“I really feel sorry for the senior citizens that live on Chaparral Road in the Villa Monterrey area. However, they are quite selfish when they called for the destruction of homes and the widening of Camelback Road from the Loop 101.”
“Not only should they widen Chaparral (Road) and condemn those houses, I agree with that even though I’m against condemnation normally, they should put Camelback through.”
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“This is for the numbskull who’s talking about the people who should have done something to ADOT when the (Loop 101) ramp was originally built on Chaparral Road. If he would check his history, there was a Chaparral coalition...there was a great protest against this then.”
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“We have protested for 17 years. No (Loop) 101 protection for Chaparral. No answers to the widening.”
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“For the venter who called in about driving through north Scottsdale seeming it’s like a cave, you need to know we like it that way, that’s why we live up here. We like the dark skies and it’s the only place around here that you can actually see them.”
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“Bob Littlefield doesn’t want Scottsdale to study light rail because he’s afraid of the facts.”
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“Whenever there’s a picture of the light rail, they never show the wires above it, they just show what’s on the ground... We definitely don’t want light rail, or streetcar would be the same thing, down Scottsdale Road.”
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“To the picky man from ritzy Scottsdale who wants to forbid motorcycles, he needs to know these people do a lot of good. A week ago, they raised money out of their pockets for the Special Olympics and they buy gifts for children and veterans hospitals and deliver them themselves.”
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“What do you think about that? The Scottsdale police chief’s daughter wasn’t drunk.”
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“Here we go again with the city of Scottsdale spending money like a drunken sailor. So now they want to raise the water bill. They did this last November. My city water bill is getting higher than my electric.”
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“With all of the honky-tonks and motorcycles, Cave Creek really does have a lunch bucket image.”
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“Why isn’t the Arizona congressional delegation intervening on behalf of our state on the stupid, idiotic federal mandate to include English learners in the AIMS testing under the dumb No Child Left Behind?”
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“How can anyone say that telling the truth about English learner AIMS scores is losing local control? If someone can’t speak the language, control is already lost because of poor communications.”
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“I read with interest your explanation of the libertarian mission (Perspective, Sunday) and how you apply it to your newspaper. Jeepers, no wonder your paper is screwed up.”
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“I moved here for the view of the mountains. When your 20- to 30-story buildings block that view, I’m going to move.”
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“To the all of the venters calling for the outlawing of pit bulls, I’ve owned pit bulls for 30 years and it’s not their fault they have bad owners.”
