Phx. Councilman Nowakowski leads May Day march

In a instructive article, the Periódico de la República de Arizona (Arizona Republic) reveals an ugly truth of its bond to what it terms “migrant rights.”

Let’s begin by acknowledging they are talking about illegal aliens, not “migrants.”  The daily newspaper is keen on cunningly using imprecise words such as “migrant” and “undocumented“ to describe illegals. “Migrants” sound deceptively akin to the swallows, making their yearly journey each March 19 to California’s Mission San Juan Capistrano, and departing for their home in Argentina the following October 23. Our migrants come here in violation of our laws and national sovereignty and never leave. They also have the temerity to demand “rights.”

With those facts as a given, we’ll move on to the report in today’s edition of the daily. Under the all caps headline (unlike the other five on the front of the Valley & State section), “A SHOW OF SOLIDARITY,” describes “chaotic, joyful,” May Day marchers. Three photos accompany the two page article. The oversized photo identifies Phoenix City Councilman Michael Nowakowski, fist thrust in the air, leading the illegals demanding rights. 

Democrat Nowakowski is the single focused, general manager of Radio Campesina, a network of Spanish-language, Latino-controlled radio stations, functioning with public funded grants. Seeing Red AZ has previously covered his efforts on behalf of his “community.”  Although an elected city councilman, make no mistake, the non-Hispanics in his district are not on his radar. You might want to call his office and ask who he actually represents. Nowakowski can be reached at (602) 262-7492.

May Day, for those who need a memory refresher, has long been tied to the Communist and Socialist Parties.* So it came as no surprise that it was the day illegals in our country chose to strike schools and businesses on May 1, 2006. Once again showing their propensity for devaluing education, yesterday’s marchers took their elementary school age children out of class to plead “Don’t tear our families apart.”  A woman threatened “We need to make sure they’re paying attention to how strong this movement is and that they understand we’re not going away.”

The stridently secular Obama regime, uniting in a peculiar coalition with faith-based groups, have bonded in the reunification whine about “tearing families apart.” Missing is any acknowledgment that families would not be separated if they all either stayed home or returned home together.

All of the usual radical suspects were involved in yesterday’s May Day march including, AFL-CIO, United Food and Commercial Workers, Service Employees International Union, United Farm Workers, Communications Workers of America and the hospitality-workers union UNITE. Also, various immigration-reform and Latino political groups participated: AZ Center for Empowerment, AZ Dream Act Coalition, AZ Immigration Ministry/Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix, Arizona Worker Rights Center, ACLU of Arizona, Black and Brown Coalition, Border Action Network, Campaign for Citizenship, Living United for Change in Arizona, Mi Familia Vota, Organizing for Action, Promise Arizona, Puente and Somos America — and of course, Nowakowski’s La Campesina Radio Network.

This astonishing list of Current Communist Goals* was entered into the Congressional Record on January 10, 1963. Old Thinker News provides in-depth coverage on the communist agenda definitely worth reading.

 *H/T uhuh

Scheming Mayor Stanton lies again: Food tax stays

Amnesiac Greg Stanton abandons pre-election pledge to repeal food tax

It’s time to put on your dancing shoes. Liberal Democrat Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is tuning up his fiddle for the same old dishonest hoedown he and his predecessor Phil Gordon perfected to an art form. Gordon imposed a 2% sales tax on the very food Phoenix residents put in their mouths. It was “temporary,” of course, as all at such taxes claim to be — imposed at a time of national, statewide and city economic blight, in the worst economy since the Great Depression.

Stanton deceptively campaigned on eliminating the obscene tax, although his union backers supported keeping the tax levy in place. But slippery Stanton made the repeal of the food tax an integral part of his 2011 campaign as he pledged to abolish the charge by April. Last month Seeing Red AZ exposed Stanton’s post election equivocation, “We still have significant challenges; the economy is not bouncing back as quickly as people had hoped,” he waffled.

Using the Obama-like deceptive scare tactics that undergirded the dire consequences threat of the “fiscal cliff” or sequestration, was the “desperate need to avert layoffs of teachers, police officers, firefighters and other unionized city workers.”  Stanton now says he will not support the tax repeal this year, ensuring its failure.

“That’s not a choice I’m willing to make,” he said of the dependable farce of  public-safety layoffs. “When you’re in a leadership capacity, you don’t do what’s politically expedient.”

The error was putting him there in the first place.

