This video was created as part of YouTube Town Hall, answering the question “GOVERNANCE: Why has partisan bickering taken hold in Congress? Compromise is necessary for the benefit of the American people. Do you have to always vote along party lines? Can we learn to compromise again?”. To view the debate and choose the side, please visithttp://www.YouTube.com/YTTownHall.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 18, 2011
CONTACT: Richard Cullen

Media Advisory: Rep. Quayle Participates in Town Hall Discussion Focused on Energy Issues

WHAT: Congressman Ben Quayle (R-AZ), a member of the House Energy Action Team (HEAT), participates in a town hall discussion hosted by the Arizona Energy Forum
WHEN: Wednesday, October 19 at 6:30 p.m. (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.)
WHERE: Camelback High School
ADDRESS: 4612 North 28th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85016
PARTICIPANTS: Congressman Ben Quayle (R-AZ), Rep. Kate Brophy McGee (LD11 Energy Committee), Troy Hyde, Chair of the Arizona Energy Forum

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Radisson Phoenix City Center
3600 N. 2nd Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona
Sedona A & B
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This event is FREE and open to the public.

Co-Hosted by 

Fountain Hills AZ Tea Party
Daisy Mountain Tea Party Patriots
Greater Phoenix Tea Party Patriots
Arizona Republican Party 

Contact Susan Leeper if you have any questions at 480-998-5022

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 26, 2011
CONTACT: Rachel Semmel

Washington, D.C. – Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ) today announced his participation in YouTube’s latest town hall. The questions, submitted by a YouTube audience, are answered by Members of Congress in both Houses and of each party. Viewers are encouraged to vote for the response they most agree with. In this town hall, Schweikert discusses the myth of fair trade.

Click here to view the embedded video.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 26, 2011
CONTACT: Rachel Semmel

Scottsdale, Ariz. – Congressman David Schweikert will host a Listening Session today with City of Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane:

Constituents are invited to stop in to speak with the Congressman and Mayor during the open forum discussion.

Town Hall with David Schweikert and Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane 

When: TODAY Monday, September 26, 2011
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Where: Scottsdale Mustang Library
Address: 10101 North 90th Street, Scottsdale, 85258 (map)

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 19, 2011
CONTACT: Rachel Semmel

Scottsdale, Ariz. – Congressman David Schweikert announced today that he will host two Listening Sessions next week. He will host one with City of Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane and one with City of Mesa Mayor Scott Smith. Please circulate and share the times and locations for next week’s events:

Constituents are invited to stop in to speak with the Congressman and Mayors Lane and Smith respectively during their open forum discussions.

Town Hall with David Schweikert and Scottsdale Mayor Jim Lane
When: Monday, September 26, 2011
Time: 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.
Where: Scottsdale Mustang Library
Address: 10101 North 90th Street, Scottsdale, 85258 (map)

Town Hall with David Schweikert and Mesa Mayor Scott Smith
When: Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Where: Mesa Utility Building, Community Room
Address: 640 N. Mesa Drive, Mesa, 85201 (map)

Click here to view the embedded video.

Click here to view the embedded video.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 9, 2011
CONTACT: Rachel Semmel

Scottsdale, Ariz. – Congressman David Schweikert announced last week that he will host a Listening Session with City of Tempe Mayor Hugh Hallman today.

Constituents are invited to stop in to speak with the Congressman and the Mayor during their open forum discussion.

Listening Session with David Schweikert and Mayor Hallman

When: Today, Thursday, June 9, 2011
Time: 4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Where: Pyle Adult Recreation Center
655 E Southern Avenue, Tempe, 85282 (map)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 13, 2011
CONTACT: Ben Carnes

May 18th: Trent Franks to Introduce Seniors Financial Security Act at Sun City Senior Center

Sun City, AZ — On Wednesday, May 18th, Congressman Trent Franks will be introducing the Seniors Financial Security Act at Banner Olive Branch Senior Center in Sun City, AZ. The Seniors Financial Security Act aims to reduce the tax burden on senior citizens by excluding Social Security benefits from seniors’ taxable income.

