Arizona Breathing Easier

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Dear Friends,


Arizona had a very busy legislative season this year. Amid the all the important achievements, one of the bills passed in the flurry of last-minute activity was SB 1552, Arizona's first major air-quality legislation in a decade.



This strong new air quality bill puts into place new measures to protect the health of Arizonans, and will remove more than 10,000 tons of particulates from the air we breathe.



Removing particulates from the air is not just about keeping the sky blue. Air quality has a huge effect on our health. Dirty air can cause any number of respiratory problems, especially among our children and senior citizens.



The new law is a bipartisan approach to cleaning up our air. Earlier this year, Senators Carolyn Allen and John Huppenthal and I announced the introduction of a major air quality bill. Representative Ray Barnes helped move the measure through the House. The result is a bill that strongly addresses our air quality. Local governments will pave over many dirt roads and shoulders that blow up dust. Open burning will not be permitted in high-pollution months. Construction sites will have to ensure that they don't kick up particulates into the air. All citizens will stop using leaf blowers on bare dirt and will stop blowing debris into our streets to be churned up and breathed in by our citizens. Government employees and their contractors will refrain from using leaf blowers at all on high-pollution days. These are just some of the many new efforts that we are taking to clean up our air with this initiative.

Not only will this bill help clean up the air we breathe, but it will make sure Arizona keeps its share of federal highway funds. Right now, metropolitan Phoenix is in danger of noncompliance with federal health-based air-quality standards. The bill I signed will go a long way to bringing us in step with the guidelines. In that way, this bill is a win-win approach for Arizona in both the transportation and health arenas.



We should all have confidence that the air we breathe is clean - and thanks to the new efforts of this bill, Arizonans will be able to breathe easier.



As always, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to contact my office at 1-800-253-0883 and ask to speak to Constituent Services.




Yours very truly,


Janet Napolitano
Governor

NEW IMMIGRATION MEASURES ARE "VICTORY FOR THE PEOPLE"

NEW IMMIGRATION MEASURES ARE "VICTORY FOR THE PEOPLE"






By Andrew Thomas, Maricopa County Attorney

The new anti-illegal-immigration laws signed by Governor Janet Napolitano covering employer sanctions and Prop. 100 are a "victory for the people," and I intend to move swiftly to implement them.

Last week, the governor signed House Bill 2779 and Senate Bill 1265. House Bill 2779 creates a regime for sanctioning companies that knowingly hire illegal immigrants. The new law provides that county attorneys are the chief law enforcement officers responsible for implementing employer sanctions. It is expected that because of the population of Maricopa County, the vast
majority of potential employer-sanctions cases in Arizona will originate here.

Senate Bill 1265 establishes probable cause as the standard of proof for determining if defendants accused of serious felonies are illegal immigrants and, as such, not entitled to bail or release under Proposition 100. This legislation was passed in response to protracted difficulties in obtaining full enforcement of Proposition 100 in the Maricopa County Superior Courts.

Shortly after the governor signed Senate Bill 1265, the Arizona Supreme Court issued new rules governing Proposition 100 cases, which repealed the so-called Simpson hearings previously created
for these defendants. I'd recently complained that 94 percent of illegal immigrants were being granted bail or release at Simpson hearings by Maricopa County judges and judicial officers. The Simpson hearings were rescinded immediately, and those scheduled were vacated by court decree.

When I ran for county attorney on a platform of stopping illegal immigration, many questioned what state and local governments could do to combat this problem. These new laws are the latest answer to this question. We do not have to rely on a broken federal bureaucracy to secure our borders. The County Attorney's Office helped draft and lobbied in favor of both new laws.

These new laws are also the latest evidence that this is still a democracy. The people have the final say on how our government operates. Their voice was heard loud and clear.

I have begun to set up an internal committee to prepare to implement the new employer sanctions law. I will reach out to the business community and other critics of the law so their concerns can be heard. However, the law is the law, and it will be enforced.

As the County Attorney's Office begins to enforce the new law next year, the office will provide updates on progress made in preparation for this event. I pledge to apply the law fairly and equitably.

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McCain’s POW past is core, but not only, claim to presidency

McCain’s POW past is core, but not only, claim to presidency

Sparingly used Vietnam history always inspires GOP crowds



MONTGOMERY, Ala.— Recalling his military past may be key to U.S. Sen. John S. McCain 3rd’s political future.

