We Must Elect Democrats!
About 47,000 kids have been cut from Kid's Care and about 310,000 adults have been cut from AHCCCS
When Will You Get Mad Enough to Fight?
AZ's Republican legislature will do anything to destroy Clean Elections and our Public School System
Aug 10
31
Meet Candidates for General Election
DFA-MC Monthly Link-Up Wed, Sept 1 at 6:30PM
Old Spaghetti Factory – on Central South of McDowell
Meet candidates Sherry B. Williams, candidate for Clerk of the County Superior Court; John Thrasher, running against Trent Franks for Congress in CD2; Rita Dickinson, running for AZ Senate in LD 11; and others who may drop in.
This is one of the last two meetings before the November 2nd election.
Let’s discuss how we can best help get Democrats elected and take back the State of Arizona. Who is your favorite candidate? What can you do to help that candidate? See you on Wednesday, September 1st! We will also discuss some of the propositions on the ballot.
TiVo the debates and watch them at your leisure!
Aug 10
26
September 1st Meeting
Come learn about our Democratic candidates for the general election. If there is any hope for Arizona we must elect our democratic slate! Please come and discuss where you can best help. Learn about the propositions on the ballot especially Prop 106 which endangers our health. Learn how.
OLD SPAGHETTI FACTORY
Central Avenue South of McDowell
6:30 pm
Aug 10
12
DFA August 4th Meeting
August 4, 2010
Wednesday 6:30pm
Old Spaghetti Factory
1418 N Central Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85003
Speakers: Vince Rabago, candidate for Attorney General; Renz Jennings, candidate for Corporation Commission; Rita Dickinson, LD 11 Senate;Karina Guerrero, LD 4 House.
We meet together the first Wednesday of each month. Bring a friend and enjoy an evening of politics, activist information, planning and friendly conversation .
Even with the Supreme Courts hold on matching funds for Clean Elections many candidates still need their fives. If all the candidates running for an office are running Clean no one has an advantage. This would hold true if the Governor’s race is between Jan Brewer and Terry Goddard or in the race for Corporation Commission. Check with your favorite candidate and see if they need your help with their fives – in the Attorney General race, Secretary of State Race or you State Legislature races.
Apr 10
19
May 5th Meeting
May 5, 2010
Wednesday 6:30pm
1418 N Central Ave.
Phoenix, AZ 85003
Speakers:
Kyrsten Sinema, running for the Arizona Senate,
Katie Hobbs and Lela Alston running for the Arizona House. All three are running in LD 15.
We meet together the first Wednesday of each month. Bring a friend and enjoy an evening of politics, activist information, planning and friendly conversation.
Apr 10
4
We Must Elect Democrats!
As we celebrate the passage of the Health Insurance Reform Bill we have to cry for Arizona. The Republicans in the Arizona Legislature have done everything they could to send Arizona down the wrong track. They cut Education and then cut education again both K-12 and Higher Education and then they cut healthcare. About 47,000 kids have been cut from Kid’s Care and about 310,000 adults have been cut from Medicaid (AHCCCS). In the meantime the Governor and Republican Legislature is spending $8.3 to hold a special election rather than raise a 1% sale tax on there own and most recently they authorized the suing of the Federal Government to fight the new Health Reform Bill. Apparently they don’t want healthy Arizonans. Most legal minds said they can’t win but with 13 other states suing, why spend unnecessary funds to get into the act. If they win, Arizona will get the benefits without wasting money we don’t have. So it is just politics, who can be more right-wing.
Now it is up to us. We must fight to win the Governorship with Terry Goddard and at least one of the Arizona legislative houses.
We have two candidates running for Secretary of State (SoS), Chris Deschene and Sam Wercinski. Since this position has a lot of control over our elections it is important to elect a Democrat. The SoS also succeeds the Governor if he doesn’t complete his term.
There are three candidates for Attorney General, David Lujan, Felicia Rotellini and Vince Rabago. Vote for your favorite in the primary and then support the winner in November. I am sure you don’t want Andrew Thomas or Tom Horne!
We also have a great candidate running for Treasurer, Andrei Cherney. He has real ideas of how to get Arizona out of the mess it is in. He will be the DFA speaker at our June meeting. Al Gore said about Andrei, “Andrei is one of our nation’s brightest leaders for the future and I know that, as State Treasurer, he will be bold, thoughtful, and tireless in using every tool at his disposal to generate economic growth.”
