The
first item
in the Newsletter is the agenda for our next meeting.
The
third item
is a summary of our activities from February, March, and April 2007.
Meeting
Agenda --Tuesday, May 22, 2007, 7:00PM
---
Invocation 7:00PM Pastor Wes Darby
--- Pledge Wayne Williams, 1st Vice President
--- Guest/Member Introductions Gene
Reed
--- Treasurers
Report/Acceptance Gene Reed
(Dan Matta has resigned as Treasurer due to the press of working two jobs)
---
Membership Report Gene Reed (optional, as necessary)
--- Current Membership
--- Member Dues Report
--- Meeting Minutes/Acceptance Agnes Walsh, Secretary, records the minutes, which are published as part of the Quarterly Newsletter. Any corrections or additions will be welcome!
--- NEW BUSINESS:
--- Our May 22nd PMRA meeting will be primarily for the election of
new PMRA
officers for the 2007-2008 timeframe. The offices to be elected are President, 1st
and 2nd Vice-President, Treasurer/ Membership Secretary, Recording
Secretary and Sgt. at Arms. We have
been combining the offices of Treasurer and Membership Secretary. This should have been completed at our March
Meeting, but slipped through the cracks.
It was my error/ memory error!
Please let me know of your candidacy, so that a ballot may be prepared; you can also tell us at the May meeting. We DIFFINITELY NEED VOLUNTEER(S) TO RUN FOR TREASURER as Dan Matta is unable to continue in this capacity!
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MAY 1st --- Renewal date for our ARA annual
membership dues.
Complete Accompanying
Renewal Application Form:
Make Check payable to: PMRA
Deliver to our meeting,
or
1246 E. Luke Ave
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REMINDERS:
--- Remember
to surf to our new Phoenix Mountains Website, (www.PMRAonline.org).
Check it out often, as we will be updating it frequently with breaking news articles that you need to know about to protect our freedoms!
--- Saturday, JUNE 16th --- ARA State
Convention
See May, June, July 2007 Plans for details
--- Initiatives and Petitions for the two new proposed
Illegal Alien Propositions (Support Legal Arizona Workers [LAW] and Support Our
Law Enforcement [SOLE]) will be available to carry, or sign.
--- Bring your completed signature
petitions. A notary will be present!
--- GENERAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
--- Bring your conservative Republican
friends to the meeting, and/or a list of your suggested members that we may
invite to our next meetings. If they
fit and are interested, we’ll ask them to join us as PMRA members!
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MEETING PROGRAM:
--- PMRA Officer Election ---
7:15PM
--- Guest Speaker: Brian Turner, of the John Burch Society, speaking on:
--- Q&A --- 8:15PM
--- CALL FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS --- 8:45 PM
--- ADJOURNMENT ---
9:00PM
May –
--- Receive ALL PMRA renewals by May 31.
--- Collect and turn-in notarized Petition Signatures (on-going).
--- Calls to Congressmen and Senators to STOP illegal alien Amnesty, and the SPP/NAU.
June –
--- Saturday, JUNE 16th --- ARA State
Convention
Location: Sheraton Four Points Hotel @ The
Metro Center
Registration: 8
– 9AM @ The Mesquite Ballroom
Business Meeting: 9 – 11:45AM
Officer
Elections/Resolutions/Bylaws Changes
Buffet Luncheon: 11:45AM – 12:45PM
Speaker:
Presidential Candidate, Ron Paul (Rep. Texas)
Afternoon Session: 12:45 – 4PM
Speakers: State Republican Chairman, Randy Pullen;
Minuteman Civil Defense Corp
Founder,
Chris Simcox;
Gun Law Author, Alan Korwin;
and a Major Speaker, TBA
--- June 26th Our June PMRA meeting. Program TBA.
July/
August
–
--- July 24th Our July PMRA meeting.
