Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Press Release - Giffords votes hurt


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Press Release Contact: Tom Dunn
October 29, 2008


Commercial reveals Giffords’ true voting record

“Giffords’ votes are hurting you”


Tucson, AZ – Congressional candidate Tim Bee’s campaign released its newest commercial exposing the incumbent’s true voting record and the dangerous economic fallout of her votes.

The incumbent’s record speaks for itself.

In August 2007, she promised to be “frugal” when using her franked mailing privileges.
http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/195446

In May 2008, she was found to be the number one abuser of franked mail in the Congress. http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/237424

Her $234,458.70 was quite a feat, outspending 434 other members of the U.S. House of Representatives that are notorious for their wasteful spending.

Despite overwhelming opposition by her constituents, she ignored them and voted for the nearly one trillion dollar bailout of Wall Street. She promised taxpayer protections. The reality is much different. Reports already show major concerns.
“The idea was that banks would use the money to start making loans again. But reports surfaced that bankers might instead use the money to buy other banks, pay dividends, give employees a raise and executives a bonus, or just sit on it.”
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/264214.php

Giffords record on economic issues is shady at best. She was for the ineffective stimulus package earlier this year. She was for bailing out Wall Street. Giffords wants to raise taxes and force expensive mandates on Arizona’s economy. That is dangerous policy. Her past performance emphasizes that she is wrong for the job.
And she now agrees with Barney Franks that we need to throw out concern over deficit spending.

Her plan to have the federal government borrower money to give to states isn’t very fiscally conservative. They may have to kick her out of the “blue dogs”. There is a reason that Tim Bee has received the endorsements of the United States and Tucson Metropolitan Chambers. The same organizations that have given Giffords failing marks on her job performance.

“Giffords is wrong for Arizona. On the major issues of the day, she has been wrong. She was wrong on the troop surge, wrong on the economic stimulus package, wrong on small business tax hikes, wrong on the Wall Street bail-out. The incumbent’s agenda is dangerous to our economic well being. She is wrong for Arizona.” Tim Bee.


Click here to see the new commercial “
Giffords’ votes hurt you



Gabrielle Giffords tax and spend votes are hurting you.

Giffords is the number one abuser of taxpayer-funded mail in Congress. (1)

Despite overwhelming constituent opposition to the Wall Street bail out. (2)

Giffords voted to use your tax dollars to bail out Wall Street. (3)

She voted for the largest tax increase ever. (4)

Raising taxes on senior retirement, struggling small businesses. (5)

Costing Arizona families two thousand dollars more a year. (6)

Gabrielle Giffords tax and spend votes are hurting you.


(1) Giffords No. 1 in mailings using U.S. funds – Arizona Daily Star 05-04-08
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/237424

2) Giffords says 100% of calls to her office are against $700B bailout - Tucson Citizen 09-25-08 http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/election/97692.php

3) Giffords says she will vote for Senate's new bailout plan – Arizona Daily Star 10-02-08 http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/byauthor/260502


(4, 5, 6) VOTED TO PASS A HOUSE BUDGET THAT PAVES THE WAY FOR THE LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN AMERICAN HISTORY. Giffords voted on the FY 2008 budget that allows the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts to expire (Roll Call 212, Mar. 29, 2007).

House Republicans tried three times in less than 24 hours to bring a bill (
H.R. 2734) to the House floor that would make the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent. This included the death tax. However, Giffords voted all three times to block H.R. 2734 from being considered by the House, thereby keeping a massive tax increase on track for when the tax cuts expire at the end of 2010 (Roll Calls 186, 192, and 194 votes on April 15 and 16, 2008).

(5, 6) The Heritage Foundation, October 30, 2007

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg2081.cfm
Thus, the Democratic congressional majority has shown its hand. It intends to allow most of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts to expire and plans to raise other taxes to balance the AMT fix. Over the next 10 years, the budget resolution would raise taxes by an estimated $2.7 trillion--more than $2,000 per household annually.

