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Posted by Pat]]> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:34:15 -0700 Tucson Weekly Posted by Red Star]]> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:57:03 -0700 Tucson Weekly
Pima County government thinks taxpayer money is better spent tearing down a big part of Tucson history in Rillito Park and then constructing a crapshoot like a soccer complex rather than spending the money to upgrade Tucson Electric Park to keep spring training baseball. That's pretty amazing.

I would wager that Ann Day knows the difference between a racehorse and a fried egg but precious little else about the racing industry. Her remark, "I know that (Rillito) is a nice track, but moving the racing to the fairgrounds just seems logical," shows just how clueless she is. The truth is that racetracks that are built a distance from a population center rarely succeed. Maybe that is the plan though, just send racing to the outskirts and let it wither and die.

Interesting how all the players behind the soccer complex used the same talking point on moving racing to the fairgrounds though. Mr. Schmidt was slightly less eloquent and his arrogance and condescension towards the year-round Tucsonans and winter retirees here that frequent the races was evident in his "kids versus gamblers" remark. Schmidt also gets the award for the most inane remark in the debate with his suggestion that racing belongs at the fairgrounds because "there are lots of animals" there. There were 7,500 people at Rillito last Saturday, maybe if there were lots of other animals there Schmidt might join them next weekend. (Note to self: Suggest to track management they rent a petting zoo).

Spring training baseball is history after this season and now the county seems determined to run horse racing out of town as well. These are not the kind of accomplishments most people in elected office would take pride in. But then again, this is Pima County we're talking about, you get what you pay for - literally, some would argue.

Nice article though I would like to note one correction: Rillito's track is a 5/8-mile oval, not half-mile.


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Posted by RULEOFWOLVES]]> Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:22:25 -0700 Tucson Weekly
They are idiots. Plain & Simple.
Posted by Turtlekeeper]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:53:36 -0700 Tucson Weekly
Thank you once again for presenting such a well written documentation of facts about our unsecured border. I would like to know if Howard and Rosie Hunt need any help in any way.
Thank the good lord they survived.

I have lived in the rural border area for 11 years, this is a full disgrace. The shame for this mess lies on our politicians, local and federal. All the PC talk about the "poor migrants" and bla-bla-bla we are talked at in town hall meetings then the say nothing Congresscritters letters mailed to us say nothing more.

Our so called, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitanohas will do nothing, not one thing to change the invasion.

"All this is happening as Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano—who in April of last year told CNN that crossing the border is not a crime—is publicly suggesting the border is secure enough to push again for amnesty."
At this same time Napolitano spewed her PC Lies, a few volunteers disclosed film from hidden cameras they had placed in the human and drug smuggling trails. The film can be viewed at http://borderinvasionpics.com/

I pray everyone will e-mail this web address our far and wide, bring it to meetings, sit at your congresscritters desk and ask them to view the film.

Every border county is suffering, residents have to be on alert at all times. One might think that grandparents living in the country would be safe, healthy and happy. We can not let our children out to play in the rural areas for fear of a large group of illegal aliens hiding in the bushes, as we all know the illegals are layed up often right near the school bus stops.

Cindy Kolb
www.desertvisions.us



Posted by desertvisions]]> Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:58:26 -0700 Tucson Weekly Posted by NanFree]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:50:23 -0700 Tucson Weekly
Global Chant
Rating: 5 Stars
Posted by Dharma]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:53:11 -0700 Tucson Weekly Posted by Bongo]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:41:48 -0700 Tucson Weekly Posted by Bongo]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:41:04 -0700 Tucson Weekly
We have faced rough times with the crossing of people on the U.S. Mexico Border. Illegal aliens murdered two Rodeo, New Mexico area residents in there home in the early 1980; these illegal were never caught much less prosecuted. Thieves, murderers, child molesters, drug smugglers, and the human traffickers are now the norm for today and will be worse in the future. This trend of criminal human traffic is not getting better with time. The apprehension of these border crossers has increased dramatically. More and more people from other foreign lands are being apprehended. People from many countries including China others from the Middle East as well as from way far south of our U.S. borders are included in the apprehensions. The guides or coyotes have learned the way to cross this border undetected by using the vast open space and the two large mountain ranges as cover and routes. The coyotes extort large amounts of money from the people seeking a better life in the United States time just abandoning them in the United States if travel becomes hard due to dehydration, sickness or if Border Patrol is closing in.

