Posted on 02/20/2017 8:51:30 AM PST by rktman
".... demanded to know where his car was parked, Rothschild told the Star.Rothschild said that he pointed to his city-owned Toyota Prius ...."
(Excerpt) Read more at gunfreezone.net ...
Oh, now I get it. Since politicians have been getting all these tax paid freebies and perks for years, it needs to continue. That makes perfect sense Mr. disco.
You’re really pissy over something quite stupid. This is how it works in EVERY FREAKING CITY IN THE COUNTRY. Stop acting like it’s unique to Tucson.
I didn’t say it needs to continue. I said that’s just how things work. And on the long list of problems in this world that need fixin that one’s so far down the list it ain’t even in the first book.
From the Arizona Citizens Defense League
"RTS Alert
HCR 2029 is scheduled for a House Appropriations Committee hearing on Wednesday, February 22. Please log into your RTS accounts (Request To Speak) and urge the committee members to vote for the passage of HCR 2029. Click HERE for instructions on using RTS. If you need assistance in setting up an RTS account, please contact Fred at treasurer@azcdl.org.
HCR 2029 is a proposed constitutional amendment that would require ballot measure petitions to have a specific percentage of signatures from each legislative district in the state. Current petition requirements are based simply on the state population regardless of location, making it possible for districts with large urban populations to override the will of voters in less populated districts. As the saying goes, 'Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.' That's the effect of Arizona's current ballot petitioning requirements."
I believe this is to prevent Bloomberg's zombies from getting enough petitions for background checks, etc. signed in just the liberal Metro areas.
The AZCDL will set you up for a RTS account, and once you are on it, all you have to do is sign in, check the thumbs up/down and say "no" that you don't want to speak - unless you plan to show up and make a statement. It takes less than two minutes. It's more effective than emails, but I usually use that medium as well.
I live in a city a whole lot smaller than Tucson. Upon his inauguration, the incoming mayor (Tea Party type guy) was handed the keys to his city owned SUV. He handed them back and said his old Ford Ranger was fine.
I carried to the opera there a few weeks ago. The only one who died that night (to my knowledge) was Madame Butterfly (it was one of those hara=kiri deals).
“Low carbon footprint, only one horsepower.”
Left off the /s?
The nickel contained in the Prius’ battery is mined and smelted at a plant in Ontario that has caused so much environmental damage to the surrounding environment that NASA has used the ‘dead zone’ around the plant to test moon rovers.
Dubbed the Superstack, the factory has spread sulfur dioxide across northern Ontario, becoming every environmentalist’s nightmare.
Acid rain around the area was so bad it destroyed all the plants and the soil slid down off the hillside, according to Canadian Greenpeace energy-coordinator David Martin.
After leaving the plant, the nickel travels to Europe, China, Japan and United States, a hardly environmentally sound round the world trip for a single battery.
http://www.ncpa.org/sub/dpd/index.php?Article_ID=14304
I remember laughing when reading Michael Crichton’s book “State of Fear”, in which the environmentalist bad guy thugs drive Priuses.
That really tickled me!
Why is the mayor provided with a tax paid vehicle?
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If the voters are stupid enough to permit this waste of money, they deserve what they get.
That would be nice. Hopefully it passes helping negate the population centers hold on getting things done. We replaced hairy screed in NV only because of Clark County. It should be expanded to general elections as well.
Yes, it was in response to a response to a typo.
Maybe he was hankerin' for some pizza...
Ah, ok.
“I carried to the opera there a few weeks ago. The only one who died that night (to my knowledge) was Madame Butterfly (it was one of those hara=kiri deals).”
We had a Japanese Exchange Student some years ago who ended up studying English at AU in Tucson. He wrote to us that even then, and this was probably two decades ago, he was concerned about the nightly gunfire he could hear from his dorm.
I would do the same. Fortunately, I live in an area that, so far (last 10+ yrs), is still largely crime free. This in in a North Metro Atlanta area. We watch out for each other, report suspicious persons & activity, etc.
Tucson is the most politically corrupt city in the USA. Detroit, move over : )
So would the laws of probability.
“A Prius? Fo schizzle, homes?”
IMO, that's the way Electoral College votes should be awarded - by Congressional Districts. When I lived in Nevada, Clark County was the tail that wagged the state because of it's population.
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