‘Victory Tour’ – November 3, 2018 – Desert View Theater

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SaddleBrooke Republican Club  was honored to be the launching pad for the ‘Victory Tour’ featuring the key Arizona candidates to be a support team for Governor Ducey’s administration as well as Governor Ducey himself. 

ChairThe SaddleBman Lines kicked off the event with introductions of the candidates seated on the stage:

Frank Riggs – candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction

Kimberly Yee – candidate for Treasurer

Mark Brnovich – candidate for Attorney General

Steve Gaynor – candidate for Secretary of State

Governor Doug Ducey – candidate for Governor

Martha McSally – candidate for United States Senate

Each candidate spoke briefly to the enthusiastic audience sharing his/her vision for the future in an effort to motivate the SaddleBrooke Republican Club members to vote for the Republican ticket on November 6th. 

After a brief opportunity to mix and mingle with the appreciative attendees the host of candidates headed on to the next of the additional five stops they would make before the sun set on the ‘Victory Tour’.

What Now?

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The elections are over. Despite all the hard work by the Club and its members, the results are bordering on being a disaster. I am not angry at the Club; I don’t know what more we could have done.

I am angry at the election officials for allowing the debacle in Maricopa County and thereby making it much harder to accept the results. Was there fraud? I don’t know. But if someone says there was, I’d be hard put to dispute it.

I am angry at the Arizona Republican Party for just rolling over on the race results. I have heard nothing about investigating the irregularities or the mishandling of ballots. The Democrats scream about anything and everything they perceive as detrimental to their cause. It seems the Republicans just shrug it off, apparently too timid to fight.

I am angry at the voters in Arizona who voted for incompetent and ignorant candidates. The economy is booming, they have a President who is intent on protecting them from a literal invasion of illegals and are looking at a Democratic party that has no agenda other than “Stop Trump.” Yet, they elected so many Democrats.

So, what now?

I can’t tell you what to do. But, I can tell you what I plan to do. First, I will not give up. I love my Country and I believe it can be great again! I don’t want it left to my grandson’s generation as just wreckage left over from misguided liberal policies. I plan to make noise! I will be writing to our new senators and congressmen giving them my views on a wide range of issues. I will email and telephone newspapers and government officials to let them know my position on the issues.

I will support those organizations that are working for positions and ideas I believe are important.  I will be reading and learning so I can teach my family and friends why Conservative Republican principles are better. I will try to get to know my state and local officials and do whatever I can to help them. Finally, and maybe more importantly, I’ll be praying that God will bless America, give wisdom to her voters and elected officials and cause a wave of common sense to break out all over the land.

Local State Rep. Finchem to Testify in Washington

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STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX – Representative Mark Finchem (R-11) has been requested to appear in Washington, D.C. to testify on the adverse effects that closing the Navajo Generating Station (NGS) would have on Arizona. The House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources will hold an oversight hearing titled, “The Benefits of the Navajo Generating Station to Local Economies.”

For over a year, Representative Finchem, along with Senators Steve Smith (LD-11), Judy Burges (LD-24) and Sonny Borelli (LD-5), has worked diligently to find solutions that will stop the premature decommissioning of NGS and the over 800 jobs directly associated with it.

“When we learned last year that Salt River Project sought to shutter the plant 26 years before it was originally scheduled for decommissioning, and that early shutdown would cause a $1 Billion negative economic impact to the state budget, we reached out to the Arizona congressional delegation,” said Representative Finchem. “NGS was built and commissioned by Congress to supply affordable electricity to the Central Arizona Project, which supplies water to central and southern Arizona, as well as baseload power stability to the western states power grid.”

The hearing, set to commence at 7:00 am Arizona time on Thursday, April 12th, will be livestreamed via the official congressional website: https://naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/archives/list.aspx?Subcommittee=5062. The video will also be played on the congressional YouTube page.

Senator Smith has helped Representative Finchem on the Senate side of the Legislature with moving HB 2003 through the hearing and passage process. HB 2003 exempts coal from the transaction privilege tax, which the Hopi Tribe of Arizona calls “an unjust tax” on their natural resource because coal is a raw material not a finished product. “Repeal of the TPT tax on coal would serve to level the playing field for all means of electric generation in Arizona and save over 800 jobs related to the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe,” says Senator Smith.

NGS is a 2250 Megawatt, coal-powered electric generation station that was built to replace plans that would have built more hydro-electric generation dams along the Colorado River, and at the time was endorsed by the Sierra Club as a better solution for supplying the needed electricity for the western power grid and CAP. Baseload power keeps the grid functioning while wind and solar power are unavailable.

Posted with permission of Representative Mark Finchem

A Message To My GrandChildren

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A great website to go to: Hillsdale.edu Check it out!

To all my grandchildren: when you have a chance go to the above URL. It is for Hillsdale College in Michigan.
I have been supporting them for years with small donations. For my Saddlebrooke Republican Club
they have donated 500 copies of a pamphlet on the US Constitution and each month they send me 50
copies of their pamphlet “Imprimus”. I distribute all these to the Rep Club Members, see>>>> SBRC1.org

I urge you all to look over the whole Hillsdale web site. Their college does not accept one dime
of government money to run the college because they do not want ANY government influence.
The only college in the US to do that.

On their site they have many places where you can sign up for free mini-courses to learn about patriotism.
One I have taken is on the US Constitution. You can also sign up for their free monthly “Imprimus”
sent to you which includes short articles on patriotism and politics and other current topics.

As you know I am politically a conservative Republican. So is Hillsdale’s culture.

I am not trying to encourage you to become conservative Republicans [but it wouldn’t hurt you].
What I see from my age vantage point is that this country has lost most of its spark of patriotism.
Washington slants toward the Democrats’ Liberalism which includes socialism and I believe it can lead this country
to ruin. In the last several decades this movement has progressed and worsened.

I hope you will investigate ALL political philosophies to choose your own. In my lifetime, when I thought a subject
was important to me I investigated it – as well as opposing views/movements in order to become as enlightened as I could be.

If you decide to join any part of Hillsdale or make any contributions, tell me the cost and I will reimburse you.

I want you to be LEADERS in America’s future and I try to point out some things I think will help you along the way.

Love,
G’pa