MARICOPA COUNTY REPUBLICANS TOWN HALL MEETING
The Maricopa County Republicans have announced a Town Hall Meeting scheduled for Saturday, March 14, 2009 from 2: 00 PM - 5:00 PM at the Arizona American Italian Club located at 7509 N. 12th Street in Phoenix.
This town hall meeting's focus is the current financial state of our Arizona State government. A detailed discussion of the "Porkulus" stimulus bill, and a question and answer period with the audience will follow.
Guest Speakers will include:
* The Honorable Jack Harper
* The Honorable Russell Pearce
* The Honorable Judy Burges
* The Honorable Sam Crump
* The Honorable Doug Quelland
* The Honorable Carl Seel
The legislators would appreciate your candid input on your concerns during the question and answer period. Come prepared for a spirited discussion!
Please RSVP to Karen Thomas at MCRCWest@cox.net so seating will be limited. Admission is five dollars per person and additional donations will be accepted.
LINCOLN DAY LUNCH
The 2009 Maricopa County Republican Committee Lincoln Day Lunch will be on Saturday, March 28th at the Crowne Plaza Hotel located at 2521 W. Peoria Ave, ( I-17 and Peoria Ave ) in Phoenix. Check in starts at 11:00 AM and ceremony starts at 11:30 AM.
Special guest include:
* Governor Jan Brewer
The 22nd Governor of Arizona.
* U.S. Congressman Trent Franks
Representing Arizona's 3rd Congressional district.
* Ward Connerly
founder and President of the American Civil Rights Institute.
Tickets are $25 per person,
Table sponsorship available for $250 (10)
3 course lunch served
Awards ceremony
To purchase tickets by credit card call 623-977-4532
Lincoln Day Lunch Committee, Chad Kirkpatrick, Chairman
Maricopa County Republican Committee, Rob Haney, Chairman
Friday, March 6, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Traditional Marriage under Attack in Calf.
California voters in November approved Proposition 8, a state constitutional amendment that defined and limited marriage to, what it always has been, between and man and a women. Reuters has reported that those opposed to the decision of the people have asked the California Supreme Court to overturn the amendment to the state constitution and the will of the people.
Homosexual rights advocates, led by the ultra liberal, former California governor and current Attorney General, Jerry Brown, argued, the right to marry is part of the "inalienable right" to liberty, therefore, the state Supreme court "must" strike down even an amendment to the California Constitution that limits it.
The American Conservative Republican believes that what people do in the privacy of their bedroom is their own business, however, when they bring it into the public square, as those advocating gay marriage are doing, it becomes the concern of the greater community.
The family is the basic unit of society, changing the basic structure of that unit is of concern to all who live in that society and, all members of the society should have a say before making a radical change to something as basic to society as the structure and definition of marriage and the family.
The people of California, by approving Proposition 8 through the democratic process, have wisely decided to support the traditional definition of marriage as between one man and one women and, therefore, rejected radically changing the basic unit of their society, the family. Jerry Brown is wrong, a small minority has no right to radically change the basic institutions of a society to advance their own agenda by forcing the majority to accept their concept of what a marriage is or is not.
Overturning Proposition 8 would not only be a defeat for traditional marriage, it would be a defeat for the American principle of, "government by the consent of the governed." and a violation of the peoples' inalienable right to their own liberty to govern themselves.
The people of the state of California have spoken, marriage in their state is only between one man and one women.
Homosexual rights advocates, led by the ultra liberal, former California governor and current Attorney General, Jerry Brown, argued, the right to marry is part of the "inalienable right" to liberty, therefore, the state Supreme court "must" strike down even an amendment to the California Constitution that limits it.
The American Conservative Republican believes that what people do in the privacy of their bedroom is their own business, however, when they bring it into the public square, as those advocating gay marriage are doing, it becomes the concern of the greater community.
The family is the basic unit of society, changing the basic structure of that unit is of concern to all who live in that society and, all members of the society should have a say before making a radical change to something as basic to society as the structure and definition of marriage and the family.
The people of California, by approving Proposition 8 through the democratic process, have wisely decided to support the traditional definition of marriage as between one man and one women and, therefore, rejected radically changing the basic unit of their society, the family. Jerry Brown is wrong, a small minority has no right to radically change the basic institutions of a society to advance their own agenda by forcing the majority to accept their concept of what a marriage is or is not.
Overturning Proposition 8 would not only be a defeat for traditional marriage, it would be a defeat for the American principle of, "government by the consent of the governed." and a violation of the peoples' inalienable right to their own liberty to govern themselves.
