Due to an error on the part of the venue, the Touchmark Educational Series “Energy: Past, Present and Future” is rescheduled to this Friday 8/18 at 10am. The second and third parts of this series cover “Groundwater: The Straight Truth,” and “Transportation in Arizona and Beyond.” These classes are designed to help PCs and other voters gain a common baseline of untainted, actual-fact knowledge about some of the key issues important to Yavapai County and Arizona. See the event flier below for dates and times – admission is free, just need to RSVP.

We are still gathering information regarding the potential office relocation and the EC will discuss at the next meeting. Many of you have sent your feedback to me and I thank you for doing so.

Susan Cohen, Area 4 Director, has organized an all-area meeting tomorrow evening at the Chino Valley Recreation Center Room B at 4pm. Many candidates for county and state offices will speak – if you are a PC in Area 4, please plan to attend and RSVP to [email protected]. I want to thank Susan for all her efforts to save our country – she is a true patriot and has Energizer Bunny bona fides!

Julie Peden, Maria Ginter, Chris Russo, and Luci Wheat have set up the office for our Literary Event tomorrow (8/17) from 11am – 3pm. Stop by and meet authors Shane Krauser, Cristi Taijeron and Andrew St. Wilson, get a signed book, or buy some gently used conservative books – proceeds to YavGOP. Bumper stickers, hats, flip flops and other merchandise also for sale!

Hope to see you soon!

Jana

Yavapai County Election Integrity Committee (YCEIC) Meeting

Gladys Gardner Room, Fair St. | Tuesday, August 8, 2023

Jana Kading & Kristin Baumgartner attendees for Republicans

Clarification on Arizona Free Enterprise Club Article on Voter Registration Data

Need not be a Touchmark resident to attend a class, but you MUST RSVP to Sandra Ritter who is a resident so you may attend as her "guest."

Speakers are not compensated by YavGOP.

PC Orientation Classes

Changes to PC Orientation times

•  9/20 New Time: 2:30-4:30 (had to be done early for the ESL Class!)
• 10/19 New Time: 6pm - 8pm (had requests for an evening class!)
•  11/13 3:30 -5:30 pm YavGOP Office, 112B E Union St., Prescott
• 12/6 3:30 -5:30 pm YavGOP Office, 112B E Union St., Prescott

Calling all PCs who have not attended a PC orientation, or who want a refresher course. You must be elected, appointed, or turned in your PC Application to attend, and you must be pre-registered.  

RSVP required: Send email to [email protected], make the subject line: (Date you want to attend) PC Orientation

NOTE: Classes are subject to cancelation without notice if no one signs up.  

Direct Candidate Petition

Voter Authentication E-Qual Petitions

We are still out there waving the flag during morning rush hour. Teddi and I are starting to be recognized around BCC as those ladies who flag wave near I-17. We get good responses from the commuters and the truckers who toot their horns. It is fun.  

Frances Huff and Teddi Deming

Sunset #223 PC's and State Committeemen

Town of Dewey-Humboldt:

Planning and Zoning Advisory Commission VACANCY

36th Annual Territorial Days Parade Sept. 2, 2023

“Ranchers, Farmers, and Pioneers – Celebrating Chino Valley's History”

The Truth About Prop 400

There has been some confusion regarding the recent vote on Prop 400 for Maricopa County. We want LD1 PCs to have the correct information. Attached is a document comparing the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) proposal compared to the negotiated deal we passed on July 31st.

Notice the 9 categories - 

1. Improved funding allocations - less for transit and more for highways

2. Built-in guardrails - to prevent Maricopa County jurisdictions from using tax dollars to pursue unneeded and unwanted roads 

3. No road diets or restricting lanes on highways and local roads in Maricopa County

4. No expansion of light-rail by restricting the use of funding on any new light rail and caps maintenance of existing light rail at 3.5%

5. Efficiency benchmarks by eliminating unused bus lines

6. Transportation committee has more legislative oversight

7. Allocations specified in the ballot question going to Maricopa voters

8. The duration is 20 years instead of 25

9. Includes a pre-emption on energy source bans, thereby not restricting gas and/or diesel-powered cars

Notice - No 15-Minute Cities and No Road Diets!

What is important to rural counties like Yavapai County is that we won't have to compete for funding with Maricopa County as they will have their own regional transportation plan.

We hope this helps folks to understand what really happened with Prop 400.

