Posted on 07/07/2003 3:39:59 PM PDT by JackelopeBreeder
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kathy McKee JULY 4, 2003 PHONE: 623.225.7122
NEWS RELEASE . NEWS CONFERENCE ANNOUNCING BIGGEST POLITICAL NEWS IN ARIZONA FOR 2003 PROPOSITION 187-TYPE INITIATIVE HEADING FOR AZ BALLOT 10 a.m. Tuesday, July 8, 2003 State Capitol . 1700 W. Washington, Phoenix, AZ . House Hearing Room 4-5
The Protect Arizona NOW Committee has filed application with the Arizona Secretary of State to begin collecting signatures for a citizens' initiative similar to California's Proposition 187 for the 2004 ballot in Arizona. The Arizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act would ban the use of taxpayer funds for all state and local programs, services, and benefits for illegal aliens, except those mandated by federal law.
Committee Director Kathy McKee states, "The original Prop 187 in California passed with about a 2/3 majority and in all counties except eight in and around San Francisco. State and local officials-especially the current Governor, Phoenix City Council, and Tucson City Council, seem determined to tax citizens to death and run our entire state into perpetual bankruptcy supporting people who legally should be deported.
So we, the citizens of this state, have no other choice but to pursue and pass this initiative. We have been organizing for months and have the early stages of a great network and system in place to anticipate a greater margin of victory here than in California."
Committee Treasurer, local businessman Rusty Childress, adds, "The people of Arizona have heard more than enough of state and local officials' lame excuse that illegal immigration is a federal problem. Clearly, the federal government is endangering the whole country by not putting the military on our own borders-like the vast majority of Americans want done, but a lot of the underlying problem is that state and local governments have created a mammoth welfare state-illegally, with taxpayers' money-that attracts illegals here. These traitorous bureaucrats thumb their noses at their legal constituents and blatantly violate laws, even U.S. Supreme Court decisions. If elected leaders don't have the courage or integrity to stop this nonsense right now, the citizens of this state do have it and will stop it. "
McKee contends, "The real villain in the illegal immigration crisis is every level of 'our' own government (and I use the word "our" very loosely). However, I dare say every person coming across that border illegally knows they are breaking our laws. Even for those who say they are coming here to try to improve their lives, poverty is no excuse to break laws-and we surely can't take in the 4-5 billion people on this planet who are poorer than Central Americans. I love Arizona, and I am furious how government officials are just giving it away-and using taxpayers' money to do it. Why? Why? Why? The average Arizonan has no idea how many hundreds of millions of their tax dollars go to support programs and benefits for illegal aliens."
Senior Advisors to the Committee, Arizona House Majority Whip Randy Graf and House Appropriations Chairman Russell Pearce, will be on the news conference panel to better explain the fiscal impact and irresponsibility of spending public funds on people illegally in this country.
McKee concludes, "Instead of Emailing back and forth and griping to each other, it's truly now or never for the citizens of Arizona to demand accountability and enforcement of our laws by government officials. It's hard to believe America has become a place where citizens have to force their own government to obey laws."
hsmomx3: Where can one sign these petitions?http://www.pan2004.com or write to info@pan2004.com I'm sure it's awash in hate spam; but that will go away quickly as the spam filters get updated....
Tucson Daily Star's POLL: Please vote quickly. http://regulus.azstarnet.com/hourlyupdate/story.php?id=52http://regulus.azstarnet.com/hourlyupdate/story.php?id=52The poll and the article are gone. Guess the liberals must have their pressure tactics on the move.
It was only up for an hour, as part of their hourly update page.
I'll try and find out were they archive it.
![]() Do you think the movement to limit illegal immigration is motivated by racism?
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I've never enjoyed spitting in the wind.
McCain is popular and will win any primary and the general easily. He is the titular head of the Republican party and has the highest approval rating.
I don't attribute this to any leadership on the part of the Democrats but the lack of the same by Republicans. Squaw Peak by any other name is still Squaw Peak but Arizona loved her sticking it to the Rs. A Pinto Democrat will always vote Democrat.
Absent a scandal? Butch IS a scandal!!
Well, let me see . . . Things like the impeachment and removal of one Governor, Burton Barr buying land in the path of the freeways and sticking it to the state, indictment and conviction of another Governor, alt fuels fiasco, raiding the MLK fund, corruption in the Corporation Commission, the rise and fall of the Phoenix Forty, even Azscam. Yeah, I know some can be argued to death, but they have been deeply etched in the public perception.
Something is very wrong when voters will take a bull dyke over Matt Salmon and we need to fix it now. Remember it was the Rs that made Arizona one of the highest taxed states in the Union even though Fife unwound that a bit. The old Arizona is gone, dead, kapoot, in Boot Hill. We have to work with the new dynamics.
If we can't convince the legions of the underclass that they are better off with a job than a handout, then we deserve to lose. In 25 years the average income in Arizona will be just 60% of the national average. That's 3/5s as in you know what. Some major adjustment is necessary.
Yesterday, after my previous post, I met an old cowboy type spitting venom at Rs in general and Bush in particular. There really is disconnect when he will choose a carpet muncher over the party of Goldwater.
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