The people of the state of California have spoken, marriage in their state is only between one man and one women.
Barbara Bush has Heart Surgery
Former first lady Barbara Bush is recovering from successful open-heart surgery performed yesterday at Methodist Hospital in Houston, the Associated Press reported.
The former first lady is the wife of former President George H.W. Bush, and mother of both former President George W. Bush and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
After experiencing shortness of breath, doctors determined that the former first ladies' aortic valve had started to harden.
Dr. Gerald Lawrie, who replaced the valve with a biologic valve said the surgery went extremely well and he expects the former first lady to recover fully and return to normal activities.
Barbara Bush conducted herself with great dignity as first lady and is loved and respected by Americans of all political strips. The American Conservative Republican asks that you keep our former first lady in your prays.
The former first lady is the wife of former President George H.W. Bush, and mother of both former President George W. Bush and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush.
After experiencing shortness of breath, doctors determined that the former first ladies' aortic valve had started to harden.
Dr. Gerald Lawrie, who replaced the valve with a biologic valve said the surgery went extremely well and he expects the former first lady to recover fully and return to normal activities.
Barbara Bush conducted herself with great dignity as first lady and is loved and respected by Americans of all political strips. The American Conservative Republican asks that you keep our former first lady in your prays.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Senator Gorman Outlines Plan for Economic Recovery
According to a press release by Arizona Senate Republicans, Senate Majority Whip Pamela Gorman, R, LD -6, outlined a Senate Republican plan for Arizona’s economic recovery that focuses on creating an environment to attract jobs to Arizona.
“We have to create fertile ground for future growth in the economy in order to overcome our budget crisis. We do that by bringing jobs to the state,” Gorman said. The Senate economic recovery plan addresses four key areas of proven economic success that will:
1-Reduce regulatory burden
2- Assure a stable tax structure
3- Prevent arbitrary fees to employers
4- Remove government from direct competition with private employers
There are many regulatory and financial burdens local and state governments place on Arizona employers. These burdens may be slowing or standing in the way of economic activity, and need to be re-evaluated in light of Arizona’s fiscal crisis.
“Arizona has to be a more attractive place for employers to not just survive, but thrive,” Gorman said at Monday’s press briefing. “As California drives employers away with their tax increases, Arizona should be bringing them here with policies that allow them to succeed and our economy to recovery.”
Gorman and Republican leaders will more specifically detail elements of the economic recovery plan in the coming weeks as bills like Senate Bill 1466 – which creates a commission to search state government for areas that the private sector could run more efficiently - begin to move through the system.
“We have to create fertile ground for future growth in the economy in order to overcome our budget crisis. We do that by bringing jobs to the state,” Gorman said. The Senate economic recovery plan addresses four key areas of proven economic success that will:
1-Reduce regulatory burden
2- Assure a stable tax structure
3- Prevent arbitrary fees to employers
4- Remove government from direct competition with private employers
There are many regulatory and financial burdens local and state governments place on Arizona employers. These burdens may be slowing or standing in the way of economic activity, and need to be re-evaluated in light of Arizona’s fiscal crisis.
“Arizona has to be a more attractive place for employers to not just survive, but thrive,” Gorman said at Monday’s press briefing. “As California drives employers away with their tax increases, Arizona should be bringing them here with policies that allow them to succeed and our economy to recovery.”
Gorman and Republican leaders will more specifically detail elements of the economic recovery plan in the coming weeks as bills like Senate Bill 1466 – which creates a commission to search state government for areas that the private sector could run more efficiently - begin to move through the system.
Paid Petition Gathering May End in Arizona.
Paid petition gathers may be going out of business if a bill introduced by Arizona Representative Phil Lopes becomes law.
According to the Arizona Republic, the Arizona House Government Committee voted 8-0 in favor of HB 2587, which would ban petition circulators for initiatives and referendums from being paid based upon the number of signatures they collect.
Both former Governor Napolitano and current Governor Brewer have urged lawmakers to enact reforms that include ending the practice of paying petition circulators on a per-signature basis.
Initiatives and referendums are part of the system called direct democracy which gives the voter greater say in state government then just electing legislators to represent their interest.
The initiative allows voters to make law directly through the ballot and by-pass the legislature and approval by the governor. The initiative can also be used by the people to amend the Arizona Constitution directly. A Statutory Initiative requires a petition signed by 10% of the total vote for governor in the last election to get on the ballot and a Constitutional Initiative requires 15%.
