Gubernatorial candidate Phil Gordon steps up his 2010 campaign

As the ninth floor beckons all schemes are on the table

Using an unrelated trip to Washington, D.C., Phoenix’s Sanctuary City Mayor Phil Gordon, threw a combustible brew onto his on-going feud with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio saying he intends to invite the national media to the Valley to monitor the sheriff’s neighborhood crime suppression sweeps.

“He (Arpaio) has become the false messiah,” the daily quoted Gordon. The missing words were: I’m the true messiah. Worship me instead.

Gordon, the subject of a citizen recall, said he intends to call a news conference at the D.C. National Press Club in September, uniquely timed to coincide with the heart of the election cycle.

Arpaio’s wry wit came through in his response that Gordon “just wants to get some press because if he takes me on, he gets his name in the paper.”

Gordon is uncharacteristically walking a fine line within the Hispanic community, which he has long courted, after the city changed its policy to allow asking immigration status of suspected illegals who have been detained.

KJZZ, the NPR affiliate, has this radio brief detailing the Latino anger toward Gordon.

Illegal Update

Just a few more good people coming to do the work Americans refuse to do

The daily reports and reports and reports

7 smugglers, 23 men in W. Valley drophouse

Phoenix police arrested seven smugglers in a west Valley drophouses Tuesday.

The bust is the third suspected drophouses found Tuesday. A shotgun and handgun were also found in the residence.

Mesa police find 22 at suspected drop house

Mesa police discovered at least 22 people in a suspected illegal alien drop house near Dobson Road and Eight Street, near the Mesa Riverview retail complex.

50 found at suspected drop house in Phoenix

Immigration and Customs Enforcement has 49 illegal aliens and one suspected smuggler in custody after Phoenix police responded to a call early Tuesday morning notifying them of a possible drop house.

ICE spokesman Vincent Picard said the illegals in custody consist of 33 adult males, 13 adult females, one unaccompanied juvenile male, and two juvenile females who were accompanied by their families. He said the number of individuals crammed into the home is “probably a little bit more than what we’ve seen recently, but it’s certainly not that unusual.”

Cárdenas Villas: “Affordable” housing for a quarter mil

Hispanic advocacy benefits extend to education, homes

Chicanos Por La Causa is building a community of affordable homes that it says incorporate the latest “green” technology in building materials to be named after Phoenix attorney José Cárdenas.

Cárdenas Villas will consist of 46 homes at 36th Street and Southern Avenue. The homes will be priced between $210,000 and $225,000, according to Charles Wood, director of housing development for the group. Grants will be available to some buyers with eligibility on HUD-structured loans starting at 80 percent of the average median income and on mortgage revenue bond program funds as high as 115 percent of AMI.

The Phoenix Business Journal carries the complete article here.

Cárdenas was the subject of a post on this site yesterday. He is a strong advocate of private financing of public education for college students illegally in the United States. State law does not deny such students an education, but requires them to pay out-of-state tuition. Although many citizens students have to work to afford the ever-escalating rates, Cárdenas supports private funding to assist those here illegally.

Taking a cue from the “affordable” housing (Cárdenas Villas) bearing his name, the scholarships could be called Cárdenas Manna.

U.S. Border Patrol agent pelted with rocks by illegals

 This incident warranted a 2-inch-by-one-column placement on page B-3 of the daily.

Well, what a surprise!

“We are extremely pleased with the outcome of the 2008 endorsement process,” said Glenn Hamer, president & CEO of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce & Industry. “Each of the endorsed candidates and ballot measures received overwhelming support of Chamber leadership on behalf of Arizona businesses.”

Readers will recall Hamer, the former Executive Director of the state Republican party, who dashed over to his new job with the pro-illegal hiring Chamber just in time to preside over the endorsement of liberal Democrat Janet Napolitano’s gubernatorial bid in a cheery demonstration of bipartisanship. Such an endorsement was rare enough, but the disappointment caused by Hamer’s defection still resonates within GOP political circles.

Both the Arizona Chamber and the Phoenix Chamber are rife with former aides and associates of Arizona’s senators, part of the trio of architects (along with Ted Kennedy) of the failed amnesty bill masquerading as an immigration reform measure. The Phoenix Chamber is now chaired by Andy McCain, son of the GOP presidential nominee. Andy is VP and chief financial officer of his step-mother’s Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship, Hensley & Co.

