Getting to Know Your Candidates

Getting to Know Your Candidates
There is no substitute for a one on one conversation, a handshake, a personalized response to your own questions. I have benefited from my many long days on the campaign trail, because I have been privileged to meet personally with Arizona's fine slate of candidates for public office. You can attend a variety of meetings that are scheduled around the state, or set up your own meeting. A gathering at your own home will warrant a visit by candidates for local, state and even national office. I can arrange to have them come; we just need a place, a date and a time. Of course it is not possible for everyone to attend, every time. But if you give a few weeks notice, you will be a host to a number of amazing people dedicated to service to our country and thrilled to have the opportunity to meet you, your family and friends. I am quite sure I will not be able to meet all 200,000 people in my district, but I want you to know some personal information about me. My background and where my convictions and determination to serve my state and country are founded. Come with me on a journey that started on a small family farm in Willcox, AZ.I spent the first few days of my life in Benson, having been born in the Benson hospital, but was raised in Willcox, the oldest of 6 children. My growing family lived in a "wonderful little cottage", 2BR, 1BA with cinder block walls in a wonderland. There was a large orchard in front and farm fields all around, a big barn to explore and escape the sun, many tractors to climb on and ditches to swim in and dirt. What more could I ask for? Oh, yes! We also had the privilege of hoeing weed and thinning cotton for hours every day, as soon as we were old enough (about 8). My parents were kind and loving, had lots of time to play with us and took us to church every Sunday. We also camped and went on trips to visit relatives in the city. I enjoyed my grandparent’s house in Willcox the best though, with their chickens, pigs, goats and horses to play with and tend. My grandparents moved to Willcox from Phoenix, having both been raised in the West Valley, in families richly blessed with gifts of self-sufficiency and thrift, by necessity but also by choice. My grandfather, Johnny Hidalgo was raised on an Angora Goat Ranch and my Dear Ole Grandpa, Juan Hidalgo continued to raise these goats until my teenage years. This was a Basque industry and part of my heritage. My great-grandmother Apolonia Hidalgo Pina had strong political ties and the Hidalgos, with small children in tow, would attend political functions and support their candidates by providing a trailer load of watermelons from the family garden.While I was growing up, my Grandpa Hidalgo worked tirelessly to help our state and communities grow and prosper. He served on many state boards and commissions and initiated a powerful, yet unsuccessful in the end, movement to divide the very large, Cochise County into a North and South County, so we would not be 2 hours from our County Seat of Bisbee and representation for our local citizens would be more equalized. My father, Earl Moser was also very active in the farming industry, and served on the AZ Farm Bureau Board, even making trips to Washington to ensure "parody" for farmers. He remains active today, supporting the candidates and political views that will best protect our way of life and adhere to the Constitution and basic founding principles on which he was raised. I work as Secretary/Receptionist at our family Real Estate Company and our office is open to political views and discussion 24/7. It turns into campaign headquarters right around election time, every two years.Nearly 30 years ago, Jimmy Judd, Cochise County Sherriff, became my uncle, when I married his nephew, Kit. This has further developed in me a respect for law and the hard work and challenges that are faced by an elected official. He was a brilliant man, who served, with love and dedication, all of the people he "looked after". I am motivated and inspired by my ancestors, but more than that, I was taught to respect and love the life, liberty and freedom that we are so blessed to have in the U.S.A. I will use experience from my many civic and leadership rolls to represent our district well in the State Capitol. My heart and soul are in this. My world is beginning to revolve around each of you, and I love it. Please let me know what you think about the major issues of today. I will touch on one of these, before I go.I am very concerned about making the border fence into a formidable barrier, with manpower as well as structural reinforcements and technology. My preference is to deport the illegals that are bleeding our financial system in Arizona back to Mexico and let them have a chance to come to the United States legally. I want them to have the freedoms I enjoy, but don't feel it is in their best interest to be allowed to enjoy these freedoms illegally. It is definitely hurting the State of Arizona as the numbers of illegals grow and the obligations to provide for them through our welfare system grows with them. As you see, I have reason to and do love with the Hispanic culture, by way of my ancestors as well as my very good friends, the Felgueres's who own a travel agency in Mexico City. I also appreciate the fact that where I live, was once part of the great empire of Mexico. However this does not mean we can continue to allow, even good people, to enter in such great numbers that our own economy is destroyed. I will work for a solution to provide legal entry for more people and to deport or "transfer homeward" those who deserve a second chance to become free the right way.