Arizona lawmakers OK'd 'Tea party' plate, gun bills

[ProudDad]

Source: The Arizona Republic

The Arizona Senate on Tuesday passed measures that would give married couples adoption preference, movie companies tax credits, the "tea party" a state license plate and make the Colt Single Action Army Revolver the state firearm.



Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2011/03/09/20110309arizona-lawmakers-pass-bills-roundup.html

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I kid you not...

I HAD to send an LTOE to my local paper about this...

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Ft. Sumter Redux

So instead of addressing jobs, education and important economic issues, and on top of increasing the deficit to give more tax breaks to the rich, trying to put a gun in every classroom, craft their own foreign policy, nullify Federal Jurisdiction over American citizens, and criminalize brown people (and anyone who gives a Mexican a ride), the seriously deranged Arizona State Senate has decided on a state gun and promoting a “tea party” license plate.

I suggest that it would save a lot of time and taxpayer money if Russell Pearce and Co. would strap on their Colt Single Actions, procure a few cannon, take their bad selves down to Sierra Vista, fire on Ft. Huachuca and run up the Stars and Bars and be done with it.

[Drale]

1. Make it essayer to find the people to publicly ridicule.

:rofl: Or the people to arrest when they are finally deemed a terrorist group.

[bluesmail]

2. And if this is just the beginning, I don't know what a middle road

measure could be, I mean my mind gets locked, no further will it go. (Protection, I'm hoping).

[ProudDad]

3. We REALLY need to secede from Arizona

and rejoin the United States...such as it is...

At least it would be a step up from this bat-shit crazy right-wing republican wet dream...

http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=14085599#WNPoll104817

[Moonwalk]

4. States have a firearm? Like we have a flower and flag? Really?

:crazy:

Well, now I gotta figure out what my State's firearm is...or maybe we should make a list of states and guess at it! That'd be fun.

What would be the state firearm of Alabama? I suppose the state firearm of Alaska would be whatever Palin used to shoot wolves from a helicopter, Arizona's got it's firearm, California's would be a glock.....

[ProudDad]

5. Hmmm.

I'd take Jared Loughner's Glock with the 33 shot magazine over Russell Pearce's silly Colt Single-Action...

Glocks are what the idiot gunnies in this town carry...

Those assholes in Phoenix can't even do firearms right.

[Joey Liberal]

6. Arizona is the new Nazi Germany

I say give Arizona, along with John McCain and their Nazi governor, back to Mexico.

[ProudDad]

16. McCain is a "left-leaning liberl" in this fucked up state (n/t)

[Historic NY]

7. Won't those cars will be easy targets for the disenfranchised....too funny.

[Dawson Leery]

8. So the klan finally got license plates.

[classysassy]

9. The Republicans

have ruined Arizona,we are now the New South Africa.

[hollowdweller]

10. Seriously, are these things important with the public in AZ?

My cousin lives there and I think she's more concerned with stuff like jobs and health care.

I swear some of the stuff the republicans nationwide are passing seem to be the agenda of some guy with a 5th grade education living in a trailer out in the sticks.

[ProudDad]

17. Most of the regular folk in Arizona are concerned with

Jobs and Health Care...

And that's why the bat-shit crazy mofo's in Phoenix aren't doing anything about jobs and health care...

Even if they had any "answers" (which they DON'T)...

They're too busy with smoke-screen bullshit since they've got complete control over the state gov...

[marasinghe]

11. no need to guess who the state assholes are.

these fools are the stuff that legends are made of.
the cream of repuke intelligence: the wise men of the west.

[jpak]

12. The sickfuck GOP/NRA wants more guns *everywhere*. Jobs? We don't need no stinking jobs

:thumbsdown:

[Kat45]

13. A politically partisan license plate should not be legal.

Period.

[Doctor_J]

14. The state is completely broke from 16 years of right-wing rule

But professors can carry guns in class, and Obama has to show his birth certificate to enter the state, so all is well.

[City Lights]

15. The "Tea Party" isn't even a "real" political party. They're Republicans.

Fuck the AZ legislature and those who voted for these clueless asspies up, down, and sideways.

:nuke:

[No Elephants]

18. "give married couples adoption preference" So much for all Arizona gay couples, all unmarried

hetero couples (er, I mean couples living in sin) and all single folk yearning to be parents.

Meanwhile, the divorce rate is over 50%.