Introduction of Seniors Financial Security Act in Sun City

What: Introduction of the Seniors Financial Security Act
When: May 18th, 2011 at 10:45 AM
Where: Banner Olive Branch Senior Center
Address: 11250 N. 107th Ave., Sun City, AZ 85351 (map)

For further information or to schedule an interview in advance, please contact Ben Carnes at ben.carnes@mail.house.gov or, by phone, at 202-579-0005.

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Congressman Franks is serving his fifth term in the U.S. House of Representatives and is a member of the Judiciary Committee, where he serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Constitution and a member of the Subcommittee on Courts, Commercial and Administrative Law. He is also a member of the Armed Services Committee, where he serves on the Strategic Forces Subcommittee and the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 9, 2011
CONTACT: Rachel Semmel

Scottsdale, Ariz. – Congressman David Schweikert announced today that he will host two Listening Sessions next week. Please circulate and share the times and locations for Monday’s event:

Constituents are invited to stop in and speak with the Congressman at either listening session for a one-on-one pre-scheduled appointment as well as an open forum discussion.

Listening Session with David Schweikert

When: Monday, May 16, 2011
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PT One-on-one sessions by appointment only
11:00 – 12:00 p.m. PT Open forum discussion
Where: City of Scottsdale, Appaloosa Library
Address: 7377 E. Silverstone Drive, Scottsdale, 85255 (map)

Listening Session with David Schweikert

When: Thursday, May 19, 2011
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. PT One-on-one sessions by appointment only
11:00 – 12:00 p.m. PT Open forum discussion
Where: Riverview Toyota
Address: 2020 W. Riverview Auto Drive, Mesa, 85201 (map)
*Please use the west parking lot, immediately behind the auto dealer.

For a one-on-one appointment please call the District Office at 480-946-2411. If you are having difficulties with a federal agency, casework assistance will also be available.

Members of the press planning to attend, please RSVP to Rachel.Semmel@mail.house.gov. For more information on these events, please contact Jesse Hernandez. He can be reached at Jesse.Hernandez@mail.house.gov or at 480-946-2411.

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I’m writing this post to give you the opportunity to show your support for David or to at least give him your opinion. For those of us who worked on David’s campaigns, watching him finally serve is a huge reward knowing he now gets to make the hard decisions we entrusted him with. I for one, certainly don’t envy being in his position but like many others, I do trust him to do the right thing for this country. Unfortunately, we’ve run out of money and patience. Democrats and some Republicans have run out of basic economic common sense and alarmingly, we are all running out of time.

Here’s an excerpt from that article:

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — On his 104th day in office, Rep. David Schweikert stepped before about 60 of his constituents here and, like an economics professor, flipped through one scary chart after another to hammer home his point: America faces a tidal wave of debt.

Then he asked for a show of hands: If you were a freshman congressman like him, would you vote to raise the government’s debt limit?

Two hands went in the air.

He got the same reaction at another town hall meeting, and he expects it again at a tea party forum later this week.

Schweikert, a Republican, isn’t sure if he’d raise his hand, either.

This is his dilemma: He knows Congress has little choice but to raise the amount of money the government can borrow to prevent the economic havoc sure to follow if the United States defaults on its loans. He also knows doing so is deeply unpopular — not only among his conservative base, but among some moderates and liberals, too.

“I desperately want to vote ‘no,’ ” Schweikert said at the town hall. “I also desperately don’t want [the economy] to crash.” (continue reading)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 20, 2011
CONTACT: Rachel Semmel

Scottsdale, Ariz. – Congressman David Schweikert announced today that he will host a Listening Session next week. Please circulate and share the time and location for Wednesday’s event:

Constituents are invited to stop in and speak with the Congressman at the Tempe Police Hardy Substation for a one-on-one pre-scheduled appointment as well as an open forum discussion.

Listening Session with David Schweikert
When: Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Time: 5:00 – 6:00 p.m. MT One-on-one sessions by appointment only
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. MT Open forum discussion
Where: Tempe Police Hardy Substation
Address: 8201 South Hardy Drive, Tempe, 85284 (map)

For a one-on-one appointment please call the District Office at 480-946-2411. If you are having difficulties with a federal agency, casework assistance will also be available.

