Barney Brenner to Speak @ September 15 Meeting of Pima YRs

It is with great enthusiasm that I announce Barney Brenner, the Republican candidate for Pima County Supervisor in District 3, as the speaker at the next meeting of the Pima YRs. Our meeting will be held @ Shogun Sushi on the northeast corner of River & Oracle Rds @ 7pm on Monday, September 15.

Barney almost won this seat before & now he's back to take this seat back for Republicans for good!

Sharon Bronson is a liberal Democrat and needs to go now! And Barney, the former Chairman of the Pima County Republican Club, is the best shot that we've had at this seat in a long time. He has been active in local Republican politics for a long time now & needs our help to get elected in November. Please join us to hear him speak & ask him questions this coming Monday.

If you will be able to attend, please RSVP to Tyler Mott.

Thanks. And I hope to see you all @ our next meeting!

And the Winners Are...

Sorry this took so long to send out, but there was one really close Primary race that kept the election results in doubt. It now appears that we have our winners from the most hotly contested Primary races with the exception of one race for the State House in LD26.

But first, on behalf of the Pima County Young Republican Club, I want to congratulate the candidates who won on Primary Night for running good campaigns. We also want to give kudos to members of our club who worked hard on those winning campaigns.

We also want to thank members of our club who may have worked hard on campaigns that didn't quite make it but fought hard anyway. There were some extremely close races during this Primary Election. In campaigns, there are always winners & losers, and we always hope that the best man or woman wins.

Republican voters in Pima County had many fine candidates from which to choose. And we hope that the best candidates are the ones who ended up winning this last Tuesday. As a club, the Pima County YRs are required to support our Republican candidates once they have won their respective Primary campaigns. So I hope that you all join the club in supporting our candidates onto victory in November.

With all of that said, the most hotly contested races appeared to be the State Senate race in LD26, the State House races in LD26 & LD30, and the Pima County Supervisor race in District 1. The results from these races are as follows:

We congratulate Al Melvin who won a hard fought campaign against State Representative Pete Hershberger to be the Republican candidate for State Senate. Both candidates worked very hard, and we now hope can put their differences behind them & unite in order to beat the Democratic candidate in November.

We also congratulate Vic Williams who won the most votes in the Republican Primary for State House in LD26. Vic has told me that he knocked on over 8500 doors during the Primary campaign - showing how much hard work in campaigns pays off. For the right to join Vic on the November ballot, we have a nail biter between Marilyn Zerull and club member Trent Humphries. I know that Club Vice Chair Michael Cole worked hard on the Humphries campaign. I am still not sure if they are done counting votes, but as of Tuesday, September 09, 2008 at 4:21:07 pm, Marilyn had a 50 lead over Trent. We hope them both the best.

*On an extremely sad side note, Marilyn's husband passed away this past weekend of a heart attack. Our thoughts & prayers go out to her and her family during this extremely difficult time. Marilyn had just recently lost her mother & had to miss many days of campaigning in order to tend to family business.

In the LD30 State House races, we want to congratulate David Gowan who received the most votes in the Republican Primary followed by Frank Antenori. Please do what you can to support both of them make it to the State House & make it harder for Janet Napolitano to get her liberal agenda force fed to Arizona voters.

In the Election for County Supervisor in Supervisorial District 1, we congratulate incumbent Ann Day beat back a fierce insurgent campaign by Joe Higgins. Our Club Treasurer Emily Mitchell worked hard on the Higgins campaign.

Please Help Us Protect Marriage in Arizona!

I wanted to make this extremely important plea for help on an absolutely critical issue.

Marriage in America is under attack by extreme homosexual activists who want to completely redefine the family.

There are a number of states this year holding very big votes on the issue of protecting marriage. The two states where this issue is probably most important for those of us here in Pima County are the propositions on the ballot right here in Arizona & on the ballot of our large neighbor to the west, California.

In 2006, Arizona became the first & only state in the nation to have rejected a Marriage Amendment. Many have argued that this major defeat for Arizona families was because the amendment on the Arizona ballot in 2006 may have gone too far.

This year the simplified Amendment on the ballot will be PROPOSITION 102. The proposed Amendment to the Arizona Constitution reads as follows:
“Only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state.”
We must pass PROPOSTION 102 in order to ensure that activist liberal judges cannot force Arizona to recognize the "marriages" of gays & lesbians performed in Arizona or elsewhere.

This year, Arizona needs to vote a resounding "Yes" on Proposition 102!

Since the liberal media and some very well-funded anti-religious hate groups will be pouring money & resources into the fight against the Arizona Marriage Amendment, Arizonans who want to protect & defend the family must give everything they can to help guarantee victory for Arizona families.

If you have questions about the Arizona Marriage Amendment or would like donate of your time or money to this cause, please visit the Arizona Marriage Amendment website @ www.YesforMarriage.com.

The Arizona Marriage Amendment needs your financial help in order to get its message out to voters.

Also, the Marriage Amendment in California might be the single most important issue on the ballot anywhere in America this year. If passed, it will reverse the ruling by judicial fiat of 4 tyrants on California Supreme Court.  If it fails, California is likely to begin exporting "gay marriage" all over America very soon.

If you believe that this is an important issue & have the resources to help our neighbors in California pass their Marriage Amendment to reverse the decision of 4 liberal California Supreme Court Justices, please help them also by donating at www.ProtectMarriage.com.

Thank you for your supoort of Prop 102 & of the sactity of marriage.

This is Messed Up!

I found this article on Drudge. It's an article about a British soldier who was recently told that the British hotel he was trying to stay @ did not allow members of the military to stay there. He was in town to attend the funeral of a fallen comrade & the injured British soldier was forced to sleep in his car.

Our military heroes must always be treated with the utmost respect. Their sacrifices demand that.

We - and the British - do not need another situation like what happened during Viet Nam when soldiers & marines returning home were spat upon.

God bless our men & women in uniform!

Her Speech last night

BREAKING: Sarah Palin "Winged" Her Speech Because of "Broken" Teleprompter

Posted by: Erick Erickson

Thursday, September 4, 2008 at 01:00AM

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Halfway through Sarah Palin's speech tonight at the RNC, people following the speech noticed she was deviating from the prepared text.

According to sources close to the McCain campaign, the teleprompter continued scrolling during applause breaks. As a result, half way through the speech, the speech had scrolled significantly from where Governor Palin was in the speech. The malfunction also occurred during Rudy Giuliani's speech, explaining his significant deviations from his speech.

Unfazed, Governor Palin continued, from memory, to deliver her speech without the teleprompter cued to the appropriate point in her speech.

Contrast this to Barack Obama who, when last his teleprompter malfunctioned, was left stuttering before a crowd unable to advance his speech until the problem was resolved.

Sarah Palin. Winner.