Russell Pearce on prop 200:
"What they don't want is for Arizonans to know the truth. Here it is:
1. Prop. 200 would discourage illegal immigration by requiring all Arizona residents, regardless of race, color, or ethnicity, to provide proof of citizenship before registering to vote or applying for welfare benefits. Our current system is rife with fraud and abuse, taking needed resources from those legal residents for whom they were intended.
2. Prop 200 would strengthen Arizona's fight against illegal immigration by requiring government employees to require proof of eligibility and as they become aware of illegal immigration activities in the course of their employment to contact federal immigration officials.
It's really that simple.
Prop. 200's opponents seem determined to maintain the status quo, which directly benefits the political left and the pro illegal business community, which relies on cheap, illegal labor for big profits. By pandering to these two groups, the Governor and her allies have put politics above the rule of law, public safety, and national sovereignty.
Left without any rational argument against the measure, the Governor is also claiming that Prop 200 will create a ‘culture of intolerance' in Arizona.
She's right. It will create a culture of intolerance for welfare fraud that threatens our state's solvency and voter fraud that jeopardizes the integrity of our elections system. Contrary to what its opponents claim, Prop. 200 does not discriminate against anyone. It does not target any specific group, except lawbreakers. And it does not take anyone's rights away. It only changes the verification process on existing laws. Heaven forbid we actually expect one to be a Citizen to vote and that we ask paid state employees to make sure one is eligible under current law to get your tax dollars."
www.yesonprop200.com Prop 400:
"Read the FTA figures on your own choice of great streetcar systems to use as examples.
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SALT LAKE CITY
Yearly Operating Loss .............. $99.6 million
Cost per Passenger Trip ............ $16.57
Average trip cost to rider .......... $0.17
Average trip subsidy by taxpayers .. $16.40
Percent commute trips by light rail .. 0.5 percent
Average speed ....................... 16.4 mph
Average miles per trip ............... 7.3 miles
DALLAS
Yearly Operating Loss ............. $214.6 million
Cost per Passenger Trip ............ $19.12
Average trip cost to rider .......... $0.57
Average trip subsidy by taxpayers .. $18.55
Percent commute trips by light rail .. 0.2 percent
Average speed ....................... 16.5 mph
Average miles per trip ............... 5.3 miles
DENVER
Yearly Operating Loss ............. $237.4 million
Cost per Passenger Trip ............ $27.00
Average trip cost to rider .......... $0.81
Average trip subsidy by taxpayers .. $26.19
Percent commute trips by light rail .. 0.4 percent
Average speed ....................... 17.5 mph
Average miles per trip ............... 7.0 miles
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We have been trying in vain to explain your adament stance--that light rail is good for Phoenix--by saying that you are just uninformed. It has gone beyond that simple explanation now.
Your continued insistence that Prop. 400 is good demonstrates WILLFUL IGNORANCE of the monumental burden you would wish on the taxpayers because of the White Elephant Streetcar that the taxpayers will have to feed, with little return, for the next 20 years."
John DeLasaux
Phoenix
"In 1985, voters were promised 233 miles of freeway in exchange for 20 years of higher sales taxes. Today, due to the "miracle" of debt financing, 75% of those 20 years' worth of taxes has been spent. At the same time, only 10% of the freeways to be funded by the tax are open to traffic. Both the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) and the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) now concede that, at best, only a third of the promised 233 miles will be built before the sales tax increase runs out in 2006."
I have more if you all need more.
Conlusion: vote NO on 400, it's a waste of our money, and where's our freeways from 20 years ago?
vote YES on 200, this does nothing more than preform checks on the citizens that the FED's aren't going to do.
