AZ Conservative Coalition: End of session ratings

The Arizona Conservative Coalition’s (ACC) most recent legislator ratings, reflecting legislative actions as of 6/17/2013 is now available. Click here for the updated report.

Legislators are assigned to a group based on their latest rating. Bills used in the evaluation along with the summary of criteria used to weight bills can be seen here. There is also an excellent, concise analysis of each bill considered.

Be sure to take time to review Howard Levine’s informative weekly narrative, which provides background on the tracking process. This week he discusses a new feature added to the rating system. He also presents an overview of the despicable final days leading up to the legislative sine die.

The folks at ACC provide individual scores for Arizona’s Republican Representatives and Senators. There is quite a variation. This week the Senate ratings range from a high of 93.7 down to a shameful 34.0. In the House of Representatives the top scorer received a 96.2 with the bottom of the list rating a weak 35.5.

Take time to review the individual legislators and their scores. There are six categories, ranging from Reagan Republican to RINO.

In this end-of-session report of the legislature, RINOs came out of the underbrush and their disgraceful actions are fully exposed. Check out the nine House members and the four in the Senate who fit that description. Like a lead balloon, Adam Driggs dropped 20 points from the previous week’s score, but remained just a hair above the RINO label.

There will be a final, updated scoring report next week.

Amnesty? Let’s talk election facts

Lindsey Graham: Amnesty gets us back in Hispanics’ “good graces”

On Meet the Press Sunday morning, clueless Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told host David Gregory that he favored former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush as a 2016 presidential candidate, although he declared no Republican could win unless comprehensive immigration reform was passed because the party was in a “demographic death spiral.”

“I think we’re going to have a political breakthrough, the Congress is going to pass immigration reform,” Graham opined. “I think we’re going to get plus 70 votes (in the Senate). I’ve never been more optimistic about it.”

“But if we don’t pass immigration reform, if we don’t get it off the table in a reasonable, practical way, it doesn’t matter who you run in 2016.  We’re in a demographic death spiral as a party and the only way we can back in good graces with the Hispanic community, in my view, is to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform…and if we don’t do that, it doesn’t matter who we run, in my view,” Graham rambled.

In our view, Graham’s analysis is fatally flawed.

No Republican presidential candidate in at least 50 years has won even half of the Hispanic vote. John McCain, the nation’s leading amnesty proponent, carried less than a third — 31 percent of the Hispanic vote. Still Graham sings McCain’s song and dances to his tune.

President George H.W. Bush created “diversity visas,” massively increased legal immigration and even eliminated the English requirement on the naturalization test. In the 1992 election, his efforts were rewarded with a slim 25 pecent of the Hispanic vote — less than the 27 percent Romney received.

In the presidential election immediately after President Reagan signed the 1986 amnesty bill, the Republican share of the Hispanic vote actually declined from 37 percent to 30 percent — and that was in a landslide election for the GOP.

In her column “Hispanicked GOP elite: They’ll respect us in the morning,” Ann Coulter writes:“Whatever it is that makes Hispanics love Obama, it’s not amnesty. He double-crossed Hispanics on amnesty; in the words of Univision’s Jorge Ramos, “You promised (amnesty), and a promise is a promise and with all due respect, you didn’t keep that promise.” (SRAZ added this video link.) Obama still won 71 percent of their vote

Graham has partnered with McCain’s amnesty-pushing Gang of Eight: Jeff Flake, and the tightrope-walking presidential aspirant, Marco Rubio, along with far left Democrats Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, Robert Menendez, and Michael Bennet. The group is called “bi-partisan” although it consists of iffy Republicans doing the bidding of liberal Democrats.

Here are the U.S. Senate phone numbers. Let them hear our voices loud and clear.  

If you need encouragement to pick up the phone, McCain toady Lindsey Grahamnesty provides it:

 

SCOTUS tosses AZ law requiring proof of citizenship to vote & UPDATE

Election integrity thrown a curve by high court

In a ruling this morning, the U. S. Supreme Court said individual states cannot require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system to register to vote.

