Please join us for our D 10 monthly meeting, to be held from 7-9 p.m. at the D 10 Office, 9040 N. 19th Avenue (in the strip mall on the NW corner of 19th Ave. and Dunlap). There will be speakers, announcements and a chance to meet other committed Dems. For further information, please contact R. Knox at 602-942-6436 or bvaandrk@earthlink.net
NOTE: D 10 Dems normally meet on the 2nd Tuesday of each month. However, the September meeting was moved to allow everyone to attend the D 10 Clean Elections Debate that will be held on 9/12.
Please plan to join us (and cheer on D 10 candidates Justin Johnson, Senate, and Jackie Thrasher and Aaron Jahneke, AZ House) as they participate in a Clean Elections Debate to be held at ASU West. Please contact R. Knox at 602-942-6436 or bvaandrk@earthlink.net for details as to the time and room number of the event.
Please join us for our Tuesday, November 16 D 10 Dems RE-ORGANIZATION Meeting (required by AZ law) at which we will will elect new officers and State Committee members. This will be a very important meeting that will determine the leadership of the District for the next two years.
NOTE: Please note that the meeting is NOT the usual 2nd Tuesday of the month in order to comply with AZ laws.
Please check back later for the details as to location. For further information, please contact Rivko Knox at 602-942-6436 or bvaandrk@earthlink.net
Please plan to join us on Tuesday, October 12 from 7-9 p.m. for our regular D 10 Dems monthly meeting AND the last one prior to the November election!!!!
Please check back later for details re location and speakers. For further information, please contact Rivko Knox at 602-942-6436 or bvaandrk@earthlink.net
D 10 Dems will be hosting a phone bank (using auto dialers — so everyone gets to talk to people vs. machines!!) on Thursday, August 19 from 6-9 p.m. at the AZ State/County Democratic Offices, located on the NW corner of Central and Thomas. For further information, please contact R. Knox at 602-942-6436 or bvaandrk@earthlink.net
Please join us on Tuesday evening, August 10, 2010 for our regular monthly meeting from 7-9 p.m. We will meet at the new D 10 OFFICE, which is located at 9040 N. 19th Avenue, which is on the NW corner of Dunlap and 19th Ave. (the office is the most northern one in the little strip mall on the NW corner).
Our speakers will be
Randy Parraz, U.S. Senate Candidate and Chris Deschene, Candidate for AZ Sec. of State. We will also hear updates from the D 10 candidates Justin Johnson (AZ Senate) and Aaron Jahneke and Jackie Thrasher (AZ House) and from the D 10 Field Organizer, Nate Levinsky on the status of new registrations, Permanent Early Vote by Mail and voter contacts. In addition, we will be discussing an August 19 auto-dialer phone bank project, weekly canvasses, on going phone banking at the office and the need for poll workers and hand count auditors (the latter two are paid positions).
Please join us; and if you have further questions, please contact me at 602-942-6436 or bvaandrk@earthlink.net
Please join us from 10 a.m to 3 p.m. for the Grand Opening of the new D 10 office. Stop by the meet the candidates, pick up literature, have refreshments and sign up to be a volunteer.
The office is located at: 9040 N. 19th Avenue, which is on the NW corner of 19th Avenue and Dunlap.
For more information please contact Nate Levinsky at 602-435-9117.
Please plan to join the District 10 Democrats for their July monthly meeting, which will start with a ‘dessert’ potluck at 5:30 p.m. followed by a short regular meeting at 7:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at the home of Barbara and Ken Buedel, at 8523 N. 49th Drive, Glendale, AZ 85302 (S of Dunlap.) The dessert potluck (bring something ‘great’ to feed 6-8 plus a serving utensil) will be a great way to meet other Democrats in your neighborhood in an informal setting, tho we tend to be quite ‘informal’ and relaxed folks at all times. The meeting will end no later than 9 p.m. and probably a lot earlier!! The speaker will be announced later altho the D 10 candidates, Jackie Thrasher, Aaron Jahneke (State House) and Justin Johnson (State Senate), will definitely be there and give brief updates on their campaigns. AND we will definitely be discussing upcoming events, as the campaign season (along with the weather) heats up!! Please contact me with questions or for directions at 602-942-6436 or bvaandrk@earthlink.net.
