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UPDATED: Giffords denounces DCCC ad

U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Tucson) has denounced a new ad from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee that hit the airwaves in the 8th Congressional District Wednesday, and called for its removal.

 

"I denounce the latest advertisement from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee towards my opponent Tim Bee that began on 10/08," said Giffords in a press release. "Personal attacks have no place in this campaign."

The ad goes after state Sen. Pres. Tim Bee (R-Tucson), who is challenging Giffords for her seat, due to problems related to the operation of a bus company Bee's brother owns, which the ad states was the result of a "no bid contract," implying impropriety on Bee's part. It said Bee should be "ashamed" and that he is "out for himself."

"Legally I have no control or influence on the advertisements paid for by DCCC or any other outside group," continued Giffords. "However, I would like to see this ad removed from the airwaves immediately."

However, Giffords still managed to get in a jab at her opponent.

"I am disappointed that Tim Bee and his campaign allies have repeatedly tried to distort my record, and I'm equally disappointed in this recent TV ad sponsored by the DCCC. Southern Arizonans deserve better," she said.

UPDATED 2:22 P.M.: Doug Thornell, spokesman for the DCCC, sent PolitickerAZ.com an email in response to Giffords's remarks:

""Congresswoman Giffords is an independent voice for her district.  The DCCC's Independent Expenditure is legally walled off so Members and their campaigns cannot collaborate with them."

 

EVAN BROWN is a PolitickerAZ.com Reporter and can be reached via email at evan.brown@politickeraz.com.

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assembly line


温岭市经纬流水线制造厂位于东海之滨的温岭市淋川工业区,是专业发展成为集成研究、设计、生产、销售生产线的厂家.

10/22/08 4:25 am

assembly line


温岭市经纬流水线制造厂位于东海之滨的温岭市淋川工业区,是专业发展成为集成研究、设计、生产、销售生产线的厂家.

10/22/08 4:21 am

If that paper came from the


If that paper came from the government organization that all companies, or queens in this case, are required by law to report to, then yes... that "do make it" so.

Don't feel bad though, Giffords doesn't seem to understand this concept either. She claims she is not a part of the Giffords Management Company that was responsible for leasing the worthless 22nd/I-10 property to the City of Tucson (thus the taxpayers) for millions of dollars, but she is unfortunately listed as a manager of the company (and as a trustee)according to the Secretary of State website (and also her personal financial disclosure statement she turned in just two months before the lease was signed).

10/16/08 9:37 pm

Nick B. CLUELESS


Nick B. Tim Bee stated for several stories that HE IS A PARTNER. In one he even bragged that he had doubled the size of the company.

As to what is on an official form, I have a paper here that says you are the Queen Of Estonia...do that make it so?

10/14/08 1:47 pm

I am not sure why you think


being an astronaut does not make you active military? All astronauts are active air force no ifs ands or buts
You also may want to look in the public record...

10/12/08 9:35 pm

I'm not sure why you think


I'm not sure why you think Tim Bee owns Bee Line, but why don't you check public records, not the media for your facts.

10/12/08 5:48 pm

Try refuting proven historic fact!


Sorry Nick B. but regardless of literally anything you say, Tim Bee in these articles states that he IS partners in Bee Line and in other articles he states that he is responsible for doubling the size of the company. As to if his name is on a paper or not means absolutely nothing. TIM BEE stated he was a partner, more than once. The proof is below...

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Tools/PrintFriendly?url=%2Fgbase%2FCur...
MESS WITH BEES; GET STUNG
Former state Sen. Keith Bee promised the tiny but turbulent Tanque Verde Unified School District last year that his family's Bee Line transportation company would behave if the school board would just approve a dirty little deal that enabled Bee Line to flout bidding and zoning laws on a two-acre lot next to district headquarters.

Bee, a Republican who handed over his Senate seat to his brother Tim Bee, was delighted last fall when the then odd-ball majority running Tanque Verde schools allowed the Bees to violate terms of a lease for space in the school's bus lot and garage.

Bee Line went from delinquent tenant to slumlord. But Tanque Verde's current board is none too happy that Bee Line's scraping of the new bus yard has left messy drainage and other problems. What, no engineering?

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http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=48994

PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2003:

Easy Ride
The Tanque Verde School Board is preparing to give a key politico's company a sweetheart deal.

By CHRIS LIMBERIS email this author
The Tanque Verde School Board is primed to bail out a company owned by influential state Sen. Tim Bee and his brother with a real estate deal for a bus yard and office next to the district's headquarters.