Declining in the polls and struggling with fundraising, the Republican presidential candidate and U.S. senator from Arizona draws an appreciative response from audiences when he recounts his Navy pilot days and the fortitude of some of his fellow POWs during the 6-1/2 years he spent in a North Vietnamese prison.

Vietnam is hardly the centerpiece of McCain’s campaign; it’s part of his biography and, as such, is an element in a broader narrative he is trying to paint of an experienced leader.


McCain routinely brings up Vietnam as he discusses the challenges in Iraq and he often recognizes veterans in each audience he addresses. He typically only tells his war stories when the opportunity presents itself, such as when he was campaigning this spring in Sioux City, Iowa — hometown of Bud Day, one of his fellow prisoners of war in Hanoi.

McCain did the same in a recent visit to Mike Christian’s home state of Alabama, holding Republicans spellbound at a recent state GOP dinner.

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http://www.telegram.com/article/20070706/NEWS/707060431/1052/RSS01&source=rss

PAUL VS MCCAIN , this has got to hurt.

(Political Animal) PAUL VS MCCAIN....As if John McCain's campaign freefall weren't embarrassing enough before, this has got to hurt.


ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Reports: Though often regarded as a longshot candidate for president, Republican Ron Paul tells ABC News that he has an impressive $2.4 million in cash on hand after raising an equal amount during the second quarter, putting him ahead of one-time Republican frontrunner John McCain, who reported this week he has only $2 million in the bank. In an exclusive interview taped Friday and airing Sunday on "This Week," Paul said his campaign is on a better trajectory than McCain's.

"I think some of the candidates are on the down-slope, and we're on the up-slope," said Paul.




Ouch. Salt on the wound.

To be sure, I don't exactly expect mainstream campaign observers to start treating McCain and Paul as equally credible presidential hopefuls, but who would have guessed, half-way through 2007, that Paul would have more money in the bank than McCain?

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/06/politics/animal/main3026168.shtml

DO THE CLINTONS NOW SUPPORT JAIL TIME FOR PERJURERS?

DO THE CLINTONS NOW SUPPORT JAIL TIME FOR PERJURERS?

By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

Published on FoxNews.com on July 6, 2007.

Former President Bill Clinton and Senator Hillary Clinton are absolutely
outraged that President Bush granted executive clemency to Scooter Libby,
recently convicted of making false statements under oath. They obviously
believe that Libby should serve his thirty month sentence.

Does that mean that they now think that perjurers should go to jail? Or
have they simply forgotten about Bill Clinton’s own plea agreement in
the last hours of his presidency for making false statements under
oath? Some people would call that perjury.

One would have thought that Hillary and Bill Clinton wouldn’t touch
the Libby executive clemency issue with a ten-foot pole for lots
of reasons.

After all, Bill Clinton has a well-earned reputation as the king of
pardons granting 140 of them during his last minutes in office
with many going to terrorists, people who had paid Hillary’s brothers
to arrange for pardons, contributed money or key support to Hillary’s
Senate campaign, given the Clintons expensive personal gifts, and/or
made large contributions to Bill Clinton’s Presidential Library. One
of the pardons went to Bill’s own brother, Roger, while another went
to Susan MacDougal, who kept quiet about Clinton during the
Whitewater trial.

That’s really cronyism, Hillary.

Given the disgraceful Clinton record on pardons, most reasonable people
would have kept quiet especially when Libby’s offense was so similar
to Bill’s own criminal conviction. But the self-righteous former first couple couldn’t resist. Once the clemency was announced, Hillary immediately
attacked President Bush, saying, "This commutation sends the clear signal
that in this administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice.

Hey, Hillary, do you understand what cronyism really means?

Cronyism is favoritism shown to friends and supporters without regard to their qualifications. And that’s what Bill Clinton’s pardons were all about.
Except, as usual, the Clintons went way over the top. So, in addition
to granting pardons to undeserving friends, Bill Clinton also pardoned
undeserving strangers who paid his family, friends, campaign coffers,
and presidential library.

Now Bill and Hillary claim that his highly controversial pardons were
different than the Libby clemency.

He’s absolutely right ...

The big difference was that many of the Clinton pardons were patently bought and paid for something event he Clintons don’t claim to be the case in the Libby commutation.

