Senator Jerry Lewis In His Own Words!

What he doesn't want the world to know about his time at Sequoa Charter Schools.

Is Mesa Being a Bully in The Fiesta Mall District?

We tell our children the being a Bully is a bad thing and that it should be reported. Schools are expelling kids they call Bullies and police are being called in other instances, as was the case with West Mesa's Senator Jerry Lewis's kids growing up.

Yet it appears that it is OK for government and it's different agencies to be Bullies. Case in point, the City of Mesa for years has been Bulling WM Grace Development Co. to do something with the property they own at Southern and Alma School in Mesa Arizona which at one time was the Fiesta Village Shopping Center.

As the area went into economic decline and with the over building of retail space in the area so did the property. The area can no longer support the amount of retail space that is available, yet the city of Mesa and Dennis Kavanaugh seem to think that it can.

In the City of Mesa's and Dennnis Kavanaugh's attempt to Bully the property owner, they are have filed additional complaints and now are using Adam Rolnick the owner of Oasis Insurance to once again attempt to Bully the property owner into submission. (Oasis Insurance make a lot of money off of insuring illegal immigrants car's and providing other services to illegal immigrants.)

What Dennis Kavanaugh and the City of Mesa fail to realize is that it is not governments role to dictate to the property owner what they can and can't do with their property no matter how much they disagree with how the property is being used. The City of Mesa has no constitutional authority to force a property owner to spend millions of dollars in revitalizing a property. The government does a good job of providing unfunded mandates.

The City of Mesa's role should be to provide a sound bases where economic development can prosper. If the City of Mesa is going to provide incentives to one developer, they should provide them to all property developers. The City of Mesa and Dennis Kavanaugh forget that it was the incentives to Marti Dorito, Kimco and River View which hastened the demise of the Fiesta Mall area. As the opponents to the incentives pointed out during that debate, the retailers in the Fiesta Mall area would move to River View and what did they do? They moved.

So if the City of Mesa and Mr. Kavanaugh want something done with the area give the Grace Company a reason to redevelop the area. Don't Bully them. With all the Bulling that they have done to date, has just cause Grace Company to dig in their heels.

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.

 

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.

The Mesa Compact - Is it Coming

Is there a Mesa Compact on the horizon in Mesa's the near future? Maybe so given the Mesa's Council meeting last night. I appears that there are four votes needed to pass such a measure on the council, they are: Dave Richins, Alex Finter, Dina Higgins and Dennis Kavanaugh.

Last night at the Mesa City Council meeting Randy Parraz fresh off his victory over Russell Pearce presented in-conjunction with East Valley Patriots for American Values (play on words) presented a new proposed revised Mesa Compact. The faith based group as they claim want to change the tone of discussion on the issue of immigration.

They want to make it more friendly and less harsh of a discussion. This sounds vaguely familiar to Randy Parraz and his cohort Jerry Lewis in the recall election. As we remember it was this very same discussion that ripped through Mesa during the heated debate between the Jerry Lewis (1964 Alabama) supporters and  Russell Pearce (American Patriot) supporters. One group wanting the enforcement of laws and the other the turning of cheek, like Christ did.

It was also during this debate that Randy Parraz and his supporters went out of their way to to defame anybody who supported Russell Pearce or who even wanted to run in the election. It was Randy Parraz, Michael Wright and Tom Rayn basically who sought to take away people first amendment right of free speech by filing bogus lawsuits.

So as this debate goes forward and people come forward in support of or opposition to a Mesa Compact if Randy Parraz will bully any council member who doesn't support the compact.

If you want to express your opinions to the council members you can do so at these emails:

Mayor Scott Smith
mayor.smith@Mesaaz.gov

Dave Richens**
District1@mesaaz.gov

Alex Finter**
councilmember.finter@Mesaaz.gov

Dennis Kavanaugh**
District3@mesaaz.gov

Christopher Glover
councilmember.glover@Mesaaz.gov

Dina Higgins**
councilmember.higgins@Mesaaz.gov

Vice Mayor - Scott Somers
councilmember.somers@Mesaaz.gov

Who Supported Jerry Lewis In Recall

The Jerry Lewis has posted his post elections campaign reports and it is interesting to see who supported him with campaign donations. Here is a link a the Arizona SOS office for the Lewis campaign reports.

Follow the Money they say!


Noted people in Mesa and Phoenix.

