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Citizens launch campaign to recall Mayor Phil Gordon
If successful, mayor can resign or face special recall election
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Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon |
By Linda Bentley
PHOENIX – Anna Gaines, a naturalized citizen originally from Mexico, says she is tired of Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon’s guiding principals. She says his policies that grant special rights to illegal aliens over and above those afforded citizens and legal residents are causing divisiveness in the community.
Gordon has called those who oppose his sanctuary policies and embracement of the illegal alien community every name in the La Raza book, including racists and neo-Nazis.
“Enough is enough,” said Gaines, who finds the mayor’s name calling and race-baiting personally offensive.
Last week, Gaines rallied a group of citizens, also incensed by Gordon’s pro-illegal platform, and formed a Political Action Committee, American Citizens United (ACU), for the express purpose of recalling Gordon.
ACU’s goal is to remove Phoenix from the list of sanctuary cities and promote a safer and more secure city, while advocating for secure borders, immigration law enforcement and legal immigration.
According to Gaines, ACU is a group of patriotic American citizens united in the goal of ending massive, illegal immigration to the United States.
She says, “Our membership is like America itself, made up of people of all different races, colors and creeds. We are not a hate group and will never tolerate hatred toward any group of people based on race, color, or religion.”
Gaines is well aware of the tactics used by those who advocate for open borders and oppose immigration law enforcement, attempting to make law enforcement and secure borders a race issue, and reiterated, “We strongly object to this divisive tactic.” Gaines believes the goal of the open-borders lobby is to turn the immigration debate into ...read the whole story... |
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Socialism progressing to Communism
Garcia’s cries of racism, hatred and xenophobia are all tax-deductible
By Linda Bentley
Part II
TUCSON – As Isabel Garcia, director of the Pima County Legal Defender’s Office, collects her taxpayer funded salary, she promotes ideologies right out of the bimonthly Canadian publication: “Relay: A Socialist Project Review” promoting the same mantras espousing free movement of people, no one is illegal, open borders, open minds, and economic and social justice.”
Through her own organizations, Coalicion de Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Coalition) and Alianza Indigenas Sin Fronteras (Indigenous Alliance without Borders), Garcia throws in the victimization race card, claiming, “Our communities suffer constantly from acts of racism, hatred and xenophobia,” holding political rallies where she demands social and economic justice for illegal aliens while providing pro bono legal advice as she passes out flyers in Spanish, “Know Your Rights” to help prevent deportation.
In September 2002, Garcia issued a press release headlined: “Government Officials’ Shocking Lack of Respect,” which described an incident where deputies responded to a call about a 24-year-old woman’s...read the whole story... |
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Carefree woman fined despite claim of MCSO misconduct
Karen O’Toole files Internal Affairs complaint
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COURTESY PHOTO/KAREN O’TOOLE |
By Curtis Riggs
CAREFREE – A local woman was fined $158 last week for failure to control her vehicle despite her claim that a landscaper caused her April 22 accident and Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office deputies treated her unfairly when they arrived on scene.
Carefree Magistrate K.C. Skull found that Karen O’Toole could have avoided a pile of gravel a landscaper had placed near the road when she was driving her friend’s BMW west on Breathless Drive near dusk on April 22. He fined her $140 plus $18 in court costs.
“My general observation is there is some kind of violation with the rock being there, but why did you run into it?” Skull asked O’Toole. “There could have been five kids sitting in the road and apparently you would have run into them too.”
Skull reminded O’Toole the Santa Fe Landscaping Company was not on trial last week for placing the rock pile close to the road while it was working at the home of one of her neighbors, and added the rock pile being in the roadway, “does not exonerate you.” The single-vehicle accident caused...read the whole story... |
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T J’s Hardware Store closing after 21 years in business
Competition from big 3 got to be too much
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PHOTO BY CURTIS RIGGS
T. J. DeSantis’ hardware store is closing after 21 years in Cave Creek. |
By Curtis Riggs
CAVE CREEK – For 21 years T.J. DeSantis has been helping locals find the right bolt or screw, freeing kids from toy handcuffs and evening cutting apart a metal wine rack to release a curious sheep with its head caught.
