Above is the supposed contact list for the DRB and Planning Commission. If these links fail to work, blame the board members for participating in the super-secret government run my Manross and Dolan.

If you have any questions concerning any planned projects, don't hesitate to contact the ones above who make the decisions.

 ~ Support the Candidate of Your Choice!

Petitions will be available for signing at:

•  8am to Noon. Randy's Restaurant just west of Hayden on the north side of Chaparral.

• Mustang Library: During open hours

• Civic Center Library: Most of the day

• Call 480-326-2475 if you need someone to come to you with a petition so you can sign.

Anyone still having signed Petition Sheets out for any candidate needs to get them turned in to the candidates by Monday, June 2nd without fail. If you have a problem, call the Scottsdale Activist at 480-326-2475 and we'll get them to the right candidate for you in time for them to turn them in to the City Clerk!!

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The website, Scottsdale Traffic.com has been updated with new videos and comments from council members.  If you want to know the opinions of incumbent City Council candidates regarding current events and hot topics, check out some of the videos on the website.

Check it out at: http://www.scottsdaletraffic.com/

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Beverly Lloyd-Lee said it best when she commented in the Scottsdale Republic that successful cities expand on the basic theme under which they experienced their successful beginnings and without losing sight of that theme.

Scottsdale, under the leadership(?) of Manross and her administrations have done exactly the opposite. Gone is Rawhide and many of the entities and venues unique to Scottsdale and for what reason? We’ll never know because the Manross Administration went into secret mode and has been in that mode ever since she was elected 8 years ago.

The theme "The West’s Most Western Town" was the theme for years and was expanded by Mayor Drinkwater by his manner of western style dress, his friendly and  folksy mannerisms, his ability to communicate openly with his constituents, and his ability to humbly admit publicly when he had made a mistake (which he did on more than one occasion).

Why the Manross administration tried to dump that theme is very upsetting to the vast majority of the residents who have lived in Scottsdale for 20 or more years.

It’s not too late to resurrect the theme before the new downtown plan update is completed. All that is required is to limit the styles, density and heights of projected buildings to accommodate the current infrastructure, parks, and other city amenities currently provided by the city of Scottsdale, and to demand that the tried and true "The West’s Most Western Town" theme be very evident in any and all new projects.

This DOES NOT mean zero growth. It DOES mean controlled growth which allows the city to live within its means while growing at a sustainable rate which will keep property taxes low and quality of the city far above the normal American city.

There is absolutely no reason to continue on the Manross theme of build bigger, higher and denser to fill the city coffers. What they don’t tell you is that sooner or later all of the things which Manross and the council majority haven’t taken care of will come up and bite all of us in the wallets to the point of no return.

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One by one, we’ll comment on some of what Mayor Manross and her "Toadies" consider accomplishments during the years she has been in city politics.

Cost to purchase land from Steve Ellman through ASUF & ASU: ^$42 million dollars.

Appraised Market Value: ^$21 million

Cost to taxpayers: ^$120 million for the land and city provided infrastructure plus interest and continuing infrastructure and miscellaneous other costs for life of the 198 year lease.

"Green" environmental considerations: None but the trees surrounding the buildings. Current building which have been classed by a LEEDs qualified expert as Class "B", run of the mill economy built office buildings with nothing LEEDs certifiable except possibly the window shades.

Direct return to taxpayers on invested tax dollars: None but original cash outlay by the taxpayers of ^$81 million over the life of the lease without any assessed interest (Wouldn't you like a loan like that?).

Consequences: Commercial and other land values have been artificially increased by almost double in the area which makes them too expensive for uses qualified for building in the area. Los Arcos Crossing (now Centrovida) has been caught up in high costs which now seems to be irretrievable under the current and future real estate market scenarios.

Lowes came in of their own volition, paid a reasonable amount for the land, built according to the current general plan without subsidies and are a very successful and welcomed addition to South Scottsdale.

Here, the city went against their zoning, code and rules by purchasing, then installed the tent without any permits, totally outside the city codes for the area, and without any real explanation other then "we need it now". The tent has since been recovered for multiple millions of taxpayer dollars and still doesn’t meet city codes, rules, or zoning regulations. An eyesore at best.

