Victor Petersen and Staci Burk Stand Up for Prayer

Recently, I published two posts relating to the Gilbert School Board’s 9/4/2012 refusal to reinstate a non-denominational Invocation to open its governing board meetings. These included Daryl Colvin Asks Gilbert School Board to Bring Back the Invocation and Some Stand Firm; Some Crumble. Since that time, Hayley Ringle of the Arizona Republic published an article titled Gilbert School Board Stance on Prayer Upsetting Some.

Board member Staci Burk had proposed that the Board merely "discuss" the issue of reinstating the Invocation, but 4 board members–EJ Anderson, Helen Hollands, Blake Sacha, and Lily Tram–refused. As you will note in Hayley’s article, the basis of that refusal was "fear of a lawsuit."

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Lindblom and Lewis and their Questionable Endorsements

Jimmy Lindblom is running as a conservative against proven conservative, Warren Petersen, for the open Senate seat in LD12.  LaCinda Lewis is running as a conservative against proven conservative Eddie Farnsworth and Travis Grantham for one of the House seats in LD12.

Lindblom’s website cites Protecting Individual Freedoms • Limited Government • Local Control • Education Advocate • Business Friendly.  Under the heading "Media", you will see several flyers, including one titled "Our Conservative Team for the State Legislature," which includes LaCinda Lewis as his team mate.  (See below.)

Lewis touts Family – Education – Economy from a  a "unique conservative perspective."

It’s hard to fathom why voters would believe that Lindblom and Lewis are conservatives.   Conservatives abide by the Republican platform.  They work very hard to stand up for and defend those principles.  RINO’s and Democrats don’t.  Why work hard when it’s easier to vote for something that sounds good.    

Lindblom and Lewis have listed many endorsements they have received from local leaders.  Gilbert Watch took a look at some of those endorsements. 

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They Did It!!!

This is the story of how a small, determined group of worried mothers and fathers stopped a train wreck, even after that train was barreling down the tracks.  It took these parents, neighbors, and their friends less than a month to stop a project they were told by Gilbert Town bureaucrats could not be stopped and that had been in planning and development for a year.  The developer and land owner of the project ignored them….at first.  The group started organizing in late March.  That’s when the Town had posted signs in their neighborhood on the site of a mental health facility to be completed in the Fall of 2014.  

That was the first that Pioneer Elementary parents knew what was in store for them.  In record speed, they launched one of the best organized, best mobilized grassroots community action efforts experienced by Gilbert since the effort to stop Prop 406 (sales tax increase).  

What turned a contented neighborhood into a battling army? 

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2013 Memorial Day Speech – Silver Creek Ward Memorial Day Breakfast – Gilbert, Arizona

by Jared Taylor

2013 is the Sesquicentennial anniversary of some amazing parts of American History.  First, January of 1863, President Abraham Lincoln read the Emancipation Proclamation.  Second, in July of 1863, the Union and Confederate armies clashed in a small town known as Gettysburg, PA.  Third, a few months later, President Lincoln was invited, as an afterthought, to give a speech at the Gettysburg battlefield.

As many of you know, the roots of Memorial Day go back to the Civil War time when families would decorate the graves of the fallen.  As such, it was called Decoration Day.

But what was the Civil War really about?  For the North the issue was slavery.  For the South it was States’ Rights.  The Southern states believed the Constitution prohibited the Federal Government from meddling with the practice of slavery.  Senator John Calhoun and others argued that if a State desired to enslave another man through law, it was their Constitutional right.

Fortunately, America was blessed with perhaps our greatest president during the Civil War: Abraham Lincoln.  During Lincoln’s formative years, he was a diligent student of three major works: 1) the Holy Bible, 2) Shakespeare, and 3) the Founding Fathers.

So he began his great memorial speech at Gettysburg by stating, “Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”  Do you hear the Declaration of Independence in these words?

Lincoln continued, “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.  We are met on a great battlefield of that war.  We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live.”

Then Lincoln expands his thoughts, “But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.  The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.  It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.”

Then he concluded, “It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us–that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion–that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."

For Lincoln and his day, the unfinished work was to win the Civil War and free the slaves.  However, Lincoln had a bigger vision.  A vision where not just the God-given rights of blacks were to be restored, but where all men and women could be treated equally and that government would remember its limited role of securing the rights and liberty for each citizen.

In our day, government is largely a jobs program for bureaucrats and a stimulus program for the power brokers.  Very few so-called civil servants remember to serve the citizens.  We have a government of the government, by the special interests, and for the elites.  The God-given rights of citizens are only given passing lip service during patriotic events.

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The Speech that Rocked Virginia – Conservative Hero E. W. Jackson for Lt. Governor!

This man stands up for Republican Principles and the Republican Party platform!  Isn’t that what all duly elected Republican officials should do?  Which will it be?  Republican "unity" or Republican Principles?  If "unity," please explain what that means.  Unify around ….  what?  

 

If Republicans cannot unify around Republican Party Principles, there’s another party that has no principles.  Join that party.  

 

 

 

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Gilbert, AZ among “Most Saintly” in America

A. J. LaFaro was right, when he said, ""When I die and go to heaven I want to go to Gilbert … because Gilbert reflects the values that I believe in… and is home to lawmakers who oppose Medicaid expansion.”  See Maricopa County GOP Head A. J. LaFaro in battle for Party’s Future. 

It looks like Gilbert is indeed a slice of Heaven.  Gilbert was recently ranked the 2nd Most Saintly City in America.  We can thank the good citizens of Gilbert for this honor.  

The judging criteria was based on the following Seven Deadly Sins: 

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