“What do you call a Nazi-loving, anti-American, tax-hiking Arizonan? Blake Masters. The Lincoln Project is a leading pro-democracy organization in the United States — dedicated to the preservation, protection, and defense of democracy. Our fight against Trumpism is only beginning. We must combat these forces everywhere and at all times — our democracy depends on it.” 1
“Graham has also been fanning the flames of right-wing violence in the wake of the FBI’s Constitutional search of Donald Trump’s Florida home. While Trump supporters are busy sending death threats to judges and attacking the FBI’s Cincinnati field office, Graham has taken public aim at the FBI’s credibility and even compared the Mar-a-Lago search to the deadly 1992 standoff at Ruby Ridge. Later in his life, Billy Graham often lamented getting involved with politics when he was younger — once telling Parade magazine, “The hard right has no interest in religion except to manipulate it.” It’s a shame his son didn’t listen.” 2
The Arizona Republican Legislators are Giving Your Water Resources Away
“So when Arizonans are forced to cut back and a foreign company gets to pump however much water they want for cows in Saudi Arabia, it gets me fired up.” Kris Mayes 3
“Arizona is leasing farmland to a Saudi water company, straining aquifers, and threatening future water supply in Phoenix. Fondomonte, a Saudi company, exports the alfalfa to feed its cows in the Middle East. The country has practically exhausted its own underground aquifers there. In Arizona, Fondomonte can pump as much water as it wants at no cost. Groundwater is unregulated in most rural areas of the state. Fondomonte pays only $25 per acre annually. The State Land Department says the market rate is $50 dollars per acre and it provides a 50% discount because it doesn’t pay for improvements. But the $25 per acre price is about one-sixth of the market price for unimproved farmland with flood irrigation today, according to Charlie Havranek, a Realtor at Southwest Land Associates.” 4
“Four hours east of Los Angeles, in a drought-stricken area of a drought-afflicted state, is a small town called Blythe where alfalfa is king. More than half of the town’s 94,000 acres are bushy blue-green fields growing the crop. Massive industrial storehouses line the southern end of town, packed with thousands upon thousands of stacks of alfalfa bales ready to be fed to dairy cows – but not cows in California’s Central Valley or Montana’s rangelands. Instead, the alfalfa will be fed to cows in Saudi Arabia.” 5
“How much does unlimited pumping of groundwater in the Butler Valley, a desert west of Phoenix, Ariz, cost? Nothing, at least for Saudi corporation, Fondomonte, who has been growing alfalfa for export to Saudi Arabia over the last seven years.” 6
Then in a Biggs email newsletter he states, “On Wednesday, I met with Joshua Stanwitz of Concerned Veterans of America, Bob Dalpe of Arizona Veterans Medical Leadership Council, veteran advocate Steve Cooper, and Ro Gonzalez of Valors Veterans Community AZ to discuss the latest VA crisis and long wait times currently faced by our veterans. This is outrageous. Our nation has promised care for our veterans and the VA is failing to deliver that promise.” 7