* Tues., June 8, 2010 – Potluck Plus Regular D 10 Monthly Meeting.Home of Carol Vandercook, 3650 W. Aire Libre Ave., Phx, 85053 – west on Paradise Lane off 35th Ave. (between Greenway & Bell Roads), right/north on 37th Ave., & right again to Aire Libre.We’ll start with a potluck at 5:30 p.m. & then at 7 have a short meeting with our speaker, Felicia Rotellini, Candidate for State Attorney General PLUS D 10 candidates. Please RSVP to Rivko (above.)
* EVERY Sat. in June!!! Every Sat, in June, D 10 Dems will meet at 9 a.m. to drive around (in air conditioned cars) stopping to knock on the doors of other Democrats to say hello & sign PEVL cards & find more activists.Specific e-mails will be sent a few days before each event letting you know where to meet us. However, you can always call Courtney N. Frogge at (520) 240-7522 or Rivko at 602-942-6436 or bvaandrk@earthlink.net for more info.
* Tues., July 13, 2010 – Potluck Plus Regular D 10 Monthly Meeting.Home of Barbara and Ken Buedel, 8523 N. 49th Dr., Glendale85302 (south of Dunlap).We’ll start with a desert potluck at 5:30 p.m. and then at 7 have a short meeting with a speaker plus D 10 candidates.More details to come.
You can contribute to all of them on their web sites AND learn about how you can make a difference in helping them get elected!!!
Note: This is NOT a complete list of all the Dem candidates; right now I’m focusing on D 10 offices + the two Congressional Districts that cover D 10. If I missed someone please let me know.
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MORE ABOUT THE D 10 LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES!!!
(no D 10 candidates have primary competition)
AARON JAHNEKE FOR AZ HOUSE
A) Short Bio:I was born and raised in Phoenix. I am single, with two siblings, sister Erika, and my brother Adam who will be 14 on May 30th. I am an insurance agent in Glendale for the family Allstate agency, and I an adjunct history teacher at CollegeAmerica in Phoenix. I like concerts, Suns basketball, and attending WashingtonElementarySchool district events when available (I also was elected to the WESD Board in 2008.) I have always been interested in politics, particularly watching coverage on CSPAN of past presidential elections. I have come to believe local elections are the most important ones, and I became involved with the Judy Kennedy 2002 senate campaign in District 10 and Jackie Thrasher’s first campaign that year because they both were pro-public education.I
B) Three Key Campaign Issues:
1) More transparency at the state legislature. I believe they should be subject to some of the open meeting laws they have imposed on other forms of government.
2) Balancing the budget in a responsible way that does not do so on the backs of the poor or children. We need a long term business plan to make Arizona more attractive for businesses to come here.
3) Changing the K-12 funding formula so it’s simpler and easier for taxpayers to understand where the money is going. We must protect and enhance public education in Arizona.
C) Filing of Nominating Petitions/Fund Raising: I filed my signatures on April 26th, and I currently have over 200 $5 contributions. I need about 240 before I file.
JACKIE THRASHER, FOR AZ HOUSE
A) Short Bio:Jackie Thrasher was born in Detroit, moved to Phoenix with her family when she was just 2 years old and considers herself an “almost native”! She attended PaloVerdeElementary School, ApolloHigh School, GlendaleCommunity College & graduated from ASU with a Bachelor of Music, in Instrumental Music Education. She is married to John Thrasher & they have two grown children Jessica and Jason. Jackie is a flute player & a music educator, having recently retired from full time teaching in the WashingtonElementarySchool District after 30 years.Jackie is a former State Representative who ran twice before being elected the third time. In 2006 she was the first Democrat elected to the State House since 1964 in the area that is now District 10. Jackie narrowly lost her re-election bid in 2008, but that did not end her passion for public service and she decided to run again this cycle. She became interested in public policy after seeing firsthand how underfunded education is in Arizona. She leaves full time teaching to fight for education and kids full time.
B) Three Key Campaign Issues: Her three top issues are improving education funding in Arizona, diversifying our economy and investing in high tech and renewable energy jobs across our state.
C) Filing of Nominating Petitions/Fund Raising:Jackie filed her petitions to officially qualify for the ballot on May 24th, is running as a participating Clean Elections candidate & is still collecting five dollar qualifying contributions from registered voters in D 10.
