NEWS RELEASE Arizona House of Representatives Representative Quang Nguyen (R-1) 1700 West Washington l Phoenix, Arizona l 85007 Tuesday, January 17, 2023 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Representative Quang Nguyen Sponsors Legislation to Combat Fentanyl Epidemic “We are in a war to save lives” STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX – State Representative Quang Nguyen, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has sponsored legislation that aims to combat the fentanyl epidemic and skyrocketing rate of fentanyl-related deaths in Arizona. “The safety of the people in our state is my top priority,” said Representative Nguyen. “Fentanyl is killing tens of thousands of Americans each year and destroying families. It’s a public crisis that should unite political parties to act urgently. We are in a war to save lives.” HB 2167 significantly strengthen penalties for individuals who knowingly traffic or sell fentanyl-tainted drugs that contribute to a person’s death, giving prosecutors stronger tools in the fight against the deadly illegal narcotic that is killing people at alarming rates. Under the bill, drug trafficking homicide would be a Class 1 felony. Nguyen’s bill was inspired by the family of Ashley Dunn, a young woman in Yavapai County who tragically lost her life when she consumed fentanyl-tainted narcotics. Fentanyl is a highly addictive synthetic opioid 50 times more powerful than heroin. Just two milligrams (an amount so small that it would fit on the tip of a pencil) can kill a person. According to the DEA, fentanyl is mass-produced in Mexico using Chinese-sourced chemicals and trafficked by the Sinaloa and Jalisco crime cartels. The agency has reported a sharp nationwide increase in the lethality of fentanyl-laced pills, which may look identical to real prescription medications. Quang Nguyen is a Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives serving Legislative District 1 in Yavapai County and is Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Follow him on Twitter at @QuangNguyenAZ.
Legislative Update- November 19, 2021
AZ State Legislation-Highlights FENTANYL BILL: Our own LD 1, Quang Nguyen is spearheading a bill that will hold fentanyl peddlers accountable as the murderers they are. The bill amends sections 13-705 and 13-706, Arizona revised statutes by adding section 13-1106; relating to drug offenses adding a Drug Trafficking Homicide; classification as follows (*DRAFT LANGUAGE*):
A. A person commits drug trafficking homicide if both of the following apply: 1. the person transfers a dangerous drug in violation of section 13-3407 or a narcotic drug in violation of section 13-3408 and injecting, inhaling, absorbing or ingesting the dangerous drug or narcotic drug causes another person's death. 2. transferring the dangerous or narcotic drug to the other person was a contributing cause of the other person's death and the death did not result from a cause that is not connected to the defendant. For the purposes of this paragraph, the state is not required to prove that the transfer of the dangerous drug or narcotic drug was the sole and immediate cause of the other person's death. B. For the purposes of this section, it is a rebuttable presumption that the dangerous drug or narcotic drug that the person transferred to the victim was the same dangerous drug or narcotic drug that caused the victim's death if the state proves both of the following beyond a reasonable doubt: 1. the person transferred a dangerous drug or narcotic drug to thvictim within twenty-four hours before the victim injected, inhaled, absorbed or ingested the dangerous drug or narcotic drug. 2. the victim's death was caused by the same type of dangerous drug or narcotic drug that the person transferred as prescribed in paragraph 1.