Hillary’s brothers were paid more than $500,000 to lobby the president for pardons that were then granted to con artists and drug dealers. For a fee of
$400,000, Hugh Rodham successfully pushed for a pardon for drug kingpin
Carlos Anabel Vignali, convicted of shipping a half-ton of cocaine from L.A. to Minnesota. His father was a big contributor to the Democratic Party
he gave more than $150,000 to the Los Angeles Democrats. Obviously,
the investment was a shrewd one.

That’s cronyism, Hillary. Get it?

Tony Rodham advocated a pardon for Edgar and Vanna Jo Gregory.
The Gregorys, who owned a carnival company, defrauded a federal bank.
When the pardon was publicized, Hillary stated that Tony was not paid
by the Gregorys for his work on the pardon. Tony repeated that line
on the Larry King Show.

After an investigation, the House Government Operations Committee disagreed and announced that Hillary’s statement was inaccurate. Now, a federal bankruptcy court overseeing the carnival company’s bankruptcy is about to rule on whether over $100,000 paid to Tony Rodham at the time of the pardons was a loan or payment for consulting.

The Gregorys contributed over $100,000 to Hillary’s campaign and other Democratic causes. These folks were well known to the Clintons they visited them
at Camp David and were hired to stage two carnivals on the White House
grounds paid for by the taxpayers.

That’s cronyism, Hillary.

When the Rodham brothers’ exploits were made public, Bill and Hillary
announced that they were shocked and saddened by the disclosure.
At the time of the pardons, the Rodham brothers were actually living in
the White House with the Clintons and had made contact with the highest
level of presidential assistants. But the Clintons claimed that they were
totally unaware of what Hugh and Tony were doing.

But, it wasn’t just Hillary’s family who benefited from the Clinton cronyism.
Bill’s brother Roger was pardoned for his drug conviction, and he was
allegedly paid $30,000 to promote six felons although those pardons were never granted.

That’s cronyism, Hillary.

The most outrageous Clinton pardons went to sixteen members of the terrorist
gang, the FALN, a Puerto Rican nationalist group responsible for over
130 bombings in the U.S. attacking the N.Y. office of the FBI,
military recruiting headquarters, and even former president
Jimmy Carter’s Chicago campaign office. Six people died and dozens
more were injured as a result of FALN’s actions. These terrorists never
even asked for a pardon, but because Hillary wanted to ingratiate herself
with the Hispanic population in New York during her first Senate race,
they were suddenly granted a commutation of their sentences.

Although the commutations were opposed by the FBI and the Clinton
Justice Department, Bill Clinton granted them to all 16 terrorists.
Once again, Hillary claimed to have no involvement in or prior knowledge
of the decision. Her statement is ridiculous. Two days before the
announcement of the pardons, New York City Councilman Jose Rivera personally presented Hillary with a packet of materials including a letter asking
her to speak to the president and ask him to consider granting executive
clemency to the prisoners. What a coincidence the sentences were
immediately commuted!

Hillary, that’s another example of cronyism.

Joe Connor, the son of one of the innocent men killed by the FALN
terrorists at the Fraunces Tavern in Manhattan, put it this way:

The Clinton family traded the release of terrorists for votes, votes that were promised to be delivered by New York politicians to Hillary for senate
and Gore for president. That was clear.

That’s cronyism, Hillary.

And Hillary actually has the audacity to accuse President Bush of cronyism! This woman has no shame.

Then, of course, there was also Marc Rich, the fugitive oil broker who
renounced his American citizenship. Rich was illegally buying oil from
Iran during the American trade embargo and hid the $200 million in
trading (and over $100 million in profits) with Iraq using dummy
transactions in off-shore corporations.

Ironically, Scooter Libby was one of Rich’s lawyers, while Rudy Giuliani
was the U.S. Attorney who brought the indictment. Amazingly, the U.S.
Attorney’s Office was never contacted by the White House for input into
the pardon decision. Here’s what the prosecuting attorney had to say about the pardon:

I cannot imagine two people that were less suited for a presidential pardon
than Marc Rich and Pincus Green[the co-defendant]. It is inconceivable that President Clinton chose to pardon the two biggest tax cheats in the history
of the United States who had renounced their citizenship, been fugitives for seventeen years, and who had traded with the Iranians during the hostage
crisis. While I do not know what motivated President Clinton to pardon Rich
and Green, I can state that it is implausible that those pardons were based
on his evaluation of the merits of the case... [http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/pardonsex8.htm]

Interestingly, Rich’s wife bought furniture for the Clinton’s
Chappaqua home and contributed at least $450,000 to the
Clinton Library.

