• Finally, an end to partisan politics.
• Finally, an end to the control of the state by the power-broker establishment.
• Finally, an end to the obsolete economic model that has made us the backwater of the country.
• Finally, an end to the influence of extremism.
• Finally, true education reform that will enable our children to compete in the real world.
• Finally, a new paradigm of thinking, focus and commitment that will propel us into a sustainable and prosperous future.

1912 – 2010  -  business as usual
2010  -  The Renaissance arrives

How can the Renaissance be achieved? 

Are you ready to bury the past?  Join in for the ride to future prosperity and quality living.

My term as Governor will be heavily focused on two overwhelming priorities, both of them being highly interconnected;

The future that Arizonans want and need is crystal clear.  Numerous civic groups and prominent individuals have stepped forward with simple yet brilliant analyses and plans for a fantastic Arizona sunrise.  And there are lots more to come.  Folks, it isn’t a mystery.  Yet, our reality is that we presently look at a dismal sunset.  Why?  The complacency and partisanship of our State political system is in paralysis and is completely incapable of delivering a future to us.  Face it, it has failed and despite a little bit of hollow rhetoric, it offers no hope for the future.  It is time to break the mold and make this state what we want it to be. 

The world economy is a brutal take-no-prisoners environment and we are miserably loosing the battle.  The response of the State government could make a skeptic wonder if they want us to fail.  In an effort to catch up with the rest of the world, many states have responded brilliantly with competitive models for the future that they are executing today.  There isn’t a lot to figure out here as others have created the map to competitiveness and all we have to do is get onboard.  We don’t need to reinvent the wheel.  When other states are landing diverse high-paying industries-of-the-future, it isn’t by accident.  They have mobilized their best and brightest with economic-development plans and have gone after these opportunities with full force.  They are getting results for their citizens.  North Carolina has mobilized their forces and they mean it for real.  Their Department of Commerce has 24-times the funding of ours.  Meanwhile, the government affairs manager of Intel tells us that “Arizona’s economic strategy is non-existent”.  People, we better start listening to industrialists like this as they control the destiny of our jobs.  But we haven’t.  That is why our State is #1 in the nation for job exodus having lost 305,000 jobs in this recession, 9.9 % of our workforce.  Those aren’t just numbers on a spreadsheet as each represents the heartbreak and desperation of a family with no income. 

Why hasn’t an agency such as the Department of Commerce risen to the occasion in the past?  For one, it is politicized into dysfunction having had 7 different directors in the last ten years.  The neglect at the hands of our political system has relegated the department to menial tasks such as data collection.  They should be partnering up with the private sector and taking the world by storm.  It’s not that we haven’t had plans in the past, we have had plenty of them.  But, what we have never had is the leadership, unity or initiative to get off our butts and make it happen!  That is about to change and you will find specifics of my plans for change in other pages here.  Quoting the Arizona Republic, “Arizona has a long history of reaction to economic downturns with energetic determination.  The state has compiled a thick stack of economic-development plans, most of which have done nothing but gather dust.  … What would be “new” would be a commitment to making these things happen.”  We will after November!

The Governor recently announced the creation of an economic study group that will report it’s recommendations at the end of March.  Well excuse me, but isn’t it a little late for a leader to start thinking about this?  Where were you and your predecessors long, long ago?  And is it just a coincidence that this epiphany of job creation happened at the beginning of an election cycle?  If the current Governor and other political powers had any intention of doing more than the same old lip service, they would have been engaged with full force a long time ago.  Enough is enough, its time to step aside and pass the torch to an achiever.

With no attachment or obligation to any political power base or special interest, this candidate will achieve the Arizona Renaissance by transcending the crippling partisan situation of today which has proven terminally incapable of performance.  My administration will be characterized by;