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Bruce Ash, former AZ NATIONAL COMMITTEEMAN will Address Elections 2024
Jeff DeWit, Chairman of the AZ Republican Party, unfortunately, has a conflict and cannot attend our meeting. Brusc Ash will be our speaker.
Sheriff Mark Lamb will be our speaker November 14th
Sheriff Lamb is a candidate for US Senate running against Kyrsten Sinema. Please mark this on your calendar, and PLEASE bring a friend. We need to show up and support Sheriff Lamb.
Results of the NON-SCIENTIFIC SBRC Straw Poll taken at the September 12th Meeting
37 People participated in this nonscientific straw poll. Not everyone answered the questions asked… The following are the results to the best of our ability to tally.....
Who is your choice for President 2024?
Trump 59%
DeSantis 30%
Vivek 8%
Haley 5%
Who Is Your Choice for Vice President?
DeSantis 11%
Vivek 1%
Nikki Haley 41%
Tim Scott 8%
Kristy Noem 5%
Kari Lake 14%
Who do you think the nominee will be?
Trump 27%
DeSantis 15%
Who is your choice for US Senate 2024
Lamb 68%
Lake 10%
Masters 19%
To the question, should Trump debate… 68% said YES while others either said no (2) or not sure.
We will ask the same questions over the next year. Results were different in September than in July when we took the first survey. In July DeSantis was hardly mentioned. It is interesting to see what SaddleBrooke is thinking compared to national surveys. Please participate...it is confidential and only for FUN!!!
SBRC is now a Registered Club with Both HOa 1 and HOa 2
Membership in the SBRC is for SaddleBrooke residents only.
News From Your SBRC Board of Directors
Kirsten Sandvick appointed to the Board of Directors
We are pleased to announce that Kirsten Sandvick has joined the Board as Director of Events. Her first event, the August 1 potluck was a huge success. We had 70 SBRC members attend and the food our members brought was fabulous. EVERYONE has suggested we do more of these events and the committee is busy exploring options.
Thank you to everyone who attended, AND a special thanks to our volunteers... Eva Rees, Lynn Denning, Dick Dunbar, Steve Kartsonis, Membership Director Gloria Wolf and her team on the Membership Committee Diane Foster and Debbie McGeehan. It was a fun evening! The decor was perfect and the raffle prizes (donated by Kirsten) were especially unique. A special thanks to our guest speakers Ross Teeple, (Candidate for Sheriff); Dana Lewis, (Pinal County Recorder); and Senator Justine Wadsack and Representative Cory Jones, (our LD 17 Representatives).
Photograph by Tom Costner
Pictured President Kathleen Dunbar
Special Event Director Kirsten Sandvik
By Kathleen Dunbar
RIP SENATOR AL MELVIN
AL WAS A SADDLEBROOKE RESIDENT
SaddleBrooke resident Al Melvin who represented SaddleBrooke in the former LD-11 from 2009-2015 has passed away. Melvin made a run for Governor in 2014, dropping out early in the contest and also ran for Arizona Corporate Commission in 2016, losing in the Republican primary. His surviving spouse Kou is an avid golfer.
SENATOR VINCE LEACH REFLECTS...
Former Senator Vince Leach commented on Melvin’s passing “Senator Melvin got me started in state politics soon after we moved to AZ. He helped me immensely in my decision to run for political office. He was always a straight shooter and was always there to help out anyone that was in need. "Thanks Senator for your service to the state of Arizona. ”
ACCORDING TO THE WEBSITE BALLOTPEDIA-
Melvin earned his B.S. from the United States Merchant Marine Academy in 1969, his MBA in International Management from American Graduate School in 1972, and his Diploma from the United States Naval War College in 1994. His professional experience includes working as a teacher for the University of Arizona from 2002 to 2006 and working as a consultant for American Quality International Consulting from 2002 to 2006. Melvin served as a Captain in the United States Navy from 1997 to 1999 and a Ship’s Officer in the American Maritime Officers from 1999 to 2002
- Thank you SBInsider and The Honorable Douglas Wolf for the information above
Meet The SBRC Board of Directors
Over the next few months this space will be dedicated to Your SBRC Board
Meet Bud Alexander
Bud Alexander is from southeastern Arizona. He graduated from NAU in the 1960s. As a lifetime Arizonan, Bud has seen our state grow from a collection of small ranching, mining, and tourism communities to major metropolitan areas. Growing up on a farm in Arizona, Bud’s deepest convictions are in self-reliance, personal responsibility, and conservative values. With the election of Ronald Regan, Bud became totally conservative forever.
Bud’s academic and career interests have always been on the technical side of business, computers, and the high-tech industry. He has programmed mainframes, mid-range computers, and the latest personal computers. As the early personal computer industry grew, Bud went from an IBM mainframe developer to an Apple Macintosh developer to real-time software development in manufacturing. Bud has led software development teams that have changed how major corporations work both domestically and internationally.
Over the years, Bud became more and more technical in his endeavors and had more freedom to experiment. He left Motorola in the late 1990s. In 2003 thanks to the lucrative software his teams had developed, Bud was promoted to Vice President of the Fortune 500 company Avnet Inc.
Since retiring, Bud has developed Windows applications that are still in production at HOA1 Purchasing and still in use for managing tips in the HOA1 restaurants. While doing that, he also developed software for various clubs at SaddleBrooke, including SBRC. Given Bud’s Software development and consulting experience, in 2022, he joined the SBRC board as a technical advisor and overseer of the systems and applications for the SaddleBrooke Republican Club.
A comment from Kathleen--
It is our pleasure to introduce Bud Alexander to the Membership. Bud has been so instrumental in helping so many clubs with their websites, tech information, etc., and is an all-around great person to know. Besides being brilliant, he is modest. He is married to Lois (a fabulous line dancer) and this couple reflects one of the greatest things about SaddleBrooke … the people!!!!
Thank you, Bud, for always being there … for so many, for so many years.
Do you have experience writing Press Releases?
The SBRC Board needs a Communications Director to join the Board
Share your skills with one of the largest Republican Clubs in Arizona
The job includes overseeing communications from SBRC to the membership, including writing articles for the website, newsletter, and communication with the Membership. Experience with Constant Contact and Godaddy helpful.