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Editorial Comments on the recent JD Hayworth and Buz Mills events:

1. JD’s speech before he took questions was pretty good. He is very polished, very personable.
2. During his speech he quoted W. Cleon Skousen which is good. That means he’s read W. Cleon Skousen and hopefully is aware of an establishment government.
3. He’s aware of Saul Alinksy’s “Rules for Radicals” and their influence on Chicago-style politics and how they’ve been moved into the white house.
4. “The Congressional Responsibility Act” that JD penned, bears some review. I think it basically says that laws cannot be passed without an ample period of time for congress to actually read them. JD said that the health care bill was passed into law before parts were even written. (I’m sorry, but when something like a Trillion dollar bill is on the line it is impeachable to vote on it blindly).
5. Cause for concern: JD says he helped write the tax cuts in 2001 and 2003. The problem here is that he thinks there actually were tax cuts made in the federal budget in 2001 and 2003. Not sure if he’s fully aware that the federal budget has grown steadily without ever once receding in the last 50 years or if the “tax cuts” are just smoke and mirrors by administrations (all of them) that claim to have made them.
6. Referenced “repealitnow.org” referring to the health care bill. JD never said he would support a repeal of the health care bill. He did bring up Tort Reform and health care savings accounts, both are good ideas and would serve to keep health care costs down/allow more people access to health care. (Remember, the current “health care plan” as passed by Washington is NOT designed to bring health care to the masses. IT IS, however, designed to crash the entire system and bring about a government run “single payer” system. This tactic, to overwhelm a govt function in order to bring about radical change is an Alinsky tactic. Working something to failure will be used in several areas. Ie: crashing the dollar to introduce the Amero, )
7. JD worries me when he celebrated the passing of the watered down version of the “audit the fed” bill. (This was a bill that was introduced by Ron Paul to hold the Fed up to scrutiny. However Socialist Bernie Sanders wrote and addendum into it that effectively neutered it. The bill will ONLY audit since the beginning of TARP, will ONLY audit one time, and here’s the best part…The audit will be done by the Federal Reserve. There’s nothing to celebrate here JD, except the screwing of the American people. To the uninformed, it looks good. To a future conservative congressman, you should be enraged.)
8. JD was asked about our currency and the gold standard and had a pat answer. The problem was he expressed reluctance to advocate GOING BACK to the gold standard. JD admitted we are operating on a dangerous fiat currency, but seemed not to be to interested in moving the dollar back to something that was backed with a tangible asset as opposed to the “word” of the government. (It doesn’t do any good to be informed of a problem if you’re unwilling to advocate for and create change).
9. JD has a good answer about terror and law enforcement. I was glad to hear his response. Basically, terror is an act of war, it should be dealt with on the battlefield, by soldiers. Terror should not be a case where our troops are mirandizing terror suspects in the field and turned over to law enforcement. Constitutional freedoms are for citizens of the US, not foreign nationals that attack the US. US citizens have Constitutional rights, such as Miranda warnings for dealing with legal offenses. These don’t belong to foreign nationals in a time of war on a battlefield. (JD was a little more explicit, but I was surprised and refreshed by his answer).
10. As above, when asked a question about health reform, JD mentioned saving accounts, tort reform. JD was against the inevitable “rationing” that will occur when fedgov gets it’s teeth into health care. JD alluded to the “competition” in the health care industry once. He said we need more of it. (most reading this are aware that there hasn’t been “competition” in health care since the govt started heavily regulating the insurance companies ((medicare, medicaid)). The fedgov plays games with reimbursement to influence what procedures can be done, how much they will pay, etc. The big illusion is that the health care companies now are greedy, profit driven entities that operate in the free market. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The truth is most companies have their rates and coverage policies dictated by gov schemes now. There hasn’t been competition in health care in a long time. What NEEDS to happen is to deregulate the health care industry, ALLOW free market influence and consumer choice. THIS competition will allow the best medical care that can be afforded to set the high bar and all others will break their neck trying to compete for the best service for the best price. In other words, to fix health care, we need to introduce Capitalism. 40 plus years of over regulation by inept federal bureaucrats have proven that MORE regulation will only bring ruin).

In summation: JD’s the only game in town with a chance of beating McCain. McCain is two-faced. He says one thing to get elected and does entirely another once in office. I know he’s a war hero and I’m proud that he served my country. That doesn’t give him a free pass for what he is doing now. McCain needs to go. JD’s not perfect and could stand to be better informed on some issues. But he still has my vote in the primary.

