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Title: McCain's GOP critics in Arizona continue to press their case
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AP
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080416 ... n_el_pr/mccain_arizona_critics
Published: Apr 15, 2008
Author: JACQUES BILLEAUD
Post Date: 2008-04-15 23:47:40 by richard9151
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38 minutes ago PHOENIX - Sen. John McCain's status as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee has done little to ease the criticism he faces from a small but vocal group of conservatives in his home state. A week ago, Republican activists living in the same state legislative district as McCain rejected nearly all the names his campaign submitted as candidates to become delegates to the party's state convention on May 10. Six people on McCain's slate eventually became delegates, said Rob Haney, the district's Republican chairman and McCain's most prominent critic in Arizona. "The people who know him like him the least. He is a media darling, so the general population doesn't know his record — and conservatives do," Haney said, though noting he doesn't believe the development could derail McCain's campaign. The group of conservatives has dogged McCain since he first ran for Congress in 1982, objecting to his views on illegal immigration and campaign finance, among other issues. They rallied around him during the "Keating Five" scandal but were turned off by his moderate positions in the 2000 presidential race. While the group has at times been an embarrassment, McCain remains strong in Arizona. The latest polls show him with a sizable lead in the state in matchups against either of his two Democratic rivals. State delegates will meet in Mesa on May 10 to pick Arizona's 50 delegates to the Republican National Convention. McCain has responded to the criticism in the past by saying he's confident he has support from an overwhelming majority of Arizonans. Sean McCaffrey, executive director of the Arizona Republican Party, said many of the names McCain's campaign submitted weren't accepted as delegates for his home district, but cautioned against interpreting the results as a swipe against McCain. Jeff Sadosky, a McCain campaign spokesman, would only say that the senator is confident he will win his home state in November. "Senator McCain has very quickly been able to pull together the overwhelming majority of Republican voters across the country and is now able to expand his campaign to open-minded independents and Democrats," he said.
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#1. To: richard9151 (#0)
heheheheheh
The NAU is just a small part of what bush and the commie neocons are trying to do. They were trying for much more originally but now think if they tone it down Americans will quietly accept it. I have guns that these commies can come an get if they want them... oh... there is a stipulation - bullets first and not until they are empty. George Orwell would have appreciated the irony of President Bush and other hemispheric leaders declaring in Quebec their intention to spread democracy, as chain-link fences, tear gas, water cannons and mass arrests prevented citizens from getting anywhere near the April 20-22 Summit of the Americas. George W. Bush and the leaders of thirty-three other nations who agreed to establish a Free Trade Area of the Americas by the year 2005 claimed that their action would improve the lives of citizens from Alaska to Argentina, but their proclamations rang a bit hollow to those arrested for advocating democracy and the alleviation of poverty. Meanwhile, inside the fortress, even some of the summiteers admitted to doubts about the magic of free trade; at one point when the leaders apparently thought public transmission of their comments had ended, Canadian International Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew remarked, "It is not the market or trade per se that can eliminate inequality." Why are so many people so dubious about the FTAA? The experience of NAFTA, which was recently condemned by Human Rights Watch for creating structures that are consistently biased against the protection of working people, has made skeptics of citizens who can see that a corporate-defined free-trade regimen only enriches corporations. In Mexico, even by the government's conservative estimates, manufacturing wages dropped to $1.90 from $2.10 per hour between 1994 and 1999, after NAFTA came into effect. In the United States, more than 300,000 workers have qualified for training programs set up for those laid off because of NAFTA. It is realities like those that led to the protests in Quebec and to rallies in cities from Buffalo to San Diego. In Chicago, Service Employees Local 1 president Tom Balanoff asked workers: "We know what NAFTA did--why would we want to make the same mistake" with the FTAA? In St. Paul, Senator Paul Wellstone told a crowd that included truckers and teaching assistants, "We speak for a global economy that doesn't just work for greedy multinational corporations." http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010514/editors2 http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:n-CAPbGcMTQJ:batr.org/gulag/073105.html+FTAA+bush+neocon&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=60&gl=us Bush Supports FTAA, CAFTA By by Mike Godfrey, for LawAndTax-News.com, New York 09 June 2005 Addressing the 34-nation Organization of American States in Fort Lauderdale on Monday, President George W. Bush on Monday said Washington would continue to push for Free Trade Area of the Americas. The President said free trade would strengthen democracy in the Americas, and that a pan-American trade pact would unite the region in prosperity and reduce the risk of "false ideologies". He said that the CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Area) currently in Congress for ratification, "is a signal of the US commitment to democracy and prosperity for our neighbors." Speakers from a number of Latin American OAS states voiced reservations, however. The FTAA plan is currently stalled over agricultural subsidies. The effort to unite the economies of the Americas into a single free trade area began at the Summit of the Americas, which was held in December 1994 in Miami. The Heads of State and Government of the 34 democracies in the region agreed to construct a Free Trade Area in which barriers to trade and investment will be progressively eliminated. They agreed to complete negotiations towards this agreement by the year 2005, and to achieve substantial progress toward building the FTAA by 2010. But a consensus on the agreement has been difficult to achieve, leading may regional politicians to speculate that the FTAA may never see the light of day. In May, however, the Director-General of the Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (RNM), Ambassador Dr. Richard Bernal, said that the member countries of the Caribbean Community, or CARICOM, are prepared for the possible resumption of Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations. http://www.tax-news.com/archive/story/Bush_Supports_FTAA_CAFTA_xxxx20097.html
A week ago, Republican activists living in the same state legislative district as McCain rejected nearly all the names his campaign submitted as candidates to become delegates to the party's state convention on May 10.
What North American Union? STOP the North American Union!
~~~~~> Have you seen THIS yet? TIME IS RUNNING OUT!
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