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Former Mayor of the beautiful city of Surprise, Arizona. Former Mn State Senator. Former Mn State Representative Life long public servant

Joined June 2012
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Taking care of each other is what we do. We rally to the cause, we sacrifice, we listen to truths, especially when it’s hard to hear, we take action, we stay the course, we take stock of our blessings, we applaud the beauty of the setting sun. Tomorrow, we start over
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Mine too…but it’s John’s fault
Imagine explaining this to a dog sitter 😂
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.@jamestalarico: I've had a lot of interviews with national media. No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. No one's asked me about the cost of prescription drugs. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes. The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. Undocumented people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%. Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare. Undocumented people aren't defunding our schools. It's the billionaires and their puppet politicians
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This coming from the billionaire fraud who grifts on the office of the presidency, cheats at golf and cheats on his taxes. He’s got the codes people…and he’s ready to use them. GOP won’t rein him in!
Trump: "They will have an estimated $465,000 in their account by the time they're 65. In other words, they'll be rich."
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Coming to Surprise in September! Mayor and Council…it’s your job to fight back. Surprise deserves better!
ICE moved detainees out of a Mesa facility ahead of a lawmaker visit, then it returned to being over capacity afterward. Designed for 157 people, it has reached up to 800 between inspections, with detainees packed side by side or even on top of each other “like sardines.”
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Just another for-profit enterprise looting the taxpayers.
It really wasn’t so much about deportations was it, as it was about a “bigger and better” iteration of the old favorite Republican money-maker: Inhumane “prisons for profit”. Warehouse human beings and bill the government (i.e. *us*) exorbitant amounts.
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This is NOT about processing and deporting the worst of the worst. I’m shocked the Mayor & Council fell for that BS! It’s a for-profit shell for Trump’s grift machine. Trump loots America, while Obama holds the record as the deporter-in-chief. Surprise gets the BIG bamboozle!
One of the warehouses ICE purchased is a 400,000 square foot facility in Surprise, AZ. They have awarded a $313,000,000 contract to run it to GardaWorld Federal, the company that ran Alligator Alcatraz so poorly. This is a human rights crisis in the making. Opening is Sep 2026
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Yeah…gotta love it 🥰
Here are the sights and sounds as many gathered for the "No Kings" protest in Surprise near Bell Road and Civic Center on Saturday morning.
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Sharon Wolcott retweeted
230 miles of border wall was certified as constructed, yet not one mile is there, the money is gone, the border is open and $1.4B is missing. Stop allowing Trump to steal our money. He has enough.
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Replying to @greendragonhq @grok
Here’s some facts: The SAVE Act is being pushed as if non-citizens voting is a widespread problem. The facts show the opposite. A Brennan Center review of 23.5 million votes in the 2016 election across 12 states found about 30 suspected cases referred for investigation. Michigan’s review of the 2024 election found 15 credible cases out of 5.7 million ballots (0.00028%). A 2024 Georgia audit found 20 noncitizens on voter rolls out of 8.2 million registered voters, with 9 having voted in prior elections. Voting as a non-citizen is already a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. §611. Penalties can include up to 5 years in prison, fines, deportation, loss of immigration status, and permanent barriers to citizenship. False claims of citizenship can bring additional felony charges. In other words: it’s already illegal, already severely punished, and already extremely rare. Would you take the risk if you were a non-citizen? F NO! The SAVE Act is a solution in search of a problem.
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Grok says the SAVE act is designed to SAVE Trump’s skin, by disenfranchising 21 million voters. Huh!
Replying to @greendragonhq
Best estimate: Under 1,000 illegal/non-citizen votes per federal election cycle nationwide (state audits & databases like Heritage show rates ~0.0001%, or dozens to low hundreds proven/suspected amid 150M+ ballots). SAVE Act: 21+ million legal citizens lack ready passport/birth cert access; similar state laws blocked 10-30k+ eligible registrants each (99%+ citizens), risking millions disenfranchised via registration barriers. Opinion: No—the tiny scale of illegal votes does not outweigh widespread barriers to legal voters.
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Absolutely wild. Arizona has the 3rd and 4th largest density of senior citizens. They LOVE the mail in ballot…and they largely vote Republican.
Early vote by mail has been wildly popular in Arizona. The MAGA wing of the AZGOP thinks this will pull its base together for this upcoming election?? I think the nice folks of Sun City, Sun City West, Green Valley, Leisure World, etc., will take a decidedly dim view of this.
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BREAKING: NEW ANGLE OF MINNESOTA SHOOTING MOST DIRECT ANGLE YET
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This makes no sense…who writes his material?
🚨BREAKING: JD Vance dropping truth bombs: “I want every conservative to remember: We can NOT be afraid to do something because the left might do it in the future. The left is already going to do it REGARDLESS.” That’s the lesson of the last 40 years. Time to fight like they do. Do you support this? YES or NO?
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OK this is amazing. Trump’s Truth Social has its own AI search tool, which debuted a month after Trump signed an exec order ending “Woke AI” in federal government. Here's how it responds to questions about tariffs, who won 2020 election, Jan 6, etc: thebulwark.com/p/pardon-the-…
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Lindsey Graham: “I feel good about the Republican Party and where we're going as a nation. We're killing all the right people and we're cutting your taxes. Trump is my favorite president. We've run out of bombs. We didn't run out of bombs in WWII”
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Rep Neguse talking to the press the way Democrats should talk to the feckless media. He handled that question spectacularly.
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Yes, I voted for that… Protectionism is a fools trap
Guys, pls stop with the "Ackshully Reagan loved protectionism" BS. Yes, he imposed some narrow tariffs (they were bad). But he generally supported free trade - esp with Canada! - and opposed protectionism. The exact opposite of Trump. Here's his 1988 State of the Union Address:
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Trump: I don't think we're gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just gonna kill people. Okay? We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be, like, dead.
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“Covfefe”
First of all, it’s ORDNANCE, you buffoons. An “ordinance” is “an authoritative decree,” so makes sense you’d confuse the two. Secondly, it was allegedly shrapnel, not the ordnance, that left a tiny “dent/scratch” on a vehicle’s hood. GOD BLESS OUR GREAT MARINES!
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