That’s cronyism, Hillary.

Finally, there were the four New Square pardons. There, the Hasidic
defendants were convicted of pocketing $40 million of federal scholarship money. Hillary visited the community, and on Election Day the community
supported Hillary 1400 to 12. Weeks later, on December 22, 2000,
President Clinton met with the New Square leaders to discuss a pardon.
Hillary attended the meeting, but claims that she did not speak.

Apparently, she didn’t have to the pardons were granted.

That’s cronyism, Hillary!

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By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN

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IF BUSH PULLS OUT THE TROOPS, IT MIGHT SAVE THE GOP

IF BUSH PULLS OUT THE TROOPS, IT MIGHT SAVE THE GOP

By DICK MORRIS

Published on TheHill.com on June 27, 2007.

Will George W. Bush try to steal a page from Richard Nixon and, reading the handwriting on the wall after a dismal showing in the congressional elections, begin to pull troops out of Iraq by the end of the year? If he does, will it save the Republican Party?

Recent indications of administration unhappiness with the failure of the Iraqi regime to use the period of the surge in American troops to enact basic reforms might presage just such a withdrawal. Clearly, the Iraqi government has done nothing to expand power-sharing with the Sunnis or to equalize access to oil revenues. Their failure to act could give Bush the rationale he needs to begin to draw down American force levels.

If Bush decides to act in this way, he will be doing himself, his party, and the country a big favor. There is still time to rescue the fortunes of the Republican Party in the 2008 election. It is Iraq that is dragging the president’s ratings down and killing his party’s chances in the election. Bush’s ratings on the economy are not bad, and he still draws commendations for his battle against terrorism. If he began to pull out troops, he could begin to recover his personal ratings and move his party up.

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have both indicated that they would have to support some kind of ongoing presence in Iraq during their presidencies. Obama implied as much when he told David Letterman that “we need to be as responsible in pulling out as we were irresponsible in going in” to Iraq. But Hillary has been much more direct, telling The New York Times that she favored keeping sufficient troops there to provide logistical, training, air and intelligence support for Iraqi forces and to hunt al Qaeda and patrol the Iraq-Iran border to stop infiltration. These missions, according to Pentagon sources, would likely occupy at least 75,000 soldiers.

If Bush begins to draw down manpower levels by the end of the year, he could reduce the differences between his positionand that of the Democratic front-runners on a matter of numbers rather than on basic policy. In taking the Iraq issue out of contention in the 2008 election, Bush will have rescued his party from what is now almost certain defeat.

Will his move seem transparently political? Democrats will surely say that it is, but nobody will really believe that Bush or the Republicans will reverse course and send in more troops after the election. Everybody will believe that the draw-down of U.S. troops is permanent and quite real. In fact, Bush’s stubborn obstinacy on Iraq in the past will make it unlikely that any concession on his part will be seen as opportunistic. He has already made it quite clear to this angry, disappointed nation that he doesn’t read the polls and doesn’t much care what we think when it comes to his foreign policy.

Without Iraq, Bush has quite a record to present to the country in 2008. The economy seems to be avoiding a recession, unemployment remains low, North Korea seems to be caving in, and the Iranian regime seems to be in real trouble at home.

Bush, after all, did relent and fire Donald Rumsfeld — although too late to influence the 2006 election. Maybe he is getting smart enough to extricate himself and his party from the mess in Iraq.

Certainly, the Iraqi regime is giving him every out to do so. All he needs to do is agree with Hillary that the U.S. troops have done their job but the Iraqi government has not done its. Such rhetoric is all the cover he would need to begin to pull out. And a switch in time might just save the White House.

DHS "can't deliver simple passports" Chertoff scolds Senate on immigration

DHS "can't deliver simple passports" Chertoff scolds Senate on immigration

DHS "can't deliver simple passports" Chertoff scolds Senate on immigration


what a shithead...........



The homeland security chief on Sunday scolded the Senate
for failing to pass an immigration bill and said it will be difficult
for the government to crack down on illegal workers.