[ProudDad]

19. That's EXACTLY what those racist homophobes are trying to do! (n/t)

[ProudDad]

20. Newest Travesty

Support your local terrorist:

"Urgent Arizona Action Alert – Don’t Let Vigilantes Be Above the Law!


"On Monday, March 14th, the Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on HB2191 which would protect publicly known vigilante and former Minutemen leader Roger Barnett (pictured below). If passed, HB2191 would reduce the verdict against Barnett by $60,000.


"We cannot allow the Arizona legislature to support violent, racist, and extreme vigilantism. This is one of many bills introduced in the state legislature that actually promotes the actions of non-state militia groups.
"

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5262/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=5981

[Ptah]

21. Sturm, Ruger has a large factory near Prescott, AZ

Support local business? No, and I think this explains why:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturm,_Ruger#Controversy

"After a spate of high profile shootings and incidents with the Ruger Mini-14 rifle,
along with the popularity the Mini 14 had gained with militias and extremist movements
during the late 1970s and 1980s, William B. Ruger expressed a highly unpopular position
(amongst firearms owners, users and enthusiasts) by stating his personal views on the
"sporting" nature of certain firearms. In his letter to members of the House and Senate
on 30 March 1989, Ruger stated (in what has come to be known as "The Ruger Letter"):

"The best way to address the firepower concern is therefore not to try to outlaw or
license many millions of older and perfectly legitimate firearms (which would be a licensing
effort of staggering proportions) but to prohibit the possession of high capacity magazines.
By a simple, complete, and unequivocal ban on large capacity magazines, all the difficulty
of defining "assault rifles" and "semi-automatic rifles" is eliminated. The large capacity
magazine itself, separate or attached to the firearm, becomes the prohibited item. A single
amendment to Federal firearms laws could prohibit their possession or sale and would
effectively implement these objectives."

In addition to the furor from the National Rifle Association caused by "The Ruger Letter",
Ruger made additional comments during an interview with NBC network's Tom Brokaw that
angered the NRA further, saying: "no honest man needs more than 10 rounds in any gun…"
and "I never meant for simple civilians to have my 20 and 30 round magazines…". It has
long been Ruger's policy to limit sales of those items to Law Enforcement or
Military purchasers.

This position, coming from an important firearms manufacturer such as Ruger, caused outrage
in some segments of the shooting sports community and led some to boycott Ruger's products."

[ProudDad]

22. Why not?

In the most fucked up gun friendly state in the union...

It's only Good Business... :sarcasm:


On Edit: Prescott (pronounced pres-kit by its no-neck inhabitants) is a hot bed of old white right-wing fucks...supplying their "fair share" of neo-nazi reps to the state nut house called a Legislature...

[Zorra]

23. Arizona has a republican state government. Arizona is broke. Bankrupt beyond

financially devastated ruin. Completely mismanaged financially and every other way for many many years by republican state government. Unemployment is rampant, wages are pitifully low. Budgets of important and necessary services are being slashed continually.

But hey - we got a Tea Party license plate.

Great job Arizona legislators!

[lutefisk]

24. A couple of excerpts from the bill:

"THE ARIZONA TEA PARTY COMMITTEE ESTABLISHED BY SECTION 28-2439.01 SHALL DESIGN THE DON’T TREAD ON ME SPECIAL PLATES"

"THE ARIZONA TEA PARTY COMMITTEE SHALL ALLOCATE MONIES TO QUALIFYING ENTITIES IN THIS STATE THAT USE MONIES TO PROMOTE TEA PARTY GOVERNING PRINCIPLES. THE ARIZONA TEA PARTY COMMITTEE SHALL ANNUALLY DISTRIBUTE ALL MONIES DEPOSITED IN THE DON’T TREAD ON ME SPECIAL PLATES FUND, EXCLUDING ADMINISTRATIVE FEES, TO ANY QUALIFYING ENTITIES. FUNDS AWARDED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION MUST BE USED FOR THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH THE MONIES WERE AWARDED.... ON NOTICE FROM THE ARIZONA TEA PARTY COMMITTEE, THE STATE TREASURER SHALL INVEST AND DIVEST MONIES IN THE FUND AS PROVIDED BY SECTION 35-313, AND MONIES EARNED FROM INVESTMENT SHALL BE CREDITED TO THE FUND."

http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/adopted/1402shooter1001.doc.htm

So the Tea Party gets to design the plate and a Tea Party committee gets the money the state receives to fund the Arizona Tea Party. So can other political parties (or entities) start doing this?

So does this make the Tea Party the official state party of Arizona.