Romney is attacking President Obama, however, Obama will simply tell the blue collar workers and Americans that he wants to keep jobs in the United States rather than the offload method. Mitt Romney wants to offload American jobs to other countries across the seas, and besides … Mitt Romney is no real free market thinker — he is a “crony Capitalist” which means he believes in keeping the rich richer and the poor poorer.

A fourth generation Arizonan, Manuel ‘Manny’ Cruz is committed to his family, friends, neighbors, and citizens of Glendale.  He serves as a volunteer Commissioner on the Glendale Neighborhood Commission, Chairs the Committee on Neighborhood Grants, and serves as a volunteer board member for several area non-profits.

With deep roots in Arizona, Manny is a graduate of Carl Hayden High School and attended Glendale Community College before moving on, and graduating from, the Austin Powder Blasting Academy as an Explosives Engineer.  His Great-Grandfather was the first-ever public employee to retire from service with the city of Phoenix, Arizona.  His Grandfather was a World War II hero receiving the Congressional Medal of Freedom along with two Purple Hearts.  His Grandmother was born the same year Arizona became a state.  Manny seeks to continue his family legacy of fine public service by becoming Mayor of Glendale.

Manny has trained in the areas of Occupational Safety and Health, Mine Safety and Health Administration rules and regulations, as well as several key areas of Hazardous Materials handling.  Working across the United States for several years as an Explosives Engineer, Safety Director, and Miner, he brings a keen understanding of private sector business operations as they relate to public sector entities.

As Mayor, Manny will fight to end the senseless spending on pointless lawsuits that are not winnable, and do nothing to create jobs or build our economy.

His goals include creating living wage jobs, strengthening local schools and after-school programs, and positioning Glendale as a regional leader for our long-term economic development.  To do this, we must balance the budget while limiting tax increases, and fight to restore our excellent bond rating.

Manny will work to strengthen neighborhoods.  He will ‘open’ the doors of City Hall, thereby ensuring transparent and accountable government.

With his wife Valerie (a small business owner), and their five children, the Cruz family resides in the Yucca District of Glendale.

Is Phoenix FOX 10 News supporting a sham candidate? After all, FOX  is frequented by Sheriff Joe Arpaio as a commentator on their news station.  It was discovered yesterday that Paul Penzone received only a fraction of signatures Mike Stauffer collected.  Penzone received only 6000 signatures compared to Mike Stauffer’s almost 30,000 signatures, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to do the math with regard to the level of support Stauffer has already.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.  It’s going to take a strong broad coalition from across party lines to defeat Sheriff Joe Arpaio.  Mike Stauffer submitted almost 30,000 signatures (almost 5 times the endorsements Penzone received). Penzone was a mere sergeant with no command experience.  For those who don’t know how law enforcement works, Maricopa County voters will look at leadership experience in order to entrust their vote to someone who wants to run the the sheriff’s department that represents the 3rd largest county in the Country.  The Arizona Democratic Party is silly to give Maricopa County voters a candidate with no leadership experience.  Only two candidates have leadership experience that will beat Arpaio:  1) (Independent Candidate) Mike Stauffer who is a lieutenant and 2) (Democratic Candidate)  John Rowan who has experience as an assistant to a police chief.

The goal here is to defeat Joe Arpaio and avoiding  “sham candidates.”  As a former Republican …. I have several Republican friends in the State of Arizona and they tell me  the Arpaio supporters are keeping track of all the “fired” people who seem to support Penzone.  Paul Charlton is one of them who was fired by the Bush administration that created controversy involving the dismissal of U.S. attorneys, and he also frequents Fox News as a commentator.

Paul Charlton fired by Bush administration in 2006

It is no secret that Arpaio Republican supporters in our state watch FOX 10 news.  I find it odd they giving extra attention to a democratic candidate with no leadership experience.  This is precisely what Arpaio needs …. particularly when Mike Stauffer received ground support from people who can fill two arenas, and was formerly Republican and now an Independent.

When asked how Penzone was going to beat Arpaio, Penzone said “by debate.”  Did anyone manage to give Penzone the memo when Arpaio stated he wasn’t going to debate anyone?

Bottom line:  It will take a massive broad coalition to beat Arpaio.  I know Mike Stauffer has that and my audience will find out who the big time endorsements are going to come from once the democratic party figures out who they want with regard to John Rowan and Penzone.  Will they pick the former assistant to the police chief?  Or will they pick the sergeant?

Romney is trying to get out of his Bain Capital history when he fired his blue collar workers and workers for the purpose of  making profits. It was accurate for Newt Gingrich to depict Bain to so-called “vulture capital” groups that pick weak companies clean.

The Wall Street Journal found that 22 percent of the 77 businesses Bain invested in while Romney led the firm either filed for bankruptcy reorganization or closed their doors by the end of the eighth year.