Consequences: An ugly tent of questionable color, safety, height and design is being allowed to deteriorate in the Arizona sun instead of building a new multiuse building which the taxpayers have been asking about for 8 years.

 ~ Current and Past Scottsdale "Land Deal" Follies

The insert below shows just some of the ridiculous deals the Manross Administration has made over the last few years. We the taxpayers are paying dearly for these total screw-ups to the tune of approximately ^$154 Million unnecessary taxpayer dollars!!

Add SkySong to this outrageous spending and the total raises to ^$274 Million.

The ^$274 million in taxpayer dollars spent unnecessisarily by the mayor and council majority could have been used for the Discovery Center at the Preserve, buying Preserve land, and a multitude of other necessities within the city system.

~80 Acres at West World (See map above)

The administration paid almost triple the actual appraised value to keep this parcel from falling into the developers hands even thought it never was really needed for use by West World.

Consequences: The city now owns 80 acres of land it will have to either use for a long term permanent concert type venue, for overflow parking for those using West World, or try to sell it for 20 to 30 cents on the dollar to get rid of it and the liability it could represent. This would be a huge loss to the Scottsdale treasury and would not be a prudent decision, especially in these economic times.

This bad financial decision could have well provided plenty of seed money for the Discovery Center for the Preserve had the Administration had the least amount of vision or foresight at all.

Mayor Manross signed the State Land Trust lease for Hualapai without Council approval and by doing so most probably went directly against all city ethical and other city laws, ordinances and regulations without ever giving an explanation for her illegal actions, with a cost to the taxpayers of up to an additional ^$15 million tax dollars plus attorney fees.

The council just approved yet another ^$125,000 to hire an outside law firm to try to get the lease judged an illegal lease. This is all just a weak legal ruse to stall for time for Manross until after the election.

Consequences: A legitimate company (Hualapai LLC) watched as the city made one public blunder after another allowing Hualapai LLC to legally and honestly purchase the property from the state at an open public auction for more than the Council publicly approved the city to pay for the property at Auction.

As an end result, the Mayor has been required by the court to be deposed to explain her illegal actions.

To thwart this court action until after the election to save Manross from having to testify, the city has hired an outside Legal Team to explain to the court why the lease was illegally signed by the mayor and therefore null and void which would disallow the cost of the lease to be paid to Hualapai LLC.

The kicker is that there still hasn't been a court date set. Could the courts be in collusion with the city legal staff for some reason?

If a court date is finally set, and should that maneuver fail, they will try to have the mayor deposed in writing which means she doesn’t have to answer directly (personally) because the legal department will write the answers for her, again possibly getting off the proverbial hook of guilty by laying the blame on someone else, such as say long gone Jan Dolan?

Either way you cut this turkey, Mayor Manross performed an illegal act which can be claimed to be felonious in many legal and political circles.

That ^$15 million in taxpayer dollars could have been used for the Discovery Center at the Preserve, buying Preserve land, and a multitude of other necessities within the city system.

Rawhide was the only truly family oriented place you could spend a wonderful day with your family and guests in Scottsdale. The loss of Rawhide was a major blow to the residents of Scottsdale, the sales tax revenue situation, the tourist industry of Scottsdale, as well as to the city theme "The West’s Most Western Town".

There are many serious questions still unanswered concerning that situation to which we’ll never get any answers because of the Manross Administrations smoke and mirrors attitude toward the city residents denies us those answers.

How did this major loss come about? Was there political hanky panky going on so Starwood Enterprises could keep Rawhide (move it to Wild Horse Pass) and keep the land to build an out of character, high density residential development? Did the city offer to allow Starwood to lease or purchase another piece of city property to keep Rawhide in Scottsdale such as the 80 acres at West World which would have been a perfect addition to West World?

If not, why not.

How was the new zoning handled on the old Rawhide property?