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Federal THANKSGIVING “STUFFING”: Thanks to 19 GOP traitors joining with Democrats in August to pave a path to American serfdom, on Friday, November 19, (just one week before Thanksgiving) the house voted 220-213 to shove through rest of the $3.67 BILLIONS+++ Bolshevik Biden spending bill. No Republican voted for the bill on November 19, after Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s record breaking 8 hour speech, which was a gallant but pretty much ex post facto effort to defeat this fait accompli thanks to the 19 capitulating Republicans. This success has come to fruition despite the Senate Republicans who initially, successfully blocked the efforts of Sen. Schumer and his comrades in “Stolengrad” (D.C.) to extinguish any remaining vestiges of liberty and free enterprise with the Biden “Infrastructure” plan earlier this year. It was reported as a massive setback for the Biden Administration's efforts to forge a bill expected to cost roughly $3.5 trillion ($4.1 trillion with a $600 billion bipartisan plan) to fund their “Build Back Better”(Democrat name for “tax and spend”) agenda. Senate Republicans successfully held off this disaster with a vote of 49-51 in July, with Schumer changing his vote to "no" for reportedly procedural reasons that enabled him to later resurrect the bill and it worked. The GOP buckled, and in a stunning and repulsive turn around, 19 pandering parasitic so-called Republicans were bamboozled into joining Senate Democrats under the classic Democrat fake, bait and switch cloak of “bipartisanship”. These 19 Republicans are better characterized as TRANSpartisan. AMERICA hangs in the balance as the scheming Schumer and his duplicitous Democrat comrades savor successfully sneaking through their entire socialist atrocity by riding on the FAKE bipartisan legislative rails and bulldozing through their additional $4-6 Trillion in spending. The CBO forecasts it will result in a $3.67 BILLLION increase in the National Deficit and it portends an American life of serfdom thanks to this Bidenbama “radical transformation” of the USA into a socialist wasteland. If the bill passes, Americans will pay the highest rate of personal income tax in the world, and a 37% capital gains tax, while wealthy trial lawyers and rich coastal elites receive a windfall of extraordinary tax breaks and there is a massive amnesty and billions in payoffs to illegal migrants woven into the bill. REPUBLICANS MUST OPPOSE RAISING THE DEBT CEILING and stop this Communist regime.
Thus far, the most Nefarious H.R.1 and more recent H.R. 4, which eradicate the fundamental constitutional tenet of “one person, one vote” elections, transfer the voting rights of Americans to a centralized government and assure a socialist style one party domination of the USA, have been defeated.
Republicans need to keep our eye on the ball/bill, as Democrats relentlessly continue to attempt to steal every last vestige of American liberty and prosperity.
Democrats’ perpetual threats to eliminate the filibuster have somewhat subsided. Currently, Sen. Sinema has persistedin her opposition to resorting to opening this Pandoras Box aka the “nuclear option”. Please continue to support Sen. Sinema for her steadfastness on this issue and her opposition to this Bolshevik budget. American greatness and sovereignty hang by a thread.
GMRW Please continue to encourage our GOP to remain united and persevere in blocking these plans for the demise of America.
You can follow the uphill battle against the Democrat legislative atrocities at https://www.govtrack.us
Legislative Update- AUGUST 23, 2021 AZ State Legislation-Highlights
Election Integrity: The audit of the Maricopa County election is winding down, however obstruction and lack of cooperation by the Maricopa County BOS and SOS Hobbs continue with unconstitutional threats from the Biden Department of “Justice” to interfere. The results and reports are expected the end of August for Senate review, before public disclosure.
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Federal H.R. 4 Democrats Extend Their Overreaching Tentacles Through HR4 Which Will Abrogate Voter Integrity Reforms And Eclipse State Election Laws And, in effect, facilitate perpetual Democrat rigging of elections H.R. 4 is a regurgitated, more toxic version of H.R.1 H.R. 4 is a Leftist scheme to give President Biden’s bureaucrats in the federal government VETO power over state election integrity laws. Biden’s politicized lawyers in the Justice Department would use this veto power to overturn state voting laws they politically disagree with, such as extremely popular voter ID laws. This scheme effectively enables the Left to perpetuate practices such as ballot harvesting and arbitrary mass-mailing of absentee ballots, even if not requested. Voter ID would be eliminated and replaced with same-day voter registration. During the Obama administration, Eric Holder abused the voting rights act (VRA) to enable him to veto State voting reforms the left disagreed with. The Supreme Court invalidated Holder’s abuses as unconstitutional in Shelby County v. Holder in 2013. HR4 will reinstate this abuse by circumventing the Supreme Court’s decision by redefining “discrimination” similar to the way CRT defines discrimination: based on equality of results (disparate impact) as opposed to equal treatment. Democrats’ modus operandi is to justify their desired result in utter disregard for the process— “the ends justify the means”. The process/means is what is guaranteed under the constitution, which the left will fervently eviscerate to achieve their desired outcome.
