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To: CivilWarBrewing
PS, for those who think there's something "natural" about Phoenix, Arizona being managed by this guy because he's ethnically Mexican, here's a picture of the founder of Phoenix:

Jack Swilling was a Confederate and a Union Army soldier, a wild character with a shrewd business sense who saw the Salt River valley for what it could be, and that was in the 1870's.

All there was in the valley for the previous 370 years of Spanish territorial claim was...a few Pima tribal settelments.

The Spaniards, and later Mexicans, never did anything with that part of Arizona.

An enterprising Southerner did.

So Sr. Cavazos can go collect his Mordida in Santa Ana, and maybe have lots of little parades with him at the head, but his ethnicity had very little to do with making the Arizona desert the oasis it is now.

11 posted on 08/08/2013 5:45:50 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Regulator

The guy came to phoenix from Pennsylvania so I doubt his last name was little more than convenient.

Its more that a 25 year employee knew he had spent 4 years in the top job and Phoenix had a surplus. He went for a 78k raise and then used that to boost his set up average cost for his pension.


13 posted on 08/08/2013 6:00:17 PM PDT by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.)
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