One of the biggest, most ugly, and totally non-western themed buildings ever conceived by modern man was approved by the totally out of touch DRB and approved after one little tree change by our "visionary"(?) mayor and the council majority. This building is to be the entry centerpiece to the Old Downtown area. Please God, spare us from this disaster!!

We still have nightmares of modern spaceships and sea going vessels traversing up and down Scottsdale Road because of this abortion of a building design.

Has anyone check the Manross Campaign Contribution list to see if this developer is in there as a contributor?

~ The Hanover Project

Another non-western themed major city entry point generic design disaster is the Hanover Project.

Here is another development approved by the Mayor and Council Majority which reportedly didn’t even have a set of actual or certified plans, renderings or a materials list for the proposed project at the time of the council vote!!

When concerned and irate citizens gathered over 3,000 signatures to put the council vote on the ballot for a decision of the voters in less than a 30 day period, Hanover representative Eric Kenney has and still is doing everything in his power to stop the Referendum from going onto the ballot by using Attorney Tom Irvine with Susan Bitter-Smith and Technical Solutions as the apparent intermediary.

Could political deals of sorts been struck here? Could Susan Bitter-Smith and Mayor Manross be in cahoots to keep anything off the ballot that would bring a larger than normal turnout to the polls which could negatively affect the winning or losing of either of these two candidate (Manross for Mayor and Bitter-Smith for a Congressional seat) or some of the other "Manross Toadies"?

The word in the Hanover neighborhood is that Eric Kenney is apparently releasing the areas where the leases had been previously been cancelled or not renewed; isn’t that interesting if it’s true?

Here is a project that should have never been allowed or built, is uglier than a mud fence after a Monsoonal downpour, and it removed precious commercial space that could have nicely held a small local market such as a "Fresh & Easy" or something along those lines for those who want to participate in the 24/7 downtown concept.

It never ceases to amaze any of us why council members cannot see past the nose on their faces.

Many council members say they don’t believe in subsidies yet a zoning, height and density change such as was granted the Earll Street Condo’s is nothing more than a subsidy because it allows the property owner to gain substantially more profit than he would have under the old zoning rules and regulations without proper and public input from the neighbors as well as a logical and realistic vote from the council.

~ The "New Downtown" of Mayor Manross

Our mayor takes regal pride in the supposed "revival" and "revitalization" of the downtown area as one of her greatest accomplishments.

What does it take to educate our elected representative that the citizens ARE NOT stupid and fully understand the process (probably far better than the politicians) and also understand when that process is being totally abused as it is currently?

Maybe what it takes is throwing all of them out of office and replacing them with citizens who are not career politicians and DO understand what the citizens want and know how to give the government back to the citizens the way is supposed to be and the way it was pre-Manross.

… of the trials and tribulations the citizens of Scottsdale have had to endure under the leadership(?) of Mary Manross and the Council Majority. We got rid of one of the major problems, now if we could just get rid of 2 or 3 more.........................

Rather than taking the lead of legendary and all around good guy Mayor Herb Drinkwater and run an open administration so all citizens could be involved, Mayor Manross has gone to the "Dark Side" and run our city through Smoke & Mirrors along with reported secret deals from deep within the bowels of city hall where the whole truth never was revealed until after the fact and she knew the action couldn't be reversed.

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~Letters to the Editor  

Dear Editor: 

The "League of Women Voters" can make any rules they wish as to who can be a member of their organization.  They can also make rules about which members they will allow to vote when they vote for their officers. 

For example, they may require that a member’s dues be paid up before they can vote.  The organization can also decide on the date their election will be held.  It is no business of any state government or the federal government.  And further, the organization must pay all expenses associated with their elections. 

The political parties are no different than the league of women voters.  The parties are not constitutionally created as they would have us all believe.  In fact George Washington went to considerable length to advise us to not have political parties. 

So why then are the taxpayers funding the expenses of the parties’ primary elections?  And why are state legislatures deciding the dates of the parties’ elections? 

Jack C. McVickers
Scottsdale,

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Okay Ozites, it is about time you woke up and learned that our General Plan has been raped, beaten, abused, bastardized and laid to umpa lumpa waste and all while you were out playing golf.