-Your LD-1 Representatives Quang Nguyen and Selina Bliss

PHOENIX—Secretary of State Adrian Fontes today announced the start of a 15-day public comment period for the Draft 2023 Election Procedures Manual, a document updated every two years that serves as an important guide for the officials that run Arizona’s elections. As part of this process, a full draft of the manual has been posted on the Secretary of State’s website.

Crane: Biden Grand Canyon Land Grab Sabotages American Security, Energy Independence, and Tribal Sovereignty 

Following President Biden's announcement, which locks up more than one million acres of land near the Grand Canyon, stifling American energy production, Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ) released this statement:

“With today’s announcement, President Biden and Interior Secretary Haaland have made it apparent that national security, economic prosperity, and Tribal sovereignty are disposable to them. Biden is shamelessly politicizing the Grand Canyon to appease the radical left and distract from his dereliction of duty just a few hours south at the border.

"Uranium is critical to American energy and security, and this ridiculous political posturing only makes us more reliant on foreign nations such as China and Russia.

"Apart from sabotaging national security and energy independence, Biden Administration policies trap Americans in poverty and undercut the economy. Northern Arizona’s economy will lose billions because of this stifling land grab by the federal government.

"In addition to this million-acre land grab, this Administration is also cruelly blocking Navajo Nation citizens from natural gas and oil development in New Mexico. Tribal sovereignty only matters to them if it suits their radical agenda.

"This type of woke government overreach that tramples over the American people is the embodiment of the America Last agenda.”

Crane Introduces Bill to Nullify Biden Admin’s

Obstructive Violation of Tribal Sovereignty

July 7, 2023 Press Release | The Energy Opportunities for All Act would void Biden’s meddlesome ban, allowing tribal citizens to control their own resources

Recently, Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), along with Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), introduced the Energy Opportunities for All Act, which would nullify the Biden admin’s overreaching actions that ban citizens from lawfully exercising the rights over their lands and resources.

In June, the Biden administration issued a Public Land Order banning approximately 336,404.42 acres of federal mineral estate surrounding the Chaco Canyon National Historical Park for 20 years. This effectively prevents all private landowners and Navajo allottees from mineral leasing land in this area.

Eli Crane's Scorecard

Paul Gosar, D.D.S.

Congressman for Arizona’s 9th CD

DrPaulGosar.com

Stand Against Grand Canyon Land Grab

This government overreach not only diminishes public access to our cherished federal lands but also threatens America's energy, economic, and national security for generations to come.

Biden is pushing this radical environmental justice agenda regardless of whether the Constitution grants him these powers. This land grab is yet another example of his desire to enact a radical climate agenda that exercises control over America’s ability to be self-sustaining while acting as an overlord in every aspect of American life. 

As your Congressman, I am fighting to assert our Congressional authority against Biden’s tyrannical behavior! 

Your Majority Report

Representing Arizonans while contending with a new, radical leftist Governor had its challenges. The Governor set records for vetoes, and seemed more comfortable killing bills than engaging in solutions with Arizona’s duly elected representatives. 

But we are proud of the many Republican-led bills that were signed and the many bad bills and ideas that we stopped on behalf of our constituents. 

We passed Arizona’s budget while stopping taxpayer dollars going to abortion and keeping the Governor from taking Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESAs) away from 60,000+ Arizona students. 

HOW TO CONTACT YOUR LEGISLATOR

The RTS (Request to Speak) system is a necessary component to our legislative process. This is an excellent way to share your positions on a particular Bill and let your legislator know that you support his/her legislation. Please review this site and make sure you know how to use it properly.  The legislators depend a lot on your opinions and this is where you share them.

The link to sign up for the RTS system can be found here:  https://www.azleg.gov/alispdfs/Using_the_Request_to_Speak_Program.pdf

Websites where you can learn about bills in the AZ legislature:

August 17 - YavGOP Literary Event & Book Signing

at YavGOP Office 11 am

August 19 - Hope Fest, Prescott Courthouse Square

Volunteers to man YavGOP booth RSVP to [email protected]

August 22 - Dennis Prager at Yavapai Performing Arts Center, 7:15 pm

(VIP tickets are sold out) Tickets

August 28, Monday 9-1 pm

Mary's Legacy Blood Drive - Register

Aug. 30 open-house meeting seeks public engagement on

Prescott General Plan process more info

September 8-16 Pilar Henry Volunteer Coordinator

Prescott Valley Healing Field of Northern Arizona 949.422.6035 (cell) 