"We're going to continue to enforce the law. It's going to be tough,"
Michael Chertoff said. "We don't really have the ability to enforce
the law with respect to illegal work in this country in
a way that's truly effective."


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http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics/story/81839.html


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Senator Mccain cuts staffs, thank god.......

Senator Mccain cuts staffs...........
Senator Mccain cuts staffs


Some 50 staffers or more are being let go, and senior aides will
be subject to pay cuts as the Arizona senator bows to six months
of subpar fundraising, according to officials with knowledge of
the details of the shake up.


Republican John McCain reorganized his campaign Monday,
cutting staff in every department as he raised just $11.2 million in
the last three months and reported an abysmal $2 million cash on hand
for his presidential bid.



"We confronted reality and we dealt with it in the best way that
we could so that we could move forward," said Terry Nelson,
McCain's campaign manager.

Once considered the front-runner for the GOP nomination, McCain trails top Republican rivals in money and polls.

Some 50 staffers or more are being let go, and senior aides will be subject
to pay cuts as the Arizona senator bows to six months of subpar fundraising, according to officials with knowledge of the details of the shake up.
They spoke on condition of anonymity because the campaign would not
publicly discuss details of the restructuring.

McCain's tally in the second financial quarter, which ended Saturday,
is expected to trail those of Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani, who have
not yet released their totals. In the first quarter, McCain came in third
and raised just $13.6 million.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070702/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_campaign

Dobbs: Give it a rest, Mr. President

Dobbs: Give it a rest, Mr. President
By Lou Dobbs CNN

Editor’s note: Lou Dobbs’ commentary appears weekly on CNN.com.

NEW YORK (CNN) — President Bush is building his legacy, adding another unfortunate line of hollow bravado to his rhetorical repertoire. To “Mission accomplished,” “Bring it on,” “Wanted: Dead or alive,” and of course, “I earned … political capital, and now I intend to spend it,” he has added “I’ll see you at the bill signing,” referring to his own ill-considered push for so-called comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

Bush emerged from a midday meeting with Republican senators on Capitol Hill to declare, “We’ve got to convince the American people this bill is the best way to enforce our border.”

No, Mr. President, someone you trust and respect must convince you that kind of tortured reasoning should never be exposed before cameras and microphones. Isn’t there anyone in this administration with the guts to say, “Give it a rest, Mr. President”?

Sen. Jeff Sessions came close when he said, “He needs to back off.” This president desperately needs to be reminded that he is the president of all Americans and not just of corporate interests and socio-ethnocentric special interest groups.

In what other country would citizens be treated to the spectacle of the president and the Senate focusing on the desires of 12 million to 20 million people who had crossed the nation’s borders illegally, committed document fraud, and in many cases identity theft, overstayed their visas and demanded, not asked, full forgiveness for their trespasses?

Illegal aliens and their advocates, both liberal and conservative, possess such an overwhelming sense of entitlement that they demand not only legal status, but also that the government leave the borders wide open so that other illegals could follow as well, while offering not so much as an “I’m sorry” or a “Thank you.”

This bill would be disastrous public policy and devastate millions of American workers and their families, taxpayers and any semblance of national security. Yet even in defeat, Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, one of the reform bill’s chief architects, declared: “Doing nothing is totally unacceptable.” Like the senator, Bush says the status quo is unacceptable.

The president and the senator are wrong. It is the sham legislation they support that is totally unacceptable. But if Bush and Kennedy sincerely desire resolution to our illegal immigration and border security crises, I’d like to try to help. But a word of caution, if I may, to our elected officials: Resolution of these crises will require honesty, directness and an absolute commitment to the national interest and the common good of our citizens. Here are what I consider to be the essential guiding principles for any substantive reform:

First, fully secure our borders and ports. Without that security, there can be no control of immigration and, therefore, no meaningful reform of immigration law.

Second, enforce existing immigration laws, and that includes the prosecution of the employers of illegal aliens. As Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, put it, illegal employers are the magnet that draws illegal aliens across our border. Enforcing the law against illegal employers and illegal aliens at large in the country will mean bolstering, in all respects, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.

Third, the government should fund, equip and hire the people necessary to man the Citizenship and Immigration Services. To do so will ensure that the agency is capable of fully executing and administering lawful immigration into the United States and eliminating the shameful backlog of millions of people who are seeking legal entry into this country.