The Bee Line, operated by the second-term Republican and his brother and Senate predecessor, Keith Bee, wants to switch from tenant to landlord on a parcel that adjoins the Tanque Verde bus yard and is east of the district offices at 11150 E. Tanque Verde Road.

Taxpayers already subsidized the Bee Line this year after the company fell behind on the $725 monthly rent. Tanque Verde officials also allowed the Bees to use the property after the lease expired in February.

Rather than face eviction, Keith Bee eventually paid the back rent while he simultaneously pitched the proposal for Tanque Verde to use space on the adjoining Bee property. Such an arrangement will clear the Bee buses from the district's lot. More important, Keith Bee is hoping his company will therefore be able to circumvent Pima County zoning and building codes, records show.

Under the proposal, set for board approval Sept. 11, the Bee Line will open its own bus yard and office on two acres of residential-zoned land just north of the district's bus yard. The Bee brothers will then free up space for the Tanque Verde school buses and lease the parcel to the district for $1 a year.

Keith Bee, a five-term senator representing the Tanque Verde Valley and other east Tucson and Green Valley areas, bought the property for $135,000 in 1999, according to county records.

Zoning at CR1 allows not a bus yard but two homes. Without the nominal lease with Tanque Verde, the Bees "would not be able to fence, grade, put down gravel or house a portable office because of zoning issues," Superintendent Denise Ryan told the school board in an Aug. 8 memo.

By signing the nominal lease with Tanque Verde schools, the Bee brothers are hoping to piggyback on land use law that generally allows school districts to use property as they please. County officials say there is no guarantee in this case.

Keith Bee has asserted that the new arrangement will save Tanque Verde taxpayers, but one proposal had the district paying an equal $6,500 share for initial improvements, records show.

Some neighbors already have issues with Bee Line's use of the district's property, particularly when the large touring coach is fired up.

Among the problems cited by Carolyn Gould, director of Tanque Verde school transportation, are "complaints from neighboring houses. Diesel smoke, noise late at night and on weekends. Bee Line has been asked to move their buses in the main parking lot in the morning to 'pre-trip,' them. Only a few drivers are doing this," Gould said in an 2001 assessment.

Exhaust from the coach bus, Gould said, "creates a dust storm, which keeps our district vehicles and vans filthy."

Gould listed five other problems in the 2001 memo and confirmed in a new memo on Aug. 6 to the Tanque Verde board that "all of the problems listed are still problems today."

Tim Bee's position in the Senate--and his role on the appropriations committee--as Tanque Verde progresses with its controversial plan for a new high school prompted at least one board member to demand kid-glove treatment for the Bee Line.

Board member Doug Hughes unilaterally ordered Ryan and Associate Superintendent Marty O'Shea to not rile the Bee brothers while start-stop funding for the high school was on legislative tables, O'Shea said.

"Doug came into my office and told me to back off," O'Shea said. "He told Denise Ryan the same thing. This is when we were talking to Keith Bee about the late rent and the expired lease. You know me; I like to have the document. We didn't have a lease."

O'Shea said Hughes, who sells school textbooks, said he was not solely focused on Tim Bee's vote to preserve funding for the high school, but for educational funding in general.

State policy prohibits members of school boards from issuing individual orders. Directives must be approved by the full board in open session.

But it worked. Tim Bee subsequently did not recuse himself from a key vote on funding for the high school, which has caused civil war in Tanque Verde and prompted a recall drive of Board President Dr. Sherrylyn Young.
Neither Hughes nor Tim Bee returned calls from The Weekly.

10/11/08 12:17 am

First of all, Tim Bee has


First of all, Tim Bee has nothing to do with Bee Line Transportation. Look up the articles of incorporation on the Secretary of State website or the AZ Corporation Commission site.

Secondly, I never claimed that Giffords sponsored the ad and I never claimed that Kelly wasn't a military man. He did serve, but he no longer wears a military uniform or carrys a gun like the ad implies (after all, she does mention that right after she talks about funding for the troops in Iraq). I didn't realize that there was stuff to shoot at out in space. Is there an inter-galactic war going on that I don't know about?

I'm sure that the voters will see through Gabby's B.S. and I can't wait to see her reaction when she gets pulled out of office.

Money can't buy everything!

10/10/08 5:10 pm

Proof Tim Bee a PARTNER in Bee Line...


Thursday, December 8, 2005
Bee brothers' political possibilities generating plenty of buzz
Phoenix Business Journal - by Mike Sunnucks The Business Journal

A pro-business Republican state lawmaker and Tucson business owner is looking to climb the political ladder.

