SEDONA AZ– “The country is in deep trouble, we are on the absolute wrong path,” said Sydney Hay, candidate for U.S. Congress-AZ Congressional District 1. “Washington is failing us in so many ways. Economically we’re in financial trouble. In the area of defending the country, Washington doesn’t even have the political will to defend the country. That is part of our border problem. We know how to secure our border, we know how. We just don’t have the will.”
Arizonan Hay is concerned that the children and grandchildren of American voters won’t have the same freedoms and blessings that the nation came to regard as uniquely American.
“People look around and they hardly recognize the country that they are living in, let alone what changes might come in the next ten or twenty years.”
Hay doesn’t want to pass on a country that is less free, less secure or less prosperous but without a change in course that is what she believes will happen. “I think I am uniquely positioned with a twenty-five year track record and with all the work I have done to keep the government off the back of small business. Jobs are so important to Congressional District One. A critical issue is getting federal government back in the box in which it belongs. There are enumerated powers in the Constitution and I have a track record of standing up for that. I am so ready to take that fight on.”
In April 1999, Hay testified before Congress on IRS reform, not as an accountant or a lawyer but as a concerned citizen who recognized many small business people hurt by IRS actions. She went to Washington and testified on their behalf. The IRS reforms passed.
Hay also challenged and as she says “won against the Environmental Protection Agency over a regulation that would not have protected the environment but would have devastated jobs.” Over the past two years, Hay led the fight for Proposition 113 which prevents the Employee Card Check Act from being implemented in Arizona.
Proposition 113 was recently restored to the ballot through legislation causing Hay to say, “[With card check] Obama is going to take away the secret ballots for any business with over ten people.”
“I am absolutely in favor of SB1070,” the Congressional AZ-CD1 candidate states. “Not just because it deals with illegal immigration but it is also a line in the sand where Arizona is one state standing up for itself. There is also Proposition 106. There are so many ways that Arizona is leading the fifty states in an understanding of Federalism and States Rights. It is great to see.”
Hay believes that we have to make sure our men and women home from Iraq in victory. Iraq must be free and an ally of the U.S. Afghanistan cannot be allowed to turn back into a breeding ground for the Taliban and Al Queda.
“We have so messed up our trade policy,” Hay remarks. “It has swept American products off the shelves worldwide and we have swept our jobs overseas. We allow our partners to cheat, putting American jobs and products at a dramatic disadvantage. We need to get our jobs back, good paying jobs. We should not be dependent on foreign countries for anything, not energy, not manufacturing, not food. Right now, it is hard to find high tech components that are made in America for our critical industries like defense.”
Hay describes her trade position as being in the “fair trade camp” saying, “Trade policy needs to promote United States products and jobs. It is how we keep our country free and prosperous and not vulnerable to other nations. Fair trade is defined by some people as protectionism. I want to protect the country’s jobs, freedom and prosperity.”
The CD1 Congressional candidate believes there is a reason to worry that President Barack Obama’s opinions are globalist. Hay believes it is important to the world that America maintain its status and exceptionalism and that the U.S. “be the leaders of the free world. It is important, because we are the good guys.”
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Article written by Joni Dahlstrom, sedonaeye.com Staff Writer JoniD@eSedona.net Sedona Times Publishing Election Central c2010
