Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Howard Fischer reports Phoenix man begins steps to put migrant law to vote:
A former Phoenix City Council candidate took the first steps Monday to have the fate of the new law aimed at illegal immigrants decided by Arizona voters.
Jon Garrido picked up the necessary paperwork at the Secretary of State's Office to refer the measure, just signed by Gov. Jan Brewer, to the ballot.
Garrido needs 76,684 valid signatures by late July – the exact date is currently in flux – to put the question to voters.
If he gets enough valid the signatures, the law is placed on "hold" until voters have their say at the next general election.
Garrido, a 67-year-old lifetime resident of Arizona, said he believes there is enough opposition to the measure to get enough signatures to force a vote, which would block enforcement while buying opponents more time to challenge its legality.
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The signatures must be turned in before the law takes effect, which is 90 days after the end of the legislative session. It is not known when that will be.
Jon Garrido was the economic development coordinator for the City of Tucson, executive director of economic development for the City of El Paso, director of community and economic development for the Salt River Indian Community and vice president for planning and development for Valgroup. On retiring at age 55, Jon Garrido started and publishes the THE JON GARRIDO NEWS NETWORK which includes HISPANIC NEWS and PHOENIX NEWS.
Garrido provides more details in this press release. Hispanic News Starts Process for Referendum to Repeal SB 1070:
Hispanic News Starts Process for Referendum to Repeal SB 1070
PHOENIX (By Jon Garrido, The Jon Garrido News Network) April 26, 2010 ― This morning Hispanic News obtained the documents from the Arizona Secretary of State necessary to repeal SB 1070 by Referendum.
A law office has been retained to oversee the referendum process to file with the Arizona Secretary of State and circulate petitions asking to place on the election ballot the vote to repeal (and end) SB 1070.
Referendum
Arizona’s registered voters may circulate a petition to refer to the voters a measure or part of a measure passed by the legislature. An application for a referendum petition serial number along with a 100-word description and a copy of the measure must be filed with the Secretary of State before the circulation of the petition. A.R.S. §§ 19-101, 19-111. Signatures obtained prior to the filing of the committee's statement of organization are void and shall not be counted in determining the legal sufficiency of the petition. A.R.S. §§ 19-111(C), 19-114(B).
If the proponents file sufficient signatures on the initiative/referendum petitions, the measure will be placed on the ballot to be voted upon by the people at the next General Election in November.
Number of Signatures Required: 76,682
Filing Deadline: 90 days after the close of the legislative session at which the measure was passed at 5:00 p.m.
We need 76,682 valid signatures which means we need to turn in more than 100,000 valid signatures.
We can do this. In tandem with Boycott Arizona, the life of SB 1070 can come to an end before it actually starts.
As soon as we finish with meeting the requirements needed to circulate the referendum petition for signatures, we shall Tweeter and invite all to an organizing meeting to begin to obtain the 100,000 petition signatures.
A referendum is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is asked to either accept or reject a particular proposal. It is a form of direct democracy. The measure put to a vote is known in the U.S. as a ballot proposition or measure.
If a referendum obtains the necessary signatures (100,000), SB 1070 will be put to a vote and if defeated, will come to an end.
Either way, win or loose, the approved referendum gives a time extension giving the opportunity for a law suit to be filed against SB 1070 with the appropriate court.
Lastly, please share with everyone this page so all know we have just begun to fight and there is hope either by a court ruling SB 1070 unconstitutional or SB 1070 defeated by the voters.
And Boycott Arizona will surely change some to understand SB 1070 can only bring harm to Arizona.
First meeting this Saturday to announce action to repeal SB 1070. Meeting somewhere in central Phoenix. We need a army to obtain 100,000 petition signatures. We can do this if everyone helps. Everyone who believes SB 1070 has to come to an end is invited. Please tell all your friends to come to this first meeting. Follow us on Twitter to learn about meetings.
The Committee of 100,000 to Repeal SB 1070
Jon Garrido also posted at the Tucson Citizen this blog post on Monday Boycott Arizona – The Jon Garrido Blog (excerpt):
The purpose of this letter is to officially notify all concerned, with Arizona now moving forward with SB 1070, Hispanic News on Monday will send out its first letter regarding “Boycott Arizona.”
Our first action will be to contact Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele to strongly oppose bringing the 2012 national Republican convention to Phoenix. If the GOP national convention comes to Arizona, it will send a message the GOP condones Arizona becoming a hate state toward Hispanics.
We will not single out Republicans but any Democrat or Republican event in Arizona will not be welcomed. In addition, we will directly contact every business considering locating to Arizona to make them aware Arizona has become a police state.
Not only tourism/conventions and businesses but also sport owners/teams will be strongly asked not to come to Arizona.
In addition, we will strongly recommend tourism and conventions programs funded by Arizona cities be brought to a halt.