Yet under such a threat, the City of Phoenix was able, in 2009, to cough up $14.3 million to 6,989 employees in unconscionable “retention bonuses.” That’s $2 million more than the food tax brought in during the fiscal year. City Manager David Cavazos, hired on in 2009 at a more-than-comfortable salary of $236,999, was recently given an astonishing 33% raise amounting to $78,000 annually, hiking his base salary to $315,000 with additional perks including a $600 monthly car allowance, $35,000 a year in deferred compensation, and a $4,000 “longevity” bonus.  Now fat-cat Cavazos backs Stanton’s retention of the tax.

The incredulity continued. In May 2011 Phoenix handed out an additional $28.9 million in performance pay raises and longevity awards.

Back in 2009 (the most recent figures available through this lacking-in-updated information date base), there were 527 city workers earning over $100,000, with the average salary of $120,250. The salaries in this range total $63,371,838.

As the American Action Network points out, there are no “temporary” taxes.  Americans need to wake up to the fact that placing their trust in the desperate vows of liberal candidates is a fool’s mission.

Desperate unionists solicit help from AZ GOP PCs

“Misinformation campaign” alleged by firefighter’s union

Tim Hill, President of the Professional Fire Fighters of Arizona, is deeply concerned.  So much so, in fact, that he has taken the unusual step of contacting Arizona’s elected Republican Party Precinct Committeemen. Hill says GOP PCs are in a “unique position to pass along accurate and relevant information to voters and your fellow party leaders.”

What has moved Hill to conferring such lavish praise?  He obviously hopes to ingratiate himself and his union to the Republican precinct committeemen he desperately needs to align with the union on its liberal legislation. Hill’s Machiavellian plea can be read here.

After slathering on a thick layer of unctuous schmooze, union leader Hill gets to the point. He alleges, “the bills in question all will impose severe restrictions on organizations like the Professional Fire Fighters of Arizona.”

Just last week many Phoenix voters received robocalls preceding Tuesday’s special election to effect changes to the city’s pension system. Interestingly, the calls urging passage were from District 5 Councilman Daniel Valenzuela — a Glendale firefighter and former president of the National Association of Hispanic Firefighters, a strong union, representing nearly 30 chapters throughout the country. What would move this union honcho to promote pension reforms?

Lliberal Mayor Greg Stanton actually issued a statement declaring, “Pension reform is the right thing to do.”

Even the uninitiated can easily grasp the fact that committed unionists, reliably Democrats, support tweaking rather than instituting meaningful reform and in their desperation, they beg Republicans to conspire with them.

All-too-rare truth was on display by short-term Phoenix City Councilman Bryan Jeffries, a Mesa fire captain.  He was appointed to fill a vacant seat though he lost  the election in which he ran to retain his perch. Jeffries was quoted in a past issue of the Professional Firefighters magazine saying, “Union work is a calling….” Throughout the publication firefighters are indentified with their union’s local number.

Of vital importance is the fact the union opposed SCR1026 (Secret Ballot: Fundamental Right) on the ballot as Prop. 108, a constitutional amendment which guaranteed the fundamental right of public employees to vote a secret ballot. The union preferred coercion.

The Arizona Supreme Court addressed the legal matter here. Page 19 provides a good summation as it was certified, removed and then certified once again for the ballot. The measure ultimately passed 60.5% to 39.5%

The real misinformation campaign is emanating from the unions.  They are the ones who need to cut the propaganda and give us the facts — not the other way around. Try as Tim Hill might, Republican precinct committeemen will not be conned by this over-the-top, liberal effort at deception.

Proposed Phx. ordinance raises valid concerns & Update

Discrimination?  Toward whom?

A new ordinance being rushed through by Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is being broadly characterized as a non-discrimination law that provides protections for homosexual Phoenix residents. Yet the city’s lengthy Municipal Code already provides protections to residents based on race, gender, national origin and religion.

Faith-based organizations such as Center for Arizona Policy and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix see this fast-tracked issue through a much different lens. On Monday, the Diocese issued this statement clarifying its opposition. “As written, the proposed ordinance could be interpreted as forcing people to actively endorse, support and promote actions and behaviors that violate their own personal, deeply held religious beliefs,” the Diocese states. “We call upon the Phoenix City Council to acknowledge and protect the conscience rights of all people to live and act according to their faith and values.”

Using the pretext of “prohibiting discrimination” against people on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression, this poorly crafted proposed ordinance holds devastating legal and ethical consequences for Phoenix residents.