Those three steps are necessary to the security of the nation and the effective administration and enforcement of existing immigration laws. Those steps should be considered non-negotiable conditions precedent to any change or reform of existing immigration law.

At the same time, the president and Congress should order exhaustive studies of the economic, social and fiscal effects of the leading proposals to change immigration law, and foremost in their consideration should be the well-being of American workers and their families.

The president and Congress should begin the process of thoughtful reform of our immigration laws. Public hearings should be held throughout the nation. The American people should be heard in every region of the country, and fact-finding should be rigorous and thorough. The process will be time-consuming and demand much of our congressmen and senators, their staffs and relevant executive agencies.

The importance of securing borders and ports and reforming our immigration laws is profound, and that security is fundamental to the future of our nation. That future can be realized only with a complete commitment to a comprehensive legislative process of absolute transparency and open public forums in which our elected officials hear the voices of the people they represent. American citizens deserve no less.

see CNN at www.loudobbs.com

Secure Fence Act of 2006

Secure Fence Act of 2006
Mandated 854 miles of border fence.

DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff last week said he expects 150 miles completed by the end of September. According to ICE worksite enforcement data, there have been 613 criminal arrests and 3,226 administrative arrests FY 2007 through May.

According to ICE, it has tripled its Fugitive Operations Teams to 61 today, on target for 75 by the end of FY 2007. In FY 2006, ICE apprehended 17,817, fugitive aliens. This year, it is on track to double that.

In May and June, according to ICE's Deportable Alien Control System (DACS), there were 632,189 fugitive aliens in the United States.

see Lou Dobbs at.........

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/06/29/dobbs.ice/index.html

send a vegetable to DHS Director Michael Chertoff ?

send a vegetable to DHS Director Michael Chertoff ?

as a political staement/opinion ?

mailing address is................

Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
Michael Chertoff
Department of Homeland Security
245 Murray Lane, SW
Washington, DC 20528-0300
source = http://www.dhs.gov/xutil/gc_1168282144998.shtm as of 6/28/07

Thanks AZGOP GRASSROOTS ACTION ALERT

AZGOP GRASSROOTS ACTION ALERT

June 28, 2007

Dear Friends,

From the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thank you for standing up for what you believed in. Thank you for proving that our grassroots voices can be heard. Thank you for supporting our party with your emails, letters, calls, and even contributions and support.

Here in Arizona, we are pro-legal immigrant. We very strongly believe in the American dream and the hope and blessings of liberty for all legal immigrants. We are, after all, a nation of immigrants who came to this land in search of a better life, prosperity, freedom, security and peace. But we also believe in the Rule of Law and hope our Congress will begin by securing the borders. Only then can we seek to reform our immigration system by not having made more unfulfilled promises to the American people, but having actually gotten the job done.

Today, because of you, we can begin to talk about real border security and urge Congress to pass legislation that will truly secure our borders and make America safe and free from gangs, drug dealers, human traffickers, and terrorists. Together, we will continue to work to keep America’s families safe, secure, and free.

Friends, while we’ve taken time over the last several weeks to have a healthy discussion and debate over immigration policy, it’s time for our great party to come together and stop Janet Napolitano, Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Gabrielle Giffords, and Harry Mitchell from enacting their extreme left wing agenda on the American people. On the horizon we see taxes hikes, uncontrolled pork spending, limits on free speech, and socialized medicine. YOUR Arizona Republican Party stands as the last, best hope to stop the Democrat’s liberal march in its tracks!

Today, I am calling for the party to stand together and fight the Democrats on the local, state, and national level. We have a tremendous amount of work ahead, but with your enthusiasm, support, and most importantly, your voice; our great party will win election after election in every corner of Arizona. Together, we can elect a veto-proof majority in the state legislature. We can win important mayoral, council and county offices around the state. We can play an important part in retaking control of Congress in 2008. And, we can make sure that Arizona votes to send another Republican to the White House next year.

So join me as we prepare to fight in the Democrats in every precinct, in every town, and in every county across Arizona. We have 501 days until Election Day 2008… Let’s make them count!

Sincerely,

RANDY

REp Tancredo Sends DHS Chertoff a head of Lettuce

REp Tancredo Sends DHS Chertoff a head of Lettuce

very interesting ideal, one wa to express your opinion?