On Monday, a letter will be sent to the Phoenix city manager notifying him Boycott Arizona will target all conventions using the Phoenix Convention Center.
Our strong recommendation to the city manager is he now has a responsibility to notify all convention planners considering Phoenix to be apprised of possible protests and a picket line at the Phoenix Convention Center. In addition, Boycott Arizona will also proceed to boycott the service or product nationally sold by the company.
All convention planners should be notified of caveat emptor for it would be prudent and advisable to warn all conventions coming to the Phoenix convention center their service or product will be boycotted by Boycott Arizona. We strongly recommend full disclosure to all considering usage of the Phoenix Convention Center.
Next week, a letter will be sent to the City of Phoenix requesting the dollar amount funded to the Phoenix Visitors Convention Bureau this year and requesting these funds be immediately frozen and used for other programs and services.
The Grand Canyon is our number 1 Arizona tourist destination. This summer, we will take Boycott Arizona to the entrance of the Grand Canyon.
This will be where we host our first national rally inviting Hispanic groups from all over the USA to come to Arizona to advance Boycott Arizona and promote Immigration Reform in Washington. Boycott Arizona will make the national evening news programs and become highly visible everywhere in the USA adding to its success to close down Arizona.
To spread the message Arizona becoming a police state, a network of supporters across America will work with us to spread the message of Boycott Arizona.
In addition, an advertising blitz sponsored by Hispanic News will be part of a national campaign to apprise all tourism agencies and travel agents to make their clients aware Arizona is now a Police State.
Efforts to have national and/or regional companies Boycott Arizona will result by notifying large national commercial real estate brokers and public and private economic development agencies in the USA by email blasts. Economic development agencies charged with bringing new companies to their cities and states are highly competitive. They will all use Arizona’s Police State as a tool to locate companies to their jurisdictions in lieu of selecting Arizona.
For a company or any part of a company operation proceeding to locate in Arizona, we shall boycott their products and/or services not only in Arizona but we will utilize our network of supporters across America to boycott their products and/or services across America.
For companies already in Arizona, we shall request their endorsement of Boycott Arizona and add their names to a list to be published here. For companies already in Arizona who fail to endorse Boycott Arizona, their products and/or services will be added to the boycott list.
In addition, Hispanic News will recruit public officials to support Boycott Arizona.
Boycott Arizona will also use the COPS model used in San Antonio, Texas in 1974, to effectively close down economic development growth in Arizona as San Antonio’s Communities Organized Public Service (COPS) brought growth to a halt in San Antonio.
In tandem with other pro-Immigration Reform groups, we will make crystal clear without federal Comprehensive Immigration Reform in 2010, we will sit out the 2010 and 2012 elections unless Immigration Reform becomes the law of the land prior to the next presidential election.
The use of Tweeter to spread the message of hate showered on Arizona Hispanics will spread across the USA as a fire spreading across the prairie. Nothing will be able to stop it.
Arizona is our home state. SB 1070 will have the same racist action as the Germans requiring Jews to wear a Star of David on their upper left chest to identify them as Jews. Will SB 1070 require Hispanics wear brown armbands? As Germans arrested Jews prior to and during WW II and then sent Jews to concentration camps for extermination, Sheriff Joe Arpaio will expand his immigration sweeps and knock in the dark of night and state to Hispanic households “identification papers.” It will not be a request, but a command from the SB 1070 Nazi Gestapo.
“Those Who Forget History Are Doomed to Repeat It.”
Hispanic News will continue Boycott Arizona until SB 1070 is rescinded.
Jon Garrido
Jon@JonGarrido.com
Boycott Arizona
We started an online Poll, maybe you can find voters on our site, already 263 posters.
Make your voice heard on Arizona Immigration Reform Debate site http://immigration.civiltalks.com/
Jan Brewer wasn’t even qualified to make this call. She should stick to the cosmetology degree she earned (in lieu of not getting a college education)… before becoming state GOVERNOR. Do you think she has any openings to do my nails this weekend?
Under SB 1070, anyone – including you, Sheryl – not just “brown people” can be stopped and asked to produce documentation of citizenship. The law creates a rebuttable presumption of illegality. Almost no American carries proof of citizenship. Yet the law makes it a crime not to carry proof of citizenship on your person at all times. If you leave your documents at home, you can be arrested for not having the documents on your person when stopped and questioned by law enforcement.
The only fair way to prevent racial profiling is for law enforcement to demand proof of citizenship from everyone – and that would be a police state. It would be fun to see the reaction of “Snottsdale” residents being asked for their proof of citizenship.
I am for SB1070. I am for immigration. Just get documented and pay your taxes. If you don’t want to follow the law and be legal, go somewhere else (like Washington D.C.).
Go Gov Brewer
Where do I sign?