I Need Your Help To Win!

Christmas Shopping With The Boys and Girls Club

Goldwater At The Border

More on Don's Visit to Yuma

I am running a Clean Election campaign for Governor and I need your help. The rules governing clean elections allow candidates to spend a specified amount in the Primary and General Elections.

If a candidate running a traditional campaign raises more that what is allowed by Clean Elections, the other candidates receive additional matching funds. The end result is that the candidate running a traditional campaign ends up raising funds for his or her opponent; I choose not to do this.

We are currently in the Qualifying Period of the campaign. During the qualifying period I am charged with obtaining over 7,000 petition signatures, 5,040- $5.00 contributions, and raising $46,000 in “Seed Money” to cover the initial campaign expenses (i.e. printing petitions, support cards, brochures, banners, and office expenses).

By law, my family and I can only donate a little more than $1,000 into the campaign which we have already done. Now, we must have your help.

1. Please sign my nominating petition for Governor. Only citizens of Arizona who are currently registered to vote as Republican or Independent can sign our petitions. Please contact our Petition Chairman Nick Hagen at (480) 396-4923 or nshagen42@msn.com to have petitions delivered to you.

2. Please donate a $5.00 qualifying contribution to my campaign. You can download a $5 Clean Elections form from this web site at www.goldwaterforgovernor.org and send me a $5.00 donation today. Only citizens of Arizona who are registered to vote may participate.

3. Please send a check for up to $120 for Early Contributions or "Seed Money" today. Any individual can participate in this activity regardless of voter registration or U.S. residency. You can send multiple donations from a joint account but all members of the joint account must sign the check. Along with this contribution, please provide your name, address, employer, and occupation. Please make checks payable to Goldwater For Governor and send all correspondence, checks and forms to:

Goldwater for Governor
P. O. Box 162
Phoenix, Arizona 85001
(602) 920-2958

4. Please organize a meeting of your friends, family and business associates so I can come speak about the serious issues facing our state and ask them to participate in my campaign.

Thank you for your interest in our campaign. I look forward to working with you. For additional information please visit my web site at http://www.goldwaterforgovernor.org.

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Five Goldwater Republicans elected to key Party positions

Sun City West, Arizona. January 14, 2005

A resounding victory by the Goldwater for Governor forces in the Maricopa County Republican Committee (MCRC) biannual Mandatory Meeting was a practical demonstration of their effectively doing the groundwork necessary for a winning campaign.

The highlight of the meeting was the election of Members-at-Large to the Executive Guidance Committee of the county party's central governing committee. In an overwhelming display of grassroots organization and support, all five Maricopa County Republican Party Members-at-Large positions were filled with Goldwater Republicans party leaders who have pledged their support to gubernatorial candidate Don Goldwater.

Mudassir Khan, Don Hesselbrock, Dan Nichols, Ken Going and former Rep. Jean McGrath were all elected on the first ballot. Khan and Hesselbrock both cited the support and organization provided by the Goldwater for Governor team leaders as instrumental in their election. Ken Going agreed, saying, “as a life- long Republican who only moved to Arizona four years ago, I could not have won this election without the support of the Goldwater Team.” Nichols and McGrath were unavailable for comment; however, both have pledged their support to Goldwater.

Underscoring the strong statewide strength of the Goldwater candidacy, reputable national polling organizations consistently show Goldwater with a large lead over all other Republican candidates in every poll they have conducted. The results of each poll show he is in a virtual tie with the incumbent governor and clearly demonstrate that Goldwater is the leading candidate with registered Republican voters.

Nearly one thousand elected and appointed Republican Precinct Committeemen from across Maricopa County converged on the Sundome in Sun City West to participate in the MCRC business meeting and political rally. After hearing stirring speeches from United States Senator Jon Kyl and Secretary of State Jan Brewer, and with all the Republican statewide elected officials in attendance, the delegates passed three resolutions, passed By- laws changes, memorialized those members who passed away in 2005 and elected their Party leadership for this election year.

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Bills Sent To The Governor This Week

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HB 2004

School tuition organizations; tax credit Sponsors: Representatives Tully, Boone, Pearce, Pierce, Robson, Weiers J

HB 2004 establishes a corporate income tax credit for contributions by a corporation to a Student Tuition Organization (STO).

History

In 1997, the Legislature created two tax credits for individual taxpayers for contributions related to education. The first allows taxpayers a credit for fees or cash contributions to an Arizona public school for the support of extracurricular activities and character education programs. The second credit available to individuals is for cash contributions to a school tuition organization (STO). Current statute defines STO and Qualified School for purposes of the individual income tax credits. An STO is defined in statute as a 501(c)(3) organization that allocates at least 90 percent of its annual revenue for scholarships or tuition grants allowing children to attend a qualified private school (kindergarten through twelfth grade) of their parents’ choice. Corporations are not eligible for these credits. A Qualified School is a private primary or secondary school, or a preschool for handicapped children, which does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, handicap, familial status or national origin and satisfies the statutory requirements for private schools. This bill modifies the definition of Qualified School for corporate income tax credit purposes. Currently, Pennsylvania and Florida allow corporations to take a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for contributions to private schools. In Pennsylvania, the corporate scholarship credit was capped at $100,000 during the first year of the program; thereafter the credit was capped at $20 million. Recently, corporations took $19 million in tax credits. These scholarships may be awarded to low income students who are already enrolled in private schools. Similarly, Florida allows corporations to take a tax credit for scholarship donations. Florida’s program is capped at $50 million annually.

