Looks like JO aspires to national political life after his time-served on the Arizona Corporation Commission... He's the loose contender in an already crowded Far-Right Republican field that Includes Arizona State Attorney General Brnovich and Trump-endorsed venture capitalist Blake Masters and others in the race to challenge incumbent Arizona Senator Mark Kelly.
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Mesa Chamber Backs Business-Friendly Candidates
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 31, 2022
CONTACT: Mesa Chamber of Commerce
PHONE: (480) 969-1307
MESA – The Mesa Chamber of Commerce today announced its endorsements for the upcoming Mesa City Council Elections.
The Mesa Chamber Board of Directors endorses Trista Guzman Glover (Council District 4), Alicia Goforth (Council District 5), and Scott Somers (Council District 6).
The Mesa Chamber’s Good Government Committee interviewed each of the candidates and made endorsement recommendations to the Chamber’s Board of Directors last week. The committee based their recommendations on how well candidates aligned with Mesa Chamber positions and their ability to represent the business community on the Mesa City Council.
“Mesa is extremely lucky to have such outstanding candidates running for Mesa City Council,” said Mesa Chamber President/CEO Sally Harrison. “The Chamber is supporting these three candidates because of their leadership abilities and support for small business.”
Mesa’s Primary Election will be Tuesday, August 2, 2022. 2020.
More information about the election and candidates is available at the Mesa City Clerk’s Office at www.mesaaz.gov/government/city-clerk/election-information/primary-election.
Mesa Chamber of Commerce Endorsements
The Mesa Chamber’s Good Government Committee interviewed each of the candidates and made endorsement recommendations to the Chamber’s Board of Directors last week.
> Rents in Mesa are up by 38.1% since the start of the pandemic in March 2020 
O Yeah! Welcome to Mesa, The Land of Make-Believe that the current incumbent mayor, former track-star, and former ambulance chaser/accident-law attorney John Giles once said reminded him of Mayberry RFD. Giles first slid into office on-the-tail winds from the resignation of former Mayor Scott Smith, endorsed by Jan Brewer, who wanted to run for higher office only to get defeated by Arizona's current Governor Doug Ducey. Giles got elected in his own right as the 40th Mayor of Mesa and is now serving his last term in City Hall. Ready (or not) here's everything Andy
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Happy Friday,
I spent my week in the district as the House was not in session. It was still a busy week, so I hope you’ll read below to learn about the important happenings:
This week, the House Judiciary Committee marked up legislation to infringe our Second Amendment rights. The bill was a combination of several stand-alone bills. The bill imposes restrictions on our Second Amendment rights—including raising the age for purchasing semi-automatic rifles, restricting the size of magazines that Americans can own, and micromanaging how Americans store guns. I 100% voted against this bill.
The markup comes after the horrific shooting in Uvalde, Texas. While the shooting in Texas was a deliberate attack of malice and hatred, the Biden Administration and congressional Democrats are attempting to exploit this situation to push unnecessary and ineffective restrictions on our Second Amendment rights. During the markup Democrats repeatedly stated their true goal. They do not want you to be able to defend yourself with a firearm and they are willing to do anything to limit your ability to own a gun. One Democrat went so far as to announce that he was willing to pack the Supreme Court to get his way.
The public is not safer because of gun control laws. In fact, they are more at risk. American cities with the strictest gun laws (i.e. New York City, Chicago, and Baltimore) remain the most dangerous cities. Click the image below to hear some of my thoughts on these bills.
Introducing the WHO Withdrawal Act
The World Health Organization (WHO) is one of the most corrupt and ineffective international institutions. The organization has been compromised by China and it sabotaged COVID investigations in Wuhan.
Despite the WHO’s failure to objectively provide health guidance to the world, President Biden now seeks to give the WHO more authority to define what a pandemic is, how long a pandemic lasts, and encroach upon the sovereignty of nations like ours. It’s unacceptable.
I introduced the WHO Withdrawal Act today. This legislation requires the President to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO), repeals the law that originally authorized the United States to join the WHO, and prevents taxpayer money from being spent to participate in the WHO.
The bill may be read here.
I have also cosponsored H.R.419, the No Taxpayer Funding for the World Health Organization Act, and H.R. 7916, the Protecting American Sovereignty Act.
Letters and Legislation
Bills cosponsored:
H.R. 7914 - To prohibit the use of Federal funds to carry out Executive Order 14074. (Higgins, R-La.)
H.R. 7916 - To prohibit the use of funds to implement any obligations of the United States under the World Health Organization's Global Pandemic Treaty. (Jackson, R-Texas)
Inaugural Live Video Tele Town Hall
This week, I held my inaugural live video tele town hall. Arizonans asked me live questions about the southern border, the shooting in Uvalde, the state of our economy, Arizona’s water supply, and much more. Click the screenshot below to watch a recap of the town hall.
