The daily is pounding its drum again. If you are new to Arizona and unacquainted with the technique, the newspaper often resembles a nagging ex-wife. The editorial staff can’t offer an opinion. They harp. They badger. They stridently repeat. And often they rewrite the same thoughts with a slightly different skew.
Today’s editorial, Let’s energize Arizonans to push for changes, is a case in point.
The latest mission of the daily is government reform — which they want to accomplish from the top down.
Like lovesick swains, they have fallen hook, line and sinker for Sandra O’Connor ‘s namesake effort, the O’Connor House Project which is teamed up with the liberal Morrison Institute and the Center for the Future of Arizona. These groups and their overreaching concepts were represented at the recent Arizona Town Hall, which issued a report calling for a state Constitutional Convention to — among other things – allow these elites to revamp state government, raise taxes, and alter the methods of voting for elected officers by removing the citizen’s ballot component and replacing it with appointments by other elected officials.
The report also points to impediments to raising revenue and suggests the Constitutional Convention implement these major changes. The full report and its recommendations can be found here.
Designed to appear benign they nonetheless conclude these “barriers to effective government” need their wisdom and oversight. A clue that all is not as presented is contained in these words deprecating the current system, which they say “encourages extremist candidates” and the practice of ballot initiatives which they opine “has created dedicated funding streams that cannot be touched, even in times of severe need.” That translates to limits on taxation which the people support and the Town Hallites want lifted.
Don’t be fooled by the high-sounding rhetoric. This is a fundamental takeover of state government by a liberal cabal, with the blessing of the left-wing Arizona Republic.
They don’t intend to tarry. We can’t afford to ignore the massive power-grab they envision and intend to implement.
November 16, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Whether it is federal or state, the purpose of a constitutional convention is to make sweeping changes to government that normal processes would not allow. In effect, the folks behind this chicanery are looking to con you and me with abrupt, drastic (read:socialistic)
revisions of law to take power over the people. No wonder it is commonly referred to as a “con-con con.”
Avoid it like the plague.
November 16, 2009 at 5:07 pm
I agree! This is a sham “desirous” of being perpetrated on Arizona citizens. If you value your rights and freedom to vote, shout “NO!!” from the rooftops. The name Sandra O’Connor should frighten rather than compel your support.
November 17, 2009 at 1:26 pm
The only objectives of the Arizona Republic are
-destroy the middle class
-destroy the traditional american way of life
If you read the rag with that in mind, every word and every article, every spin every everything makes sense as its ONLY purpose is specifically to meet one or both of the above objectives.