Tancredo Sends Chertoff Lettuce



Rep. Tom Tancredo, Republican from Colorado, to show his disagreement with Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff's recent comments on how failure of passing immigration reform might affect the agricultural industry is sending the cabinet officer a head of lettuce, according to a CNN report.

Reportedly included with the head of lettuce is a fruit basket and a card saying, "Much, much more where this comes from.”

"The administration has taken hyperbole to a whole new level this time," Tancredo said in a statement. "They are now trying to convince the public that without amnesty, the American people are going to starve?"

"The agriculture industry and the free market has managed to keep producing through floods, droughts, and $3.00 per gallon gas," Tancredo added. "I doubt very seriously that a nominal increase in labor costs is going to be the end of lettuce as we know it."

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GRASSROOTS ACTION ALERT

GRASSROOTS ACTION ALERT

JUNE 27, 2007



Dear Friends,

As you are probably already aware, the Senate was able to pass a vote of cloture by a margin of 64-35 yesterday. Like you, I was very disappointed with allowing the “Kennedy Amnesty Bill” to proceed. It is clear that this legislation is weak, unfair, and expensive. I am still very optimistic about the defeat of this bill as it moves through the legislative process.

We still have ample opportunity to stop the “Kennedy Amnesty Bill,” below you will find a list of the 64 U.S. Senators that voted for cloture yesterday. I urge everyone to call, e-mail, and fax these Senators and urge them to reconsider their vote.

Beyond that, if this bill makes it through the Senate, we still have an opportunity to defeat this bill when it moves to the House. Already a coalition of Republicans, led by Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) and supported by several key Republicans including Arizona’s own John Shadegg and Trent Franks, as well as House Republican Leader John Boehner are working to derail and defeat this bad piece of legislation once and for all. Yesterday, the House Republican Conference voted on a resolution simply stating “Resolved the House Republican Conference disapproves of the Senate immigration bill.” The resolution passed by an overwhelming margin, 114-28. This vote is the first step in having a unified Republican front in the House to stop the Kennedy Amnesty Bill.”

The fight continues and the Arizona Republican Party will remain on the front lines of the immigration debate. Remember, your voice is our voice. It was your voices that rose up and stalled this legislation and now I truly believe it will be your voices heard from coast to coast that will ultimately send the “Kennedy Amnesty Bill” to the ash heap of history.

As always, it is honor to serve as your state chairman.

Sincerely,




RANDY




U.S. SENATE CONTACT NUMBERS


First-Last-Party-Address-Telephone--FAX

AK Ted Stevens R 522 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3004; 202-224-2354

AK Lisa Murkowski R 709 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-6665; 202-224-5301

AR Blanche Lincoln D 355 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-4843; 202-228-1371

AR Mark Pryor D 257 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-2353; 202-228-0908

AZ John McCain R 241 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2235; 202-228-2862

AZ Jon Kyl R 730 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4521; 202-224-2207

CA Dianne Feinstein D 331 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3841; 202-228-3954

CA Barbara Boxer D 112 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3553; 415-956-6701

CO Ken Salazar R 702 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5852 ;202-228-5036

CT Christopher Dodd D 448 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2823 ;202-224-1083

CT Joseph Lieberman D 706 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4041; 202-224-9750

DE Joseph Biden D 201 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-5042; 202-224-0139

DE Thomas Carper D 513 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-2441; 202-228-2190

FL Bill Nelson D 716 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5274; 202-228-2183

FL Mel Martinez R 317 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3041; 202-228-5171

HI Daniel Inouye D 722 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3934; 202-224-6747

HI Daniel Akaka D 141 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-6361 ;202-224-2126

IA Tom Harkin D 731 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3254 ;202-224-9369

ID Larry Craig R 520 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-2752 ;202-228-1067

IL Richard Durbin D 332 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-2152; 202-228-0400

IL Barack Obama D 713 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-2854 ;202-228-1372

IN Richard Lugar R 306 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4814; 202-228-0360

KS Sam Brownback R 303 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-6521; 202-228-1265

KY Mitch McConnell R 361A Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2541; 202-224-2499

MA Edward Kennedy D 317 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-4543; 202-224-2417

MA John Kerry D 304 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2742; 202-224-8525

MD Barbara Mikulski D 503 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4654 ;202-224-8858

MD Benjamin Cardin D B40B Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-4524 ;202-224-1651