More commonly known as the “Bathroom Bill,” the proposed city regulation presents serious problems for every church, pastor, parent, and small business owner within the city of Phoenix.

Faith leaders have questioned whether the ordinance fully exempts religious organizations, as city staff and supporters claim. They also have raised significant concerns that it would allow transgender men to share bathrooms with young girls and women.

Phoenix District 6 City Councilman Sal DiCiccio opposes the measure, saying “Mayor Stanton needs to push back on this radical proposal he’s got, this is his proposal, he wants to get it through and he is trying to cram it through.”

CitizenLink, associated with Focus on the Family, provides in-depth information on this issue.

Mayor Stanton and his wife Nicole were recently featured in Echo Magazine — a homosexual publication — based on the special relationship they have fostered with that community, even marching in Phoenix’ Gay Pride parade. The pair was honored as the magazine’s 2012 Man and Woman of the Year — the first “straight” pair so warmly acknowledged.

The council is scheduled to meet today at 2:30 pm at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 West Adams Street, Phoenix, AZ 85003. (map) The public is invited to participate.

It a flashy display of its own pro-homosexual bias, the daily newspaper heralds the passage of this unnecessary and problematic ordinance with the following Page One headline: Phoenix OKs ban on gay bias.

The clearly one-sided report describes the vote “to broadly outlaw discrimination against gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender residents,” peppered with numerous quotes from the homosexual lobbies and descriptions of their advocates in attendance.  The crowd estimated at 500, included those who disagreed with this expansive measure. Called “opponents” throughout the article, they received little coverage, although the latter portion of the report acknowledged  that boos and expletives were hurled at Councilman Sal DiCiccio by the supposedly dispirited contingent.

Although there was no tangible evidence of bias presented, the vote of the supposedly non-partisan city council went mainly along party lines in a 5 – 3 vote.  Republican councilmen Sal DiCiccio, Bill Gates and Jim Waring voted against the measure. RINO Thelda Williams joined Democrat Council members Michael Johnson, Daniel Valenzuela, and openly homosexual Tom Simplot, who united with Mayor Greg Stanton in support.  Michael Nowakowski, who has previously expressed his backing of the measure was not in attendance.

Promotion of homosexual issues have stepped front and center with the Arizona Republic since January 2008, when flagrant homosexual Randy Lovely took over as chief editor and VP of News at the daily newspaper. Under his guidance, in August 2010, the newspaper editorially endorsed same sex “marriage.”

Betsey Bayless: $peaking of outrageous pay raises

Mega-salaries, benefits awarded in the worst of times

Recently we’ve been exposing the grossly excessive pay hikes and benefits packages of some of our illustrious Valley notables. Phoenix City Manager David Cavazos grabbed our attention in Dec. 2012 with his massive 33% raise, which amounts to an extra $78,000 a year! He will now be pulling down a yearly base salary of $315,000 plus a $600 monthly car allowance, $35,000 a year in deferred compensation, and a $4,000 “longevity” bonus.

Yesterday we provided the lowdown on the swell deals benefiting ASU President Michael Crow and his wife Sybil Francis. His annual salary of $475,000 plus benefits now comes in at $742,500. That includes a $50,000 housing allowance to assist in maintaining their exclusive $1,250,000 Paradise Valley digs, and $10,000 yearly car allowance. The ASU Foundation on which his wife serves as a “senior advisor” kicks in an additional $100,000 annually in compensation. His yearly perks include $85,500 pension and $22,000 in retirement. Annual step-up bonuses are part of the deal: 2013: Up to $40,000, 2014: Up to $40,000 and the major step-up in 2015: Up to $180,000 for exceeding “benchmarks.” Wifey Sybil Francis rakes in a six-figure income from the university, but the exact amount is elusive.

Taxpayer’s heads should be swimming with the news already provided.  But then comes the deal of deals that Betsey Bayless, the CEO and president of Maricopa Integrated Health System (MIHS) has brokered. She just received a hefty $125,000 raise. Her base salary soared 33% overnight, from $375,003 to $500,000 — excluding benefits.

Bayless will also be allowed to enter into a 409A retirement scheme into which she contributes not a thin dime, but MIHS makes all contributions.  If that’s not enough, she will garner up to a additional $125,000 by meeting various “performance goals.” Not bad for an unqualified, but well-connected political hack with one foot already out the door.