JUSTIN JOHNSON FOR AZ SENATE
A) Short Bio:Justin Johnson has spent most of his life in AZ’s Leg. District 10. He was born & raised in Sunnyslope, where he attended SunnyslopeElementary School & SunnyslopeHigh School. After graduating from OccidentalCollege with a degree in Economics, Justin returned home to start a family with his wife, Lauren. They have one son, Cohen, who is a third-generation Phoenician/Arizonan. Justin’s father is former Phoenix Mayor, Paul Johnson, who has nine brothers and sisters. Currently, Justin is the Chief Operating Officer for Old World Homes, where he oversees all entitlement project managers, reviews all of the due diligence material, assists in product design & manages the organization internally, from payroll allocations to hiring new employees. Since the company’s inception in 2005, Justin has managed an employee base that has doubled in size & he has overseen the development of 20 commercial & residential communities. In 2007, Old World Homes, which Justin co-founded, was named the fifth largest local townhome builder in Arizona. Justin currently serves on the Citizens Transit Commission, Development Services Ad Hoc Committee, former AlhambraVillage Member & now a North Mountain Village Member, Valley Leadership
Phoenix Parks & Preserve Conservation Foundation & ASU Board of Advisors for Downtown Campus.
B) B. Three Key Campaign Issues:Justin’s top three issues are: Jobs, Education & Non-Partisanship.
C) Filing of Nominating Petitions/Fund Raising:Justin filed all his Nominating Petitions on 5/14/2010. He is running as a Traditional Candidate and has raised about $81,000 as of May 31st.
There is a Republican party and they are Republi- cants??? (they can’t offer solutions to our real problems but they CAN oppose Democratic solutions at the state and national level re public education, the environment, jobs, health care, and more….see below for more about what the ‘Republi-cants’ have wrecked here in AZ with their budget!!)
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Officials say (D 10 Rep.) Quelland’s seat now vacant(see related story page 4)
By The Associated Press Published: May 28, 2010 at 9:10 am
Arizona officials say the state House seat held by Republican Doug Quelland of Phx is officially vacant because of a court ruling upholding Q’s removal from office. But Q’s lawyer says that isn’t so & the state is acting prematurely. Sec. of State Ken Bennett on Wed. informed the state Republican Party of the need to begin work on appointing a replacement. Bennett acted after the Citizens Clean Election Commission formally notified him of the vacancy. A Maricopa County Superior Court judge on May 17 ruled against Q’s appeal of the commission’s May 2009 order. That order said Q padded his publicly funded 2008 campaign with private spending. Q could still take his case to an appeals court or the state Supreme Court. But he hasn’t decided whether he’ll do so, said his attorney, Tim Casey. Casey called the letters a “pre-emptive move by aggressive government actors” and said his client’s seat isn’t considered vacant unless he fails to appeal by the June 14 deadline. “In our legal system, until all due process and legal appeals are exhausted, no one loses an office unless they voluntarily forfeit or resign,” Casey said. Q chose to participate in Arizona’s Clean Elections system for his 2008 campaign, accepting public money but agreeing to stay within strict spending limits. The commission contends Q knowingly cheated the system by using his businesses to pay a public relations firm $15,000 in fees & free rent on retail space. Testimony by Larry Davis, the firm’s owner, supported the commission’s claim. Q maintains he did nothing wrong. He has said work done for his campaigns by employees of Intermedia Public Relations was on a volunteer basis & he paid the firm only for work done for his businesses….Q is running for re-election in Nov…. again participating in the public campaign financing program.
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Some Quotes to Live By (relevant in light of the Tea Party and extremists around us)
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now.Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.(The Talmud) OR
As Edmund Burke said, “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
OR
As Martin Niemöller wrote:
“They came first for the communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for me and by that time no one was left to speak up.”
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The AZ Legislature as Described by Rep. Kyrsten Sinema.
Rep. Sinema, the Assistant Leader of the Minority Caucus, spoke to the D 10 Dems at our May meeting. Highlights:
* She was glad the ‘danger of centaurs & mermaids flooding AZ & depleting our tax base by taking advantage of all our public services,’ was prevented by the Governor’s very recent signature of a bill forbidding human/animal hybrids.That bill, she said, shows the focus of this Legislature while
* AZ has: a huge deficit, lost 90,000 jobs, taken away health care from 400,000 people, cut education, the Departs that protect AZ such as Revenue, Water Resources, Environmental Protection and Public Safety, and defunded the Department of Tourism, although tourism is a major source of income for AZ.
