Thread: Goldwater Nephew to Run for Ariz. Governor

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Goldwater Nephew to Run for Ariz. Governor

By PAUL DAVENPORT
The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 2, 2005; 9:26 PM

SUN CITY WEST, Ariz. -- Republican Party activist Don Goldwater announced his candidacy Tuesday for governor in 2006, sounding some of the same conservative themes once heard from his uncle, 1964 presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.

"The state is headed in the wrong direction," said the 50-year-old candidate. "We must return to the basic principles of limited government, individual liberty and economic freedom."


Goldwater said he would push for tax cuts and school choice and combat illegal immigration. He said he would fully enforce a voter-approved immigration law, including its requirement that voters produce identification at polling places.

He called illegal immigration destructive to the state's health care industry, a burden on public schools and a threat to public safety.

"No longer can we turn a blind eye to illegal immigration, hoping that it will just go away," said Goldwater, who is seeking to unseat first-term Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano.

Goldwater's family name could be a big asset in a crowded GOP primary field with no clear front-runner. Barry Goldwater was a five-term senator who lost to President Lyndon B. Johnson in a landslide in 1964. He retired from the Senate in 1987 and died in 1998.

The younger Goldwater has served as party chairman for a legislative district on the outskirts of Phoenix. He resigned Friday from a state Department of Administration job.

Don Goldwater joins a developing field of Republicans seeking the party's 2006 gubernatorial nomination.

Former state Senate President John Greene, a fiscal conservative and social moderate, already has announced. Current Senate President Ken Bennett has said he intends to announce in the coming weeks whether he will formally explore a bid for governor.

Napolitano won a narrow victory in 2002 but enjoys strong poll ratings.

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Goldwater nephew enters gubernatorial race


Robbie Sherwood
The Arizona Republic
Aug. 3, 2005 12:00 AM

Republican activist and former state employee Don Goldwater jumped into the governor's race Tuesday with a vow to lower taxes and get tough on illegal immigration.

Goldwater, a nephew of the late U.S. Sen. Barry Goldwater, said Gov. Janet Napolitano has Arizona "headed in the wrong direction."

"No longer can we turn a blind eye to illegal immigration hoping that it will just go away," said Goldwater, 50, before about a dozen supporters at the state Capitol. "Our delicate environment is being damaged by illegal immigrants crossing public and private property, destroying the desert ecology, trespassing and damaging personal property and forcing law-abiding citizens to alter their lifestyles."

Goldwater blamed Napolitano for not fully enacting Proposition 200, a voter-approved measure to deny state services to undocumented immigrants and prevent voter fraud, calling it "an outrageous abuse of power." The measure's requirement for voters to present identification at the polls is the only portion of the measure that is still not law. The secretary of state, attorney general and Napolitano have disagreed over how to implement the new rules, but those differences are reportedly nearly worked out.

In his first week in office Goldwater said he would direct state agencies to train workers on how to fully implement Proposition 200.

Napolitano spokeswoman Pati Urias said the governor already did that as soon as the new law went into effect this year. Napolitano has also pressed the federal government to enforce existing immigration laws.

"She has even offered the help of the state to do this," Urias said.

Goldwater said the key to stimulating economic growth in Arizona is to cut taxes. He also said he would target "government waste" and would seek to privatize some government services. Goldwater did not mention abortion in his speech. But he indicated afterward that he's an opponent and supports further state restrictions such as requiring parental consent for minors and bans on late-term abortions.

Goldwater, a longtime party activist, ran for office once before, losing in a three-way Republican primary for a state Senate seat in 1992. He resigned his post as a special-events coordinator for the Department of Administration last week, but is still a partner in a development company.





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Goldwater promises to tighten border
By Howard Fischer
CAPITOL MEDIA SERVICES


SUN CITY WEST - Invoking the image of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the newest candidate for governor promised Tuesday to crack down on illegal immigration.

Republican Don Goldwater told an audience of about 50 people here the 9/11 attack "was a direct result of our unofficial open border policy."

Turning his attention closer to home, Goldwater made it clear he thinks Democratic Gov. Janet Napolitano, who was elected in 2002, bears responsibility for other effects of illegal immigration, ranging from increased crime and pollution of the desert to lost jobs for U.S. residents.

Goldwater, who made virtually identical speeches Tuesday in Phoenix and Tucson, specifically charged that Napolitano has undermined Proposition 200, which voters approved last fall by a 12-point margin.

"In an outrageous abuse of power, our governor has chosen to ignore the will of the people by refusing to enact all provisions of the new law," Goldwater, nephew of the late Sen. Barry Goldwater, said in his prepared speech.

Asked for details later, he said provisions to require identification to cast a ballot have yet to be implemented. Napolitano has said that's because she's following the advice of Democratic Attorney General Terry Goddard.

Goldwater noted the other half of Proposition 200 denies state and local benefits to people living here illegally. "My first full week in office," he said, "I will transmit policy directives to all state agencies for the training of state personnel on how to fully implement Proposition 200."

Napolitano spokeswoman Pati Urias said the governor did implement the law, in the areas that Goddard ruled the initiative applies to.

Goldwater also criticized Napolitano for vetoing legislation that would have permitted state and local police to enforce federal immigration laws.

Good to know Brian!!

One of the articles said Napolitano "had done that" referring to training state employees to execute Proposition 200.

It was my recollection that she refused to execute Proposition 200!!

Is this DOUBLESPEAK from Napalitano????