Yuma County Republican Committee meeting on May 25^th, 2010 with Buz Mills

• Buz was dressed appropriately and carried himself very well. He was articulate and well spoken.
• Buz introduced himself and briefly gave his career history. He was a Marine [good] He was in the communications business [cell phones or cell towers, from other research.]
• Buz stated he was in the NRA and was an NRA board of Director. [At least his hearts in the right place. Buz owns Gunsite ranch, a firearms training facility in Paulden, Az. I'm concerned that the NRA is entrenched in salvaging our “right to hunt and self-defense” and not about our right to secure America from tyranny. Just my opinion, but I only look at the NRA as a tool-in-the-toolbox, not as the solution for securing constitutional rights. I don't trust the NRA for myriad reasons; the Brady bill compromise, “Cop-killer bullet” compromise, supporting one-gun-a-month and waiting lists, supporting NFA-1934 and GCA-1968, etc. I think AzCDL and GOA are better at securing Constitutional rights.]
• Among Buz’s comments: “the budget is in tremendous trouble….must make across the board cuts….I bring something new to the table…(the state) is taking in 6 billion and spending 9.5 billion dollars per year…Even WITH Prop 100, we will still be 1 billion dollars in the hole….can guarantee that the 3 year sales tax will be continued indefinitely….[all accurate]
• Buz had good ideas to get private enterprise attracted to AZ by lowering the taxes they have to pay and the regulations they have to meet to do business here, ie: paying yearly taxes on milling machines for a small business, the tax on “personal property business equipment”. Buz also advocates reducing the business income tax. [These are all good and it is a move in the opposite direction of the Napolitano regime, that had the effect of stifling and penalizing entrepreneurs].
• Another example was having private companies contract to operate the state parks and rest areas. [This would be a far better alternative to CLOSING them down due to lack of taxpayer $$$ to continually operate them in a negative balance.]
• Another example was to encourage privatization and competition in the public schools ie: promote charter schools, allow school choice, promote school vouchers, etc. According to Mills: there are 65,000 school employees that DON’T TEACH kids, there are 55,000 teachers. [I asked Mary Mechione about this and she said that He was tasking into account all the school employees such as janitors, food service workers, etc, as well as “administrators” in his figure of 65,000. This is probably true/accurate. (The US spends more money than comparable nations on public education and has less to show for it. Lower scores, more expensive (and faulty) textbooks.) I think allowing competition into the school system will change a lot of things, despite what the unions say]
• Buz stated he was NOT a “clean elections fund” candidate. [This is good, he is willing to put his own money where his mouth is and not dip into the murky pool of “clean elections funds”. For a candidate that DOES use clean election funds, this is not a complete deal killer for me, but I would like to see “clean elections fund” go away.]
• Buz stated that 1/3 of state spending goes towards “referendum” mandated changes to the Az Constitution. There is no real way to get out of paying them. [I would like to see referendums go away, too democratic. If they were required to show the actual $$$ amount in cost to the taxpayer, this would allow the voter to better judge the impact of the mostly “feel good” legislation that comes thorough the referendum process].
• Finally, Buz quoted the US Constitution with regard to “anchor babies” and how the 14^th amendment is (deliberately) mis-applied to them. Buz knew the original intent of this part of the 14^th amendment applied to former slaves. Buz also advocated locking down and securing the border from invasion.
• After his speech, I asked him about the article in the Arizona Republic where Tucson atty John Munger, an Arizona Gubernatorial candidate himself, brought up the fact that Buz was sued by a former business partner. Buz stated that there was a difference of opinion about the value of a stock and that the suit was settled. Buz also stated that the judge had “vacated the decision” Buz thanked me for allowing him to address my concern and said that I should have brought the question up during his speech.

-Richard C. Nix

Editorial comments reflect individual view points and may not reflect those of the Colorado River Tea Party.

From the Tucson Citizen

by Jim Kelley on May.01, 2010, under Life, Politics, crime

State Senator Sylvia Allen responds to SB1070

I’m Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen. I want to explain SB 1070 for which I voted yes. Rancher Robert Krentz was murdered by the drug cartel on his ranch a month ago. I participated in a senate hearing two weeks ago on the border violence, here is just some of the highlights from those who testified.

The people who live within 60 to 80 miles of the Arizona/Mexico Border have for years been terrorized and have pleaded for help to stop the daily invasion of humans who cross their property . One Rancher testified that 300 to 1200 people a DAY come across his ranch vandalizing his property, stealing his vehicles and property, cutting down his fences, and leaving trash. In the last two years he has found 17 dead bodies and two Koran bibles. Another rancher testified that daily drugs are brought across his ranch in a military operation. A point man with a machine gun goes in front, 1/2 mile behind are the guards fully armed, 1/2 mile behind them are the drugs, behind the drugs 1/2 mile are more guards. These people are violent and they will kill anyone who gets in the way. This was not the only rancher we heard that day that talked about the drug trains. One man told of two illegal’s who came upon his property one shot in the back and the other in the arm by the drug runners who had forced them to carry the drugs and then shot them. Daily they listen to gun fire during the night it is not safe to leave his family alone on the ranch and they can’t leave the ranch for fear of nothing being left when they come back.

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