I, Sandy Whitehouse, hereby nominate myself for President of the United States. Actually my husband is better qualified for the job for he is both brave and wise, but he is the Fire Chief here in Corona de Tucson and that keeps him very busy. I am retired and, therefore, have some extra time on my hands. I think my surname is my best qualification. Using the same method the current administration does for budget calculations, I estimate that by consolidating the President’s name with the President’s address for the next 8 years we can save enough money on letterheads, invitations and greeting cards to fully fund quality education for all the children in our country; provide excellent health care for our citizens young and old; devise a guest worker program that will ensure both secure borders and an adequate workforce for our farms and factories; put our scientists to work with fully funded grants and loans to devise methods to stop global warming and give our fire fighters the resources they need to save our forests from wildfire, instead of using the taxpayers money to build logging roads. Every politician has their own sacred cow and mine is firefighter health and safety and a working healthy forest initiative. The only other minor budget adjustment necessary will be to discontinue the current spending spree for atomic weapons, hydrogen weapons, depleted uranium weaponry, germ warfare, chemical warfare, star wars, war profiteers, big sticks, etc., etc., etc.
Whitehouse in the White House 08
By whitehouseinthewhitehouse08As a long-time resident of Southern Arizona I feel I have some perspective on the issues of the day. I am the President of the Community Association in Corona de Tucson. My husband and I, my children, my grand kids and my 2 tiny great-grandsons live here. I am concerned for their future as at my age, I haven’t got much of that left.
My simple 2 plank platform follows:
I am against any mining in the Santa Rita or Empire mountains. The mines are using over 40 percent of our potable water already and the mining industry is into the AZ taxpayer for over a billion dollars in toxic waste cleanup to date.
I am for restoring federal funding to the US Forest Service to clean up our wild lands and prevent these catastrophic wild fires that are adding to global warming. Currently a majority of the funds are used to build logging roads (97%).
The other issues can be left to the other 22 candidates to debate, though, if asked, I have opions aplenty.
December 29, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Ms. Whitehouse … You have opened the discussion on forestry funding. What do you say to those who regard global warming as a myth?
December 29, 2007 at 6:54 pm
The most respected scientific bodies, including the US National Academy of Sciences, that in 2005 was termed by the current denizens of the White House “the gold standard of objective scientific assessment” stated that, without doubt, global warming is occurring, and people are causing it by burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests. Therefore, more logging roads would appear to be counterproductive at this time in our history. Internationally, 10 National Academies of Science have issued statements saying “the scientific understanding of climate change is now sufficiently clear to justify nations taking prompt action. It is vital that all nations identify cost-effective steps that they can take now, to contribute to substantial and long-term reduction in net global greenhouse gas emissions.” Last I heard we in the US are contributing more to the problem than any other nation on earth. Heck, let’s just clean up the place for our kids and grandkids, teach by example as it were.
December 31, 2007 at 12:10 am
Ms Whitehouse — thank you for the feedback on your environmental stance. I am interested in how you would address immigration issues, specifically, guest workers. Arizona’s agricultural community must rely on this workforce, yet the citizenry in Arizona has opted to enact some very tough laws on employers. What are your recommendations for ranchers and farmers?
January 5, 2008 at 5:50 pm
First, it is not up to the taxpayers in Arizona to front the cost of enforcing immigration rules for the federal government. Therefore, I would suggest that employers follow the tried and true “Don’t ask don’t tell” policy used by the Feds in other issues of no imporance. Criminals are not cobbling shoes or hot tar roofing here in the desert, nor are they taking other jobs of that type here or across the US. We have little to fear from people who are performing those jobs. I speculate the number of U of A grads in Agriculture planning jobs in the stoop labor field are very few. Not even graduates of our inferior, fund-starved high schools are lining up for those lucrative employment opportunities.
My advice, let the courts make some rulings before panicing. Use E-Verify for new job applicants if you choose, if not, when and if you get crossways of the law, base your defense on the US Military taking all comers for their current project in Iraq.
January 7, 2008 at 4:17 am
We here in the Arizona White House want to send sincere congratulations to our fellow Democrats who did such a sterling job in Iowa. I am a great admirer of Senators Obama and Clinton and voted for John Edwards in the past. Need I point out that each of them trails me on the ballot here in Arizona Some call the lottery luck, some call it fate, I call it a precursor of things to come.
Whitehouse in the White House – 2008
January 12, 2008 at 1:23 am
Mom, stop hassling nana.
January 17, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Ms Whitehouse – I am also conserned about the savings of money. The growing youth of today are having enough problem getting jobs. For those who have jobs and choose to raise a family are seemingly to be stuck trying to make a living and trying to keep some kind of medical so when their children get sick they are not turned away. The usage of these monies that you save would help these families and I am greatful. Because, I myself would like to be reasured that if my grandson fell out of a tree and broke his arm that he would be seen and not turned away.
January 24, 2008 at 5:27 am
Ms. Whitehouse:
You state that “the US National Academy of Sciences, that in 2005 was termed by the current denizens of the White House “the gold standard of objective scientific assessment” stated that, without doubt, global warming is occurring, and people are causing it by burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests.
1. Does this constitute an admission that the current administration exercised good judgment in its assessment of the Academy?
2. If the earh is warming, why is my wife always freezing? Why is no woman ever the correct temperature?
3. I drive a Chevy Tahoe. I live 1.3 miles from work. My friend drives a Toyota Pious, but works 40 miles from his home. If I leave my Tahoe running all the time so that the interior is always 68 degrees, how many plastic bags must my friend decline to use to make up tor the carbon credits that he owes me?
January 24, 2008 at 8:35 pm
11, it goes all the way to 11
February 6, 2008 at 7:58 pm
To my supporters, I thank each and every one of you for your loyalty and your vote. Had you chipped in a little to the Whitehouse war chest it might have expanded beyong its 41 cent high and I could have purchased some TV spots during the Super Bowl or sent out some glossy brochures. I apparently didn’t need them as my position as number 3 in the AZ Kids Vote puts me in the perfect position for which my political strategists aimed. With Obama and Hillary fighting it out I am in the cat bird’s seat as the reconciliation candidate. The Arizona adults vote put me in 6th place–adults being less perceptive than Arisona’s Kids–but with Edwards, Richardson and Kucinich out of the picture, I still retain my strategic 3rd place position to reclaim my leading candidacy. With the love of my family and friends I will soldier on to the Convention in Denver.