[email protected] | www.healingfieldpv.com

September 9 - 38th Annual Yavapai Silent Witness

Golf Open Tournament

September 21 & 22 - Lincoln-Reagan Dinner at the Wheelhouse

Nick Adams, Keynote Speaker | "Western Semi-formal"

VIP Cocktail Hour 9/21 with Nick Adams & other Dignitaries

Dinner, no-host bar 9/22

September 30 - YavGOP Quarterly Meeting, 9 am-noon

Mark Finchem on 9/21

Wine Tasting evening before Lincoln Reagan dinner.

3 pm 9/21, 527 E Road 1, Room D, Chino Valley

(Chino Valley Rec Center)

Questions: Dean Williams 209-752-8170

SimpleLogin joins the Proton family

Stop the Spam Mail

SimpleLogin was started in 2019. After more than a year of coding, we launched a beta version in 2020 and a public version at the beginning of 2021. SimpleLogin’s mission is to protect your online identity and we follow a transparency model since the beginning: the code is 100% open source and product development decisions are discussed openly with the community. SimpleLogin has received a lot of positive feedback from the privacy community and with your help, we have built many new features while maintaining high reliability and stability.

Turn Off Notifications & Alerts

Notifications, alerts, and badges are designed to draw your attention back to your phone. Reclaim your time by diminishing their effect.

• Turn off notifications & badges → Check out the instructions for your specific device under additional resources
• Focus mode → Use your device’s focus settings to turn off distractions
• Grayscale → Set your device display to grayscale to make it less visually stimulating and addictive

Reduce (or Remove) Harmful Apps

Many apps and platforms profit from addiction, distraction, and misinformation. Consistent use of these can negatively affect our mental health.

• Disincentivize their use → Make it harder for yourself to constantly engage with these apps by:
• Not saving passwords so you need to retype them every time
• Hiding them from your home screen so you’re less likely to check or notice them
• Using them exclusively on your tablet or computer
• Reduce their harm → Unfollow accounts that are negatively impacting your health
• Take inventory → Once or twice a year, remove apps you no longer use - or better yet, remove all of them yearly and only add back the ones you use consistently

Eliminate Outrage & Clickbait

We vote with our attention and clicks. Don't support sites that pollute our cultural environment with vitriol via clickbait and outrage.



• Unfollow outrage-chasing voices → Unfollow purposefully outrageous Twitter accounts and Facebook groups; start fresh and intentionally choose the voices you expose yourself to
• Remove polarizing media outlets from your news feed → Both MSNBC & FOX News are examples of this
• Follow positive news sources → News doesn’t always need to be upsetting. This article lists some helpful positive news sites

The Vigilant Fox 

Dr. Mike Yeadon, former Pfizer Vice President, talks with Dr. Paul Elias Alexander on the fraud of the COVID pandemic and the deaths caused by the response. September 17, 2022

My content is available for free. I have lost extensive income due to my advocacy for early treatment and my stance against the COVID vaccines, especially for children. Your kindness and generosity is very much appreciated in my sharing of research and the fight against scientific censorship where several good and brilliant doctors and scientists are silenced and canceled, including myself. It is absolutely imperative that people/populations are given accurate information about the benefits and harms of societal restrictions or medical interventions such as vaccines. Only then can people make informed decisions about what is best for them.

Editorial Disclaimer

Articles contained this publication are from our volunteers and members; they are neither legal interpretations not statements of the Yavapai County Republican Committee. The content expressed is their own.

Budweiser Boycott

It actually is fun to explore the alternatives outside the AB InBev family! For those of you who have committed to continuing the boycott of Bud Light, here's a partial list of brands connected to Anheuser-Busch InBev known as AB InBev, the parent company.

• Anheuser-Busch Brands
• Budweiser
• Michelob
• Rolling Rock
• Busch
• Shock Top
• Natural
• Johnny Appleseed
• LandShark Lager
• Goose Island
• Blue Point
• 10 Barrel
• Elysian Brewing
• Golden Road Brewing
• Four Peaks
• Breckenridge
• Devils Backbone
• Karbach Brewing
• Wicked Weed
• King Cobra
• Hurricane
• Spykes

Event Calendar

To view the YavGOP calendar and listed events -click the button. To add an event, please email [email protected].