Arizona’s voter approved requirement that prospective voters document their U.S. citizenship in order to use a registration form produced under the federal “Motor Voter” registration law was effectively tossed on its head by a 7-2 vote of the justices.

On March 18, 2013, Arizona’s Attorney General Tom Horne brought the issue of our state’s Voting Rights Act — requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote — to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he argued on its behalf. (Read his oral argument under link.) Our earlier post and additional background can be viewed here.

Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said Federal law “precludes Arizona from requiring a federal form applicant to submit information beyond that required by the form itself. Justices Clarence Thomas (Bush) and Samuel Alito (G.W. Bush) dissented.

Scalia (Reagan) disappointingly joined by Chief Justice John Roberts (G.W. Bush) voted in concert with liberals Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Clinton), Stephen Breyer (Clinton), Sonia Sotomayor (Obama), and Elena Kagan (Obama). Justice Anthony Kennedy (Reagan) filed an opinion con­curring in part and concurring in the judgment

After the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which doesn’t require such documentation, trumps Arizona’s Proposition 200 passed in 2004, Arizona appealed that decision to the Supreme Court.

The genesis of this issue goes back to 2004, when Arizona voters passed — by an overwhelming vote of 1,041,741 to 830,467 – the Arizona Taxpayer and Citizen Protection Act.

Although the case focuses on Arizona –  a border state that is the major portal for illegal alien trafficking, it has broader implications since four other states — Alabama, Georgia, Kansas and Tennessee — have enacted similar requirements. Twelve other states are contemplating such legislation.

In his dissent, Justice Thomas, a Bush appointee to the court,  said “The Constitution authorizes states to determine the qualifications of voters in federal elections, which necessarily includes the related power to determine whether those qualifications are satisfied.”

This outrageous opinion neuters the ability of states to pass laws to inhibit non-citizens from getting on their voting rolls.

The U. S. Supreme Court’s 51-page decision in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. can be read here.

 
Note: Names of the presidents who made the judicial appointment are in parentheses.

AZ AG Tom Horne: US Supreme Court Decision Shows Ultimate Path for Arizona Victory

Attorney General Horne’s Press Release addressing today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision can be read here. Watch this just released video.

 

When is “headline news” NOT news?

When you see it in “La República!”

The Periódico de la República de Arizona’s political writer Dan Nowicki must be angling for a gig at Wikipedia after the lights dim at the newspaper. How else to explain his lead item today, passed along without even a mention of the obvious?

Nowicki details the “split” between Señor Juan McAmnesty and Sheriff Strangelove of Pinal County over the latest plan to open our nation’s border, waste more money, and imperil our national security.

The Pinal lawman, safely re-elected despite his dalliance with an illegal alien, now opposes Sen. McCain’s legislation.

Sheriff Babeu testified before the House Judiciary Committee last week, urging the rejection of McCain and Flake’s “Gang of 8″ bill being debated in the Senate. Babeu says it doesn’t do enough to secure the border — advocating for an alternative House plan that focuses on law enforcement and gives more authority to local police.

Memo to Nowicki: You’re doing just fine in your audition for Wikipedia. But if you plan to stay at  the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic), it would be beneficial to learn the Spanish word for “hypocrisy.”

We gift you with it here: h-i-p-o-c-r-e-s-í-a.

 For a memory refresher, here’s Babeu before their break up, giving aid and comfort to McCain during the 2010 campaign — telling the phony border hawk and worried candidate, “Senator, you’re one of us.”

Mexican cartel assassin admits to U.S. murder spree

Jose Manuel Martinez, 51, was recently arrested in Yuma, Arizona, after trying to cross the border from Mexico without proper identification. He was then extradited to Alabama, where he was wanted on  first-degree murder charges. It was there the self-described enforcer for a Mexican drug cartel confessed to killing more than 30 people across the United States.