Don’t forget to vote all the way down the ballot – we have a candidate for Mine Inspector, Manuel Cruz and even a candidate for Water Commission, Arif Kazmi.
You can also come to our DFA monthly meetings and get to know our Democratic candidates and help us get them elected. We need to register voters, get Democrats to sign up for mail-in ballots (PEVL) and become poll workers and observers.
Here in Arizona we get a double dose of Republican indifference to the needs of our citizens. We have Congressmen like Jon Kyl arguing that unemployment benefits dissuade people from job-hunting “because people are being paid even though they’re not working” and” … If anything, as I said, it’s a disincentive. And the same thing with the COBRA extension and the other extensions here”.
Then there is Trent Franks “…Far more of the African-American community is being devastated by the policies of today, than were being devastated by the policies of slavery.”
We all know about the Republicans in Congress and healthcare – they will do anything to protect the insurance and pharmaceutical companies no matter how much they harm the public.
Here in Arizona the Republican legislature will do anything to destroy Clean Elections and our Public School System with budget cuts. They will eliminate the KidsCare Program leaving 50,000 children without health insurance and rollback health care dollars for AHCCCS recipients leaving 311,000 citizens without healthcare coverage. But they will “encourage” business to come to Arizona by cutting taxes. Will they ever learn?
Now it is up to you, you can do nothing and let the Republicans destroy our State and country or you can fight. You can join rallies, write letters to the editor and call your legislators and let them know what you want. Most important, do more than just vote. Pick a candidate or candidates and support them financially as well as helping them campaign.
We have Democratic candidates running for the Arizona Legislature in most LD’s and candidates in all the CD’s. You can replace Trent Franks with John Thrasher, replace John Schadegg with Jon Hulburd and replace Jeff Flake with Rebecca Schneider. You will also have the chance to replace McCain/Hayworth with a Democrat – Rodney Glassman or Rudy Garcia.
You can come to our DFA-MC meetings (see sidebar for speakers) and learn about the issues we have to fight for or against and meet our candidates. If YOU CARE … you must do something.
Mar 10
1
Meet Howard Dean…
You are invited to join the Maricopa County Democratic Party for a Post Dean/Rove Debate Reception with our special guest Howard Dean. Howard Dean, former DNC Chair and founder of Democracy for America, takes on former Bush advisor, Karl Rove, at ASU’s Gammage Auditorium on March 6th at 5 PM. Contact ASU for debate ticket information.
After the debate, join the Maricopa County Democratic Party for a private dinner reception with our special guest, Howard Dean.
Feb 10
6
Fight for Healthcare Reform
Healthcare reform is not dead but we still have to work for it! Congressman Mitchell’s staff says the anti-reform insurance companies have their people calling. Don’t let the insurance companies beat us. Call ALL our AZ Democratic Congressional delegation. Let them know Arizona people want reform. You can call the Capitol on this 800 number and ask for the member you want to speak with – House or Senate: 1-800-828-0498. Let’s keep their lines busy.
Jan 10
25
Where Do We Go Now?
We Americans put our trust in the Democratic Party in the 2008 election. What has happened between then and now that has caused so many new supporters to sit out elections and others to vote with another Party?
An exit poll taken by Research 2000 at the Massachusetts election shows that the election was not a call to go back to conservatism but was a call for Democrats to be bolder in pursuing the populist reforms the public thought it was going to get after the 2008 elections. Only 31% of the people who voted for Obama in 2008 and voted for Scott Brown or didn’t vote at all felt Obama is delivering enough change as he promised. Only 21% felt that Democrats in Washington are fighting hard enough to change the Republican policies of the Bush years.
These same people (47 %) think that Democrats in Washington are more on the side of the Lobbyists than the people AND 82% of the people favor a government administered health insurance plan something like Medicare.
Self-identified Independents and Democrats responded nearly identically.
What this means is we, the people want more from the Obama administration NOT less. Don’t retreat on the election promises – give us healthcare with a public option and put restrictions back on Wall Street and now find a way to preserve our elections from the recent Supreme Court decision that gives Corporations free speech rights.
Join us February 3 at the Old Spaghetti Factory. Hear our speaker, Rodney Glassman, exploring a candidacy for US Senator, the seat currently held by John McCain and sought by J.D. Hayworth and then let’s talk about what we can and should do to get us out of the mess our country and state is in.