HB 2004 establishes a new income tax credit for contributions to STO’s in this state. This bill is similar to SB 1527 (HB 2778) from the 2005 regular session that was vetoed by the Governor.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HB 2007 Tourism and sports authority; funding Sponsors: Representatives Pearce, Boone, Pierce, et al.

HB 2007 eliminates the automatic transfer of monies from the general fund to the Arizona Sports and Tourism Authority (STA) when the National Football League income tax falls below the calculated minimum.

History

The STA is responsible for constructing, financing, maintaining, operating and promoting a multipurpose facility, major league baseball spring training facilities and community youth and amateur sports facilities (Laws 2000, Chapter 372). Funding sources include monies that are generated by a tax increase on hotels (1%) and car rental surcharge (3.25%) approved by Maricopa county voters at the November 7, 2000 election. In addition, the STA receives recaptured transaction privilege tax revenues generated at the multipurpose facility as well as income taxes generated by the Arizona Cardinals football franchise, its players and employees. According to statute, the STA is required to receive a minimum amount of NFL tax collections each year. If there are shortfalls in income tax collections, additional general fund monies make up the difference. For the first half of FY 2006, the STA has received a total of $2.4 million from NFL tax collections; of that amount $616,238 is backfill from the General Fund. In 2002, the Arizona Court of Appeals in Long v. Napolitano stated that the STA is prohibited from pledging monies from the state’s general funds to pay and secure bond obligations.

The Arizona Cardinals football franchise is required to contribute $85 million towards construction of the facility, but the franchise also retains the naming rights for the facility. Additionally, the STA has the power to issue bonds and pledge revenues to secure those bonds for purposes related to construction of the facility.

Provisions

• Eliminates the automatic transfer of monies from the general fund to the STA when the National Football League income tax falls below the calculated minimum. • Contains a retroactive date to from and after June 30, 2006. • • Forty-seventh Legislature • Second Regular Session January 11, 2006

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HB 2005 Federal monies; deposit Sponsors: Representative Tully, Boone, Pearce, et al.

HB 2005 directs any unrestricted federal monies received through June 30, 2006 be deposited in the state General Fund for the payment of essential government services.

History

Arizona Legislative control over federal monies is limited to those monies that are specifically allocated by Congress to the Legislature. All other federal monies are distributed by the Executive Office. Federal monies comprise approximately one-third of Joint Legislative Budget Committee’s estimated expenditures for 2006. Approximately $7.33 billion of the state’s estimated $23.36 billion total expenditures are expected to be federal. Arizona is one of five states in which the Legislature does not have specific authority over federal monies. Legislatures in other states have either specific authorization over federal funds (full appropriation control over amount and purpose) or open-ended authorization (where the legislature authorizes the state to spend without declaring an amount or purpose).

Provisions

• Stipulates any unrestricted federal monies received through June 30, 2006 be deposited in the state General Fund for payment of essential government services.

• Includes retroactive date of April 30, 2005.

• Forty-seventh Legislature Second Regular Session January 5, 2006

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HB 2006 Appropriation; budget stabilization fund Sponsors: Representatives Tully, Boone, Pearce, et al.

HB 2006 appropriates $313,836,000 from the State General Fund to the Budget Stabilization Fund in FY 2006.

Provisions

• Appropriates $313,836,000 from the State General Fund to the Budget Stabilization Fund in FY 2006.

• Provides a retroactive effective date of June 30, 2005.

Forty-seventh Legislature Second Regular Session January 6, 2006

Reprinted From The Yuma Sun Newspaper

Goldwater vows to crack down on illegal immigration
BY JONATHAN ATHENS, SUN STAFF WRITER

Published on: January 12, 2006

Republican gubernatorial hopeful Don Goldwater on Thursday vowed to crack down on illegal immigration and called for education reform and a cap on private property taxes. Goldwater, 50, also criticized incumbent Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat, on her approach to illegal immigration. Citing Napolitano’s recent proposal to place Arizona National Guardsmen along the border, Goldwater said: "Until I actually see her put the National Guard on the border, I’m taking her word with a grain of salt." The nephew of the late Sen. Barry Goldwater spoke to an audience of just more than two dozen people during the monthly meeting of People for the USA’s Yuma chapter at the Yuma main library. Goldwater has been active in Republican Party politics since 1972, according to biographical information posted on his campaign’s Web site, goldwater4governor.org.

He previously worked in the private sector as a financial consultant and for the past seven years, has worked for the state as a director of special events, a financial officer and as a solicitor, according to the Web site.

During his talk, Goldwater promised to use National Guardsmen to shore up border security and said he wants to house arrested illegal immigrants in tent cities and use them as labor to build a fence along the Arizona-Mexico border.

"We are at war at this time and we need to start treating the border as if we are in a war," Goldwater said.

With regard to companies that knowingly hire illegal immigrant labor, Goldwater said those companies "should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law."

Goldwater also called for reform in education spending, saying the local school boards should assess costs for classroom needs first and building and maintenance costs second.

Goldwater also called for a return to teaching "reading, writing and arithmetic" and said he would vote for school vouchers "in a heartbeat."

Concerning taxes, Goldwater called for a constitutional cap on property tax assessments for homeowners

"We’re taxing people out of their own private homes. This has got to stop," he said.

Goldwater is slated to return to Yuma later this month to attend a political luncheon.

He visited Yuma in late 2005 and is the only one of the six GOP gubernatorial candidates who have officially filed with the state to have visited Yuma thus far.