In an endorsement list as notable for omissions as inclusions. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas are MIA. The group dismissed conservative Carl Seel and endorsed Tony Bouie, the Legislative Distinct 6 candidate who switched his party affiliation only five days prior to filing his intent to run. Bouie is supported by the open-border business crowd at the AZ Chamber, coveting a replenished stream of exploitable laborers who eagerly accept sub-standard wages. The East Valley LD18 senate race is omitted entirely. In LD 3, conservative Sen. Ron Gould and Rep. Trish Groe are mysteriously missing.

The sheer numbers of Republicans ensure there are still reliable folks on this list, but seeking obedient legislators and other public officials is a major consideration as the vetting takes place.

The unvarnished truth in the assault on Rep. Russell Pearce

 

 

 

 

In the race for the District 18 senate seat, the undercurrents have taken on a decidedly vicious tone.

Here is an overview of the scenario:

Longtime state senator, Karen Johnson’s retirement provided a move-up for popular Rep. Russell Pearce.

But, Pearce, who gave brief consideration to a congressional challenge to U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake, apparently did the unthinkable in even giving momentary thought to such a venture. Flake, living up to his name, was so enflamed that he encouraged his immigration lawyer brother-in-law, Kevin Gibbons to jump into the fray and take on Pearce.

The underlying issue, of course, is illegal immigration.

Rep. Pearce has successfully crafted laws to curtail the flow of illegal aliens across our border. He was instrumental in the employer sanctions victory, which held employers, desirous of an exploitable low-wage labor force, accountable. The deceptively named Stop Illegal Hiring ballot initiative being run by lawyer Andrew Pacheco, actually supports normalizing illegal laborers. Pacheco was supported in his own failed county attorney race by the same pro-illegal cohorts. He now opposes the current county attorney, Andrew Thomas, who is enforcing the law these folks disdain.

Some members of the business community, arm-in-arm with the Chamber of Commerce, and various nefarious partners, have targeted Rep. Russell Pearce for having the temerity to want to protect American jobs and national sovereignty. Gibbons’ campaign has been bankrolled by supporters of the illegal workforce. Many of the donors are out-of-towners, fast-food franchisers, liquor industry honchos, home builders and prominent Democrats such as former Democrat party boss and U.S. Senate candidate, developer Jim Pederson. Even the princpal officers of Hensley & Co., Cindy McCain’s beer distributorship — one of the nation’s largest, have joined with lawyers filing unsuccessful suits to curtail the current law, all out to crush Rep. Pearce.

Last year, a contingent of business owners, putting personal profits above our national security and rule of law, threatened to oust solid conservatives who didn’t dance to their tune. We are now witnessing the shameful execution of that intimidation. They have found their willing toady in the form of Kevin Gibbons and are now carrying out their coercion.

Gibbons, the challenger, is waging an 11^th hour assault. Sending out desperate pleas for cash to hammer Pearce. He wants to represent the people of Mesa, the city in which he missed several important taxing authority elections. Participation in those elections weren’t important to him, but allowing himself to be used as a battering ram against a patriotic and proven representative of the people, is.

In a rare move, the Maricopa County Republican Executive Guidance Committee has overwhelmingly endorsed current State Representative Russell Pearce in this primary contest for the vacant State Senate seat in Legislative District 18.

Their lead is a good one for the District 18 voters to follow.

Looking for balance? Go to Sea World

Ten out of ten opinions promote single view

Does everyone support raising funds for college scholarships for illegal students?

If there is any dissent on the issue, you’d never know it by reading the Viewpoints section of the Arizona Republic. The Viewpoints are unanimous in presenting only one point of view.  And if substantiation is needed the newspaper tells us that there is “a lot of common ground” on the issue since “lots of folks think it is un-American to punish people for crimes they didn’t commit” since “they are in this country illegally through no fault of their own,” and “want to go to college and give back to the community.”

Out of two full pages on the subject, ten individuals write columns in support of private financing of public education for college students illegally in the United States.

