Posted on 01/29/2010 10:05:26 AM PST by AuntB
Years ago I stopped there during my travels, and had the pleasure of meeting some NAU students ;-)
I was told about how the town would be clearing out for the upcoming festival, and the reasons for doing so were very specific.
It’s a beautiful area, and I loved Sedona.
People coming to Arizona for the first time are usually shocked at how beautiful and diverse our state is.
Please tell me how the gambling industry can be overcome in this election to unseat McCain.
Attention all Arizonians!
ping
ATTENTION ARIZONA!!!
Sandrat, Jim Deakin is also running. I thought he might be worth looking at until I read this today.
Deakin is a LIAR and not very bright. Why replace McCain..one liar, with another?
Jim Deakin: A VOTE FOR JOHN HAYWORTH IS A VOTE FOR JOHN McCAIN (JOHN Hayworth??? )
I scoured the Library of Congress and could find no significant differences in the voting record of John McCain and John Hayworth.
As a politician, it appears from the Library of Congress that Hayworth is politics as usual.
Hayworth served for 12 YEARS. I cannot list every vote (you are welcome to do your own research at http://thomas.loc.gov/ )
Amnesty laws and extensions passed during the Hayworth years in Congress. http://www.legion.org/documents/legion/pdf/illegalimmigration.pdf Page 14 and 15
1. Section 245(i) The Amnesty of 1994 – a temporary rolling amnesty for 578,000 illegal aliens.
2. Section 245(i) The Extension Amnesty of 1997 – an extension of the rolling amnesty created in 1994.
3. Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act (NASCARA) Amnesty of 1997 – An amnesty for close to one million illegal aliens from Central America.
4. Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act Amnesty (HRIFA) of 1998 — An amnesty for 125,000 illegal aliens from Haiti.
5. Late Amnesty of 2000 – An amnesty for illegal aliens who claim they should have been amnestied under the 1986 IRCA amnesty, an estimated 400,000 illegal aliens.
6. Life Amnesty of 2000 – A reinstatement of the rolling Section 245(i) amnesty that legalized an estimated 900,000 illegal aliens.
I did not look to see if JD actually voted for any of these Laws. However, he did not stop them either.
Jim Deakin
http://sonoranweeklyreview.com/?p=2441
see post 47
Lol, now a candidate can hold a congressman or former congressman responsible for everything that happened while they were in office? Quite a campaign tactic if Deakin can find anyone who'll believe it.
I could hardly believe a candidate would actually put such tripe in writing. And I had fun telling him so. :<)
See post 47 please
More about McCain and his gambling/casino ties.
[snip]But he has rarely wavered in his loyalty to Las Vegas, where he counts casino executives among his close friends and most prolific fund-raisers. “Beyond just his support for gaming, Nevada supports John McCain because he’s one of us, a Westerner at heart,” said Sig Rogich, a Nevada Republican kingmaker who raised nearly $2 million for Mr. McCain at an event at his home in June.
Only six members of Congress have received more money from the gambling industry than Mr. McCain, and five hail from the casino hubs of Nevada and New Jersey.... In the presidential race, Senator Barack Obama has also received money from the industry; Mr. McCain has raised almost twice as much.
In May 2007, as Mr. McCain’s presidential bid was floundering, he spent a weekend at the MGM Grand on the Las Vegas strip. A fund-raiser hosted by J. Terrence Lanni, the casino’s top executive and a longtime friend of the senator, raised $400,000 for his campaign. Afterward, Mr. McCain attended a boxing match and hit the craps tables.
For much of his adult life, Mr. McCain has gambled as often as once a month, friends and associates said, traveling to Las Vegas for weekend betting marathons. Former senior campaign officials said they worried about Mr. McCain’s patronage of casinos, given the power he wields over the industry.
“We were always concerned about appearances,” one former official said. “If you go around saying that appearances matter, then they matter.....Do we really have to go to a casino? I don’t think it’s a good idea. The base doesn’t like it. It doesn’t look good. And good things don’t happen in casinos at midnight.”
“You worry too much,” Mr. McCain would respond, the official said.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/us/politics/28gambling-web.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all
Deakin doesn’t have the recognition in AZ to get a foothold in the primary... he and SImcox will likely draw from both men who are the frontrunners.
I like Sandrat. But it is a bit of a stretch to blame some of this crap on Hayworth. Hayworth has been rock solid on amnesty to the best of my knowledge.
Amazing, AuntB, but why am I not surprised.
Thanks for pinging me, Aunt B,
I’ve read every addition post and link.
This information need to go VIRAL.
Daschle used to count on the Indian vote also.
Then came that one election and he lost.
Looks to me like Tea Party Grassroots will have to get out the vote for JD.
There’s already an anti-incumbent sentiment in the air and it’s truly time for McCain to ‘come home’ which is JD’s theme.
agreed!
“This information need to go VIRAL.”
It’s getting out there. This article was picked up by the Sonoran weekly review, Huffington post and several others.
An interesting note. McCain, as head of Indian Affairs in congress, refused to work on any issues except Abramoff (not really that committee’s venue to start with) and has irritated many of the tribal people over this.
http://64.38.12.138/News/2005/010493.asp
BTTT
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