• Stephen West, Attorney, Udall Shumway & Lyons
• Stephanie Wright, Realtor, Board directors West Mesa CDC
• Tom Cattey, drop out candidate for LD 18
• Tom Irvine, Attorney, election laws
• Don Stapley, Maricopa County Board of Supervisor, sitting supervisor
• Tom Wright
• Andy Stewart, Mormon Bishop
• Terry Benelli, Executive Dir. of Mesa Neighborhood Economic Development Corporation.
• John Linton & Mila Linton, former Mormon stake councilor, and owner of Milnos Piano
• Frank Bennett, Bennett Realty and Property Management
• Chad Coons, Farnsworth family and businesses
• Clint Smith, Mormon Stake President

Businesses

• Larry John Wright advertising - 231 N. Alma School
• Wright House - reception hall - University
• Sign King of Arizona - 325 S. Westwood
• Americopy - 856 E. Main Street
• David Johnson - Chief of Staff, Maricopa County Communications
• Steven Peterson - Mesa Public School Board Member
• Anson Clarkson - Staff Congressman Jeff Flakes office

Remind you, this is just post election. To look at Pre Election click here.

Jerry Lewis Undoing Immigration Reforms In Mesa

The winner of the recall race sponsored by Randy Parraz and the Progressive Democrats of Arizona, Jerry Lewis is intent on reversing the role of Arizona and Russell Pearce, and the role they have played in bringing the immigration debate to the forefront of the American people. Russell Pearce has done more to jump start meaningful conversation  on reforms and enforcement of immigration than any other individual.

In a story printed in the Arizona Republic, Jerry Lewis has indicated that he is intent on reversing the dismal image that Arizona has on a national level because of the passage of SB1070. In a debate between Senator Pearce and Jerry Lewis, Lewis called Arizona something akin to 1964 Alabama. When he said that, he got an unwelcome response from those in attendance and Pearce supporters picked up on that and carried it through the rest of the recall election.

On a side note: I think that was a stupid mistake on Lewis's part to make a comment like that. I think it is something that is going to follow him from this point on, just like his lies about using the LDS church leadership because of their positions.

One way that Lewis intends to do this is by embracing the Utah Compact and it's values. Lewis has also said, "We definitely need to allow those people (illegals) that are here, whose only crime is to be in our country without documentation, a pathway to square themselves with the law,"

The problem is the Utah Compact isn't endorsed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, both of which Lewis and Pearce are members. The use of the church was a point of contention in the LDS community during the election. Both sided argued that the church had or had not take a position on immigration because no official statement was made by the First Presidency, President or Profit of the church, who is the only individual who speaks for the church as a whole. While the LDS church favors a compassionate approach to immigration, it has not taken a position one way or another on enforcement of immigration.

In fact it appears that Utah Compact was written by very liberal, open border organizations and individuals.Former Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson published a article titled Who Wrote the Utah Compact. In it she does a very good job of outlining how the Utah Compact came to be.

In any case it is going to be interesting to see if Jerry Lewis and listening approach to all sides is going to be able to reverse the dismal 1964 Alabama image that he says Arizona has. Time is going to tell. Take our poll on the side and tell us do you believe Arizona has the image Jerry Lewis says it does.

Is The Republican GOP Ready For Jerry Lewis

The paper says that Jerry Lewis aims for peace with GOP colleagues. The question is, is that really going to happen?

The question we should be asking is how willing are they going to be to work with an individual who was seen as a sham candidate for Progressive Democrats, unions and open border crowd who ran in what most of them believe to be inappropriate use of the recall process.

Now there will be those such as Rich Crandall who missed 254 votes out of 384 votes in 2009 while serving in the legislature, who faced a possible recall election that didn't go anywhere. Then in 2010 was well on his way out of office until he had a private conversation with James Molina, who then dropped out of the race.

According to Anson Clarkson, Lewis campaign manager, Lewis would like to sitting on committees associated with budget and education. That may be questionable given the problems that Lewis had with Sequoia Schools and the accounting problems that went on their.

What ever the case may be it looks like Lewis time will be limited in the Senate to just one short year given that where he currently lives will be in a new legislative district with Tempe.

So for his one year in office I wish him the best of luck, he will need it.

During the recall election here in Mesa, there was a lot of going back and fourth between the members of the LDS community, in so much that it was said you could feel the tension in the air during their meetings. One of the things that we heard a lot about was the involvement of the LDS church in this election. That intervention wasn't necessarily from Salt Lake City but from here on a local level.

It was rumored that Jerry Lewis and his close supporters had gone and talked with stake presidents and bishops about supporting Lewis. This was done in order to influence the members of their wards. Well the truth now comes out that, that is exactly what they did even though at the time Jerry Lewis completely denied it. What kind of Mormons are these people, that if one day they will lie about it and the next day they will admit to it? 


Now that it has been admitted to by Jerry Lewis and Tyler Montague what other lies have they told people? I guess we will just have to wait and see.