Program TBA
Friday/
Saturday/ Sunday, AUGUST 3rd – 5th --- NFRA National
Convention
Location: St. Louis, Missouri
Speakers: ALL Republican Presidential Candidates (Straw Poll to
Follow)
(Ask for Brochure at May 22nd
PMRA Meeting!!!!)
January
13th--- As mentioned in our last Newsletter, Sen. John McCain was badly beaten
in the MCRC Presidential Straw Poll. An
interesting analysis of the vote, when combining the 1st
Choice/Acceptable votes, shows that McCain came in 10th of 12 names
listed. The leaders were as follows:
Romney –
321;
Gingrich – 318;
Rice -- 296;
Hunter -- 263;
Tancredo – 243; …..
McCain -- 139
January
23rd--- State Rep. Russell Pearce was once more our speaker at our PMRA
meeting. There were 30 members and
guests in attendance.
Russell
noted that at the January 13th Maricopa County Republican Committee
Statutory Meeting, his resolution calling for state laws, to severely punish
Employers that knowingly hire illegal aliens, and to end illegal alien
sanctuary by counties and municipalities, passed unanimously!! Current immigration law already prohibits cities from offering
sanctuary and 1996 federal immigration law authorizes state and local officials
to cooperate with federal immigration officials on processing illegals. Also, knowingly hiring illegal aliens has
been against federal law since the 1986 Amnesty Bill was passed. – Sadly,
neither law has been enforced locally.
Hence, the need for state law.
Russell
stated that, drawn by jobs, welfare (mainly free health care and education),
and the likelihood of Amnesty citizenship, 4-10 million illegals cross into
Arizona per year at present.
Nationally, $300-$350 billion in taxes are lost each year due to the
underground illegal workforce. Due
to the massive illegal invasion, Arizona is now 1st in
crime, 2nd in drug trafficking, and 5th in murder,
nationally.
He
further commented that, a Hispanic think-tank estimates that 600,000 illegals
are living in Arizona (i.e., approximately 10% of the population)! As a result, carjacking, auto-thief, home
invasion and other crimes are rampant.
Nationally,
in recent years 9,000 people have been killed by illegals, annually
(that’s far more than Americans killed, so far in Iraq and during 9/11
combined)!
Russell
has two bills in the legislature to address the two problems sited in his
resolution at the Maricopa County Republican meeting. He is also leading two ballot initiatives to shadow these issues
(but tougher) since Gov. Napolitano vetoed 13 illegal alien bills last year,
and is likely to repeat that performance this session.
Russell
stated that Congress has the right under the 14th Amendment to stop
awarding citizenship to babies born of illegals in the USA (so-called “anchor”,
or “jackpot” babies).
The
14th Amendment was intended to apply for blacks after slavery was
abolished by the Civil War and the 13th Amendment. The 14th Amendment applies to
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject
to the jurisdiction thereof…”.
While the blacks of 1868 were subject to the jurisdiction of the United
States, those here illegally from another country and their offspring are
not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, but rather to the
country from which they came!
Moving
on to the education issue, Russell stated that when the local newspaper headlines trumpet with
alarm that Arizona is 49th in state funding per student, they are
using data that does not compare “apples to apples”. Since “Students First” passed in 2000, Arizona state funding does
not include school construction costs, as does other states. In Arizona, construction costs now come out
of local property taxes, only.
If
local school construction costs were included in school spending, Arizona would
be about 26th in school spending per student. Arizona is first in school construction
costs in the U.S.
According
to Russell, Gov. Napolitano is playing her usual games with the budget and
spending. She wants $500 million for
road construction right now. Her
plan to get the $500 million is to “refinance” current bonds, which will add
huge interest and principle costs that future people in Arizona would have to
pay (i.e., “robbing Peter to pay Paul”).
She appears to be planning to use the “refinancing path” to pay for her
socialist programs, as well.
While
the freeway construction plan may pass, Russell said that Napolitano’s Mandatory
All-Day Kindergarten program won’t.
He reminded us, that since 2/3 of the state budget is now mandated by federal law, or by ballot proposition of such socialist laws as “Students First”, “All-Day K”, etc., the budget is NOT under legislative control to the degree it should be.
