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Saturday, May 2, 2015
Invitation To Arizona Governor Raul Castro's Celebration of Life
Friday, May 1, 2015
Arizona Rep. Schweikert Budget Presentation
Update on the Congressional Budget by Rep David Schweikert
Date: Monday, May 4, 2015
Time: 4:00 p.m
to 5 p.m..
Location:
City of Scottsdale, Mustang Library
Auditorium
10101 North 90th Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85258
Thursday, April 30, 2015
Arizona-A gentle reminder - Annual LD 23 Legislator's Breakfast-always a great time!
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Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Invite To Marco Rubio Event In Paradise Valley,AZ May 6
You are cordially invited
to a private reception honoring
U.S. Senator Marco
Rubio
Wednesday, May
6th, 2015
3:15 p.m. – 4:15
p.m.
The
Sanctuary
For questions or to RSVP,
please contact Michelle Hyde
By phone at (602)
633-2777
Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio's Bag of Tricks
Magic and politics have a lot in common – because they’re both all about
deception. 
However, there’s one big difference between the two: We enjoy being fooled by a magician. But when a politician tries to trick us we’re offended.
Sal DiCiccio is the David Copperfield of Phoenix politics … bold, brash and willing to bullshit people without blinking. DiCiccio is the maestro of misdirection and the master of misinformation.
DiCiccio’s latest strategy to defeat Mayor Stanton’s transportation tax not only stretches the truth, it rewrites reality. He’s telling voters they have a critical decision to make at the polls August 25th. Sal says: “This is about teachers or trains.” He continues by saying that just $1 billion of the $31 billion proposed tax would pay for 18,500 teachers. Sal wants us to believe our choice is between hiring more teachers or funding more trains as part of the proposal to extend the light rail system 42 more miles.
But there’s a big problem with that argument, because the City of Phoenix doesn’t fund education.
Sal isn’t stupid. He knows the city doesn’t provide funding for schools or teachers. He does, however, know how to fire up his voter base -- those who react to phony issues and silly sound bites. So while he may be invigorating the uninformed, he’s insulting the intelligence of the majority of voters who know better.
The Difference Between Day and Night
Because Sal’s sleight of hand skills are slipping, he’s also falling back on the oldest political trick in the book: Fearmongering!
DiCiccio has started cautioning us that Phoenix could turn into another Detroit. All that warning proves is that DiCiccio doesn’t know diddly squat about the demise of Detroit.
For decades Detroit was one of the country’s major manufacturing hubs. The core of the Motor City’s manufacturing was the automobile industry. When the economy hit a tailspin and people’s driving habits changed because of skyrocketing gasoline prices, competition from foreign car companies that manufactured cars with better gas mileage increased. Consequently, people who lived within the city limits either fled to the suburbs or migrated to other parts of the country to escape Detroit’s collapsing economy.
As a result, Detroit’s population sank like a stone … as did the city’s revenues to keep it running.
It would be difficult to find two cities with less in common than Detroit, Michigan and Phoenix, Arizona. But that hasn’t stopped Sal from trying to spook people about an impending financial implosion of Phoenix, no matter how farfetched his admonition.
Only yesterday DiCiccio pleaded with constituents: “Let’s not take the City of Phoenix down the same tracks as Detroit.” Original Post:Phoenix Views
However, there’s one big difference between the two: We enjoy being fooled by a magician. But when a politician tries to trick us we’re offended.
Sal DiCiccio is the David Copperfield of Phoenix politics … bold, brash and willing to bullshit people without blinking. DiCiccio is the maestro of misdirection and the master of misinformation.
DiCiccio’s latest strategy to defeat Mayor Stanton’s transportation tax not only stretches the truth, it rewrites reality. He’s telling voters they have a critical decision to make at the polls August 25th. Sal says: “This is about teachers or trains.” He continues by saying that just $1 billion of the $31 billion proposed tax would pay for 18,500 teachers. Sal wants us to believe our choice is between hiring more teachers or funding more trains as part of the proposal to extend the light rail system 42 more miles.
But there’s a big problem with that argument, because the City of Phoenix doesn’t fund education.
Sal isn’t stupid. He knows the city doesn’t provide funding for schools or teachers. He does, however, know how to fire up his voter base -- those who react to phony issues and silly sound bites. So while he may be invigorating the uninformed, he’s insulting the intelligence of the majority of voters who know better.
The Difference Between Day and Night
Because Sal’s sleight of hand skills are slipping, he’s also falling back on the oldest political trick in the book: Fearmongering!
DiCiccio has started cautioning us that Phoenix could turn into another Detroit. All that warning proves is that DiCiccio doesn’t know diddly squat about the demise of Detroit.
For decades Detroit was one of the country’s major manufacturing hubs. The core of the Motor City’s manufacturing was the automobile industry. When the economy hit a tailspin and people’s driving habits changed because of skyrocketing gasoline prices, competition from foreign car companies that manufactured cars with better gas mileage increased. Consequently, people who lived within the city limits either fled to the suburbs or migrated to other parts of the country to escape Detroit’s collapsing economy.
As a result, Detroit’s population sank like a stone … as did the city’s revenues to keep it running.
It would be difficult to find two cities with less in common than Detroit, Michigan and Phoenix, Arizona. But that hasn’t stopped Sal from trying to spook people about an impending financial implosion of Phoenix, no matter how farfetched his admonition.
Only yesterday DiCiccio pleaded with constituents: “Let’s not take the City of Phoenix down the same tracks as Detroit.” Original Post:Phoenix Views
Potential efficiencies pushed aside for politics by Jim Waring Phoenix City Council
Last week, Council members Thelda Williams, Bill Gates, Sal DiCiccio and myself
voted against a proposal that some believe will allow
Phoenix to create its own ID card. This could cost, based on the experiences of
other cities, the City of Phoenix millions of dollars in startup costs and
millions more in annual costs to produce a card that would not serve as valid
identification to police officers.
The City Council should address its budget issues and not spend time on what will be an expensive attempt to circumvent immigration laws, which are the federal government's responsibility. Please see below for a few articles from the Arizona Republic on the issue.
Thanks so much,
Jim Waring
Phoenix City Councilman - District 2
The City Council should address its budget issues and not spend time on what will be an expensive attempt to circumvent immigration laws, which are the federal government's responsibility. Please see below for a few articles from the Arizona Republic on the issue.
Thanks so much,
Jim Waring
Phoenix City Councilman - District 2
Read the full articles:
What if Phoenix creates a unified ID?
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