Biden Inflation Hearing at the Heritage Foundation
On Tuesday, June 21, I will hold an “off-site” hearing at the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C. The title of the hearing is: Addressing Bidenflation and Biden’s Energy Crisis.
The event will feature about 20 members of Congress and include four expert witnesses.
The event will be live streamed on my Twitter (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) and Facebook (Congressman Andy Biggs) pages.
I will provide more updates about this hearing on my social media pages and upcoming newsletters.
Top Media Appearances of the Week
This week, I joined Newsmax to discuss the ongoing invasion occurring at our southern border. In many cases, we don't know the criminal history of these folks. We won't be able to vet them because we don't have the resources or time under the Biden regime. Yet, Biden is releasing them directly into our communities at a rate of roughly 8,000 per day. Click below to watch some of the segment.
I joined Real America's Voice to elaborate more on the House Judiciary Committee's markup on a number of egregious and ineffective gun control bills. Click below to watch the full segment.
I joined Wakeup! Tucson to discuss the Biden Administration’s failure to address the nation’s baby formula shortage. Click here to hear the full segment.
I wrote two columns that were picked by Newsmax and the Washington Times. I hope you enjoy these pieces.
Newsmax: Increasing Spending, Size of Govt Won't End Formula Crisis
Washington Times: Pelosi and The Biden Team Have Reached Marie Antoinette Levels
Top Tweets of the Week
Definition of the Week
The World Health Organization (WHO) is one of the most corrupt and ineffective international institutions, and now President Biden seeks to give the WHO more authority to define what a pandemic is, how long a pandemic lasts, and encroach upon the sovereignty of nation’s like ours.
The WHO has been a disaster for America, to say the least.
Courtesy of Michael Knowles’ Speechless, here’s what we think is the latest definition:
The World Health Organization (NOUN): A global institution that does little to effectively protect American interests and public health.
"Taser and surveillance vendor Axon has proposed what it claims to be the solution to the epidemic of school shootings in the United States: a remote-controlled flying drone armed with a taser. For many many reasons, this is a dangerous idea. Armed drones would mission-creep their way into more every-day policing. We must oppose a process of normalizing the arming of drones and robots.
EFF has stated strongly before that drones and robots, whether they be autonomous or remote-controlled, should not be armed–either with lethal or “less-lethal” weapons. And we’re far from the only group to do so.
Police currently deploy many different kinds of moving and task-performing technologies. These include flying drones, remote control bomb-defusing robots, and autonomous patrol robots. While these different devices serve different functions and operate differently, none of them—absolutely none—should be armed with any kind of weapon. . .
We cannot state this strongly enough: if police get their hands on taser drones, they will not sit in a warehouse until the next emergency mass shooting situation. History has proven this. We will see them flying over protests and shopping districts. We will hear news stories about police using a drone to taser someone for vandalism, petty theft, or fleeing the drone. It will not be a matter of if, but when.
Police will be more likely to use this kind of force if the entire process feels like a video game—if they can send tens of thousands of volts through a person’s body with the push of a button far removed from that person. And the person at risk of being tased might not hear the drone’s commands or may be confused by the presence of a floating robot.
Police use of tasers have killed over 500 people since 2010, according to a study on the lethality of the technology done by USA Today in 2021.
The Axon Ethics Board has voted firmly against Axon moving forward with this project.
Armed drones are just one part of a multi-part strategy from Axon for selling products that they claim might curb mass incidents of gun violence.
> Axon has also announced a partnership with Fusus, a company that specializes in consolidating private security camera feeds and giving police live access. EFF raised concerns in 2020 when police in Jackson, Mississippi, announced a pilot program with Fusus to get live access to video streams from private cameras, ranging from commercial security cameras to resident’s private Ring doorbell cameras.
This would create, with the permission of the camera owners but not the people who walk by them every day, a massive surveillance network. Like drones, it will ultimately be used by police much more often than in rare critical emergency situations.
We’ve seen this before. Time and time again, police conjure the extreme worst-case-scenario threat in order to deploy extraordinary powers, which end up being used in everyday acts of policing which disproportionately affect the lives of people of color, immigrants, and other vulnerable members of society. Before these tools are deployed, we demand that armed police drones never see the light of day.
Axon has announced a Reddit AMA here on Friday, June 3, 2022, to ask questions about these new products. Ask questions about your concerns.
You can ask questions like: How do you feel about making a dangerous technology that will likely be used in other less dire scenarios than their preferred use case? Why has your ethics advisory board condemned the project? Will that stop you?
Disclosure: EFF's Surveillance Litigation Director Jennifer Lynch serves on the Axon AI Ethics Board in her personal capacity.
Jan 23, 2026 During the EU Summit yesterday, the EU leaders ...