There are three types of referendums; Constitutional, Legislative and, Popular. All amendments to the Arizona Constitution proposed by the legislature are placed on the ballot for voter approval without the necessity of petition by the voters. A Legislative Referendum is used by the legislature to by-pass the governor, who has the power to veto legislation they pass. No petition signatures by the voters are necessary for a Legislative Referendum to be placed on the ballot. If passed by the voters the referendum becomes law without the approval of the governor. The purpose of a Popular Referendum is to require that a bill approved by the legislature and the governor also be sent to the voters for approval and requires the petition signatures of 5% of the total vote for governor in the last election to be placed on the ballot.
The bill passed the House Government Committee without debate, and now goes to the House Judiciary Committee for approval.
It usually takes a large amount of money to pass an initiative or referendum and almost always requires the use of paid petition gathers to get the required number of signatures from registered voters to even get it on the ballot. Most grassroots citizen groups do not have the funds to pay professional petition gatherers or to finance a successful campaign, therefore, citizen initiatives and referendums are usually used by groups who represent special interests with the funds to finance them. Prohibiting per signature petition gathering should make it harder for special moneyed interests to exploit the direct democracy system, however, it will still be difficult for citizen groups without a large war chest to succeed in the direct democracy system.
According to the Arizona Republic, the Arizona House Government Committee voted 8-0 in favor of HB 2587, which would ban petition circulators for initiatives and referendums from being paid based upon the number of signatures they collect.
Both former Governor Napolitano and current Governor Brewer have urged lawmakers to enact reforms that include ending the practice of paying petition circulators on a per-signature basis.
Initiatives and referendums are part of the system called direct democracy which gives the voter greater say in state government then just electing legislators to represent their interest.
The initiative allows voters to make law directly through the ballot and by-pass the legislature and approval by the governor. The initiative can also be used by the people to amend the Arizona Constitution directly. A Statutory Initiative requires a petition signed by 10% of the total vote for governor in the last election to get on the ballot and a Constitutional Initiative requires 15%.
There are three types of referendums; Constitutional, Legislative and, Popular. All amendments to the Arizona Constitution proposed by the legislature are placed on the ballot for voter approval without the necessity of petition by the voters. A Legislative Referendum is used by the legislature to by-pass the governor, who has the power to veto legislation they pass. No petition signatures by the voters are necessary for a Legislative Referendum to be placed on the ballot. If passed by the voters the referendum becomes law without the approval of the governor. The purpose of a Popular Referendum is to require that a bill approved by the legislature and the governor also be sent to the voters for approval and requires the petition signatures of 5% of the total vote for governor in the last election to be placed on the ballot.
The bill passed the House Government Committee without debate, and now goes to the House Judiciary Committee for approval.
It usually takes a large amount of money to pass an initiative or referendum and almost always requires the use of paid petition gathers to get the required number of signatures from registered voters to even get it on the ballot. Most grassroots citizen groups do not have the funds to pay professional petition gatherers or to finance a successful campaign, therefore, citizen initiatives and referendums are usually used by groups who represent special interests with the funds to finance them. Prohibiting per signature petition gathering should make it harder for special moneyed interests to exploit the direct democracy system, however, it will still be difficult for citizen groups without a large war chest to succeed in the direct democracy system.
Sarah Palin - Invites Obama to Fun Hunting Trip.
Sarah Palin is so gracious. The election is over. It is time to repair friendships with the other party. Governor Sarah Palin is doing her part to do just that.
The rest of the world cannot understand how, after bitter election campaigns, American politicians can kiss and make-up.
For instance, Gov. Palin has invited, to her great state of Alaska , the men who defeated her, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. She has set up a moose hunting trip for their enjoyment and hired three prominent experts in their field to assist them. Dick Cheney will lead them on the hunt, Ted Kennedy will drive them back to their cabins each evening, and Bill Clinton will entertain their wives and daughters while they are hunting. What a lady! That Sarah is such a sport and thinks of everything!
The above was sent to me by a friend and has not been verified, but it is very funny.
The rest of the world cannot understand how, after bitter election campaigns, American politicians can kiss and make-up.
For instance, Gov. Palin has invited, to her great state of Alaska , the men who defeated her, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. She has set up a moose hunting trip for their enjoyment and hired three prominent experts in their field to assist them. Dick Cheney will lead them on the hunt, Ted Kennedy will drive them back to their cabins each evening, and Bill Clinton will entertain their wives and daughters while they are hunting. What a lady! That Sarah is such a sport and thinks of everything!
The above was sent to me by a friend and has not been verified, but it is very funny.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Trent Franks says Doctors' Right of Conscience under Attack by Obama.