It sickens me every time I hear a dimwitted council clown state that many of the new projects they are getting ready to approve comply with the general plan of Oz. The fact is every time they make these claims they are lying through their teeth and defrauding the taxpayers and residents as well as the tourist of this once very successful city.

The fact is there are many aspects of the general plan that ALL have to be considered when approving projects in any area of the city but yet the majority of our illustrious leaders only like to harp on one section as they do under land use.

Now I have had the luck on occasion to speak with Michael Kelly about this issue and believe it or not we actually see close to an eye to eye on many of the issues of the council claiming they "follow the general plan" when indeed they are not.

For those of you not familiar with the General Plan, there are 6 separate but interlocked chapters of the general plan and our leaders when claiming they are following the general plan have left out the other 5 factors of it.

For instance, this wording comes from the section of the Character and Design element of the general plan.

The reality is that if I were to post everything that the three ring circus is supposed to account for just under this chapter it would take another page and further define everything that our majority of leaders are overlooking based on their ignorance of the plan itself and how all the parts tie together. For that matter we can also consider the fact that our planning department is ignorant to all of this also or we would not keep hearing this all complies with the general plan because the fact is, it does not!

Now, even though there is a stated 6 elements in the general plan, you can note the reality of the fact that this is a lie also because of this line from the general plan; "Twelve "Elements" or sections of the General Plan contain the city's policies on character and design, land use, open spaces and the natural environment, business and economics, community services, neighborhood vitality, housing, transportation, growth issues, human services, protection of desert and mountain lands, economic vitality, and the character of neighborhoods."

Please note that it states CITY’S POLICIES in this issue and we are not even following that portion of the general plan.

Here is a quickie as it relates to community involvement and you feel free to tell me we are even coming close to this statement.

Yeah, I almost fell over laughing also when I read this but moving on lets look at the Economic side of the general plan.

No, let’s back up the boat for a minute and lets keep our eyes open for the GLBT folks so we don’t get in trouble.

I wanted to point this out to our three ring circus also since they still have no clue about "public participation" and need a refresher course on why we are getting ready to vote their sorry patoots out of office, including the Queen Mother.

"Numerous standing and ad hoc committees, commissions, and boards addressing a wide range of subjects have also characterized Scottsdale's tradition of community involvement. And as part of the public involvement process, citizens have spent thousands of hours involved in the planning process, zoning cases and development review cases."

Funny how when we object, they are the ones who have no considerations for the residents voices in matters we have spent THOUSANDS OF HOURS working on.

Okay, here we are at the "economic vitality" portion of the general plan and we sure as hell missed the mark on this part of the plan.

"Economic competitiveness and prosperity will be the means of supporting a quality of life that is distinctive among Valley communities. The competing needs of residents and businesses will be balanced so neighborhoods are protected and enhanced while business districts are competitive and attractive."

Funny, but not once in there did I read that we should destroy our downtown or lose our unique character as this council has done and they have ignored the economic vitality of the city’s general plan also. Actually if you read this part of the general plan which is very important to our sustainability you would note we have missed the mark by leaps and bounds.

Okay Ozites, I am not going to go through the whole general plan to make my point that when any council member stands up and utters such ignorance that we are following the general plan when they are promoting a development that actually subverts the general plan. I will leave you with this part of the general plan that makes any of them look like morons.

Again, we could have been a world class community that ranks above everyone instead of the hyperbole that the city has bewildered residents and taxpayers alike about, and this has included the hyper bull dung that gets spouted and reported on by none other than the establishment media known as the Oz Repugnant.

Wake up pin heads, you are being led down a road of lies and tax increases that mount to phenomenal amounts of money that is coming from your own pockets!

~A final note about our "General Plan"

Okay Ozites, this is where things should be considered as criminal and charges should have been levied against our city council and Mary the Fairy for high treason.

Wait, I forgot who the city attorney was and how gutless of a wonder she really is.

Here is where things get contentious for me and others as I also own an original disc of the "adopted by the voter’s general plan" and what now appears on the city web page as the general plan.