Law enforcement is at best after the fact if the illegal border crossers are not apprehended at the border. Many miles from the border our homes are invaded, vehicles are stolen and property is destroyed on a daily occurrence. These crimes are reported, every effort is made to apprehend the criminal, but in many cases the criminal(s) are not apprehended. In most, if not all cases, no evidence is gathered, the crime is documented by statement from the victim with no physical evidence as fingerprints or possible DNA recorded from the crime scene. With no recorded evidence from the scene the criminal is free to commit more crimes and is never linked back to any of the previous crimes. Unless some sort of investigative team is created that can secure a crime scene gather the available evidence, place it in record in the national data base many of these criminal will have the opportunity to become hardened into the system and go on for years although apprehended will have no evidence against them and not prosecuted for the crimes that have been committed. These teams will have to be able to work with all law enforcement and have the ability to work in Arizona and New Mexico.

With two circuit courts in close proximity, both that are overloaded with cases, one circuit court prosecuting most of the cases and incarcerating, the other not prosecuting criminals, and deporting. The prisons are filled almost to capacity budgets are strained it is difficult to manage all of these cases. Without prosecution a criminal they do not feel the hardship that should be imposed for committing a felony crime much less a misdemeanor.

Posted by WC MILLER]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:11:47 -0700 Tucson Weekly Posted by Truth B Known]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:42:22 -0700 Tucson Weekly Posted by MAC]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:40:43 -0700 Tucson Weekly
Familiarity breeds contempt so we have become apathetic to the supposed drug war and illegal immigration problems at all levels of society from the retired couples living a peaceful life in the countryside to the crackhead killers of the dark metropolis streets. The bobble headed politicians grin and nod their thick plastic noggins, promising to make it all better. The law enforcement agencies wait until after the fact to earn their paycheck. The " Border " Patrol spends huge amounts of resources well north of the border trying to find, chase, catch, then transport the undocumented hoard back to the starting line to begin the game all over again.

With a tad over 2000 miles of Mexican border and over twice that many Border Patrol vehicles with agents in use in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, all we really need is a gravel road graded the length of that border with a tightly stretched barbed wire fence on the south side of that road and a B.P. vehicle with agent parked every half mile along said road. Then they can live up to their name and...........PATROL the freakin BORDER ! A pack rat couldn't sneak through, let alone trucks full of dope, or a coyote with 300 poyos in tow.

What a concept ! Actually use the Border Patrol to patrol the border. All of it. NOT waste time and resources in games of hide and seek everywhere but the border, with the same offenders every day of every year. Napolitano could truthfully claim that we have the border under control, the "system" works. But you see, then someone would have a lot of explaining to do if the drugs and illegals still keep coming, and people in high political places don't want to have to explain those kind of things.

We could have done it but we didn't and we won't because big government politics do not want it done on either side of said border.

The end result for American border communities will be the same as in those dark metropolis streets. People are going to get shot. Soooooooo......... get ready for the back alley battles coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

Timothy M. Barrett
Posted by Timothy M. Barrett]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:55:41 -0700 Tucson Weekly Posted by mariap]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:29:38 -0700 Tucson Weekly Posted by Luke Knipe]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:18:36 -0700 Tucson Weekly I think all the agents and local law enforcement are doing a great job. However for some unknown reason Washington DC has not been able to keep this country safe.
If they can haul over a million pounds of drugs across the border in the Tucson sector alone last year...what about a terrorist threat?
If the border is not sealed...all 2,200 miles not simply 600 miles of fence since 9-11-01 we are all doomed. Jeff Gee, Portal resident for 20 years.
Posted by JEPHGEEZ]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:43:43 -0700 Tucson Weekly Posted by HermanGFlores]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:54:03 -0700 Tucson Weekly Posted by HermanGFlores]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:35:36 -0700 Tucson Weekly Posted by impeculies]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 08:47:04 -0700 Tucson Weekly Posted by flaVius]]> Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:12:08 -0700 Tucson Weekly Posted by Cristal]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:42:28 -0700 Tucson Weekly Posted by Nintz]]> Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:34:26 -0700 Tucson Weekly