Congressman Trent Franks of Arizona wrote an article published today by, Human Events Online, titled, "Obama Attacks Doctors' Rights of Conscience." Franks says that President Obama has begone pushing forward his effort to roll back regulations that protect physicians' right of conscience, federal regulations that prohibit recipients of federal funds from coercing professionals to perform services that violate their conscience, such as abortion.
The law requires the government to respect a physicians' right of conscience, however, the limits on professional organizations is not so clear. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), issued what it calls, Ethics Opinion # 385, which calls on OB-GYN's to disregard any medical, moral, ethical, or, religious objections to abortion and to perform or refer patients requesting an abortion.
The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG), which is the certifying organization for OB-GYN's, in 2008, released its Bulletin for Maintenance of Certification. The ABOG bulletin provides that a physician may have his or her certification revoked or denied, if the physician violates ACOG rules or ethical principles, presumable, that would include ACOG's Ethics Opinion # 385, therefore, a physician who chooses to follow his or her; conscience, moral, ethical or, religious beliefs, and refuses to perform or assist a patient obtain an abortion, risks being accused of unethical conduct under ACOG's Ethics Opinion # 385 and could possibly face loss of certification by ABOG. Lose of a doctors board certification almost certainly will result in the loss of hospital privileges. The Hyde-Weldon Amendment, which was passed in 2004, protected a physicians' right of conscience. Congressman Franks says that the Obama administration has been signaling its approval of ACOG and ABOG's unprecedented action to threaten OB-GYN's who refuse to take part in abortion procedures with loss of certification.
The first admonition of the Hippocratic Oath is to, "do no harm." The Oath, thou no longer enforced, also specifically prohibited physicians from taking part in abortions. Over 2,000 years ago, when the Oath was first written, physicians knew that a patient with a confirmed pregnancy was in reality two patients, the mother and the unborn child, now, a physician may lose certification for obeying the Hippocratic Oath and refusing to kill an unborn child.
The American Conservative Republican asks this question, "Are we as a civilization, advancing or are we in a state of rapid moral decline? "
If a medical professionals' right of conscience can't be protected at the federal level, because pro-abortion Democrats, with some Republican support, control the White House and Congress, then at the state level we should do whatever is possible to protect not only the right of conscience, but also the right to life of the unborn child, by prohibiting the loss of certification for obeying one's conscience and the Hippocratic Oath.
To read more articles from Human Events Online go to http://www.humanevents.com/
The law requires the government to respect a physicians' right of conscience, however, the limits on professional organizations is not so clear. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), issued what it calls, Ethics Opinion # 385, which calls on OB-GYN's to disregard any medical, moral, ethical, or, religious objections to abortion and to perform or refer patients requesting an abortion.
The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG), which is the certifying organization for OB-GYN's, in 2008, released its Bulletin for Maintenance of Certification. The ABOG bulletin provides that a physician may have his or her certification revoked or denied, if the physician violates ACOG rules or ethical principles, presumable, that would include ACOG's Ethics Opinion # 385, therefore, a physician who chooses to follow his or her; conscience, moral, ethical or, religious beliefs, and refuses to perform or assist a patient obtain an abortion, risks being accused of unethical conduct under ACOG's Ethics Opinion # 385 and could possibly face loss of certification by ABOG. Lose of a doctors board certification almost certainly will result in the loss of hospital privileges. The Hyde-Weldon Amendment, which was passed in 2004, protected a physicians' right of conscience. Congressman Franks says that the Obama administration has been signaling its approval of ACOG and ABOG's unprecedented action to threaten OB-GYN's who refuse to take part in abortion procedures with loss of certification.
The first admonition of the Hippocratic Oath is to, "do no harm." The Oath, thou no longer enforced, also specifically prohibited physicians from taking part in abortions. Over 2,000 years ago, when the Oath was first written, physicians knew that a patient with a confirmed pregnancy was in reality two patients, the mother and the unborn child, now, a physician may lose certification for obeying the Hippocratic Oath and refusing to kill an unborn child.
The American Conservative Republican asks this question, "Are we as a civilization, advancing or are we in a state of rapid moral decline? "
If a medical professionals' right of conscience can't be protected at the federal level, because pro-abortion Democrats, with some Republican support, control the White House and Congress, then at the state level we should do whatever is possible to protect not only the right of conscience, but also the right to life of the unborn child, by prohibiting the loss of certification for obeying one's conscience and the Hippocratic Oath.
To read more articles from Human Events Online go to http://www.humanevents.com/
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