19 GOP traitors joined Democrats in paving a path to American serfdom! Last month, Senate Republicans successfully blocked the efforts of Sen. Schumer and his comrades in “Stolengrad” (D.C.) to extinguish any remaining vestiges of liberty and free enterprise with the Biden “Infrastructure” plan. This was reported as a massive setback for the Biden Administration's efforts to forge a bill expected to cost roughly $3.5 trillion ($4.1 trillion with a $600 billion bipartisan plan) to fund their bitter “Build Back Better”(Democrat name for “tax and spend”) agenda. Senate Republicans successfully held off this disaster with a vote of 49-51 in July, with Schumer changing his vote to "no" for reportedly procedural reasons that enabled him to later resurrect the bill and it worked. The GOP buckled, and in a stunning and repulsive turn around, 19 pandering parasitic so-called Republicans were bamboozled into joining Senate Democrats under the classic Democrat fake, bait and switch cloak of “bipartisanship”. These 19 Republicans are better characterized as TRANSpartisan. The country remains embattled as the scheming Schumer and his duplicitous Democrat comrades conspire to sneak through their entire socialist atrocity by riding on the fake bipartisan legislative rails and bulldozing through with an additional $4-6 Trillion in spending through “reconciliation”.
Key Democrat Bills Which Democrats Continue to Insert Through Budget Reconciliation Under The Guise Of “Infrastructure”:
Most Nefarious is H.R.1 and more recently, H.R. 4, which eradicate the fundamental constitutional tenet of “one person, one vote” elections, transfer the voting rights of Americans to a centralized government and assure a socialist style one party domination of the USA.
H.R. 51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act passed by HOR 216-208 (Unconstitutional- unlikely to pass) H.R. 1280: George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021- Federal micromanagement of Police Agencies and Practices constitutionally reserved to the states. The bill addresses a wide range of policies and issues regarding policing practices and law enforcement accountability. HR 6 - American Dream and Promise Act of 2021 / Amnesty for Illegal Aliens H.R. 848: GREEN Act of 2021 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for renewable energy and energy efficiency, and for other purposes.
Democrats perpetually threaten to eliminate the filibuster. Currently, Sen. Sinema has persistedin her opposition to resorting to opening this Pandoras Box aka the “nuclear option”. Please continue to support Sen. Sinema for her steadfastness on this issue. American greatness and sovereignty hang by a thread.
GMRW Please continue to encourage our GOP to remain united and persevere in blocking these plans for the demise of America.
You can follow the uphill battle against the Democrat legislative atrocities at https://www.govtrack.us
Local Government Actions: GMRW members should follow local City and County government actions to evaluate current officials and candidates, which are often the springboard to statewide and federal offices. For example, Pending in Prescott are local land use decisions which portend the building of nearly One Thousand (1,000) Apartments in Prescott Lakes. School boards are making vital decisions on how our children are educated, such as teaching CRITICAL RACE THEORY and “gender choice”. Local government actions can have a more direct and immediate effect on GMRW members, such as in the compulsory vaccination, mask and meeting policies imposed, many of which shut down businesses and schools. Land use, zoning and appropriation of funds on community projects are decisions the GMRW members should be monitoring. GMRW members ARE encouraged to attend meetings and review the agenda for these local meetings.
Legislative Update- July 2021 AZ State Legislation-Highlights
Election Integrity: The audit of the Maricopa County election is winding down, however obstruction and lack of cooperation by the Maricopa County BOS and SOS Hobbs continue with unconstitutional threats from the Biden Department of “Justice” to interfere and the Senate is expected to pursue enforcement of the audit subpoenas for access to the routers and other withheld materials for a complete audit. Results and reports are not expected until August, at the earliest, according to Senator Fann, who has courageously led the USA’s most tenacious state Senate in these vital efforts.
Signed by Gov. Ducey: HB 2905 Revised 16-542 RE: Early Voting: Except for a voter who is on the active early voting … a county recorder, city or town clerk or other election officer may not deliver or mail an early ballot to a person who has not requested an early ballot for that election. An election officer who knowingly violates this subsection is guilty of a class 5 felony.
HB 2906 Prevents “the state and any local governments from requiring their employees to engage in orientation, training or therapy that suggest an employee is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously,”
SB 1124 Tax Credit for Low income housing "Qualified Project" means a qualified low-income building as defined in section 42(c)(2) of the internal revenue code.
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Federal Signs of life in the GOP Senate--a roadblock to the Democrats path to American serfdom! Senate Republicans successfully blocked the efforts of Sen. Schumer and his comrades in “Stolengrad” (D.C.) to extinguish any remaining vestiges of liberty and free enterprise with the Biden Infrastructure plan on Wednesday, July 21. This was reported as a massive setback for the Biden administration's efforts to forge a bill expected to cost roughly $3.5 trillion ($4.1 trillion with a $600 billion bipartisan plan) to fund their bitter “Build Back Better”(Democrat name for “tax and spend”) agenda. The Republicans successfully held off this disaster with a vote of 49-51, with Schumer changing his vote to "no" for reportedly procedural reasons that enable him to later resurrect the bill.
