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Since Arizona’s local law enforcement began enforcing illegal immigration laws and an employer sanctions law went into effect, illegal immigrants have been fleeing the state in large numbers. The effects have been far-ranging. Commuters are reporting fewer vehicles on the freeways, shortening their rush-hour commutes. What had become a serious transportation problem in Arizona is losing its urgency. English Learner Language (ELL) students started dropping out of school. This helped end a confrontation between the state legislature and a liberal federal judge who had ordered the state to spend more money on ELL classes. Fewer illegal immigrants are using hospital...

From the back of the Culinary union hall on Friday, all that could be seen were hundreds of upraised hands -- black, brown and white -- clapping to the chant "Sí se puede." They were clapping along with Geoconda Arguello Kline, an immigrant from Nicaragua who came to Las Vegas for a low-skilled job in a hotel. She learned English. She saved enough to buy a home for the family she was raising. She took advantage of job training programs to move up in her work, and she became active with the union. Now Kline, "Geo" to the union's members,...

 XXV BORDER GOVERNORS CONFERENCESEPTEMBER 27 & 28, 2007PUERTO PEÑASCO, SONORA JOINT DECLARATIONPREAMBLEThe Governors of the states of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas, of the United States of America, and the states of Baja California, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Sonora and Tamaulipas, of the United Mexican States, meeting in the City of Puerto Peñasco, Sonora on the 27th and 28th of September, 2007, having analyzed, within the framework of the XXV U.S.–Mexico Border Governors Conference, issues relating to Water, Agriculture and Livestock, Science and Technology, Logistics and International Crossings, Economic Development, Education, Energy, the Environment, Health, Border Safety, Tourism and...

Governor Napolitano's State of the State speech yesterday made no pretense of hiding her plans to expand government, it was like listening to one long spendfest. There was no mention of lowering taxes (which was part of the platform she ran on and won on) or cutting spending. So it was unbelievable to hear her say at the end of a long laundry list of new government bureaucracies and spending programs, "Every initiative I have announced can be accomplished without raising taxes one thin dime." Smokescreen and mirrors. She'll blame the Republican-controlled legislature. It doesn't take a fortune teller...

August 2, 2006 Democrats Dream, Everyone Else Pays By Carol Turoff The Democrats "American Dream Initiative" is based on the old carrot-and-stick trick. Dangle other people's money in an attempt to purchase votes and win back Congress. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has come up with a sure-fire idea to reclaim the White House in 2008. Buy it! "Americans are earning less while the costs of a middle-class life have soared," Clinton shouted into the microphone at a meeting of the Democratic Leadership Council, as she introduced the group's "American Dream Initiative." The centerpiece of the proposal includes a $500 "Baby...

TUCSON, Ariz., June 14 /Christian Newswire/ -- On the eve of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference in Los Angeles (June 15-17), more and more Catholics are asking, is Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas (Tucson, Arizona) assisting pro-abortion candidates in their campaigns for public office? “The Bishop’s deafening silence vis-à-vis pro-choice politicians campaigning in locales under his canonical oversight is fueling this developing scandal,” says Kelly Copeland, Director of the Holy Family Society of Tucson. “Does the Bishop’s tacit consent, and permission given to pro-choice politicians to speak, constitute support for abortion rights and politicians supporting them?” Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano, well-known for...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Faced with growing pressure from Southern states, the Bush administration wants the military to come up with ideas to help solve security problems along the U.S. border with Mexico. In back-to-back moves this week, the Pentagon began exploring ways to lend support at the Southern border, while the House on Thursday voted to allow the Homeland Security Department in limited cases to use soldiers in that region. At the Pentagon, Paul McHale, the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense, asked officials to offer options for the use of military resources and troops -- particularly the National...

The gubernatorial campaign sweeping like a wildfire through Arizona's political landscape is causing usually blasé heads to turn. Len Munsil has, in record time, collected the necessary petition signatures and the $5 donations required by Arizona's Clean Elections law. Speeding past his three active Republican opponents, he is the first to qualify, not only in this election cycle—but in Arizona history. Munsil, a third-generation Arizonan, has accomplished this Herculean task without using the paid circulators or union operatives upon which other campaigns are dependent. The grassroots base of volunteer supporters he has amassed, know him not from the political realm,...

Press Release 239- Mexico City- Foreign Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez met with Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano and Sonora Governor Eduardo Bours Castelo as established in the agreements adopted in the Arizona-Mexico Commission on June 17th in Tucson, Arizona. The Arizona-Mexico Commission is a forum for promoting economic development in the border region. The commission’s goal is to strengthen those aspects of the bilateral relationship that have to do with agriculture, education, communications, economic studies, industry, public health, tourism and trade. The governors were accompanied by Víctor Flores, President of the Arizona-Mexico Commission; José Santos Gutiérrez, Vice President of the Arizona-Sonora...