(5,6) Investors Business Daily, 10/25/2007

• An increase in the capital gains tax rate to 19.6% from 15% for households pulling in over $200,000.

• A more-than-doubling of the tax on private equity firms' carried interest, from the capital gains rate of 15% up to 37.9% — heavily penalizing one of the most effective ways for businesses to restructure themselves and generate jobs.

http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?status=article&id=278203634543110&secid=1501

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=48994

PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2003:

Easy Ride
The Tanque Verde School Board is preparing to give a key politico's company a sweetheart deal.

By CHRIS LIMBERIS email this author
The Tanque Verde School Board is primed to bail out a company owned by influential state Sen. Tim Bee and his brother with a real estate deal for a bus yard and office next to the district's headquarters.

The Bee Line, operated by the second-term Republican and his brother and Senate predecessor, Keith Bee, wants to switch from tenant to landlord on a parcel that adjoins the Tanque Verde bus yard and is east of the district offices at 11150 E. Tanque Verde Road.

Taxpayers already subsidized the Bee Line this year after the company fell behind on the $725 monthly rent. Tanque Verde officials also allowed the Bees to use the property after the lease expired in February.

Rather than face eviction, Keith Bee eventually paid the back rent while he simultaneously pitched the proposal for Tanque Verde to use space on the adjoining Bee property. Such an arrangement will clear the Bee buses from the district's lot. More important, Keith Bee is hoping his company will therefore be able to circumvent Pima County zoning and building codes, records show.

Under the proposal, set for board approval Sept. 11, the Bee Line will open its own bus yard and office on two acres of residential-zoned land just north of the district's bus yard. The Bee brothers will then free up space for the Tanque Verde school buses and lease the parcel to the district for $1 a year.

Keith Bee, a five-term senator representing the Tanque Verde Valley and other east Tucson and Green Valley areas, bought the property for $135,000 in 1999, according to county records.

Zoning at CR1 allows not a bus yard but two homes. Without the nominal lease with Tanque Verde, the Bees "would not be able to fence, grade, put down gravel or house a portable office because of zoning issues," Superintendent Denise Ryan told the school board in an Aug. 8 memo.

By signing the nominal lease with Tanque Verde schools, the Bee brothers are hoping to piggyback on land use law that generally allows school districts to use property as they please. County officials say there is no guarantee in this case.

Keith Bee has asserted that the new arrangement will save Tanque Verde taxpayers, but one proposal had the district paying an equal $6,500 share for initial improvements, records show.

Some neighbors already have issues with Bee Line's use of the district's property, particularly when the large touring coach is fired up.

Among the problems cited by Carolyn Gould, director of Tanque Verde school transportation, are "complaints from neighboring houses. Diesel smoke, noise late at night and on weekends. Bee Line has been asked to move their buses in the main parking lot in the morning to 'pre-trip,' them. Only a few drivers are doing this," Gould said in an 2001 assessment.

Exhaust from the coach bus, Gould said, "creates a dust storm, which keeps our district vehicles and vans filthy."

Gould listed five other problems in the 2001 memo and confirmed in a new memo on Aug. 6 to the Tanque Verde board that "all of the problems listed are still problems today."

Tim Bee's position in the Senate--and his role on the appropriations committee--as Tanque Verde progresses with its controversial plan for a new high school prompted at least one board member to demand kid-glove treatment for the Bee Line.

Board member Doug Hughes unilaterally ordered Ryan and Associate Superintendent Marty O'Shea to not rile the Bee brothers while start-stop funding for the high school was on legislative tables, O'Shea said.

"Doug came into my office and told me to back off," O'Shea said. "He told Denise Ryan the same thing. This is when we were talking to Keith Bee about the late rent and the expired lease. You know me; I like to have the document. We didn't have a lease."