The five-member Board of Directors of the state’s largest public health-care system approved the raise this past week on a 3-2 vote. Check out the front page of the Fiscal Year 2013 Annual Budget Book. Longtime politico and perennial appointee Bayless is pictured center right, smiling broadly, of course, while oddly wearing a doctor’s coat.

According to a report in the daily, Bayless was set to retire from her position last year. But on Dec. 31, the last day of her term, the board extended her contract while a search is underway for her replacement. Board Chairwoman Susan Gerard, a longtime Bayless associate, and board member Elbert Bicknell, voted against the pay raise. The three newly elected board members Mary Harden, Mark Dewane and Terence McMahon, who could afford to take the heat, approved the increase, saying they wanted to give Bayless a raise since the national search firm for Bayless’ replacement regarded her salary “well below” the median range for others in comparable positions.

Let’s put this all in perspective: The $217,400 salary of the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court pales in comparison. The President of the United States, whose base salary tops out at $400,000 a year, trails both Michael Crow and Betsey Bayless. David Cavazos is right on the POTUS’ tail and has left Justice John Roberts in the dust.

These lavish gifts are your tax dollars, folks.

Count on City of Phx. Dem lies, food tax to continue

Looking for integrity?  You won’t find it in the City of Phoenix

Let’s cut to the chase on this one and dissect the recent news report in the daily headlining: “Food-tax repeal may hit Phoenix hard.”

Back in February 2010, the City of Phoenix was in such dire financial straits that erstwhile Mayor Philly Gordon initiated a 2% sales tax on the food people need to survive. This, while unemployment was soaring and amid unprecedented home foreclosures.

Using scare tactics, Gordon and some of his council minions said they were “desperate to avert layoffs of police officers, firefighters and other city workers,” and needed to generate tens of millions of dollars in new revenue for city services such as senior centers and libraries. Yet even in the tough economy, in December 2009, they coughed up $14.3 million in unconscionable “retention bonuses” to 6,989 employees — who should have been happy to still have a job. Then in May 2011 Phoenix handed out an additional $28.9 million in performance pay raises and longevity awards.

Current Mayor Greg Stanton made the repeal of the food tax an integral part of his 2011 campaign as he pledged to abolish the tax by April. Now. while not making a definitive statement, he equivocates, “We still have significant challenges; the economy is not bouncing back as quickly as people had hoped.”

In a recent memo to Stanton and the City Council, City Manager David Cavazos took on the role of hedger-in-chief, removing the onus from Stanton. Cavazos claims a loss in revenue from the food tax could harm the way credit-rating agencies evaluate Phoenix. A lower credit rating would require the city to pay higher interest rates when borrowing money. Then there is the threatening hammer of layoffs of police and fire fighters, though both have been repeatedly funded by bond elections.

Both Gordon and Stanton are unconcealed Democrats who run in shams ridiculously termed “non-partisan” city elections.

And Phoenix City Manager David Cavazos hired on at $236,995 in October 2009? While acting deputy city manager, career city hack Cavazos was suspended for a week without pay after an internal investigation found that under his watch city workers spent more than $280,000 in taxpayer money on questionable travel expenses. That costly lack of management skills didn’t impede Cavazos’ accession to the top job. It does speak volumes about his utter and longstanding disregard for taxpayer dollars.

In the course of  issuing warning memos on the “stark circumstances” associated with repealing the outrageous tax on food, David Cavazos was the recent beneficiary of what amounted to the next best thing to winning the lottery jackpot.  This past December, Cavazos became the lucky recipient of a 33% raise, which amounts to an extra $78,000 a year! He will now be pulling down a base salary of $315,000 a year plus a $600 monthly car allowance, $35,000 a year in deferred compensation, and a $4,000 “longevity” bonus.

But don’t hold your breath expecting the food tax to disappear.

Phoenix Mayor Stanton: An ambitious liberal to watch

“We should never let border security get in the way of the economy”

Phoenix’ Mayor Greg Stanton has made a comment so outlandish that we recommend it be committed to memory. “We should never let border security get in the way of the economy,” the ambitious leftist declared recently.  Stanton was in Washington D.C. last week meeting with mayors of Mexican border cities at the deceptive and extremist 21st Century Border Initiative. (Check out some of the links). Affiliate NDN is a major leftist think tank with a commitment to open borders.

Stanton, like his Arizona República cheerleader Linda Valdez, views Mexico as our route to economic recovery. In fact, Mexico has cost us hundreds of billions in remittances and is a top recipient of U.S. foreign aid, reported at $330 million.