Members of the press planning to attend, please RSVP to Rachel.Semmel@mail.house.gov. For more information on these events, please contact Jesse Hernandez. He can be reached at Jesse.Hernandez@mail.house.gov or at (480) 946-2411.

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An invitation from Congressman Ben Quayle…

Congressman Quayle to host a Town Hall on Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Please join Congressman Ben Quayle for a Town Hall to discuss matters of importance to the constituents of the Third Congressional District.

Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Time: 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Thunderbird High School Auditorium
Address: 1750 W. Thunderbird Road, Phoenix, AZ 85023

Please feel free to share this invitation widely with family, friends, neighbors, and anyone who may be interested in attending this upcoming Town Hall.

If you have any questions, or if you require special assistance, please contact Congressman Quayle’s office at (602) 263-5300 so that proper accommodations can be made.

This is dedicated to Nancy Huzar and to all those readers who, while waking up to the Tea Party Experience, now find themselves in an unfamiliar landscape with career politicians all claiming to be “Common Sense Conservatives”.

As we begin the second decade of the 21^st Century in the United States, perhaps we should reflect on the crossroads that loom before us.  Should we proceed along the path to a Old World European Socialist Democratic form of governance?  Or perhaps we should continue the moderate centrist Constitutional Republic form of governance bequeathed to us by the Founders of our country?

Today, the Progressive Left would have you believe that they are America’s center, that they represent a centrist value position of the majority of Americans… all 300+ million of us.  But do they?

Perhaps the United States is fundamentally a centrist country holding moderate values that allow for tolerance of the extremes.  Perhaps this recent election is a statement by that once silent majority that they reject the progressive socialist agenda that the current administration is pursuing seemingly at all costs.

Consider this:  It was rugged individualists who believed that redemption was an individual matter between themselves and Nature’s God founded America.  Contrast that with the individual who now resides in the White House.  It is his core belief, and that of those around him, that redemption collective.  It is in the  group, not the individual where one finds redemption.  How alien is that to what our Founders believed?  What’s worse, there is an entire cadre of adherents in academia working 24/7 to re-write history to suit their worldview.

People’s view of the proper role of government is a continuum stretching from the extreme Left (Totalitarian Communism) to the extreme Right (Totalitarian Fascism).  Most Americans hold Moderate Values and fall as “Centrists” on this scale.

The current administration in Washington, and those of its allies on college and university campuses, tend to fall much further to the left of center than do most Americans.  This is one reason that voting districts in large urban areas and around major universities tend to be “Blue” on the election maps while large tracts of suburban and rural America vote “Red”.  The election of 2010 drove this contrast to the forefront of the county’s awareness.  It would be a strategic mistake for the statist members of the Republican Party if they didn’t pay close attention to the message of 2010.

America is becoming polarized, pulled to the left of the Constitutional Divide by an increasingly aggressive Socialist minority with their vision of a Collective utopia.  It is any wonder that today; the majority of Americans have such poor esteem for their members of Congress?  Is it any wonder that today, a majority of American’s sense something is terribly wrong?  It is exactly this awakening that drives talk radio and edutainment shows like Glenn Beck.  Americans know that the “Hope & Change” they were promised isn’t consistent with America’s core centrist moderate values.

Take this simple test.  Remember, each is a sliding scale from Left to Right.  Ask yourself; “What do I believe?  Do I believe in individualism or collectivism?  Which describes my thoughts best?”

Well, there it is, the Great Constitutional Divide[1].  Given that most Americans describe themselves as being “in the center” you may correctly conclude that the column on the right most accurately describes most Americans and, the column on the right is pretty much the center for the United States.  The stress many are feeling is that of a minority within the government, the major media and in our colleges and universities who are tugging us unwillingly into their Brave New World.

While this has been evolving since the early 20^th Century, we may thank Barak Hussain Obama for forcing the issue and for waking up the great silent majority.  Just remember, you are the center and they are the extreme.