O'Shea said Hughes, who sells school textbooks, said he was not solely focused on Tim Bee's vote to preserve funding for the high school, but for educational funding in general.

State policy prohibits members of school boards from issuing individual orders. Directives must be approved by the full board in open session.

But it worked. Tim Bee subsequently did not recuse himself from a key vote on funding for the high school, which has caused civil war in Tanque Verde and prompted a recall drive of Board President Dr. Sherrylyn Young.
Neither Hughes nor Tim Bee returned calls from The Weekly.

NMHIMA Message Board said...

Tim Bee is nothing but a Bobble-Head...

According to the Benson paper,

"Giffords' Republican opponent Tim Bee criticized her rejection of the original bill last Monday, and then for approving Friday's bill with the solar energy stipulations."
http://www.bensonnews-sun.com/articles/2008/10/09/news/news04.txt

Which is it Tim? (Bobble-head keeps nodding).

And then we have, at http://thedryheat.com/?p=330

"The voters of Arizona CD 8 are seeing the politically ineffective side to GOP Congressional candidate Tim Bee. The guy can not make up his mind….
Let me preface my remarks by saying that Tim is a really nice guy. In fact, his easy going niceness is part of his political problem. He has a terrible time making up his mind if doing so will offend someone. I learned this first hand while serving in the Senate with Tim. I learned quickly that you never could count on his support.

We were called into a special session by the governor. One issue we needed to address was something called Excess Utilities which helped school districts budget for and pay for utility expenses. I was trying to garner 16 votes to support the continuation of the program. Senator Bee should have been a pretty easy YES because some of his school dsitricts in LD 30 directly were impacted by the vote. As I recall, the Vail School district desperately needed Tim's vote.

I remember calling Tim at home the day before the vote. He assured me he was a YES. We had the necessary 16 votes. The only problem is the next day on the floor, Tim changed his vote to NO. He later told me that he did not know how to tell me he had changed his vote because Senate President Ken Bennett had put pressure on him. When I asked him about Vail, he just shrugged his shoulders and said, "Ken needed my vote." I guess the folks in Vail play second fiddle to the senate boss from Prescott.

Holy Cow! This guy caves in all the time. We sat next to one another on the Appropriations Committee. Numerous times, after he voted (in my opinion the wrong way), he would turn to me and whisper, "I wish I could have voted your way. You know you're right." After awhile I started to ignore him because of his lack of political backbone.

I now read that he is unsure how he stands on the Social Security issue. I also read that after putting Proposition 102 (the Marriage Amendment) on the ballot, he is unsure how he will vote. I am not surprised by either revelation that Bee is "unsure." The guy should be a social director at a country club, not a member of Congress. Hey, if you plan to visit DC and want to take a Capitol tour, vote for Bee! He will be great at Capitol tours"

Tony GOPrano said...

I guess the ad is very effective as the far left is now coming out to defend Gabby 'Pelosi'. Nice try Bob, that's all been proven wrong. Tim Bee is going to WIN this election because the good people of CD-8 have been fooled by Gabby's so called 'Moderate' BS. She is NO moderate. She is a LIBeral hiding in Moderate clothing. Republicans are going to come out in droves to vote (President & Prop 102). That will only help Tim Bee defeat Gabby Pelosi!!!

Anonymous said...

Actually, according to TIM BEE in those past stories he himself bragged of being an owner and partner. Also, Bee has already lost the election and even the national RNCC knows it, thats the reason the pulled all support from him. He's lost and has proven himself nothing but a liar with his only talent being to bilk Az citizens out of money to pay for his trip to D.C. so that he could get "Crap Sandwich" Boner to come stump for him.

NMHIMA Message Board said...

BTW Tony, the repiglican polls, the same who refer to Boner as "Crap Sandwich" and are calling for him to be fired as minority leader, have Giffords up another point today at 10 points above Bobble Head. Kiss that idea of the Bug getting elected good bye...