ME Olympia Snowe R 154 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-5344; 202-224-1946

ME Susan Collins R 461 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-2523; 202-224-2693

MI Carl Levin D 269 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-6221; 202-224-1388

MN Norm Coleman R 320 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5641; 202-224-1152

MN Amy Klobuchar D C4 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-3244; 202-228-2186

MO Claire McCaskill D 825A Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-6154; 202-228-1518

MS Trent Lott R 487 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-6253; 202-224-2262

NC Richard Burr R 217 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-3154;202-228-2981

ND Kent Conrad D 530 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-2043 ;202-224-7776

ND Byron Dorgan D 322 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-2551; 202-224-1193

NE Charles Hagel R 248 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-4224 ;202-224-5213

NE Benjamine Nelson D 720 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-6551; 202-228-0012

NH Judd Gregg R 393 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-3324; 202-224-4952

NJ Frank Lautenberg D 324 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3224; 202-225-4054

NJ Robert Menendez D 502 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4744 ;202-228-2197

NM Pete Domenici R 328 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-6621; 202-228-3261

NM Jeff Bingaman D 703 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5521; 202-224-2852

NV Harry Reid D 528 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3542 ;202-224-7327

NV John Ensign R 356 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-6244 ;202-228-2193

NY Charles Schumer D 313 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-6542; 202-228-3027

NY Hillary Clinton D 476 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-4451; 202-228-0282

OH George Voinovich R 524 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3353 ;202-228-1382

OH Sherrod Brown D C5 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2315;202-224-6519

OR Ron Wyden D 230 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-5244; 202-228-2717

PA Arlen Specter R 711 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4254 ;202-228-1229

PA Bob Casey D B40C Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-6324; 202-228-0604

RI Jack Reed D 728 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-4642; 202-224-4680

RI Sheldon Whitehouse D B40D Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-2921 ;202-228-6362

SC Lindsey Graham R 290 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-5972; 202-224-3808

SD Tim Johnson D 136 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5842 ;202-228-5765

UT Robert Bennett R 431 Dirksen Senate Office Building 202-224-5444 ;202-228-1168

VA John Warner R 225 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2023; 202-224-6295

VA James Webb D C1 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-4024; 202-224-5432

VT Patrick Leahy D 433 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-4242; 202-224-3479

WA Patty Murray D 173 Russell Senate Office Building 202-224-2621; 202-224-0238

WA Maria Cantwell D 717 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-3441; 202-228-0514

WI Herb Kohl D 330 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5653;202-224-9787

WI Russell Feingold D 506 Hart Senate Office Building 202-224-5323 ;202-224-2725

does democratic Senator Harry Reid, of Nevada, look like a shithead to you too?

does democratic Senator Harry Reid, of Nevada, look like a shithead to you too?

I think he personally dragging down public opinion of the senate even further.

where's the 834 miles of border security fence that was passed last year?

where's the 834 miles of border security fence that was passed last year?

IRS question, if I get a Z visa will the IRS forget the thousands I owe too?

IRS question, if I get a Z visa will the IRS forget the thousands I owe too?



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Bush-Kennedy Bill Will Only Reduce Illegal Immigration by 13

CBO Estimates that Bush-Kennedy Bill Will Only Reduce Illegal Immigration by 13 Percent!
On June 4th, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a cost estimate of S.1348 (now S.1639) which estimated that the Bush-Kennedy bill would not do much to solve the illegal immigration crisis facing the United States. Specifically, the CBO report estimated that even if fully funded, the Bush-Kennedy bill would reduce illegal immigration at the border by 25% but would at the same time actually increase the number of illegal aliens through aliens who overstay their Y guest worker and H-1B visas (increased in the bill). Thus, the net reduction in illegal immigration will only be about 13 percent over the next 20 years!

Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) last week sent a letter to his Senate colleagues summarizing the CBO report and pointing out the importance of its findings. He wrote, "I believe you will be as shocked as I was" when reading the report. Sessions lamented that while proponents of the Bush-Kennedy legislation claim the bill will secure the border, decrease illegal immigration, and restore the rule of law to our immigration system, the CBO report demonstrates that the Bush-Kennedy bill will not fulfill these promises.

Arizona Republicans looking for a replacement for Mccain?

Arizona Republicans looking for a replacement for Mccain?

time for that senile old fart to retire ?