A national emergency -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 29, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 Creators Syndicate Inc. On Aug. 12, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson declared a state of emergency "due to a " on his southern border. Three days later, Gov. Janet Napolitano followed suit in Arizona. Reason: the crisis on the border. The ally-ally-in-free immigration policy of George Bush and Vicente Fox, beloved of corporate America, has created a hell on our southern border. Those Southwestern states are being inundated by illegal aliens trashing ranches, killing cattle, committing crimes and eating up tax dollars. The traffic in narcotics and...

NEWS RELEASE Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms12500 N.E. Tenth PlaceBellevue, WA  98005CCRKBA SAYS ARIZONA RESTAURANT ASSN. SPREADING ANTI-GUN BIGOTRYFor Immediate Release: April 22, 2005 Opponents to concealed carry reform in Arizona have stooped to anti-gun bigotry in their efforts to convince Gov. Janet Napolitano to veto legislation that would allow legally-licensed, law-abiding citizens to patronize restaurants and bars, said the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA). "It is appalling that Steve Chucri, president of the Arizona Restaurant and Hospitality Association, would rely on a poll that essentially has 78...

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry hit the Bay Area this month. Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware is flying out here this week. Sen. Evan Bayh is making California plans. So is Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano. And John Edwards is already on the books for a San Francisco speech next month. The seats from President Bush's second inauguration are barely cold, but leading Democrats -- many publicly or privately considering their 2008 election calender -- have once again descended on the Golden State, hitting the very blue West Coast in hopes of picking up the green. While most caution they're only keeping...

According to The New York Times, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, reflecting on her party's recent losses in the presidential, Senate and House elections, asked: "How did a party that is filled with people with values -- and I am a person with values -- get tagged as the party without values?" As one who was raised a Democrat and became a Republican only 10 years ago, I would like to answer Gov. Napolitano's question as honestly as she posed it. Gov. Napolitano, your party does indeed have very many people with values in it. But the Democratic Party is no...

When Janet Napolitano gives her speech at the 2004 National Democratic Convention, she won't talk about the one health care issue that millions of Americans prefer did not exist. She will not talk about her extremist support for abortion. Now, I'm not simply talking about the standard "I'm in favor of everyone's right to choose to have an abortion" position. And I'm not even talking about the strident NOW or NARAL "we must keep abortion legal and prevent judges from overturning Roe v. Wade” position. No, I'm speaking about support for abortion that extends to her efforts, while Arizona’s Attorney...

<p>Moderate Republican state lawmakers better watch their backs come next year. The same for Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano in 2006.</p> <p>A nationally based group of fiscal conservatives hopes to use "big money and hardball politics" to change the face of government in Arizona.</p>

Gov. Janet Napolitano has signed an executive order that forbids discrimination against gays. Napolitano's 20th executive order makes it illegal to hire, fire, promote, or discipline any state employee based on sexual orientation. Arizona joins 12 states, 115 cities and the District of Columbia in outlawing job discrimination against gays and lesbians. Phoenix already approved a similar law in 1992, followed by Tucson in 1997.

Closing but still trailing in recent polls, Republican Matt Salmon got aggressive with Democrat Attorney General Janet Napolitano from the opening bell of the final gubernatorial debate Wednesday night. Salmon spent his introductory comments, where other candidates talked about their qualifications, criticizing Napolitano on taxes, abortion and gay issues. "My opponent wants to raise taxes. I oppose that," Salmon said. "My opponent, Janet Napolitano, supports gay adoption. I don't. She supports Vermont-style same-sex marriages. I think that's extreme." Napolitano said later that Salmon was, again, distorting her positions. Napolitano said she opposes gay marriage, wants to close tax loopholes to...

Now trailing in public opinion polls, Republican Matt Salmon on Monday launched one of his strongest attacks yet against front-runner Janet Napolitano during a live debate by suggesting she cares more about endangered species than national security. Salmon confronted Napolitano, a Democrat and the state's attorney general, about her refusal to back federal legislation that would exempt military bases from certain environmental laws. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had asked all state attorneys general for their backing this summer. But Salmon said Napolitano was one of only seven attorneys general who said the laws are needed to force the...

By now, I'm sure everyone is familiar with the commercial that appeared following the October 4th accusations. In this rather ridiculous commercial, the sheriff negates all accusations against Janet Napolitano. Yet he does nothing to assure Arizona's people that the accusations are truely false; he does not offer any evidence that negates the accusations. He only requests that Arizonians join him in refusing the accusations.

The Attorney General claims she had no involvement in this financial disaster. However, the documents included here reveal the involvement of the office of the Attorney General as far back as October 1999. Memoranda from the Attorney General's office early in the implementation of the alt-fuels laws show that concerns surfaced about the actual prices of the vehicles.