According to Tyler, Bain’s record “is not capitalism in the way people understand it.”

“They were scavengers,” he said.

I believe Newt Gingrich was most effective when calling out Romney on his Bain Capital record, and was told to pull the political ads, however, the Democratic Party needs to pull out all stops and expose Romney regarding Bain Capital and depict him as a person who is not empathetic to the blue collar hard working man.  Romney should be depicted as a greedy Mr. Wall Street crony capitalist that resembles the character Gordon Gekko in the Wall Street movie given his crummy job destruction record.

Newt Gingrich: Bain Capital ‘undermined capitalism,’ killed jobs

…. “The question is whether or not these companies were being manipulated by the guys who invest to drain them of their money, leaving behind people who were unemployed,” Gingrich said on Bloomberg. “Show me somebody who has consistently made money while losing money for workers and I’ll show you someone who has undermined capitalism. … That’s an indefensible model.

“There are some cases that look very suspicious where he and Bain Capital made a lot of money while other people went broke,” Gingrich added…..

• Pro-Gingrich super-PAC hits Romney, Bain Capital for ‘greed’
• Gingrich going full bore to stop Romney

From Mom’s Rising:

On Violence Against Women Act, GOP Works with Mail Order Bride Industry Against Immigrants

Posted May 18th, 2012 by Lynn Tramonte

Cross-Posted at America’s Voice:

“Russian Women are no longer the best kept secret of the cold war” notes the website of Encounters International, the mail-order bride company that is lobbying hard for the passage of the scary Republican version of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) — the version that passed the House of Representatives earlier this week. An actual reauthorization of VAWA passed in the Senate last month by a 68 – 31 margin, in a rare show of bipartisanship.

As I previously reported, the VAWA reauthorization provides Republicans with a unique opportunity to advance a war on two fronts (fighting women and immigrants), and they’re taking it. One would think that some problems—like domestic violence—are just too universal a struggle to fall prey to politics. Sadly, the Republicans’ handling of the Violence Against Women Act proves that’s not the case.

Incredibly, rather than protecting all people from abuse, they are doing the bidding of Encounters International and other “men’s groups” who are lobbying hard for the Republican VAWA bill. Why do these groups care? They’re lobbying for provisions that empower abusers and make it harder for victims of domestic violence to leave an abusive situation. See, immigration status and the fear of deportation give abusers just another tool to wield against their victims, and that much more leverage to make them stay.

Read more: http://www.momsrising.org/blog/gops-version-of-vawas-choice-for-immigrants-stay-with-your-abuser-or-get-deported/#ixzz1vbyESn2R

It’s time to clear the smoke and the mirrors again with regard to the Mitt Romney camp chiming in on the Rev. Wright issue.

We should ask ourselves what the underlying agenda might be, and I believe the underlying issue is that the President Obama campaign mobilized the LGBT community in support of him. In fact, gay donors are dropping Mitt Romney. Another reason is BAIN when 5 days ago Joe Biden picked up where Newt Gingrich left off with regard to Romney’s history with Bain.  International Business Times highlighted in  Thanks, Newt: Joe Biden Hits Romney’s Bain Record.

In my view, Mitt Romney went wrong on 2 major fronts late last week when he gave a press conference to discuss Reverend Wright:

1) He should have left the Rev. Wright issue alone and should not have chimed in on this issue at all. (Keep in mind how Romney wanted the Ted Nugent issue to quietly go away and really didn’t address Nugent’s inappropriateness.) In fact, Nugent stated Romney reached out to him after he made the controversial remarks against Obama. Further, the Romney camp knows damn well how evangelicals really aren’t sold on his Mormon background and this was a way to deflect from his own background while painting Obama as unAmerican. There is an underlying division between the “evangelicals” and the Mormons for those who know religious cleaders on both sides, I have heard it all before and evangelicals accuse Mormons of being some sort of cult while Mormons can say how too far right evangelicals have become. The sentiment is there and it isn’t going away. Meanwhile, Republicans had to hold their noses for John McCain during the 2008 Presidential cycle, and the motivation to vote for Romney in 2012 given his Bain Capital history isn’t going to help him.

2) Presidential candidates SHOULD STOP USING THE WORD ASSASSINATION when discussing the President of the United States — particularly when President Obama has had numerous assassination attempts from North Carolina, Florida and etc. Mitt Romney said very very little when Nugent was wishing death on democratic fellow men (equating them to coyotes) and he certainly did not say anything to the National Rifle Association keeping Ted Nugent on their board. There was a reason why the ARMY cancelled the Nugent concert. It’s too bad the NRA hasn’t taken Nugent off their board given their military foundation.  LET ME BE CLEAR:  If there is another assassination attempt on our President’s life … I will hang the incident around the necks of Mitt Romney, Ted Nugent (who currently sits on the NRA board of directors) and all the other Tea Party extremists who are disingenuous.  MAKE NO MISTAKE:  I was just as over-protective over former President George W. Bush when he was the President. It’s time for our nation to heal but instead we see charlatan politicians pulling out all stops — and  Romney is no statesman, and his poor choice of words and past actions are a clear indicator of so.  Romney should learn from the gun shot incident when a mad man almost killed our Congresswoman Gabby Giffords.  The gun rights activists have been too loose with their words over the past 2 years and it is time to act more stateman-like.