This Cronkite News article,* stunning in its biased approach, was printed in the Phoenix News section of the Arizona Republic, and reports on the meeting. 

Stanton must have missed this carefully worded directive from the U.S. Department of State detailing the unpredictability of violent crime including kidnappings, disappearances,  carjacking and highway robbery throughout Mexico, even warning that local police have been implicated in some of these incidents. U.S. citizens have been murdered and Mexican border towns have become bloody battlefields. Last year’s figures of nearly 11,000 victims killed since 2007 in the single border city of Ciudad Juarez, (abutting El Paso, Texas) — the vast majority had no involvement in the drug cartels.

The UK’s Daily Mail headlined this report detailing the brutal slaying of Morelia Mayor Maria Santos Gorrostieta, 36, kidnapped and murdered — after two previous assassination attempts by a Mexican drug gang, one of which killed her husband. She was slaughtered as she drove her young daughter to school. The Arizona Republic was unable to devote space to this tragedy.

Greg Stanton, who was congratulated on his mayoral win via calls from Barack Obama and Janet Napolitano, has higher aspirations.  His wife Nicole, also a lawyer, is making her own name among liberal groups. Keep this duo on your political radar. They are calculatingly angling deep into the circles of Dem power.

* Cronkite, an ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication student endeavor is partnered with the equally agendized Arizona Republic and it‘s Gannett-twin dispenser of liberal slant, Channel 12 — now housed in the same building . “Uncle Walter” was responsible for instituting the birth of opinion journalism.

Council candidate Kate Gallego subject of incendiary race baiting

Arizona Republic mum on “political lynching”

Who could forget the egocentric Jarrett Maupin, II, who as an Al Sharpton protégé found himself in a bit of trouble and was arrested back in 2008 for false reporting after he lied to both the FBI and the Sheriff about allegations involving then-Mayor Phil Gordon? 

Maupin ran against Gordon in the mayoral race but was tossed off the ballot after the Maricopa County Clerk’s Office determined that nearly 185 of the signatures gathered to ensure Maupin’s spot on the ballot were illegally collected by felons.  Later in 2011, the sterling Maupin served time in federal custody for violating the terms of his probation in the 2009 conviction, and was given 36 months of supervised probation upon release.

Now, like his mentor, Sharpton, notorious for his involvement the infamous Tawana Brawley case, the disgraced Maupin has taken up the loathsome mantle of race-baiting, interjecting himself into the District 8 Phoenix City Council race. 

Maupin flings the entire can of garbage at Kate Gallego, a woman who has the temerity to think she has the right as an American citizen and resident of Phoenix to run for a council seat that some in the black community think they own. In an inane effort to out her as a non-minority, Maupin even hyphenates her Hispanic married name with her maiden name, a practice she does not appear to follow, to expose “who she really is.”

As we pointed out recently, when she was being hammered for her ethnicity and skin color by former city councilman Calvin Goode, Kate Gallego is married to state Representative Ruben Gallego. Both are Democrats.

Seeing Red AZ is a politically conservative site, not in the business of giving aid and comfort to Dems.  However, the vicious assaults on this woman are reprehensible, and standing by in silence would be condoning this despicable behavior. We would be remiss not acknowledging that fact, regardless of race or party affiliation.

To complicate this sordid mess, Maupin, who fashions himself as a civil rights leader and a minister, is livid because Councilman Michael Nowakowski, a Hispanic with a Polish surname, has endorsed Kate Gallego — who is neither black nor Hispanic.  Maupin is goading him to “do the right thing and withdraw his endorsement of Kate Widland-Gallego.” Maupin chides Nowakowski to “support black leadership and promote diversity,” and calls Gallego a “white sham candidate in brown face,” “an interloping political puppet,“ (albeit with a degree from Harvard and an MBA from the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania) and “a white political patsy.”  He also refers to her as “a power-hungry white…who not is openly campaigning as white.”

And if that’s not stomach-turning enough, Maupin accuses Councilman Nowakowski of “practicing the politics of racial exploitation and engaging in the attempted political lynching of Phoenix’ black community.”

“Lynching?” Now there’s a hot button term intended to dredge up some vicious acts, although it’s clear this lynching is in reverse.

Unless we’ve missed it, not a word from the illustrious Arizona Republic newspaper on this outrageous behavior directed at Kate Gallego. Would the silence be so deafening if she were not a “white sham candidate in brown face?”

