At no point in American history has it been harder for young people to get started and for older people to finish. Only one way to fix that.

If you don’t have a sick feeling everyday about the way this world is heading, I’m not sure what to tell you. Get your head examined maybe?

If you prioritize abortion up until 9 months over stopping WW3 and a new depression you really are lost.

End the madness. Register and update your voter registration. Vote early or in-person for Donald Trump and Kari Lake.

REGISTER: https://servicearizona.com/VoterRegistration/register?execution=e1s1

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Proudly cast my vote for Justin Heap this morning for Maricopa County Recorder!

Go vote!

Crooked Joe Biden’s Oval Office speech was barely understandable, and sooo bad!

I was proud to be the prime sponsor of HB2647 this legislative session also known as the “Ag to Urban” bill. A lot of work went into this between stakeholders - agriculture, home builders, investors and the tribes.

Katie Hobbs unfortunately is the dumbest governor in America. She has zero clue how to work sound water policy and we all suffer because of it.

Thanks to my colleague Alexander Kolodin for setting the record straight.

Read: https://tucson.com/opinion/column/arizona-opinion-hobbs-water-bill-veto-is-missed-opportunity-for-states-future/article_ba715b5e-323d-11ef-a9eb-13c38db3aacd.html

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Arizona opinion: Hobbs’ water-bill veto is missed opportunity for state's future

The Governor’s veto of the "ag to urban" bill is not just a rejection of a Republican bill, but a refusal to embrace a forward-thinking solution to Arizona’s water and

I know these folks below to be good conservatives needed to clean house in Maricopa County government. These are the most important primary races and generals in the country. Please support them!

Maricopa County Republican Primary Recommendations:

Recorder - Justin Heap
Attorney - Gina Godbehere
Supervisor District 1: Mark Stewart
Supervisor District 2: Michelle Ugenti-Rita
Supervisor District 4: Bob Branch

I’ve never heard more F bombs and insulting comments about the Arizona Freedom Caucus my entire time at the legislature than I did during this session from the so-called leaders of my caucus, house and senate. I don’t lose sleep over it but that’s not leadership.

Rather than working with us, democrats were bought and paid for on this budget. Laughing and smiling towards the end of the day. Some of us can’t be bought with appropriations spending from your tax dollars, we want statute. The freedom caucus had very simple asks to input and were immediately shut down by Ben Toma and Warren Petersen. As a person on the leadership team in the Freedom Caucus I was never invited to meet with the Speaker or Senate President to figure out to work together.

Members can vote as they please but don’t be gaslight by politicians that “this is the way it has to be done”. An awful budget process does not excuse poor leadership and respect.

Do not elect Ben Toma to Congress and do not elevate Warren Petersen back to leadership in the Senate.

I voted no on the budget. You deserve better.

It’s a perfect example of the Swamp that establishment Republicans at the Arizona Capital are saying “the Freedom Caucus is the problem” on this budget

The reality is that this is what happens when weak Republicans negotiate a budget in secret with Democrats.

The result is that they:

Fail to appropriate any new meaningful border security money for local Sheriffs

Kneecap a school choice tax credit

Regulate private faith-based schools

Weaponize public schools’ ability to stop conservative teachers from providing instruction to ESA students

Impede parents’ right to educate their children as they see fit

Gift hundreds of millions of your tax dollars to the healthcare industrial complex

Refuse to do anything meaningful to fix our elections

Use budget gimmicks to pretend to solve the state’s deficit, rather than actually solving it

Sweep $430M of water funding intended to help solve our state’s water crisis

Fail to hold Hobbs accountable for her illegal pay-to-play scheme

Fail to hold Mayes accountable for weaponizing the justice system against her political opponents

Fail to hold Fontes accountable for his totally illegal Election Procedures Manual

The Arizona Republic quoted disgraced former legislator Rusty Bowers saying the quiet part out loud:

“it's not a great idea to allow lawmakers more time to analyze the budget items”

The biggest problem that exists is that government, and most people in government, hate you.

And the elected officials “in charge”hate it even more when your representative — the person you chose to fight for you — actually does their job and says ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

In the case of the current budget, when
@AZFreedomCaucus
members approached leadership, raised concerns with some of the nonstarters in the budget, offered solutions, and indicated that with changes we could achieve Republican unity…

Warren Petersen and Ben Toma rejected the changes instantly without even considering them, and then spent the rest of the day attacking, defaming, and insulting the members of the Freedom Caucus for not just blindly following orders.

Unfortunately, establishment Republicans’ failure to see the present battlefield for what it really is will cost us the legislature.

When Democrats take control, whether it’s in November or in two years… you can look back at who voted YES on this year’s budget to figure out who to blame.

Rose Fire Update

The fire stayed within its footprint again overnight, with no new growth and no change in acreage: 166 ac. and 20% contained. 

Today, crews continue with mop up efforts by checking for and suppressing any remaining heat along the fire's edge. Mop up consists of removing any burning material near the line and down to the mineral soil. Yesterday evening's winds tested the line, but the fire stayed within its containment lines. 

On Thursday, firefighters engaged with line construction and going direct along the fire’s edge, when and where it was safe. A helicopter with the Bureau of Land Management continued to support ground resources with bucket drops on lingering hot spots. 

Along the northeast and southeast sides of the fire, crews were able to get containment lines established. Fire operations were able to engage the dozer Thursday afternoon, within the river bottom, along the northwest flank of the fire. Dozer work provides for faster suppression efforts in the dense vegetation found within the riverbed. Precautionary efforts are being taken to ensure there is no adverse action within the riparian areas. 

Engine crews are patrolling around the communities to finish with structure protection. 

A fire investigator arrived on the incident and the fire remains under investigation. 

The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management, Bureau of Land Management - Arizona and the Wickenburg Fire Department are in unified command at this time.