The direction Mitt Romney is going is spelling disaster. The image most Americans have of Romney is one that resembles a power hungry greedy crony Capitalist — and we all know crony capitalism doesn’t work, nor does it represent true free market principles.

Obama should continue to double down on Romney’s BAIN history.

Que triste.

Arizona Republican Gov. Jan Brewer should get the baloney award.  No wonder more and more younger people are registering as Independents and leaving the crazy GOP in our state.  No wonder the AZ GOP cannot buy a new air conditioner for their headquarters … they have crazy people discouraging hard work in our state!

My message to Jevin Hodge?

DON’T GIVE UP!  Keep going and keep introducing ideas!  Brewer deserves the Baloney award for 2012.

From AZ CENTRAL:

Just days from graduation, Jevin Hodge got a lesson in politics last week when Gov. Jan Brewer vetoed a bill that would have required a governor’s commendation to students with more than 200 hours of approved community service.

“I thought that when she saw a piece of good policy, she would have instantly jumped on it,” said Hodge, an 18-year-old senior at McClintock High School in Tempe, who had persuaded a Democratic legislator to champion the bill. “It’s very disheartening to see that she doesn’t want to award the youth that are serving her state.”

In her veto letter, Brewer called the bill unnecessary and an infringement on the state Constitution’s separation of powers. “In this bill, one branch of government is obligating another branch of government to do something it already can do,” she wrote.

Hodge, who has more than 800 hours of community service under his belt, brought the idea for Senate Bill 1066 to state Sen. David Schapira, D-Tempe, last fall.

The bill passed unanimously in the Senate, Schapira said, and he expected the governor to sign it. The commendation would have been a certificate or diploma seal.

“I thought we had a chance here at putting partisanship aside and passing a bill into law that would actually have an impact,” he said, calling the governor’s reasons for vetoing it “total baloney.”

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/politics/articles/2012/05/15/20120515brewer-veto-volunteerism.html#ixzz1vWnICJmt

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The hypocrisy of the Fast and Furious, Gun lobbying et al is described below…

The House recently voted to block an Obama administration effort to give the authorities a vital additional tool to fight trafficking of assault rifles to Mexico — yet they want to scrub their fingerprints off of the Fast and the Furious.  Everyone knows the NRA is Republican Right ideology/fight.

From My San Antonio:

The Brady Campaign is named for Jim Brady, the former press secretary to Ronald Reagan who was gravely wounded in the attempted assassination of the 40th president.

Gross blamed the GOP for standing in the way of efforts to combat the illegal smuggling of U.S. weapons to Mexican drug cartels.

“The House Republican leadership decries the failure of U.S. authorities to prevent illegal guns from crossing the border, yet the House recently voted to block an Obama administration effort to give the authorities a vital additional tool to fight trafficking of assault rifles to Mexico,” he said.

Gross said Boehner refuses to meet with victims of gun violence, even as he traveled to Florida “to meet with the leaders of the gun industry.”

I moved to the State of Arizona in late 2006 and had no idea that Ken Bennett’s son received little punishment for shoving broom sticks and flashlights up rectums of 18 boys at a youth camp.  At the time — Ken Bennett was the Arizona State Senate President in 2006.   One mother chimed in and said:

“My son was barely 13, and he was grossly abused,” the mother of a Phoenix boy said.

I had no idea how many crazy people there are at our Arizona State legislature.  Unbelievable!  Ken Bennett made no announcements when he discovered his son’s inappropriate behavior — however these days, we see Ken wanting to take Obama off the ballot in our State of Arizona.   Apparently Ken Bennett is a Mormon who wants to ensure a Mormon president gets elected to the point of entertaining ideas that will get the CURRENT President of the United States off the ballot during the 2012 Presidential elections.  I see major major Mormon cronyism taking place — at the expense of Latino rights.

I just found this out from Dave Morales with The THREE SONORANS:

Remember when the Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett, the same guy making news today for saying Obama might not be on the Arizona ballot because he might believe the birther conspiracy … remember when he was the Senate president in 2006 and his son got busted for shoving “broomsticks and flashlights into the rectums of 18 boys in at least 40 incidents at a youth camp in June” and got away with it… then went off on a Mormon mission?

More from Arizona Republic here.