ENVIRONMENTALISTS SET AGENDA

The Business Journal ^ | Jan. 8, 2003 | Mike Sunnucks

[madfly]

Environmentalists set agenda

Mike Sunnucks   The Business Journal

A newly formed coalition of environmental and preservation groups has released its political agenda for 2003.

The Arizona Conservation Alliance wants to protect state funding for environmental programs such as land preservation as well as air and water quality.

The group also wants gasoline tax revenue to be used for transit systems, not just roads and highways; to preserve the Clean Elections public campaign financing; and for border and law enforcement agencies to be more sensitive of the environmental damage caused by off-road vehicles, road and wall construction and intense night lighting.

The alliance includes environmental and conservation groups such as the Arizona League of Conservation Voters, Nature Conservancy of Arizona, the Phoenix Zoo, the Grand Canyon National Park Foundation and the Sierra Club. It also includes the Border Action Network — a pro-immigration group critical of U.S. policies towards Mexico.

For more information on the new coalition, visit its Web site at http://www.azlcvedfund.org.

[madfly]

More bad news for Arizonans.

[madfly]

I wonder how many other states have their own version of this happy leftist group.

[tacticalogic]

I wonder how many other states have their own version of this happy leftist group.

I'm sure that if any of them don't, the bureaucrats at the EPA can find some way to come up with a grant program to give them some of your money to start one.

[madfly]

ping

[Geezerette]

... All this with the happy and eager support of Arizona's "she" governor!

Wow!

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[madfly]

http://www.azlcv.org/scorecard/score1.htm

Arizona Legislative Scorecard 2002 45th State Legislature
HONOR ROLL
Senate						House of Representatives
Mary Hartley (D-20)				100%		Carlos Avelar (D-23)		100%
Elaine Richardson (D-11)				100%		Bill Brotherton (D-20)		100%
Pete Rios (D-7)				100%		Meg Burton Cahill (D-27)		100%
Virginia Yrun (D-13)				100%		Gabrielle Giffords (D-13)		100%
						John Loredo (D-22)		100%
						Richard Miranda (D-22)		100%
						Albert Tom (D-3)		100%
BEST SURPRISES
Senate						House of Representatives
Lori Daniels		R-6				Bobby Lugo	D-8
+ 58%, increase from 17% to 75%						+ 46%, increase from 44% to 90%
DISHONOR ROLL
Senate						House of Representatives
Timothy Bee (R-9)				44%		Mark Anderson (R-29)		13%
Scott Bundgaard (R-19)				44%		Debra Brimhall (R-4)		20%
Marilyn Jarrett (R-21)				19%		Dean Cooley (R-21)		17%
Joe Eddie Lopez (D-22)				13%		Eddie Farnsworth (R-30)		0%
						Randy Graf (R-9)		13%
						Linda Gray (R-16)		20%
						Karen Johnson (R-30)		0%
						Russell Pearce (R-29)		10%
						Gary Pierce (R-21)		10%
						Robert Robson (R-6)		17%
						Jim Weirs (R-16)		20%
MOST DISAPPOINTING
Senate						House of Representatives
Joe Eddie Lopez			D-22			Mark Anderson	R-29
– 78%, decrease from 91% to 13%						– 24%, decrease from 37.5% to 13%
Average Scores
Senate						House of Representatives
Average Score					68%	Average Score			53%
Average Score-Republicans					55%	Average Score-Republicans			28%
Average Score-Democrats					83%	Average Score-Democrats			89%

(This page last updated on 06/29/02 )

[WorkingClassFilth]

Notice that much of the agenda is concerned with maintaining funding for their own survival or their agendas.

This is a shift from the usual strategies of actively arresting development, destroying freedoms and rights and undermining American sovereignty.

I take it as a good sign and would encourage everyone to press home their attacks on the green socialists.

[madfly]

http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0106nebriefs06.html

Napolitano aide to talk to preservation group

CAREFREE - The national resources and environmental policies of the state's new administration will be discussed at the annual meeting of the Desert Foothills Land Trust at 7 p.m. Jan. 15, at the Carefree Resort and Villas, 37220 N. Mule Train Road.

