Capitol Quotes, Dec. 6 2007 
By dmc-admin
Published: December 7, 2007 at 1:00 am
“I’m going to be devoting all my time to this so I’m not going to be involved in any kind of partisan politics like I have been in Arizona. I’m just really excited to be back on the Hill,” — Matt Salmon of Greenberg Traurig on the announcement he is leaving for D.C. around the first of January to become president of Comptel, an industrial telecommunications association.
“I’ve told people in my caucus: Don’t send me bills with price tags on it.” — Rep. Russell Pearce on budget crunch
“If Democrats could pick him off it would be a scalp of the first order,”a local political consultant on Democrats’ desire to see House Speaker Jim Weiers lose his seat in the 2008 elections.
“Is there anybody else here who wants the job≠”— House Speaker Jim Weiers at the Dec. 3 Legislative Council meeting when the committee was considering the reappointment of Executive Director Michael Braun.
A day before the 66th anniversary of the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Rep. Harry Mitchell, a Tempe Democrat, issued a letter to U.S. Navy Secretary Donald Winter requesting the name Arizona once again be used on a Naval vessel. Mitchell asked that a new aircraft carrier, construction on which is slated to begin in 2012, be designated the USS Arizona, the first time the name would be used since the battleship was sunk in Hawaii.
Rep. Steve Gallardo, D-13, was chosen to serve on the National Labor Caucus of State Legislators’ Advisory Council. The caucus is a bi-partisan network of union members and union-friendly state lawmakers.
All flags at state buildings will be flown at half staff Saturday, Dec. 8, in honor of Silvestre Herrera, a Glendale resident and Medal of Honor recipient who passed away Nov. 26. Herrera was the first Arizona resident to receive the nation’s highest military honor during World War II.
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