If you don’t believe this could happen in Arizona, take a look at these photos of the last public employees protest that took place at Arizona’s Capitol:
The good news for Arizona conservatives and taxpayers is that many are now connected to the TEA Party network. When these photos were taken, it was January 2009 and the TEA Party Movement was weeks away from starting. It wasn’t until April 15, 2009 that Arizona taxpayers showed up at the Capitol to speak up for their rights. (see Tea Party rally below)
The lesson to be taken from this? If you’re not engaged in a TEA Party, this is an encouragement to get involved.
Don’t let what’s going on in Wisconsin happen here in Arizona!
The real question is What are AZ legislators doing about unions? NOTHING!
Unions get most local elected officials into office because they are the only groups that can put groups of volunteers on the field for signs and phone banks. Most city council people in the valley and lots of legislators court certain unions for support for this advantage. Mostly because everybody else is too lazy to get involved. Thank God for the Tea Party to balance this out some, just a shame that most tea party people are clueless. Learn something, do some research, dont just parrot back what you read on a bumper sticker. Look up the contributors to your “Tea Party” champions in the legislator and you will find the names of the people that actually visit them regularly and lobby them on issues – and its not the tea party members, its lobbyists!
Tea Party Wake UP – Call your legislators (or City Councilman) and ask to speak to them directly. Dont let the secretary give you the lame excuse, hes in a meeting, hes occupied right now, etc. Ask to speak to them directly – they are not royalty – they work for you and they get paid every 2 weeks to represent you. Then politely ask them your question and require a response. Its legit if they have to get back to you cause they do have lots going on, but dont let them swerve you by making excuses about a response. They work for you – not the other way around.
From some of the folks I know at 1700 West Washington, you’d better be getting prepared for Madison WI to visit Phoenix as Speaker Adams continues his collision course with the state’s pension holders.
Just a suggestion, Tea Party folks? Its getting time to ‘suit up’ cause the opposition is organizing.
That is what cameras and camcorders are for. If these people are able to take off from there public sector jobs, then we should be able to go over to there place of work and see what it is that they actually do. If we see teachers who are calling in sick and then showing up for protest, they should be the subject of the next school board meeting.
their, not there, that is what happens when teachers protest.
In the law of actions have consequences, the out-of-control spending of higher education jacked tuition and fees into the stratosphere. Schools demanded credentials which are so over-priced now that they don’t meet adequate rates of return in any measure, and the shallow desire for “designer labels” as applied to universities trumped ability to pay or repay the inflated costs. A standard whine of teachers is that they paid so much for their degrees they “deserve” more money.
Nope.
They could have chosen cheaper, but didn’t. That’s THEIR problem, the consequence of THEIR choices, not anyone else’s. The greedy education sector, top to bottom, has screwed itself and failed it’s primary responsibility to educate.
Are you KIDDING?
The “conservatives” supported by the teaparty activists in Arizona were passing the largest spending bill in Arizona history and raising property taxes in the fake “jobs bill” (Thanks – NOT – Russell Pearce/Kirk Adams).
Meanwhile ULTRALIBERAL WISCONSIN was passing REAL REFORM like getting rid of public employee unionS!
Where the he*l were the Arizona “conservatives” in Arizona? LOL Passing tax and spending increases!
TEA PARTY WAKE UP. YOU’VE BEEN DUPED.
There is an “end the public employee union bill” in Arizona.
True Conservative David Smith of LD7 filed the bill first thing of the session.
Where the fake “conservatives” Russell Pearce and Kirk Adams prioritize it? At the bottom of the barrell.
TeaParty activists should be running Pearce and Adams OUT OF THE LEGISLATURE (and out of the state!) ON A RAIL and be working their *sses off for David Smith to get that End Public Employee Unions bill passed!
Arizona MISSED THE BOAT BIG TIME on this one.
And Arizona Teaparty activits took it in the ear by those legislators they supported.