* “…the goal of the Republicans in this Legislature, with the support of our ‘unelected’ Governor. is to dismantle the infrastructure of the state of AZ because ‘they can’ during this two year period.”
* This is the worst budget in the history of the AZ; that even if the 1 cent sales tax passes (it did), there will still be huge cuts in education, health & human services (to include Meals on Wheels & transportation for the disabled) because it will generate only enough revenue to fill 1/3 of the budget deficit.
* The Republican majority in the Leg. has consistently refused to close tax loopholes totally $10 billion!! (compared to AZ’s $8 billion total budget) to include such things as 4 ½ in. nails being tax free (estimated to bring in $17.5 million, which is more than the total cost of KidsCare, a program for the working poor!!); and of course the huge private and parochial school tax tuition credit that was even expanded this year!!
*The only Constitutional requirement for the Leg. is to adopt a balanced budget & they have not been able to do that (in a real way vs. a fake document that will require more cuts or taxes to balance).
* Budget problems AZ is facing are due to the R’s who have controlled the Leg. for the past 40 years!!!
* Re SB 1070, Sinema, who was born & raised in AZ, said it is a distraction & not a solution to the real problems of drugs, guns & human smuggling, the real criminal issues.She & other Ds had introduced bills that would actually have addressed some of these criminal enterprises but the Rs rejected them, e.g., to track gun smuggling. If there was a legal way for immigrants to enter AZ, then the illegal border crossers would almost totally be the dangerous criminals & tighter border control would work.
* Sinema urged all of us to keep two words in mind “November 2010!!!” & to double our efforts so we don’t wake up on November 3 saying “…if only I had knocked on 3 more doors…”
* We must use arguments that will work in AZ focusing on what is happening in AZ vs. federal issues; pointing out that as the Rs have controlled the Leg. for 40 years, all the blame (correctly) falls on them & using words such as ‘unelected Governor.”
* The key to economic growth in AZ is public education which AZ has cut more than any other state.
* The goal is to win over Independents & R women, which is how Ms.Thrasher got elected!! & Sinema said she really misses Ms. Thrasher’s assistance in the Legislature!!
A package of bills sponsored by Rep. Doug Quelland reads like a list of grievances against the Clean Elections system he’s fought for the past two years. Q sponsored only 6 bills in the 2010 legislative session, 5 of which were intended to expand the rights of candidates accused of violating Clean Elections laws. All 5… failed to receive a committee hearing, but they left little doubt about the Phx. Republican’s feelings about the Clean Elections system that once helped him get elected & later called for his removal from office. Three of Q’s bills – H2588, H2590 and H2592 – would have created new laws to require the Citizens Clean Elections Commission to disclose all evidence prior to a hearing in which a candidate is accused of wrongdoing. The commission would have been required to inform all accused candidates of their rights to discovery/disclosure of evidence, & the commission would have had to comply with requests for disclosure within one day. H2589…required the commission to award attorney’s fees to defendants if false claims/evidence are presented against them. Another, H2591…prohibited the AZ AG’s Office from representing the commission in its enforcement actions against candidates. Q & his attorney, Tim Casey, did not return several calls seeking comment. Clean Elections Commission Director Todd Lang said…Q didn’t attend the hearing where the commission voted to expel him from office & …Lang said the commission requested copies of checks Q wrote to consultant Larry Davis & Q denied the checks existed. The commission ultimately found the checks…until his appeal hearing, at which point Q said the payments were for business consulting, not campaign consulting. Q made requests for evidence, Lang said, but not until after the commission voted to remove him from office. He said Q’s requests for the commission to seize Davis’ computers didn’t come until his trial before the administrative law judge had already begun. “He never asked us to start seizing computers and the like until after he lost,” Lang said.The commission ordered Q’s removal from office after finding he paid a consultant $15,000 in violation of Clean Elections rules. An administrative law judge later upheld the commission’s decision. Q has remained in office as he continues to appeal his ouster. A Superior Court judge denied Q’s request for a new trial in his case, though he can appeal the decision. In the meantime, Q is seeking re-election to a District 10 House seat. And he’s running as a Clean Elections candidate.
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THE LEGISLATIVE IMPOSED DISASTER WITH 2009/2010 BUDGET CUTS:Thanks to Protecting Arizona’s Families Coalition (PAFCO) but edited.
