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Goldwater At The Border

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.

Governor’s Vetoes are dishonorable, but consistent PHOENIX - January 17, 2006

Don Goldwater, the leading challenger to the incumbent governor, blasted Napolitano’s vetoes today of House Bills 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007 as a repudiation of the desires of the people of Arizona. In last year’s Kenski poll, 91.4 percent of Arizonans supported one or more of the five school choice proposals at the Legislature, with 65.6 percent “strongly” in favor of one or more of the programs.

Today’s actions reinforce the established fact that the governor’s words do not have any validity. In her veto of HB2004 last year, the governor stated that she was only vetoing it because it did not have a five-year sunset provision. Well, this year’s bill included that sunset provision and she still vetoed it. It seems that House Speaker Jim Weiers’ statement last year that “She lied,” now can be changed slightly to “She lies.” Her IQ (Integrity Quotient) has fallen off the chart and shattered on the floor.

HB 2004 would have established a corporate income tax credit for contributions by corporations to student tuition organizations. “This bill was a winner for taxpayers, a winner for parents and a winner for children,” said Goldwater “The government could’ve saved thousands of dollars for each child who left the monopolistic public school system that is failing our children across the state. Signing this bill could’ve given low-income Arizona students a chance at a high-quality education and, in addition, would have been a partial solution to complying with the federal court mandate in the Flores case.” The average state funding per student for “public” schools in Arizona is $8,500 to $9,000, while tuition for private schools is typically between $3,700 and $5,500. Under HB2004, the maximum scholarship was $4,200 for students in K-8, and $5,500 for high school students. Even if each of the scholarships hit the maximum of $5,500 per student, the state would’ve saved more than $3,000 per student. The only problem with this bill is it didn’t go far enough to help enough children and reduce taxpayer costs. HB2004 would have required that 70 percent of the funds be spent on children with family incomes below 185 percent of the income limit to qualify for reduced lunches.

This bill would have targeted those areas with the lowest scores on student achievement testing and families who have the least economic ability to seek alternative schooling for their children. Not accidentally, these very areas also have the highest criminal activity and other social service costs. It is impossible to calculate how much the taxpayers will have to subsidize in direct and indirect societal costs as a result of the governor’s veto.

The governor’s vetoes of HB 2005, HB2006, and HB2007 serve only to further prove that her word is not her bond – or, at least, that it is a junk bond. Remember, she assured legislative leaders last year she that agreed to a budget compromise, then line- item vetoed sections of the very budget she had agreed to sign.

Registered voter preference polls conducted by national polling companies, including three completed for the Wall Street Journal, uniformly show that Don Goldwater is virtually tied with the governor. “We are gratified by these early polls, and her actions today can only strengthen the resolve of Arizona voters to make a change,” said Goldwater. “I am grateful that the legislature forwarded these bills to her in the first week of this year’s legislative session to allow her to correct last year’s ‘bait-and-switch’ actions. Unfortunately, once again, she failed the IQ test. We look forward to this November when the voters of Arizona will have an opportunity to cast the deciding poll to restore real leadership in the governor’s office.”