“I’ve killed over 30 people,” he bragged, adding that he began his murder spree when he was 16 years old. Fox News Latino reports that Martinez is originally from Mexico but has legal status in the United States.

Aren’t we fortunate?

Alabama’s Lawrence County Sheriff Capt. Tim McWhorter said Martinez made a stream of startling confessions, including a double homicide in Florida and 10 slayings in California. “He basically told us, ‘I’m the guy that pays you a visit when you don’t pay the cartel,” said McWhorter. In addition to the confessions, DNA evidence from a cigarette butt places him at the scene of the Florida murders.

“If I didn’t do the job, someone would have,” the remorseless Martinez said of his gruesome murders.

Breitbart’s Brandon Darby has numerous reports on Mexican-led narcotics rings and the accompanying horrific crime sprees across the United States. Of Martinez, Darby writes, “As left-of-center voices call for even less border security, a chilling report from U.S. law enforcement reveals an alleged Mexican cartel member claims he killed 30 individuals on U.S. soil.”

Happy Father’s Day

Fathers take our hands and give us their hearts

 With affection and appreciation to all of the Fathers, Dads, Papas and Grandpas who have guided us along the way.

 Have a wonderful day.

Laurie Roberts champions GOP traitors & update

In her lavish praise of the GOP turncoats who joined the unified Democrats in voting for passage of Gov. Brewer’s Medicaid/ObamaCare expansion taxation package, sap monger columnist Laurie Roberts highlights the principled stand taken by Seeing Red AZ.

Listing the turncoat Republican posers deserving of “DeKookification” in the upcoming election, Roberts writes, “A big round of applause goes out to Rep. Heather Carter of Cave Creek who engineered this week’s democratic revolution. Also, to Reps. Bob Robson of Chandler, Kate Brophy McGee of Phoenix, Jeff Dial of Chandler, Frank Pratt of Casa Grande, Doug Coleman of Apache Junction, Ethan Orr of Tucson, Doris Goodale of Kingman and T.J. Shope of Coolidge. Also, to Sens. Steve Pierce of Prescott, John McComish of Ahwatukee, Bob Worsley of Mesa, Rich Crandall of Mesa and Adam Driggs of Phoenix.”

Then she laments,” They will have targets on their backs in 2014.”

Roberts no doubt familiarized herself with that bulls-eye technique through associations with her RINO ally Kathy Petsas who went to great lengths attempting to oust conservative Republicans from GOP Legislative District 28.

In an attempt to marginalize Seeing Red AZ, which Roberts says is rife with “party kooks” seething about “colluders” and “traitors,” she identifies this site as “the right-wing blog that railed at length on Thursday about ‘Enemies Domestic.’”

That we did!

It’s a good bet our readers take pride in being so described by the far-left wing publication we refer to as the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic).

Expecting Republicans to represent their constituents and those who worked to get them elected, is not unrealistic.  Those who campaign for office on specific platforms intended to generate conservative support and then collude with the Democrats, are deserving of scorn — and the fitting descriptive identifiers, “colluders” and “traitors.

We don’t recall Ms. Roberts getting huffy about this target, complete with trigger crosshairs. In this instance, smears and dirty tricks were being played by a liberal against a completely exonerated conservative, which was enough to keep her lips buttoned up and her fingers stilled on the keyboard.

Robert’s diatribe brings to mind the quote of President Harry Truman. During a speech a supporter yelled out “Give ‘em Hell, Harry!” Truman replied, “I don’t give them Hell. I just tell the truth about them and they think it’s Hell.

The Democrat president’s truism serves as our comeback to Laurie Roberts.

This video illustrates the true conservatives. They make us proud. The list that Robert’s declares deserving of a  “a big round of applause” are indeed traitorous. They have betrayed the Republican voters who put them in office and their own caucus members. In turn, their legislative seatmates expose their despicable actions:

H/T American Commitment for video