State Senate Majority Leader Tim Bee is eyeing run for the House seat currently held by retiring Arizona Congressman Jim Kolbe. Bee is also considering a bid next year for state Senate President if he does not run for Congress, sources say.

Kolbe recently announced he will not seek re-election next year. That has launched a typhoon of speculation in business and political circles as to who might run to represent the district, which is located in Tucson and southeastern Arizona.

The latest waves center around Sen. Bee and his brother Keith -- a former state lawmaker and owner of a Tucson transportation company.

The Bee brothers are well known in the Tucson area and are liked by business and conservative interests.

Tim is also the president of Bee Brothers Printing and has been talking about a possible run for the U.S. House or State Senate President with business lobbyists and others.

Keith Bee has also been mentioned as a possible congressional candidate and business lobbyists expect one of the brothers to run for Kolbe's seat.

Tim Bee could not be reached for comment Thursday.

State Sen. Gabrielle Giffords has resigned her post and is the likely Democratic candidate in the race. Giffords is viewed as one of the top up and coming stars in the Arizona Democratic Party.

A number of Republicans are in the hunt to succeed Kolbe -- a pro-business, pro-guest worker, openly gay Republican.

That list includes state Rep. Steve Huffman, Pima County Supervisor Ray Carroll, party activist Mike Hellon and immigration hawk and former state lawmaker Randy Graf.

Huffman is popular with business groups for his support for manufacturing and other private sector tax cuts.

Graf ran against Kolbe in 2004 and was already in the race before the incumbent's retirement decision.

The race is expected to draw big campaign dollars from both parties. Kolbe is a pro-business and socially moderate Republican. The district has a slight Republican voter registration edge.

Some top national Republicans have been courting U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona to run to succeed Kolbe. Carmona is from Tucson.

TUCSON WEEKLY:

PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2003:

Easy Ride

The Tanque Verde School Board is preparing to give a key politico's company a sweetheart deal.

By CHRIS LIMBERIS Your browser may not support display of this image.

The Tanque Verde School Board is primed to bail out a company owned by influential state Sen. Tim Bee and his brother with a real estate deal for a bus yard and office next to the district's headquarters.

The Bee Line, operated by the second-term Republican and his brother and Senate predecessor, Keith Bee, wants to switch from tenant to landlord on a parcel that adjoins the Tanque Verde bus yard and is east of the district offices at 11150 E. Tanque Verde Road.

Taxpayers already subsidized the Bee Line this year after the company fell behind on the $725 monthly rent. Tanque Verde officials also allowed the Bees to use the property after the lease expired in February.

Rather than face eviction, Keith Bee eventually paid the back rent while he simultaneously pitched the proposal for Tanque Verde to use space on the adjoining Bee property. Such an arrangement will clear the Bee buses from the district's lot. More important, Keith Bee is hoping his company will therefore be able to circumvent Pima County zoning and building codes, records show.

Under the proposal, set for board approval Sept. 11, the Bee Line will open its own bus yard and office on two acres of residential-zoned land just north of the district's bus yard. The Bee brothers will then free up space for the Tanque Verde school buses and lease the parcel to the district for $1 a year.

Keith Bee, a five-term senator representing the Tanque Verde Valley and other east Tucson and Green Valley areas, bought the property for $135,000 in 1999, according to county records.

Zoning at CR1 allows not a bus yard but two homes. Without the nominal lease with Tanque Verde, the Bees "would not be able to fence, grade, put down gravel or house a portable office because of zoning issues," Superintendent Denise Ryan told the school board in an Aug. 8 memo.

By signing the nominal lease with Tanque Verde schools, the Bee brothers are hoping to piggyback on land use law that generally allows school districts to use property as they please. County officials say there is no guarantee in this case.

Keith Bee has asserted that the new arrangement will save Tanque Verde taxpayers, but one proposal had the district paying an equal $6,500 share for initial improvements, records show.

Some neighbors already have issues with Bee Line's use of the district's property, particularly when the large touring coach is fired up.

Among the problems cited by Carolyn Gould, director of Tanque Verde school transportation, are "complaints from neighboring houses. Diesel smoke, noise late at night and on weekends. Bee Line has been asked to move their buses in the main parking lot in the morning to 'pre-trip,' them. Only a few drivers are doing this," Gould said in an 2001 assessment.

Exhaust from the coach bus, Gould said, "creates a dust storm, which keeps our district vehicles and vans filthy."

