Mesa's Senator Jerry Lewis Ranks as a Big Government Spender

The Pachyderm Coalitions is out with their Ranking of the Republican Legislators and guess what the Senator who was suppose to be just as conservative at Senator Russell Pearce, isn't so conservative.

Senator Jerry Lewis ranked as a Big Government Republican. fourth from the bottom in his scoring. The only Republican Senator in Mesa to score less was Lewis co-defendent Rich Crandall who scored at the bottom of the least as a bipartisan Republican.

Mesa's goes from having one of the most conservative Republicans to one of the most liberal Republicans.

I guess the "hand" has spoken and the only good thing about this is that we know Lewis true colors, oops the majority of Republicans already know this.

Senator Rich Crandall & Senator Jerry Lewis In Hip Pocket Of Unions

Union Dues

In a move of solidarity with Arizona Unions and as a thank you to Randy Parraz for the ouster of Senator Russell Pearce, Senator Rich Crandall and Senator Jerry Lewis drop their Republican values and side with unions in an attempting to block SB1484. Senator Crandall and Senator Lewis don't represent the people of Mesa but represent the values of Unions and Randy Parraz.

Senate Bill 1484 would required that each year an employee, who a member of a union, would have to elect to have their union dues automatically deducted from their pay check. There is a cost to government and other organization that do this, that cost should be born by the unions not the tax payers.

Unions we know from past experience are thugs and will do anything to bring down an individual or organization that opposes them. They have the power to do so because of money. Money that many times they get by coercing individuals to join them who do not want to. Arizona is a Right To Work State.

Look at Randy Parraz a union loyalist and former head of a labor organization and what he was able to do with union money in the recall election against Senator Pearce. They went after any and everybody that supported Senator Pearce, threatened legal action against some and actually took others to court purely to embarrass  them.

This bill is all about the money for unions and those who support unions and make their living off unions, nothing more nothing less.

 

Mesa Keeping Revenue Generating Traffic Cameras!

The City of Mesa will be keeping Traffic Cameras for another two years. In a vote the Mesa City Council took this week, they voted to keep them. With a change of heart, Alex Finter who has been a critic in the past of these cameras is now calling for them to stay.  He is even going so far as to say Mesa has a chance to make this a model program for the state and country to follow.

The program was implemented in 2006 after a Rhode Junior High student was killed in 2005 on Baseline Road. Police Commander Bill Peters say that the cameras have reduced traffic accidents at one intersection from 694 in 2005 to 370 in 2010. The police officer can't say for sure that the cameras have been the only reason for the decrease in accidents.

Are traffic cameras worth giving up your constitutional right and for what a little safety? The Police and the Mesa City Council want you to think so. Rights once given up are hard to take back.

Courts have started getting wise and so too is the public when it comes to Red Light Cameras, Speed Cameras and the other so called traffic safety cameras and rights. In most cases they are a big money scam for city's and most of the money doesn't go to city, to goes to the vendor.

Mesa Public Schools Wants You & Me To Digger A Little Deeper Into Our Pockets.

Mesa Public Schools is ready to ask the already struggling residents of Mesa to dig a little deeper into their pockets to the tune of $250 million dollars. I don't know about you, but I certainly don't have much more room to dig. I'm afraid the next swing of the pick and I will go right through my pockets.

Of the last bond package which the school did in 2005 which was 212 million dollars, they are going to use the last remaining 1.9 million dollars to demolish the old Mesa Junior High. Something about using bond money for demolition of a school strikes me as kind of funny, it just doesn't feel right to use tax payer money to destroy rather than to build.

MPS says they need the money to make repairs to buildings and to upgrade the technology at the schools. I have a problem with that on a couple of fronts. First the bond repayment period will extend beyond the useful life of the technology and upgrades they will be buying. That is just bad money management, rule #1 of good money management is that the item you finance should give a return beyond the finance period and not by just one year. Technology is basically technology is obsolete after a couple of years not 20 or 30 years.

Next why is Mesa Schools using bond money for maintenance? I would think that a well planned out budget for Mesa Public Schools would included a line item for long term maintenance. Did someone forget to add a line item for that? If they did the budget director should be fired.

For years Mesa Public Schools has played loose with tax payer money and now it is time to Mesa residents to say NO to this next round of bonds. Let the economy recover and let me and you find a job before you stick it to us again.

Senator Russell Pearce Isn't Dead! He Is Alive!

After Senator Russell Pearce defeat in the recall election with Jerry H. Lewis, people thought that Russell would just quietly go away into retirement. There has been lots of speculation as to what Russell Pearce is going to do. The rumors started flying this week when Ken Bennett screwed up and make a comment about how Russell had filed papers for the LD25 district. Russell said that lots of people have asked him to run but he hasn't made that determination as of yet. That is a race I would like to see Senator Rich Crandall, a friend of Randy Parraz's and La Raza against Arizona own Senator Pearce.

As I understand it, he is enjoying the free time and is now enjoying a radio show on KFNX 1100 called "Ban Amnesty Now" it show airs on Monday nights from 7pm to 8pm. He discusses the issues surrounding illegal immigration and the cost to the people of Arizona an the United States.

So until Russell decide to run again we will have to listen in on the Radio.

Holiday For White People Proposed By Rep. Cecil Ash

Did Representative Cecil Ash of Mesa Arizona really propose a holiday for white people? Apparently so. Well why not we have a holiday for everybody else. If Randy Parraz, Chad Snow and Senator Jerry Lewis get their way we may just need one.