After
Q&A, PMRA members pointed-out that RINO State Senator, Carolyn Allen and
Democrat Congressman, Ed Pastor were co-Master of Ceremonies at the Arizona
Human Rights Fund (AHRF) annual awards dinner at the Biltmore. AHRF is the state homosexual lobby that
promotes all those pro-“homosexual rights” bills in the state legislature, such
as the repeal of the sodomy law. AHRF
was also successful in fighting-off the one-man, one-woman Marriage Amendment
at the 2006 election. Arizona was the
only state in which a Marriage Amendment lost. – The Republican Party needs to
dump elected officials like Carolyn, if it is to stand for any of its
principles!
Pat
Buchanan’s book, “State of Emergency” was recommended for reading by the
membership.
Russell
pointed out that in 2004 Proposition 200 passed despite the opposition of our
entire congressional delegation, the Governor and the State Attorney General.
We
need to return to our core values if Republicans are to regain lost seats in
Congress and the State Legislature! In
particular, LISTENING AND REPRESENTING the people, NOT
international finance and corporations!!!
Finally,
Gene Reed emphasized the need to send letters, makes calls, etc. to Congress to
stop the SPP/NAU North American Union, and to Stop all Illegal Alien Amnesty
bills. There is a bill in Congress (HCR
40, that needs support) calling for a Congressional Investigation to stop all unauthorized
funding activity (on the SPP/NAU) that is currently ongoing in the Commerce
Department at the direction of President Bush, and without Congressional
consultation, or approval!
This
activity was authorized only by Bush following a tri-lateral Canada,
Mexico, and U.S. initialing of the SPP agreement at Waco, Texas in 2005.
SPP/NAU
is a program of the internationalist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). The program began as an American Union
proposal by Dr. Robert A. Pastor following the passage of NAFTA. Pastor has worked on the program under the
CFR ever since. Pastor began his career
as a member of the communist leaning Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and
co-authored the 1989 book, “Limits to Friendship:
The United States and Mexico” with Jorge G. Castañeda, a former member of
the Mexican Communist Party and Vincente Fox’s Foreign Minister working to
support illegal immigration into the U.S.
This on-going SPP/NAU activity is being conducted in 20 Commerce Department issue groups working jointly with sister groups in Canada and Mexico toward joint security and economic issues. -- These were the same tactics used to create the European Union, where once independent nations have already largely yielded their sovereignty (and ability to make their own law) to the EU. In Europe, a EU Constitution overriding all member national constitutions will be passed during the next two-years (it nearly passed last year, losing only in two states that put it to a national referendum; pro-EU officials won’t make the referendum allowance mistake next time).
In short, if the current SPP/NAU activity is allowed to continue, our remaining constitutional rights are toast!! – Oh, you remember! That “g-d” piece of paper referred to by George W. Bush in a cabinet meeting!!
February 27th--- State Senator, Karen Johnson was our guest speaker to an audience of 31 members and guests.
Karen attended an emergency Phyllis Schlafly Eagle Forum Conference at Washington, DC in January regarding the dangerous behind the scenes Canada, Mexico, and U.S. SPP/NAU implementation now in progress.
At the conference, it was pointed out that if the NAU is implemented, we will lose our sovereignty and our constitution. We will be like an American Soviet Union, or European Union of countries under a common Parliament and with a new “Constitution”. The NAU is to be implemented as a five-year plan to build a common perimeter around Canada, the U.S. and Mexico with open internal borders (the reason Bush wants to maintain open borders with Mexico). Implementation is planned to bypass congressional oversight by using Executive Department Regulations and Executive Orders. Attendees at the conference were given presentation slides showing the various NAU phases and implementation and training for presenting the case to stop the SPP/NAU process before it is too late. Karen circulated copies of the slides.