Children, families & vulnerable adults sustained the largest, most brutal attacks & most devastating health & human services budget cuts in the last 25 years…at the hands of the last two legislatures controlled by Republican leadership…The litany of cuts includes health care, behavioral health, human services & housing services. See the list at http://www.pafcoalition.org/budget/…it requires repeating oftenlest we forget the pain imposed…
DES…reduced by 33% of its state general funds going from $808 million to $536 million.
·… programs severely cut or eliminated include elimination of general assistance, …an enrollment cap on subsidized child care (…a denial list where the program is withering away by attrition to about 20,000 children now on a denial“waiting”list) —reductions in TANF cash assistance for thousands of families.
·TANF cash assistance serving the very poor…attacked…in 2009 & 2010…cutting the monthly cash stipend by 20% (try living on $240 a month)… the 36 month eligibility limitation impacting 17,000 families potentially eliminating up to 39,000 participants including lots of grandparents and their children.
·Child Protection/Adult Protective Service no longer investigate 100% of referrals leaving thousands children and adults at risk.
·Other deep and sustained cuts …domestic violence safety/shelters, emergency crisis services, homeless prevention services/shelter services, aging independent living services, respite care, vocational rehab services, foster care, in home services for CPS families, Healthy Families, substance abuse treatment & cuts to state in-home and prevention programs for children/adults with developmental disabilities.
Health Services — …public health/behavioral health programs reduced by 47% from $270 to $143 million.
·Community health centers have essentially lost all of their state funding.
·Behavioral Health programs are eliminating services to thousands of people receiving general mental health care and substance abuse.
·Other programs cuts include vaccinations, senior food programs &eliminating over 4000 children from children’s rehabilitation services while imposing an enrollment cap on non Medicaid eligible children.
AHCCCS programs eliminated include KidsCare parents — about 9, 000 parents, imposition of enrollment cap on KidsCare despite restoration of the statutory authority.
·Before federal health care reform legislation forced restoration of KidsCare & AHCCCS cuts to about 400,000 poor and low income persons, AZ’s public policy was to eliminate health care coverage for these people with the intent to send them to emergency rooms.
·89,000 people classified as dual eligibles (Medicare & Medicaid) lost prescription drug support…
These cuts were NOT necessary. There were/are plenty of alternatives…example, the so-called Five Year Plan stopped budget cuts to health, human services & public educationwhile restoring past cuts in health care & human services. JLBC website for very detailed information — http://www.azleg.gov/jlbc/5yearplan.pdf. The Leg. didn’t even consider certain cuts to corrections proposed in various …proposals….lots of options not driven by ideological mindsets committed to eliminating health/human services & attacking public education & public service jobs.
So what does the future look like in Arizona as the Leg. proceeds with its budget 2010 cuts on top of what…2009?…not a pretty picture….The Leg (supported by the Gov.) has created its own natural disaster by abandoning hundreds of thousands of vulnerable children & adults with budget cuts the last 2 years. Overcrowded emergency rooms, homelessness, hunger, illness, desperation, hopelessness, & even deaths will be the result.
The health and human services system is like a balloon where we push on one side & the balloon expands out the other side. Push too hard & theballoon bursts. The state is on the verge of bursting the balloon as the Leg. imposes these draconian cuts…the Leg. is destroying the health/human services safety net when it is needed most for more & more families who never knew hardship…because of the lingering recession & years of underfunding.
The budgetfight is not over — tell the story of the consequences of these cruel cuts to anyone who will listen and constantly and persistently to the media.
oDon’t let any opportunity pass without sharing your story, the story of the people you serve, the agency impacts, the layoffs, and the pain and suffering.
oIf the consequences are invisible, the general public will not know or understand the great disservice of these cuts to our shared community life.
oContinue to write the Governor and your legislators with your stories of impact. Share them with PAFCO and others.
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(The Progress Report, 5/27/2010)
BP’s attitude toward the Gulf catastrophe resembles the shrugs of Wall Street firms who caused the near collapse of the global economy. BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles has expressed his optimism that both his company and the Gulf will “will fully recover,” even though Prince William Sound has yet to “fully recover” 21 years after the Exxon Valdez spill. Likewise, BP CEO Tony Hayward — who received a 40 percent pay raise last year to about $5.8 million — said he believes the “environmental impact of this disaster is likely to be very, very modest” because the Gulf of Mexico is a “very big ocean.” BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said his company is a “big and important company for the US” and expects that BP will be able to “move on,” although its “reputation will be tarnished.” Financial analyst Tom Nelson believes BP’s stock drop “is a fantastic opportunity to buy a very high quality long-term business on a very cheap rating.” Center for American Progress senior fellow Joseph Romm called BP “the Goldman Sachs of big oil” because of its spotty safety record, insistence on voluntary “trust me” self-regulation, and willingness to cut corners to “save a few bucks.” The moral hazard created by privatized profit and socialized risk has allowed bankers to cripple our economy and energy companies to destroy our planet. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Unpublished Letter to the Editor by Rivko Knox (cause no one else will send me the copies of the letters they write!!)