Fact is that since the city updated their web site, they also ILLEGALLY updated the general plan and everyone should call for them to be tarred and feathered in the streets.

I have noticed that certain things have been slipped into the general plan of the new website that was NOT the original wording of the general plan that was adopted by the voters. Now trust me when I mention that this is a highly illegal thing to have had happen and requires that someone be held accountable for this travesty to the residents. Okay, back to the issue of who is our legal counsel and how she would have to opine on the issue.

Here are some funny things that have made it into the general plan that were not in the original voter approved plan. Remember this was adopted in 2002 and "minor updates" in 2006 that are NOT voter approved, but city staff and council approved and slipped by the residents.

Funny to note that if you click on the Master Transportation folly it will take you to the projects page, not the comments of the transportation issues and how we deal with them, just another line of Bull Dung and smoke and mirrors.

The reality is that if you do not have a disc of the "adopted general plan" and what the city has illegally thrown in as an "update" when no-one was watching and not voter approved you should be able to imagine how it is we just got screwed again.

Lets see, this all took place while Manross and Dolan were ruining the city, oh sorry, running the city behind your backs.

So, how will you vote this election season?

Will you vote to be lied to for another 4 years or will you dump a lying and backstabbing supposed leader of this city and what it once stood for?

In case you are not sure that what I have said is correct, than read this line from the general plan itself and then think if you have ever heard any of our leaders ask about the other elements of the general plan when they are approving all of these costly mistakes.

So the next time you hear one of your elected representatives spouting off about how we are following the general plan, maybe you should ask them some questions about what part of the general plan they are following and why they are not following the other portions as required by law and by what the voters actually approved.

Michael Merrill
The Brutal Critic
F8713@aol.com

Does the statement, 'We've always done it like that' ring any bells?   Read this article to the end; you'll love it!!

The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.

That's an exceedingly odd number.    Why was that gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US Railroads.

Why did the English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.
Why did 'they' use that gauge then? Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
 
Okay!   Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts. So who built those old rutted roads?

Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions.   The roads have been used ever since. And the ruts in the roads?

Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing.

The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. And bureaucracies live forever.

So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses.

Now, the twist to the story:

When you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs.

The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory at Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site.

The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains.
The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel.

The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.

So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass.

- And - You thought being a "HORSE'S ASS" wasn't important!

 ~ Cantoni Confab

We’re being ruled by morons. If you doubt this, consider the following crises brought on by the morons. At the end of the sobering list, you’ll find suggestions on what you can do when the rule of law has been replaced by the rule of morons.

The problems below have resulted from the Federal Reserve’s easy money, the government’s deficits and unfunded liabilities, and the disincentives to save that are embedded in the tax code and social-welfare programs.

- In 2002, one dollar could buy one euro. Today, it takes $1.60 to buy one euro. If it were not for this precipitous fall in the dollar, some experts say that a barrel of imported oil would cost about $80.

- From the end of the Second World War until the mid-1990s, the savings rate of US households fluctuated between eight and 12 percent of disposable income. It fell below five percent in the late 1990s and went negative in 2005.

- US households hold pension assets of more than $11 trillion, an impressive sounding amount until you realize that the assets only come to about $4,500 per year, per retiree, assuming a life expectancy of 20 years after retirement and a real return on investments of five percent. Many boomers were counting on escalating home prices and stock market valuations to supplement their nest eggs, but now face declines in both.

- Astonishingly, each American under the age of 18 is being bequeathed a bill of $800,000 for the unfunded liabilities of Social Security and Medicare of previous generations.

- Local state and national governments now consume about 45 percent of national income, versus 12 percent prior to 1930 and 22 percent in 1947. If regulatory costs are added, well over half of income is consumed by the government today.

- About 60 percent of the population either works for the government, is in a household where the primary breadwinner works for the government, is dependent on government subsidies or handouts, or works in a private-sector job that depends on government regulations (e.g., tax accountants). And then Americans wonder why politicians pander to special interests. Suggestion: Look in the mirror.