Calvin Goode: Former councilman proposes racial gerrymandering

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”  — Martin Luther King, “I Have a Dream” speech: August 28, 1963

In the most overt example of the racially bigoted thinking we had all hoped represented a bygone era, Calvin Goode, 86, shames himself and embarrasses the rest of us with his blatant racism. Imagine the outcry from minority communities if this letter to the editor had been written by someone who was not black:

Goode’s “Support Council Diversity” has been copied here, since the daily newspaper is now using a pay wall.

I have lived in Phoenix since 1944 and served on the Phoenix City Council from 1972 to 1994. Cody Williams and Michael Johnson both have commendably served since my retirement.

At the time the district system was instituted, led by former Mayor Terry Goddard and me, it was determined that District 7 would be for Latinos and District 8 would be for African-Americans. Currently on the City Council there are two Latinos (Districts 5 and 7) one African-American (District 8) and six Whites.

Recently, Kate Gallego announced her intention to be a candidate for District 8. She is White. She states she will represent all District 8 citizens, including African-Americans. I find it strange that I have not seen her at any African-American affairs or events. I am unaware of a single action that she has demonstrated to support African-Americans.

Our government is based on the premise “of the people, by the people and for the people,” which includes African-Americans as equal participants in the decision-making process. We urge all voters who believe in diverse democratic government and the inclusion of all ethnic groups in government to vote to maintain African-American leadership and preserve diversity on the Phoenix City Council as we attempt to be a government for all people, including African-Americans.

– Calvin C. Goode, Phoenix

The disturbing concept of contrived raced-based districts, conceived, Goode says, in a scheme cooked up by him and former Mayor Terry Goddard, both Democrats, is mind boggling. In this letter, he expounds on the impropriety of a “white woman” running in a council district that he says is uniquely black. Kate Gallego, also a Democrat and married to state Rep. Ruben Gallego, a Hispanic Dem, has been endorsed by Councilman Michael Nowakowski, another Democrat Hispanic, who bears a Polish surname.  A scorecard is needed to follow this twisted meandering.  For clarity, just remember this: Race trumps political affiliations, and some districts are owned by certain ethnicities.

The “white” interloper, Kate Gallego, with credentials galore, has been quoted as saying, “I don’t think there’s an African-American or Latino way to fill a pothole.” Makes sense to us.

Meanwhile, to ward off Gallego’s racial intrusion, Pastor Warren Stewart of the First Institutional Baptist Church has been recruited to enter the race — as in campaign, not skin pigment. He is expected to announce this coming week.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted to prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.  Somewhere along the way, it appears Phoenix’ black community forgot that.

Shameless Obama orders pay hikes as “cliff” looms

Our cash-strapped nation emulates Phoenix,* broke and handing out raises

The Weekly Standard tells the sordid tale of Obama’s indefensible pay hikes for federal workers, judges, members of congress and even the clownish Vice President, Joe Biden — in the wake of “fiscal cliff” negotiations.

That cliff is suddenly beginning to resemble a bona fide hoax.

Obama’s 12-page executive order showing the hefty increases is available here. Check out the Biden’s tax 1040 form here.

And take the time to read FedSmith, for the in-depth back story to this outrage.

Earlier this month, Seeing Red AZ detailed the 33% pay increase* — an extra $78,000 a year –  Phoenix City Manager, David Cavazos received, boosting him to a base salary of $315,000 a year, plus a $600 monthly car allowance, $35,000 a year in deferred compensation, and a $4,000 “longevity” bonus.

In 2010 cash-strapped Phoenix instituted a 2 % tax on food in order for the city to continue to function — or so we were told. The scare tactics and gamesmanship included threats to eliminate union firefighters, police officers and teaching positions, although they had recently been funded by a sales tax increase.  But sticking it to the citizenry is nothing new for Phoenix, which hasn’t had a fiscally responsible mayor in years, with Democrats in charge.

In December 2009, with record job losses and homes in foreclosure, $14.3 million was paid in “retention bonuses” to nearly 14,000 city employees. This, as the City Council cut $270 million, or 22 percent, from Phoenix’s general-fund budget, including $156 million from programs and services in order, they claimed, to balance the city budget.

Whether on the federal or city level, or anything in-between, think of yourself as the gullible golden goose when you look in the mirror while getting ready for work each morning. If you voted for any of these people, that’s how they view you and you can surely do no less.