“Of course my grandparents were immigrants but….” I’ve heard so many people say that it’s not immigration per se they oppose but ‘illegal’ (I prefer undocumented) immigration. “My parents/grandparents were immigrants but they came in legally,” they say. Well, how many people who say this know that until the 1920’s there were few, if any laws limiting immigrants (with some sad exceptions dealing with people from the Far East)? When people wanted to come to the US, whether from England, Ireland, Germany and later more from Russia, the Ukraine, Poland, Turkey etc., their real problem was finding the money to pay the boat fare!!! Once they got that, and arrived in the US, the went through Ellis Island (mainly), were checked for diseases and sent into the US proper!! So, why were they ‘legal’ and so many of today’s immigrants are not? Because there were no laws to prevent them from coming!!! Get rid of today’s poorly enforced and almost unenforceable immigration laws, and …. illegal immigration goes away!!
And regarding those ‘recent intruders from Mexico, have we all forgotten that about 1/3rd of Arizona WAS Mexico until the Gadsden Purchase in 1853/54; and even the area north of that, had more Mexicans living there until the early years of the 1900’s than Anglos?
And may I remind folks that through much of the middle/late 1800’s and into the early years of the 1900’s the Irish, Italians, Polish, Hungarians, Russians, Catholics and Jews who came to the US were considered ‘inferior races’ who would never assimilate, never learn to speak English and learn American ways. Anyone see any 3rd generation Irish or Italians who look and act ‘unassimilated’ and don’t speak English well?? Give it time folks; the genius of the USA is that it does assimilate people, while at the same time the American culture incorporates so many interesting and unique aspects of all these other cultures to create a stronger and more vibrant USA.
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(The Nation, 5/10/10, page 35) In a book review dealing with evolution (of all things), this wonderful statement came up that is very applicable to today’s discussion about immigration, “….. (in the late 1900’s, people worried about a nation that was being “…mongrelized by ostensibly unassimilable immigrations (Catholics, Asians and Jews).Does fear of the ’stranger’ never end?? Are the majority of immigrants in those 3 groups, still different??
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Web Sites PLUS…. Please don’t forget to periodically check these web sites:www.district10dems.com, www.azdem.org, www.maricopademocrat.com and www.westdems.com.Please HELP ME Make This YOUR E-letter.Please send suggestions, comments etc. tobvaandrk@earthlink.net.
NOTE:Please note the opinions reflected in this e-letter are those of the editor &contributors ¬ of the D 10 Democratic organization per se. If you want to read ‘different’ stuff, send it to me please!
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SPEAKING OUT!!!! Please use it to let Pres. Obama & the AZ members of Congress know what you want done (& not done) * Pres. Obama: 1-202-456-1111 or www.whitehouse.gov/contact*John McCain- 602-952-2410 *Jon Kyl - 602-840-1891 *Ann Kirkpatrick, CD 1 - 928-445-3434 *Trent Franks, CD 2 - 623-776-7911 *John Shadegg, CD 3 - 602-263-5300 * Ed Pastor, CD 4 - 602-256-0551 *Harry Mitchell, CD 5 Ph - 480-946-2411*Jeff Flake CD 6 - 480-833-0092 * Raul Grijalva, CD 7 - 520-622-6788 *Gabrielle Giffords, CD 8, Ph: 520-459-3115.And in AZ: Gov. Jan Brewer, 602-542-4331; D 10’s Sen. Linda Gray, 602-926-3376; Rep. Jim Weiers, 602-926-4173; Rep. Douq Quelland, 602-926-3024.
* Sat., Feb. 13, 2010 – Annual Valentine’s Chocolate Extravaganza.Lots of chocolate of all kinds, auction AND Heart Awards to two outstanding Democrats who have worked for years to improve AZ – Gloria Furman and Doug Kilgore, AEA.More details to follow!!