While attending the weeklong conference, Karen visited
with Representatives Renzi, Shadegg, Franks and Flake who each claimed that
they never heard of the NAU. [If
you believe this, I know of a ranch on the Mexican border I’d like to sell
you!! Strange, how we have to
inform our Representatives about what’s going on in Washington, isn’t it! –Ed.]
Karen spoke with each and left each of them with a copy of the conference notebook containing all of the information presented there. The information included the plans (announced in our major newspapers) for a 1200-foot wide superhighway including freight rail to be built from a new ocean port at Cardenas-Lazaro, Mexico through Texas to Canada with a port of entry at Kansas City without need for customs check. This, of course, will provide for cheap labor Mexican dockworkers and truckers to supplant Americans, while maintaining easy access for terrorists.
Our Republican Congressmen assured her that they
would review the information and get back with her. She has never heard from one of them on this subject. [At subsequent meetings with Precinct
Committeemen around Arizona, our congressmen still deny knowledge of, or that
there even is such a thing as the NAU being talked about! With Republicans like these, who needs
Democrats? – Ed.]
On other subjects, Karen and Sen. Ron Gould introduced a bill for Arizona to opt out of implementing the federal REAL ID design for Arizona Drivers License. Such a bill has been introduced in more than 40 states so far. The federal Real ID Bill provides for the Department of Homeland security to design a common driver license format that would be required by all states that do not opt out. The Bill gives DHS a “blank check” to design-in whatever features it wants. This can include an RFID chip; a magnetic strip that can contain private information about you including biometrics such as a retinal scan; possibly a GPS chip; and so forth.
Even if the Real ID license design starts out with only simple things, it could be used for more intrusive information and tracking in a very near future Orwellian “Brave New World” (i.e., a police state).
An RFID chip allows remote radio reception of your personal information. A GPS chip allows you to be tracked with precision wherever you go. – Along with memory containing your personal information (perhaps medical, financial and organizational information) this would be the perfect tool for “1984” fascist police state monitoring and control of every law-abiding American. Even identity thieves could make use of these tools to get your critical identity information by radio (the RFID chip sends it out).
Currently, the Driver’s License is a State power, NOT a federal power. If Arizona does not opt out of the Real ID Act, it cedes this State Right to the federal government!! On more nail in the coffin of the Constitution!
March 27th--- Our guest speakers were Tom Jenny of the Arizona Federation of Taxpayers and State Senator, Ron Gould of Lake Havasu City presenting to 25 members and guests.
The AFT is one of the leading advocates of state property and income tax reductions at the state legislature. Tom Jenny passed out the latest AFT legislative report card on spending and tax bills. Ron Gould was rated #1 friend of the taxpayer for the last to years.
Since Napolitano has been governor, we have had a 12% annual increase in the state budget.
Tom points out that the state goes into debt by working around the state constitution’s prohibition against debt. – He considers these dodges as thumbing their noses at the constitution.
Ron is the Senate Transportation Committee Chairman. He would like to see citizens testify at committee hearings. Now, only lobbyists testify, including public agency lobbyists.
Ron Gould said that there would be an attempt at getting a “California Proposition 13-like” ballot proposition on the 2008 ballot. He was working with Lynn Weaver and Jeff Greenspan and others to get an initiative ready. A competing property tax control initiative is being launched by a Mr. Goldman (?) from the Kingman area. There could be problems here!
[Since our meeting, it now appears less likely that such a proposition will make the ballot, due to a very slow start and dissention among the ranks of the proponents – Ed.]
April 24th--- Our guest speakers were Steve Lory, candidate for Phoenix Mayor and Jack Watson, candidate for City Council, District #3 speaking before 25 members and guests.
Steve is a Conservative Republican running against Democrat Mayor Phil Gordon. He believes Phoenix is spending money way too inefficiently. He would add police on the street and work to improve government efficiency.
Jack will be running for an open seat in District #3 with about three other opponents. Jack appears to be very conservative, also. He too would work to get up to 500 more policemen on the street.
Stacey O’Connell, a candidate for City District #1 and a member of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corp could not be at our meeting, as he had committed to another event.