The conventional wisdom says that American high school students are not taught rigorous courses in math and science. Actually, that’s not true for many students, especially high achievers from two-parent families and with college-educated parents. In order to meet the toughened admission requirements of good universities, such students are taking rigorous honors and advanced placement courses that are more challenging than the courses taken by their parents and grandparents. There is an academic crisis, however, within certain minority and socioeconomic groups, a crisis that is exacerbated by high rates of out-of-wedlock births and single-parent families, which in turn have been exacerbated by government policies.

But even the high achievers are woefully deficient in economics and political philosophy. Either intentionally or unintentionally, they have been taught a statist, collectivist perspective on economics and government -- a view that is reinforced in college. As such, they become adults who don’t know economic facts like the ones in this article and thus elect morons to public office.

The proximate cause of the housing bubble and its collapse was greedy homeowners and investors, but the root causes were the Fed’s easy money, the incentives in the tax code that encouraged people to buy more expensive homes than they would have otherwise bought, and government housing policies that encouraged lenders to give unsecured mortgages to unqualified borrowers. These root causes are not being address by our morons in Washington.

Yes, energy is a crisis, but it didn’t have to be one. A combination of government inaction and the wrong government action has left us with the no real alternatives to petroleum. With foresight and strategic thinking ten years ago, the situation would be different today. The nation would be benefiting from a marked increase in domestic oil production and refining capacity; a marked increase in the use of our massive coal reserves; and the construction of scores of new nuclear power plants, which, although not cheap, could recharge electric cars, heat and air-condition homes, and provide the energy necessary to produce hydrogen for transportation and other uses.

Instead, our ruling class has left us extremely vulnerable to interruptions in the supply of oil and to rising fuel prices. They have interfered with the market when the market would have worked, and they have taken counterproductive actions in those cases where markets wouldn’t work.

Americans don’t realize that in today’s just-in-time world serviced by 18-wheel trucks, there is only a two- to three-day supply of food and other essentials. We’re standing on a razor’s edge of security. It’s not a stretch to think about an interruption in oil supply triggering food riots. Nor is it a stretch to think about a war over resources. After all, ever since humans learned to stand upright, they’ve been killing each other over resources.

The nation has done a lot of boneheaded things internationally under both Democrats and Republicans, especially in the Middle East. But the Iraq War was particularly boneheaded, considering the foregoing crises facing the country. Only 29 percent of Congress voted against the war, but it’s difficult to recall anyone in Congress or the media asking obvious questions about unintended consequences. It shouldn’t have taken the benefit of hindsight to ask:

- When the Sunni regime of Saddam Hussein is removed from power, what will keep Shiites from seeking revenge on Sunnis and rekindling the longstanding hatred between the two branches of Islam?

- When the Sunni counterbalance to Shiite Iran is removed from power in Iraq, what will fill the void to keep Iran in check?

- If Baath Party members are fired from their government posts, how will they find work and who will run government bureaus and utilities?

In addition to the crisis of Iraq, there is the huge cost and ongoing blowback of maintaining over 700 military bases around the world.

The major cause of the healthcare crisis can be summarized in one sentence: The government almost totally destroyed a consumer market in medical insurance and medical care 66 years ago.

Now the geniuses in Washington and in the presidential race want to administer the coup de grace to what is left of the market by nationalizing the industry.

Just like the Iraq War, politicians and the press are not asking questions about unintended consequences. In addition to the rationing of medical services and long wait times for treatment, the nationalization of the industry could result in lower incomes and higher unemployment for the poor. Studies have shown that as entitlements increase, the poor have less of an incentive to improve their lives.

Supposedly, we’re a constitutional republic that is ruled by the rule of law. The law specifies how we elect our representatives and how we throw them out of office if they are morons and endanger us. But we’re not throwing them out of office. Worse, we are getting ready to elect one of the Three Stooges to president.

What can be done? Nothing. You see, the problem isn’t that we are ruled by morons. The problem is that we are morons for electing morons.

An author, columnist and moron, Mr. Cantoni can be reached at ccan2@aol.com.

~ Information You Can Use

Just click on the logos below to go to these websites.

