodwinked the East Valley Tribune into running a story about a fake idea. He tried to sell the idea to the Arizona Republic first, but they saw right through it and refused. Romley’s idea was setting up a joint Valleywide crime database that law enforcement would all have access to. He held a meeting on Tuesday with 70 law enforcement officers to discuss it. Sounds like a good idea, right? Only problem is the database already exists, was put together by others over the past eight years, includes 50 law enforcement and health officials Valleywide, and in fact is so advanced it is already being connected to large counties in California. Sheriff Arpaio’s office has been heavily involved with the project over the past eight years but were conveniently left out of the meeting. Romley merely held the meeting to gain credit with the public and press in his election campaign. When the Tribune reporter found this out, he wrote a second piece exposing Romley’s dishonesty.

Cmdr. Bob Rampy, who has led the AZLINK effort and does a lot of the sheriff’s IT work, said, “I’m concerned he’s (Romley) is coming around and taking credit for what has already been done.” Rampy said he was not invited to Tuesday’s meeting. “AZLINK has really been widespread. He should’ve done a little more due diligence on data sharing efforts going on.”

Leesa Morrison-Weisz and her husband George Weisz

Romley also pulled a fast one by taking away funds from Sheriff Arpaio’s illegal immigration sweeps and transferring them to his own office, where he created a fake new position for a supporter of his. The job title is “Special Assistant for Immigration and Border Protection,” but since Romley supports amnesty and open borders, and the person he chose to fill that position, Leesa Morrison-Weisz, came from former Governer Janet Napolitano’s administration, you can rest assured that it will be a complete waste of taxpayers’ money and there will be no actual illegal immigration enforcement. The circumstances surrounding Morrison’s appointment are typical sleazy quid pro quo. Morrison’s husband, George Weisz, was working as an advisor for Democrat Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon. He quit that job to become a political consultant for Romley’s election campaign. Two days later, his wife was appointed to this brand-new position. How nice, you go work for Romley’s campaign and your wife gets a fat new job custom-created for her two days later! It probably also helped that the Weisz’s have contributed to Romley, some of the County Supervisors’ campaigns, and attorneys who oppose Sheriff Arpaio.

Rick Romley is demonstrating after just a few months that he intends to run the County Attorney’s Office equally as corruptly as the Supervisors are running their office. We wonder what will happen to the Shadow County Attorney’s Office now that it’s in the middle of these two corrupt agencies, which the Supervisors stole away from Andrew Thomas when he was County Attorney?

 


 
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Filed Under: Campaigns & Elections, County Government, Crime and Punishment, Ethics

I couldn’t have said it better…

August 14, 2010 By 21 Comments

I have been reading Espresso Pundit for years.  I usually agree with Greg on most subjects and find his wit and style interesting.  He is front and center in the CD5 campaign, anyone who has read his blog for more than awhile knows he is squarely behind Schweikert.   A CPA, he is also an attorney and dude, until recently did not have a TV in his house!

 He doesn’t pull any punches. Greg has taken on APS, The Republic, and now he has a new object of his effort.

Sometimes you just have to give credit where credit is due, Greg Patterson who writes Espresso Pundit,  nails the reality of Andy Thomas in his latest post on the subject… 

With such flagrant and well documented ethical violations, I don’t see how Thomas could possibly still be a licensed attorney this time next year. 

This is the reality most have come to believe.  The evidence pointing to extreme abuse of power and corruption is so overwhelming, that to suggest Thomas will escape this without, at the minimum, being disbarred is foolish.  The odds he may very well be sitting in Camp Cupcake very soon are pretty good.  Disappointing.

So, what is a conservative to do?  Patterson had this to say about Tom Horne:

…he supported parental consent as well as the ban on partial birth abortion–and he has pledged to defend the laws that the legislature passes. 

So I can say that from a Conservative perspective, I’m not simply voting against Thomas.  I’m very comfortable voting for Tom Horne. 

However, there is another point that has been made by more than a few very conservative folks.  When faced with the idea of having an AG who is likely to be indicted, disbarred, and tied up in personal fights of corruption…

And if Horne doesn’t win the Primary…?  Ok, then I’ll simply be voting against Thomas.

A growing number of R’s will not pull the lever for Thomas.  No D’s will.  Certainly a good portion of I’s will go with the Democratic nominee.  In light of these latest developments, Andrew Thomas should immediately step aside, get his house in order, fight his good fight and when, or if, he can… return to public service.  For now, he is doing more harm than good.

Filed Under: Campaigns & Elections, Conspiracy Theories, County Government, Crime and Punishment, Ethics