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Do you need Sam Crump's high resolution media head shot photo? Voters may get chance to dump state property tax Arizona State Representative Sam Crump (District 6) Joins the Board of Directors for Hope 4 Kids International |
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I-17 traffic congestion center of concerns Legislators help dedicate culinary center at DVUSD Spring Rains Filled Reservoirs Sixth Legislative District Representative Sam Crump, R-Anthem, recently toured the dams on the Verde and Salt rivers by helicopter with staff from the Salt River Project. Mr. Crump, in his first term in the Arizona House of Representatives, is a member of the Education, Environment, and Transportation committees and serves as Vice Chairman of the House Public Institutions Committee. Read full article. |
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Goldwater Institute: Financial Privacy is Common Cents Anthem/Deer Valley Independent Some of you may remember Herb Caen, the great columnist from the “San Francisco Chronicle.” He coined the phrase “three-dot journalism,” which described his column. He would write short commentaries on issues of the day and end them with an ellipsis – three dots. There are so many issues in the Legislature, I thought I would follow Mr. Caen’s example. My hat goes off to Phoenix District 3 City Councilwoman Peggy Blisten for her efforts on the Transportation Policy Committee, a sub-group of the Maricopa Association of Governments. As chairwoman, Ms. Blisten recently reported that, due to stepped up efforts by her group, trash collection along Maricopa’s freeways has increased from 81,000-151,000 per year. This is the result of increasing the number of litter crews from four-18. It would be nice if people would simply stop littering so we would not have to spend taxpayer’s dollars cleaning up after them. In the meantime, I am glad they are removing the unsightly trash on our roads… There is a bill in the Legislature that aims to make teenagers better drivers. My friend Sen. Ron Gould introduced SB1357, which would implement several new requirements on new drivers before they could become fully licensed. I know this concept is not popular among the teen drivers themselves, but I support the bill. There are too many young drivers that do not have sufficient experience and the roads are dangerous enough as it is. I think we could save a lot of live with this bill and I intend to support it when it comes to before me… We heard an excellent debate recently in the House on the issue of school choice. On the pro-side we had Clint Bolick of the Alliance for School Choice and Matthew Ladner of the Goldwater Institute. On the con-side we had Alex Molnar of Arizona State University’s Education Policy Studies Laboratory and John Wright of the Arizona Education Association. Among the excellent points made by Mr. Bolick and Mr. Ladner was the fact that, in the 1960’s, we spend about $440 per child on education. If you adjusted that for inflation, today we would spend about $2,700 per child. However, we actually spend over $8,000 per child today. Once again, I am lead to the conclusion that we need to spend more of our existing dollars where it counts – in the classroom. Among the more outrageous comments by Mr. Molnar was his assertion that many parents are not capable of making good education choice for their own children and should not be entrusted to do so… District 6
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