Send our Brave Troops "Something from Home", Click on  Links below.

Gathering of  Eagles Website was launched 2/9/07. Click on the Logo above for more information on how they are protecting America's Memorials.

~ UPDATE!! A "Must See" for All Americans

Every American should check out all of these websites to learn more about what the American population is about to have to deal with.

This is NOT for Children.

I don't normally allow anything but Scottsdale information in the Scottsdale Activist but after receiving many emails about this and viewing it, I think that it's imperative that every adult at least look at what's offered here if for  nothing more than their own education and to have everyone stop and think about the future of our country. Click on the link below,

 www.obsessionthemovie.com

If you don't have Adobe Flash, install it from the bottom of the page that comes up after you click on the link above. You should be able to view all available links within the main page.

The website below is of great interest as seen from a Lebanese point of view:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8fa9yKQeTY

The website below gives some history of Terrorist attacks:

http://patriotfiles.org/civilizationcalls.htm

This website tell you what REALLY happened:

http://www.terrorismawareness.org/what-really-happened

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~ Arizona Tax Revolt

~ Prop 13 Arizona

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~ View Past City Council Meetings

We can now access the city council meetings by clicking on the following link:

If you have any problems, check your firewall and other safety features which could block access to the city site.

~Continuing Light Rail Information

The Scottsdale Citizens Transportation Study Committee invites you to view their website for more questions and answers at  www.norailforscottsdale.com .

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Simply click on the links below to get all the information you'll ever need concerning Light Rail.

     Goldwater Institute Report

     American Dream Coalition

    The Public Purpose

If you have any questions about light rail, send them to editor@scottsdaleactivist.com and we'll get the answers to you as soon as we can.

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~ For Continuing Information on Photo Radar,
Click on the Logo below.

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 ~Are Red-Light Cameras Fair to Drivers?

These modern-day robocops make ticketing easier and can be huge moneymakers for local governments. But critics question their accuracy and fret over privacy issues.

Click on the link below , then scroll down to read the article:

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The Scottsdale Activist is very pleased to announce an effort on the behalf of the residents and taxpayers of the city of Scottsdale to promote open, honest and accountable city government. The Scottsdale Legal Defense Fund (SLDF) has been created to take legal action to hold the City accountable when its actions are contrary to state law, the City Charter, City ordinances or the public interest.

The most necessary ingredient to make the SLDF work will be confidential contributions from concerned Scottsdale citizens who are willing to help their community.  By contributing, we can change the way City Hall does business and insure that our tax dollars will be spent wisely.

No funds from the SLDF will or can be used for any political purpose.

Contributions shall be kept confidential as permissible by law and can be made in any Washington Mutual Bank to account number 3114165786 for the Scottsdale Legal Defense Fund. Branch locations are listed below. Contributions are not tax deductible.

The SLDF has retained the law firm of Miller LaSota & Peters, PLC, in connection with the patently illegal action taken by the Mayor and Council appointing the most recent Scottsdale City Attorney, while ignoring the residency requirement of the Scottsdale City Charter even though the new City Attorney’s contract (according to Scottsdale Republic reporter Laurie Roberts) requires that she reside in Scottsdale.  The City Council action was based on a legal opinion which was reportedly rendered during a closed door Executive Session of the City Council by a subordinate to the then acting City Attorney, who was subsequently appointed to the City Attorney position by a vote during a public City Council meeting. The opinion has been requested as a public document under state law, but the City has not yet provided it. The SLDF will take other appropriate legal actions based on the conduct of the Mayor and Council.

Washington Mutual Bank Locations at which contributions to the SLDF can be made are:

72^nd & Shea                    7337 E. Shea Blvd #120                480-609-8524
Hayden & Chaparral     7908 E. Chaparral # C-113            480-949-0069
Horizon                            14854 N Frank Lloyd Wright         480-614-6660
Scottsdale Ranch          10155 E. Via Linda Blvd #131       480-767-2060
Kierland Village              6501 E. Greenway Pkwy #133     480-315-2905

There are many other branches throughout the Valley.