The guest speaker will be Lori Faeth, Gov. Janet Napolitano's policy adviser for natural resources and the environment. RSVP by Jan. 13 to (480) 488-6131.

http://www.azlcvedfund.org/people/lori.html

Lori Faeth

Lori Faeth is the Director of Government Relations for The Nature Conservancy of Arizona. She has worked for the Conservancy since 1992 and has experience in creating and passing funding initiatives for conservation at the state and local level, as well as developing public policy measures to further conservation. She represents the Conservancy's Arizona program before the state legislature and Congress and oversees the chapter's public policy program.

Prior to moving to Phoenix, Arizona in 1997, she worked for the World Wide Office of The Nature Conservancy as part of the Government and Community Relations Division. Lori studied Real Estate as part of the Pennsylvania State University continuing education program and left a successful residential and investment real estate practice in central Pennsylvania to relocate to the Washington D.C. metro area, where she joined the Conservancy.

She lives in Phoenix with her two sons and in addition to spending time with her teenagers enjoys reading, movies, hiking with her dog Rio and running.

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[madfly]

The Desert Foothills Land Trust has been working with Jane Hull's Agenda 21 Smart Growth folks since as far back as June1998, as shown here. Napolitano following her lead. Republican? Democrat? Does it matter?

Source

The "Growing Smarter" plan also includes several significant reforms to planning and zoning statutes for cities and counties. These include requirements that general and comprehensive plans be updated every 10 year; that rezoning be in conformity with the plans; that amendments pass with a two-thirds super-majority vote of the governing body; that open space, environmental and growth areas be part of the plans; and that development be required to pay its "fair share" toward the cost of additional public facilities or service needs.

Representatives of groups from across the state identified parcels of State Trust land they hope to preserve through the Arizona Preserve Initiative process, including P.A. Seitts of the Desert Foothills Land Trust in Cave Creek; Luther Probst of the Sonoran Institute in Tucson; and Carla of the McDowell Sonoran Land Trust in Scottsdale. Also present was Anne Coe of the Superstition Area Land Trust in Pinal County, which officially endorsed the Growing Smarter plan at the press conference. In addition, Phoenix Mayor Skip Rimsza said the funding may help the City of Phoenix to implement its comprehensive open space plan.

[kaktuskid]

And this agenda will go NOwhere in the AZ legislature!

[tubebender]

Joe Eddie Lopez (D-22) 13%

Old Joe Eddie needs to change parties now. I can see the bullseye on his back from here.

[Free the USA]

http://www.freerepublic.com/perl/bump-list

[cake_crumb]

These are the goofballs that were spinning Daschle's deal to thin Balck Hills forests in only his own state as "ecologically sound".

It was the Sierra Club or the Wildernss Society in AZ that wrote a long, drawn-out press release stating that, due to years of logging and fire suppression, the Black Hills needs to be logged.

They think they can do a better job of logging than the pros...'course, since it isn't likely any member of an environazi group has bothered to be certified in ANY of the fields of forestry management required by law, they'll have to HIRE THOSE PROFESSIONALS ANYWAY.

[cake_crumb]

Clarification: the ARIZONA chapter of either the Sierra Club or Wilderness Society wrote the pro-Daschle, logging-is-our-friend-if-WE-do-it piece.

So now they don't want to control the timber industry...they want to OWN the timber industry

[Grampa Dave]

Looks like the timing might be good for a future project!

[Grampa Dave]

Looks like the timing might be good for a future project!

[DLfromthedesert]

So they're concerned about the environment, but they wnat open borders?

Proves they're not environmentists, just Socialists!!

[madfly]

Yup. The open borders torch has been passed to janipolypano.

[EBUCK]

Get ready for another FIRE! BillBoard in AZ, Heber to be exact(near the Rodeo-Chedeski fire)!

Contracts signed today, artwork in the pipe...gonna be up all year!!

More details to follow...

[EBUCK]

You got that right!!!

Contracts signed today, artwork in the pipe....

FIRE!!!!!

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FIRE!!!!!

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