Since you won’t provide your credentials or disclose who you really work for, I think I’ll take the liberty of doing it for you. Here’s the real Tanzer background and motivation:

October 27, 2017

“Follow The Bond Money”

The group, that is promoting the $17.9 Million Sedona Fire District Bond,
“Safer Sedona” is a PAC (Political Action Committee) that is called
“Sedona Advocates For Emergency Responders”. The only two people
that are on the Committee for this PAC are Wendy Tanzer and Rich
Collister according to the public records available from Yavapai County
Committee Statement of Organization, dated April 12, 2017.

While I am not surprised, I am curious who set them up as the local front
people for this assault on the hard-working Taxpayers of the Sedona
Fire District (SFD) in ramming this $17.9 million bond down our throats,
especially with huge building cost projections with $3 Million in
contingencies. How convenient.

According to the 2017 Third Quarter Yavapai Report, August 13 to
September 30, 2017, CORPORATIONS and LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANIES
have contributed the full amount of the revenue for Sedona Advocates
for Emergency Responders PAC of $17,750. The total of $17,750 came
from only 7 companies, no individuals, ALL in the Construction or sub-
contractor business in Phoenix, AZ.

Could it be that Phoenix contractors have their eye on roughly $14
million in contracts in Sedona, AZ? Is there a reason why our more than
competent local contractors cannot build a fire station IF one is
needed? Is it a coincidence that Core Construction is the company who
came up with the plans for the $5.7 MILLION cost AND plans for station
#4? Was the Sedona District Fire Board aware of the financial influence
of Phoenix construction companies in coming up with huge numbers
like $5.7 and $3 MILLION for stations, plus $1.5 MILLION for a service
facility? I don’t know. CORE CONSTRUCTION, INC, on Greenway Road in
Phoenix was the largest contributor with $9,500, AND was the company
who wrote the proposal for ALL the construction projects, including the
tear down od Station #4, coincidence? Did the Fire Board knowingly
bury the architectural and structural report that they ordered and paid
for on Station #4 because the report stated that the building could be
renovated?

Is there a reason why a Phoenix construction company and a list of sub-
contractors that are probably affiliated with Core Construction as
subcontractors would want to influence the Little Sedona Fire District
bond vote? I can, off the top of my head, think of about 14 million of
them.

This should be an affront to every voter in the Sedona Fire District.
Trying to persuade YOU to vote YES while licking their chops for juicy
contracts coming their way from the high country in Sedona down to the
Valley in Phoenix. Is it no wonder why SFD wants to abandon a perfectly
good station up in Oak Creek Canyon? Demolish station #4 when
structural reports say a remodel will work? They are not crumbling
folks, that’s the fairy tale to build more monuments to Chief Kazian like
Station #6. It’s only your money, so why should they be concerned?

To the citizens and voters of this district, if there was EVER a reason to
vote NO on this Bond, AND to question the competency of the existing
Fire Board, three of which are up for re-election in 2018, it is NOW.

The Yavapai County Reports are to the right. Click to View.

It is time the we ALL stand up for a fiscally responsible Fire District that
supports OUR first responders and the people that they protect. The
Board, the Management…Time to go.

Do the Right Thing, which is VOTE NO on the SFD Bond Issue! Eliminate corruption!

JRN

Applause for the effort to interact Sedona and Verde Valley.

Like the city should have owned W89A – a State Highway! (they can’t even take care of the roads they already have)

If incorporated Sedona had it’s own Fire Department versus the Fire District, be assured they would have twice the number of stations, twice the number of personnel, and the bond would be for twice as much! And it would only be the voters within the City of Sedona paying the cost, which would be a foot in the door to city property taxes as Sedona would follow the trend as with the Chamber of Commerce – take care of and embrace the ENTIRE FIRE DISTRICT (if not the entire Verde Valley).

NO, NO, NO. – on this bond and any notion for the city of Sedona to have their “own” fire department. BAD IDEA!!!!!

Seriously, Wendy, please publish your imaginary credentials here, IN DETAIL. Stop with the rants, just do the right thing!

JRN

Re: Sedona Fire District Bond Issue

DO THE RIGHT THING! Never listen to Wendy Tanzer who has no credentials. Vote NO on the Sedona Fire District Bond!

P.S. You say that I have no idea what your credentials are. Then, why don’t you publish them here since no one else knows what they are either?

More smoke and mirrors from Mike S and his lackey Greg D.

@JDN

Hey Rick how does that body of yours hold up your head and ego?
Are you Mike S’s (deleted by editor)? You seem to be..

The data used was before the consolidation with Chino Valley to get a true comparison. If you don’t compare Apples to Apples then any study of statistics is not valid. But in order to know that you have had to do statistical analysis before.

http://Www.arizonaliberty.us

Charts, graphs, predictions and solutions.

The real problem is that there should only be 15 fire districts in Arizona, one in each county like California and one chief in every county voted in by the public. Not 158 little fiefdoms. Can anyone imagine the taxpayer waste with 158 districts doing the kind of irresponsible stuff that this district has done on the last 5 years. Let’s hope they are run better.

No, the city of Sedona is not going to create a fire department. They can’t even pay our fine police officers a decent wage. Too busy throwing money at 5013c organizations and dumping millions to the Chamber of Commerce.

As usual, you and your ilk state your opinion as objective fact. You, in FACT, have NO idea what my credentials are. Apparently however, your insecurity requires you to provide your resume to everyone here, whether we asked for it or not. I wonder if you realize how pathetic you sound trying to boost your own opinion of yourself.

In any case, ballots have been mailed. Schedules for advertising and mailiers are completed. It’s up to the good citizens of the Sedona Fire District to determine the future of the Bond. I, for one, have absolute faith in their ability to see through your ongoing nonsense and attempts to redirect attention from the real issue here.

The Bond is the best, most fiscally responsible, and most economically sound method of financing SFD’s needs for the next 20+ years and the majority of free-thinking citizens know it and will:

DO THE RIGHT THING! Vote YES on the Sedona Fire District Bond!

Then they went SILENT as a group, as in someone or a group of someones decided to go SILENT.
A few years ago when the FCC was taking comment on Microwave radiation, I contacted Washington DC Firefighter Union to make a statement.
SILENCE, no comments.

Ponder that while you worry about something they could have done something about since 2004. They just placed a metal roof on the new chapel station so they are protected, but none of the neighbors are…….oh well.
There was a case in PHX of a firefighter with cancer who belived it was from the towers. That disappeared from print and the news.
Maybe he settled for his silence.
Are you getting it?
Look at the firefighter budget and see how much they get paid for the towers we are all subjected to, last I looked it was high tens of thousands. Let them lie in their paid for beds and soak in the radiation like the rest of us.

Whoever you are, you are so correct. Keep coming back to this site. You are insightful enough to make a difference. Congratulations!

JRN