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“Here is what I’d do with the ObamaCare law…” Conservative Republican Ron Gould said in his campaign ad “Straight Shooter, and as he described in an interview with LaDonna Hale Curzon, Host and Executive Producer, Sarah Palin Radio. “Pull!” His partner released the sporting clay trap sending a copy of the hated legislation skyward. Gould blasted it with a 12-gauge over/under double-barrel shotgun.

The advertisement was bold and risky, especially considering the whole “cross hairs” blood libel against Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin who used them on a SarahPAC ad for her highly successful “Take Back the 20″ campaign in which 18 out of 20 Democrat Congressional seats went to her endorsed candidates, yielding a 90% success rate for the campaign.

The blood libel came after a crazed leftist, Jared Loughner shot Congresswoman Giffords and many others in a rampage. The blood libelers said that Loughner – who hated talk radio, hardly listened to the news and who was no Palin supporter – was “inspired to do the shooting by the SarahPAC ad.” Loughner never even saw the ad, and had a vendetta against the former Congresswoman’s dating back years before Gov. Palin was even nominated as McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate. Of course, the Democrats have used bulls eyes, cross hairs, and “targeting” in their ads since time immemorial. This was addressed in: All Cross Hairs are Equal, But Some are More Equal than Others.

US for Palin used to run an occasional “Cross Hair Night” splatting the reticles on the sidebars. A Mil Dot cross hair graces the site’s upper left sidebar as something of a permanent fixture to honor the Second Amendment and Gov. Palin and to show that the publisher is not afraid to “light the site up in Cross Hairs.”

Gould is a small business owner and an Arizona State Senator from Lake Patterson. Curzon recounted how she rode an Air Chair there. The vehicle is a hydrofoil water ski. Gould said he is running for his two grandsons, because “Congress has put a debt of $50,000 on their heads.” He is running against an incumbent who voted to raise the debt ceiling, and “voted for three continuing resolutions to allow the government to operate without a budget,” one of which funds ObamaCare, HJ40a, and ACORN. The incumbent does not live in the district, and due to redistricting his district is more Democratic now. According to Gould, the incumbent “abandoned his district,” and moved to AZ-4. Arizona has 15 counties, and AZ-4 encompasses seven of them from Mexico, north to Utah and west across two thirds of the state.

Gould has been endorsed by various Tea Party groups, the Club for Growth, the Madison Project, and Freedom Works. He has neither an American Grizzlies United nor a Sarah Palin endorsement at this time. He considers spending to be the most critical issue in his district. He also said this election is a “fork in the road,” where we can return to free market capitalism or continue on the path to European style socialism.

Gould said the first thing he would do if sworn in is sponsor a bill to repeal the jobs-killing ObamaCare.

He said the Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare destroys the concept of Federalism. He added that the ruling allows the federal government to force us to do whatever it wants us to do, then claim the fine or penalty for not doing so is a tax. “To me, that is just ridiculous,” Gould said.

Gould expressed his disappointment with the combination of the Supreme Court ruling and Obama’s executive order which gutted Arizona’s illegal immigration law. In 2004, Arizona had passed a law requiring voters to prove citizenship, which the federal government also overruled. Gould said it amounted to little more than Democrats wanting to cheat. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) only closes 1.5% of the cases it opens on illegal immigrants, he said, and the Obama administration is only encouraging the activity and “breaking the original Contract with America called the Constitution.”

Complete Audio Transcript of Interview with Ron Gould for AZ-4

LaDonna Hale Curzon, Executive Producer, Sarah Palin Radio this week interviewed Lt. Col. (ret) Wendy Rogers, a candidate for the new seat in Arizona, AZ-9. Lt. Col. Rogers is one of first women who became a military jet pilot and served in the U.S. Air Force for 20 years. She has flown worldwide on humanitarian missions including the Bosnian Airlift during the fall of the Berlin Wall. While accumulating 3,000 hours of jet time, she was Commander of Cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy. She has two Masters Degrees, and many commendations. She accomplished all the foregoing while raising a family.

10,000 Houses, Door-to-Door on a Bicycle

Rogers noted that the new AZ-9 district is evenly divided between Democrats, Republicans and Independents, and believes it is a microcosm of the entire nation. She ran and narrowly lost a close state legislative race in the Democrat portion of the district two years ago. Rogers recounted how she bicycled to 10,000 homes, knocking on the doors of thousands of independents. She will be back on her bike for this run, and all the doors she had knocked on two years ago are in this new Congressional District.