In The Dream Remains Elusive, lawyer José A. Cárdenas writes that in 2006, Arizona voters approved Prop. 300. making university students who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents, or who do not have lawful immigration status, ineligible for state-funded or subsidized financial aid. It also requires them to pay out-of-state tuition, which is currently about $18,000 a year at Arizona State University. In-state tuition is about $5,500.

Cárdenas and his like-minded bevy of writers bemoan the fact that the tuition is too high, without stating, that in fact, the law does not prevent anyone from enrolling in the state community colleges or universities.

Tuition rates are excessive for many legal citizen students, also, but no one is offering them a DREAM Act or to foot their bills. Most work while attending school.

If you’re looking for balance, the daily newspaper is obviously not the place to find it. Go to Sea World and watch the big blue ball held aloft in a balancing act that is far preferable to this pathetic journalist venture.

It’s not just an Arizona issue

Frustrated Virginia citizens take action

The town of Vienna, Virginia is but one of America’s communities, near and far from the border, confronting the problems of illegal aliens. But in Vienna the frustrated citizens have decided to do something about it.

They have begun with a website, listing grievances and posting the names of businesses that are pledging to do the right thing by hiring only legal workers. These businesses display this certificate to let customers know who they are.

The newly formed multicultural, Vienna Citizens Group, already has many members representing varying ages and stages in life. These photos show what they are dealing with in the township of Vienna, a bedroom community just 12 miles outside of Washington, DC, which was listed as one of the best places in the country to live in 2005.

Unholy alliance: Using guise of religion to facilitate lawbreakers

Faith-based illegal sanctuaries at odds with rule of law

There is a new twist on concealing illegal aliens from deportation, according to an AP report carried by KTAR-Newstalk 92.3

Sanctuary organizer Alexia Salvatierra, a Los Angeles-based minister who recently visited Tucson said a network is in effect at houses of worship in 35 cities across the U.S., including Phoenix. The intent is to reestablish the movement in Tucson.

The Sanctuary Movement began at Tucson’s Southside Presbyterian Church during the 1980s, illegally bringing Central Americans into the United States. Claims at the time were that the they were political refugees facing persecution and death squads in their home nations. Critics charged most were merely seeking jobs.

According to sanctuary proponents, the new premise plays on what they characterize as being a unique juncture in history when divine law and human law are in conflict, and that God’s justice demands standing with those who break unjust laws. Salvatierra maintains the group’s workers do not believe they are doing anything illegal, although she cites immigration law that prohibits someone from helping an illegal immigrant, “in furtherance” of illegal entry into the United States.

“We are hoping for reform of those laws,” she said. “We believe Scripture says love is more powerful than hate, but love requires knowledge.”

Apparently the sanctuary proponents have laid aside the scripture that commands adherence to the law of the land:

And Jesus said to them, “Render therefore unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.” (Matthew 22:21)

Federal regulators shut down Scottsdale-based First National Bank of Arizona

Specialist in “lower-quality mortgages” sounds similar to Wachovia

First National Bank, Arizona’s largest locally based bank and a specialist in lower-quality mortgages, was closed by regulators yesterday, a victim of such problem loans and an ongoing real-estate slump. Federal banking regulators closed 28 branches of 1st National Bank of Nevada and First Heritage Bank, operating in Nevada, Arizona and California. The banks are owned by Scottsdale-based First National Bank Holding Co.

The bank’s failure, the second major bank collapse in recent weeks, will cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s insurance fund an estimated $862 million. The bank will be taken over by Mutual of Omaha, according to a report by CBS News.

Investment bank Bear Stearns nearly collapsed in March, but was bought out by banking giant JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a deal orchestrated by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Bloomberg News has reported that times are dire for Wachovia Bank. Even after the recent hiring of Treasury Undersecretary Robert Steel as CEO, the banking giant has turned in a record quarterly loss of $8.9 BILLION, slashed dividends and announced 6,350 job cuts. The stock slumped as much as 10 percent in New York trading. This loss marks the first time Wachovia has posted consecutive losses in at least 20 years.

What the article omits is that Wachovia’s Foundation, working in concert with the racist National Council of La Raza (The Race), provided $16.25 million to assist with “economic development” in Latino communities in the United States.

Michelle Malkin previously reported on a Wall Street Journal article documenting the fact that in recent years, banks across the country have begun offering checking accounts and mortgages to the nation’s fast-growing ranks of illegal aliens.