That is until last week, when DeSantis, 74, sold the inventory at T J’s Hardware Store. He plans to spend more time at his Desert Hills home caring for his menagerie of animals.
DeSantis loved being the local hardware man for the past two decades, but found he could not compete with the three larger hardware/builder’s outlets now operating in the area.
“The competition got to be too much,” he said. His business has been impacted by Home Depot, Lowe’s and Ace Hardware in recent years. “All three of them got me.”
DeSantis sold the store’s inventory to local landscaper Jim Griffin and two other contractors.
Griffin said although he would like to find somebody “to buy the whole store” the inventory may be sold off individually on E-Bay, Craig’s List or liquidated through, “people we know.”
Despite no longer being the local go-to-guy to rectify a variety of diverse and interesting problems, DeSantis has no plans to retire.
“I’m not retiring. I’ll work around the house and then find something parttime to do,” he said about caring for 11 Barbados sheep, three horses, 14 chickens, four ducks, five German Shepherds and one pot-bellied pig.
“That’s life in the big city. It’s been a good run for 31 years,” DeSantis said about the 10 years he spent owning a hardware store in north Phoenix before opening his store in Cave Creek 21 years ago.
“I won’t be able to sit idle,” he said about no longer having to open his hardware store seven days a week. “Everybody up here knows me and I had a good run up here and made some money, but the last two years have been rough.” News of DeSantis’ departure from the hardware trade was not well received by some of his longtime, loyal customers.
“A woman came in yesterday and cried, ‘Oh, what are we going to do?” DeSantis said about a typical reaction to the news. |
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Dust ordinance still a hard pill to swallow
Cave Creek tightens belt in tough economic times
By Linda Bentley
CAVE CREEK – Utilities Manager Jessica Marlow provided an update on the town’s water system during Monday night’s council meeting and said the Neary tank was now in service and everything went smoothly.
After meeting with neighbors in the Rockaway Hills neighborhood, she said the town agreed not to paint the tank, because residents thought the concrete blended in better than anything else.
Marlow said most of the customer billing problems had to do with customers not receiving water bills for the past year and stated some people’s water meters were buried under a foot of dirt and landscaped over.
However, she said the town hired a former water company employee who has assisted in finding those “missing” meters.
Marlow told council the town now generates the billing itself and then sends them electronically to a company that prints, folds, stuffs and mails them for the town, with the current billing going out this week.
She then said the town had just sent out its first Shutoff Notice, adding, “The customer hasn’t paid his bill in a year and he told us he wasn’t going to pay.”
Sonoran News learned later the notice was sent to Arek Fressadi, who told the town, in writing, that until the town enters into a development agreement with him to resolve the stalemate they’re in with reference to his “subdivision,” he will be applying his water usage to...read the whole story... |
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 Library receives sculpture
Local sculptor Robert Thornley donated one of his favorite sculptures, “Nightwind” to the Desert Foothills Library recently in appreciation of the library over the years.
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 Brix Wine Spot opens
A new wine store, featuring 370 vintages and an array of rare wine gifts, opened in the Stagecoach Village center on April 28.
Tuesday night Cave Creek Mayor Vince Francia did the honors and cut the red ribbon to make the opening official.
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 Girls, Boys at Track Regionals; CDO ousts baseball
From their 1st places at May 2nd Regionals, (l-r) Lauren Lazo (400m), Beau Bremer (300m hurdles), Kyle Short (3200m) and Lacey Modzeleski (triple jump) led 22 Track qualifiers to State, concluding Saturday afternoon, May 10. At (Tucson) Canyon del Oro, May 3: #5 Dorados, 6 -#12 Falcons, 4, eliminating CSHS from 4A-Division I State Tournament.
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QUESTION: Carefree Mayor Fulcher would like to see the 45 MPH speed limit on Cave Creek Road, north of Carefree Highway, in Carefree lowered. Do you agree?
VOTE!
Yes 14% No 86%
253 Votes
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