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Well, my first comment did not go through. I was saying that the Republicans are all for tax breaks to the wealthy and out of state corporations. And Andrea Dalessandro is all over the place in her answers. She never did answer Bill on the illegal immigration question. Plus, IPO is an initial PUBLIC offering, not a private offering as she said. If you are going to say something in your campaign, do your research. I will vote independent. These three don't have a brain between them it seems!

Thanks, Bill, for an enlightening debate. Your questions were right on and focused on the real issues for our state.

Management 101—“Plan your work and work your plan.”

Clearly, the Republican candidates have a plan: 1.) Reduce the size of government. 2.) Reduce the tax burden for both citizens and businesses 3.) Protect the welfare and rights of Arizona citizens 4.) Cost/Benefit analysis for required and required services.

Reduction (dieting) causes pain but the reality is there are no sacred cows in the budgeting process. “No pain, no gain.”

The Republican plan is what is “realistically” required for Arizona.

JG,

Firstly, there is no independent candidate running in this race. Secondly, the point that I wish one of the incumbents would have made in response to Dellassandro is that corporations don't pay taxes out of their revenues. When you buy products, you also pay for their taxes. Lowering the taxes levied against these businesses can actually lower the prices of goods effectively evening out any "added burden" that the middle class might receive.

With my Master's of Business Administration in Professional Accounting, of course, I know that IPO is an Initial Public Offering. Yes, I said the wrong word. You are missing the point, the Arizona Legislature's leadership is on the WRONG TRACK and is acting as a repellant to business growth in our state.

Additionally, I have been speaking about cost benefit analysis on the campaign trail and I will explain it to other representatives after I am elected. Clearly, it is a concept that eludes the GOP led Legislature.

I am for a secure border and I will fight to curb the violence related to human and drug trafficking. I will use my accounting background to follow the money and stop money laundering. Hitting the criminals in the pocket is the way to go. As I said in the interview, drop houses are a reality in Arizona and I will fight to beef up the law and make it a felony to use your property as a drop house. That is a REAL solution for REAL border security that will make the residents of southern Arizona safer.

When we moved here in 2007 as a corporate relocation, if we had one child still in school, we would not have moved to AZ. The difference in the quality of AZ K-12 education and Massachusetts where we came from is night and day. The lack of funding and support for schools by the Republican's running this state is appalling and no matter what they say, people seeking good jobs simply will not move here from states that support education. The minimum wage call center jobs that are growing here will not sustain a growing economy which would in turn support good public education. These two incumbents keep talking about jobs, but what have they done to improve the job situation for the thousands of students graduating from the U of A and ASU every year? The only apparent growth in jobs in the Tucson area are minimum wage call center jobs. The U of A graduates with engineering and technical degrees are leaving the state in droves to find jobs waiting in the New England area, Mid-Texas, California and the Northwest. The Republicans policies in AZ have not brought good jobs here and are producing a brain drain, that combined with no support for public education will keep AZ a state filled with aging retirees, minimum age service jobs and a few good companies that may one day leave the state because they cannot get engineers and their families to move here.

"I have been speaking about cost benefit analysis on the campaign trail and I will explain it to other representatives after I am elected."

"Explaining" cost-benefit analysis isn't the same thing is having a plan. What is your plan, Mrs. Dalessandro, to balance the budget?

Also, as JG said, you didn't answer Bill's question and still have not. Do you support SB1070 or not? It is a yes or no question. Though I realize politicians like doublespeak and to avoid answering the questions at all costs.

You would not have the issues with illegal immigration if the Democrats didn't support illegal labor and give corporations that are funneling money to bring in the illegal smuggling (and drugs)a free pass. Yet, Americans can't find work and unemployment is up to 14% now.

Democrats can't blame Republicans for the national bailouts that hurt all of us, or the state funneling money to their favorite pet causes and doing the favorite Democrat tactic, increasing our taxes. Sales tax increases to pay for education when we will always be one of the worst states when it comes to education...thanks to racist catering to a specific non-English population at our expense (while ignoring all the other immigrant populations and their native languages), hiring incompetent and corrupt administrators at our schools, and lack of teacher accountability, plus not rewarding the really good teachers. I grew up in state that spent less per student than Arizona and ranks one of the best educated in the country. Throwing more money at it isn't going to make a difference. Spend some time in an AZ classroom and you get the picture.

I have yet to hear either side discuss the real causes and provide the real solutions to our economic woes, illegal immigration and violent borders, and lack of small business support in this state.

Until the Democrats provide an alternative to the Republicans, people might as well vote Republican or not at all. The Democrats couldn't even come up with two candidates for the two House positions in this district. That tells you something.

"The U of A graduates with engineering and technical degrees are leaving the state in droves to find jobs waiting in the New England area, Mid-Texas, California and the Northwest."

And yet, the U of A and many of the tech companies here recruit and hire constantly from foreign countries, especially in Asia. Why is that if there is such a huge tech population here? Maybe these companies should be held accountable for employing people at lower wages from overseas before hiring in their own back yards. The problem isn't education. Arizona has a huge population of highly educated and highly trained workers (many who came from other states). No one has yet proven a correlation between being highly educated and gainfully employed. Just ask all the unemployed Ph.Ds here.

Gowan keeps talking about the "same old banter" of the Democrats. What does he call his repetition of the tired old Republican phrase "tax and spend," and "we need to lower taxes?" Republicans in this state have cut the government budgets to the point where it can no longer provide the services we citizens expect--decent roads, protecting our natural heritage and parks, and the education of our children--as well as public safety! They want to privatize prisons, to the detriment of our safety, but they cry foul at the idea of private companies running speed cameras that bring revenue to the state AND protect us from unsafe drivers. It is mind-boggling that the people of this state keep electing clowns like this!