Arizona Roots

Rogers is one of five Republicans running, and the only one of the five who served a full 20-year active duty military career. She did her flight training in Arizona at Mesa Gateway Airport, which is on the grounds of the former Williams Air Force Base. Rogers’ husband was also in the air force and they home-schooled their children for the elementary years, then sent them to a charter school. Her children have graduated Arizona State University with honors. After retiring from the Air Force, Rogers started a home inspection business, which went on to be the leading home inspection business in the state. The 12-employee business operates in four counties and Rogers owns an office building four blocks from her home. “I really enjoy being rooted here in the community,” she said.

Rogers is a fifth-generation military officer, and her oldest child is a former Marine officer working on a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and married to a nurse.

Too Much Government Interference

“I decided to run for Congress, because as a small business owner and job creator, I am having a tougher and tougher time. This is not the country I grew up in. This country has way too much government interference. I am going to Congress to reduce taxation, and reduce regulation on small business so that job creators like me – especially small business owners – can create jobs,” she said.

“It’s time to give back. I’ve done 20 years in the government sector, 15 years in the private sector. I am a big believer in what the founders envisioned in the citizen legislator, and in my case the airman citizen legislator.”

Top Three Issues: Deficit, Jobs, ObamaCare

Curzon asked Rogers what she thought the most important issue was in Arizona. “Last week, we did some polling. The number one issue in my district is the deficit – people’s concern about the deficit, being in debt the trillions of dollars that we are,” Rogers said. “The number two issue: jobs. The number three issue: ObamaCare.”

Rogers said she has “a wide variety of support. My grassroots support is exceptional. We have at least 20 or 30 folks out there gathering signatures. I’m calling you from my campaign office and we have Arizona State University interns coming in to help. We have a broad breadth of support among Republicans. I’m very proud of that.”

American Attributes Transcend Party Divides

Rogers said that one concern is her district covers parts of Phoenix, Tempe, Chandler, and Mesa and could trend urban Democrat as the years go by. But she said her prior service and being a job creator would appeal even to Democrats and Independents. She said that she has to make a payroll every two weeks. There are no bailouts or stimulus packages, and she can’t print money. She has to keep the suites full in her office building, which with a community vegetable garden out back. Rogers said these “truly American attributes transcend party divides.”

Sonic Booms and Broken Glass Ceilings

“I’m a true leader; I’m a trail blazer. I get things done, and I’m a proud of the success I’ve been able to have as a woman in the United States of America. Where else can a woman be a psychiatric social worker, in the Air Force as I was, then go to pilot training and become a jet pilot, pilot jets all over the world, and then retire, open a small business, succeed at that small business, make tough decisions every day, and have a family? To be able to retire as a Lieutenant Colonel from the United States Air Force is a real honor, and that aspect of my biography seems to resonate very deeply.”

Nothing More Special than Meeting a Voter at the Door to his Home

Rogers said running for Congress is a privilege. “I love going door-to-door, meeting voters, listening. There is nothing more special than meeting a voter [at] the door to his home.”

If elected, Rogers said the first thing she would do is “find the other 60 Congressmen – there are no women – who have served – and work with them. She said she would also find those who have owned small businesses, “and we will work together to get government out of our business.

On Leadership, Integrity, and Trust

Curzon asked Rogers what lessons she had learned during her years of military service would help her tackle the Congress.

“Leadership involves working with people from all walks of life. Leadership involves having credibility down in the trenches, and leadership involves setting the right examples with whatever you do as far as integrity and job competence. Those are the lessons I learned as a leader, as a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Air Force. You cannot micro-manage people. We have to trust one another. I’ve relied on people in my air crews, in my cockpits to watch my back. My life was entrusted to them. And so, I trust Americans. I have an intuitive faith in America and I swore when I took the Oath to defend the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. As a leader from the military, those are very deep-seated core convictions that I have.”

Rogers said she has her integrity challenged as a businesswoman and she does not yield. She said she would take that core conviction to Congress.

Arizona Not in Play

Curzon said that Romney is most likely going to be the nominee and asked Rogers whether Obama or Romney would carry the state. Rogers said she had been watching the Presidential campaign from afar since she had been working on her own. “The Democrats like to say ‘Arizona is in play.’ I don’t think so.” She saw Romney in Tempe and he was “very impressive….I can tell you going door-to-door that people’s most deep-seated fear is that Barack Obama will be re-elected. I can’t tell you how many people have expressed that fear to me completely unprompted, and we can’t let that happen.” She said the ninth district “is the tipping point.”

Her website is: wendyrogers.org

Complete Audio Transcript of Lt. Col. Rogers Interview