Corporate lackeys endorse a corporate lackey. Big surprise.
Posted by: Donna
Throughout his campaign, he has called for a “laser focus” on jobs. He promotes a seven-point plan, much of it similar to other candidates’ plans, with one important difference. Gullett understands government doesn’t create jobs; business does. But business needs capital to grow, and that has been hard to come by lately. Gullett would leverage city assets to encourage banks to loan to local business and would shear the government red tape that needlessly delays private enterprise.
Gullett is running as an outsider, a label that doesn’t quite fit someone who chaired the Planning Commission and whose wife was Mayor Phil Gordon’s chief of staff. A criticism of Gullett is that he may slip too easily into the role of City Hall insider. Gullett would need to guard against that.
Because he has never served on the City Council, he isn’t tied to past decisions. He can easily make a clean break with the past. With an insider’s knowledge, he can maneuver through City Hall’s byzantine process and internecine fighting. He has the temperament to get things done.
Blah blah blah, he’s our corporate lackey, blah blah. Did we mention UNIONS??!?
Second, reforming the city’s pay-and-benefit structure. Phoenix, which has been slashing popular services and raising taxes to close budget deficits, must confront its public-employee unions if it is to roll back unsustainable levels of compensation, pensions and other benefits.
Some of the six candidates for mayor in the Aug. 30 election are well-suited to take on the city’s employee unions but less likely to nurture the economy. Others have strong economic-development plans but raise doubts about their ability to stand up to unions.
Wes Gullett is perfectly suited to the kind of shitty third world economy that the Arizona Republic envisions for the future of Phoenix. Which is why they endorsed him.
Yawn.
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Neelys longtime links to liberal causes exposed
Wasteful spending of taxpayer dollars another Neely hallmark
Former District 2 Phoenix City Councilwoman Peggy Neely, 52, is now running for mayor, benignly describing herself as a soccer mom. Don’t be fooled. She is a career politician irrevocably tied to extreme liberal elements while cloaking herself as a Republican. Neely has the words, Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, emblazoned across the top of her campaign signs.
But Phoenix residents recall all too well when the jobs she was seeking to ensure were those of illegal laborers who had entered our country in violation of the law. Her steadfast support of the Macehualli Day Labor Center and its radical activist founder, Salvador Reza, along with her numerous other deceptions, should not be rewarded with your vote. Neely supported the $97.4 million subsidy for the CityNorth development, resulting in a lawsuit by the Goldwater Institute.
The backlash to her support of gifting $120,000 in taxpayer dollars to Rezas center was so great that opponents of Neelys actions initiated a recall election against her. That support also led voters in 2004 to overwhelmingly pass Proposition 200. The law bans illegal aliens from receiving some public benefits and requires voters to show proof of citizenship.
This article was borrowed from a recent editorial in a local blog. Thanks for the truth. Clif Freedman, President Sonoran Citizens Improvement Association and PAC SCIA for Phoenix.
Please do not vote for Peggy Neely. It is time for a full court press against Neely. She is the worst choice for mayor of Phoenix. The problem is that any of the other candidates are far better than Neely. I believe in Wes Gullet because I think he is brilliant. None of the other candidates have the capacity to move Phoenix forward in this economy. And the other candidates already had many years to not only make productive changes but were in office when the economy turned down. They did NOTHING to help Phoenix when they were in office.
And now we see career politicians working to elect each other. First insider and former Mayor of Phoenix for two terms Skip Rimza and now insider and career politician and current Councilman Michael Johnson. Johnson and Neely did nothing to help Phoenix in the past and now they are forming a duet to sing a different tune. Do not fall for it. They clearly are singing out of tune.
And now Neely comes up with a 12-step program to save Phoenix should she ever get elected. One of the steps is ironic. If this step were in place now, Neely would probably find herself in jail. Here is the step:
Strengthen the ethics policy: Develop a stronger and clearer conflict of interest and ethics policy statement that will clearly point out the minimum requirements any elected official and those appointed by the elected body are to abide by. I would also include those who serve on boards and commissions. There should be no loophole, ambiguity or general lack of clarity that all of us who serve the will of the people should be expected to follow. In addition, there should be strong monetary sanctions and the risk of removal from the position imposed on anyone found to be guilty of violating the public trust in their capacity as public servants.
I am compiling information from the public that can assist in this matter against Neely. Knowing that Neely almost destroyed North Phoenix but fortunately resigned from the City Council just in time is my motivation to keep her from becoming Mayor. Peggy Neely does not have a clue how to respond to her constituents. She ignored serious problems in her district and set her sites on being Mayor. In this case all you have to do is look at who has contributed to her campaign. Developers, zoning attorneys and others that upon information and belief got favors from Neely for their political donations. More to come on the list of donors!
Bryan Jeffries to the rescue. Bryan is the best thing to happen to District 2. Please email the information you have that I can use to help defeat her. I will research all information. Even the Phoenix Board of Realtors endorsed another candidate. Neely is a Real Estate Broker and marketed herself as the only Candidate for Mayor who is a Real Estate Broker…and the Phoenix Board of Realtors endorsed Wes Gullett. Most in District 2 hate her. Her involvement in the City North debacle is enough reason to insure her defeat. In my opinion everywhere she goes she becomes disliked by the people she associates with. My name is Clif Freedman, President of Sonoran Citizens Improvement Association. Email me at Clif@sonoranciitizens.org. or call me 623 434 5256.