Democrats have continued to bulldoze a path to American serfdom through their reversal of POTUS Trump’s America First agenda by expanding the tentacles of their Socialist agenda of absolute government control of America through the abuse of their slim majority in Congress. They continually threaten to eliminate the filibuster. Currently, Sen. Sinema has persistedin her opposition to resorting to opening this Pandoras Box aka the “nuclear option”.
Gosar Sponsors H.R.4643 10-Year Moratorium on All Immigration Background: “Currently, the United States is experiencing an enormous surge of illegal aliens entering at an exponential rate. In the months of May and June alone of this year at least 369,470 migrants were encountered by United States Customs and Border Protection. During the height of the pandemic, Representative Gosar stood in support of President Trump’s executive orders to halt immigration in the United States including the suspension of visas to ensure that American citizens do not experience employment discrimination. Mr. Biden is reversing all of President Trump’s policies and is looking to end Title 42. By pausing the admission of aliens to America it will give the United States an opportunity to figure out how to end illegal immigration and put Americans first in line for jobs, education, and other opportunities.”
Announcing HR 4643, Congressman Paul Gosar stated: “America is a nation of laws. And like every country on earth, it has laws limiting how and when, and who, can come into our borders. Not just to visit, to live and work. The current regime is ignoring and actively assisting the violation of our federal laws. The Biden administration has literally and figuratively opened the gates and is waving hundreds of thousands of criminals into our country. We are looking at 2 million criminals being let in this year alone. On top of over 30 million already here. Then to harm our people more, the Biden administration uses tax money to pay for transportation, fancy hotels (one in Scottsdale, Arizona), food and health care for these illegal aliens. Meanwhile Americans suffer with inflation and low wages. We can’t have legal immigration when we have rampant illegal alien invaders. This is a threat to our national security and our economy and to our citizens. With the destruction of President Trump’s solid immigration enforcement, and current disregard and violation of existing federal law, Mr. Biden has unleashed the most severe border and humanitarian crisis in United States history. No other nation, save England and Germany, has willingly participated in its own economic and cultural destruction. No American voted for this desecration. The laws have not been changed. This is lawless criminality. With millions of Americans including our veterans who are now unemployed, homeless, or living in poverty we need to take care of one another before we allow millions to migrate here. Time to pause migration to America and figure out how to put the American people first.”
Key Democrat Bills Which They May Try To Insert Through Budget Reconciliation Under The Guise Of “Infrastructure”: Most Nefarious is HR1, which eradicates the concept of “one person, one vote” elections, transfers the voting rights of Americans to a centralized government and assures a socialist style one party domination of the USA. H.R. 51: Washington, D.C. Admission Act passed by HOR 216-208 (Unconstitutional- unlikely to pass) H.R. 1280: George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021- Federal micromanagement of Police Agencies and Practices constitutionally reserved to the states. The bill addresses a wide range of policies and issues regarding policing practices and law enforcement accountability. HR 6 - American Dream and Promise Act of 2021 / Amnesty for Illegal Aliens H.R. 848: GREEN Act of 2021 - To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for renewable energy and energy efficiency, and for other purposes.
GMRW Please continue to encourage our GOP to remain united and persevere in blocking these plans for the demise of America.
You can follow the uphill battle against the Democrat legislative atrocities at https://www.govtrack.us
Local Government Actions: GMRW members should follow their local City and County government’s actions to evaluate current officials and candidates, which are often the springboard to statewide and federal offices. For example, Pending in Prescott are local land use decisions which portend the building of nearly One Thousand (1,000) Apartments in Prescott Lakes. School boards are making vital decisions on how our children are educated, such as teaching CRITICAL RACE THEORY and “gender choice”. Local government actions can have a more direct and immediate effect on GMRW members, such as in the mask and meeting policies imposed, many of which shut down businesses and schools. Land use, zoning and appropriation of funds on community projects are decisions the GMRW members should be monitoring. GMRW members ARE encouraged to attend meetings and review the agenda for these local meetings. etings.gs.