Gould listed five other problems in the 2001 memo and confirmed in a new memo on Aug. 6 to the Tanque Verde board that "all of the problems listed are still problems today."

Tim Bee's position in the Senate--and his role on the appropriations committee--as Tanque Verde progresses with its controversial plan for a new high school prompted at least one board member to demand kid-glove treatment for the Bee Line.

Board member Doug Hughes unilaterally ordered Ryan and Associate Superintendent Marty O'Shea to not rile the Bee brothers while start-stop funding for the high school was on legislative tables, O'Shea said.

"Doug came into my office and told me to back off," O'Shea said. "He told Denise Ryan the same thing. This is when we were talking to Keith Bee about the late rent and the expired lease. You know me; I like to have the document. We didn't have a lease."

O'Shea said Hughes, who sells school textbooks, said he was not solely focused on Tim Bee's vote to preserve funding for the high school, but for educational funding in general.

State policy prohibits members of school boards from issuing individual orders. Directives must be approved by the full board in open session.

But it worked. Tim Bee subsequently did not recuse himself from a key vote on funding for the high school, which has caused civil war in Tanque Verde and prompted a recall drive of Board President Dr. Sherrylyn Young.

Neither Hughes nor Tim Bee returned calls from The Weekly.

TUCSON WEEKLY:

PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2003:

Easy Ride

The Tanque Verde School Board is preparing to give a key politico's company a sweetheart deal.

By CHRIS LIMBERIS Your browser may not support display of this image.

The Tanque Verde School Board is primed to bail out a company owned by influential state Sen. Tim Bee and his brother with a real estate deal for a bus yard and office next to the district's headquarters.

The Bee Line, operated by the second-term Republican and his brother and Senate predecessor, Keith Bee, wants to switch from tenant to landlord on a parcel that adjoins the Tanque Verde bus yard and is east of the district offices at 11150 E. Tanque Verde Road.

Taxpayers already subsidized the Bee Line this year after the company fell behind on the $725 monthly rent. Tanque Verde officials also allowed the Bees to use the property after the lease expired in February.

Rather than face eviction, Keith Bee eventually paid the back rent while he simultaneously pitched the proposal for Tanque Verde to use space on the adjoining Bee property. Such an arrangement will clear the Bee buses from the district's lot. More important, Keith Bee is hoping his company will therefore be able to circumvent Pima County zoning and building codes, records show.

Under the proposal, set for board approval Sept. 11, the Bee Line will open its own bus yard and office on two acres of residential-zoned land just north of the district's bus yard. The Bee brothers will then free up space for the Tanque Verde school buses and lease the parcel to the district for $1 a year.

Keith Bee, a five-term senator representing the Tanque Verde Valley and other east Tucson and Green Valley areas, bought the property for $135,000 in 1999, according to county records.

Zoning at CR1 allows not a bus yard but two homes. Without the nominal lease with Tanque Verde, the Bees "would not be able to fence, grade, put down gravel or house a portable office because of zoning issues," Superintendent Denise Ryan told the school board in an Aug. 8 memo.

By signing the nominal lease with Tanque Verde schools, the Bee brothers are hoping to piggyback on land use law that generally allows school districts to use property as they please. County officials say there is no guarantee in this case.

Keith Bee has asserted that the new arrangement will save Tanque Verde taxpayers, but one proposal had the district paying an equal $6,500 share for initial improvements, records show.

Some neighbors already have issues with Bee Line's use of the district's property, particularly when the large touring coach is fired up.

Among the problems cited by Carolyn Gould, director of Tanque Verde school transportation, are "complaints from neighboring houses. Diesel smoke, noise late at night and on weekends. Bee Line has been asked to move their buses in the main parking lot in the morning to 'pre-trip,' them. Only a few drivers are doing this," Gould said in an 2001 assessment.

Exhaust from the coach bus, Gould said, "creates a dust storm, which keeps our district vehicles and vans filthy."

Gould listed five other problems in the 2001 memo and confirmed in a new memo on Aug. 6 to the Tanque Verde board that "all of the problems listed are still problems today."

Tim Bee's position in the Senate--and his role on the appropriations committee--as Tanque Verde progresses with its controversial plan for a new high school prompted at least one board member to demand kid-glove treatment for the Bee Line.

Board member Doug Hughes unilaterally ordered Ryan and Associate Superintendent Marty O'Shea to not rile the Bee brothers while start-stop funding for the high school was on legislative tables, O'Shea said.

"Doug came into my office and told me to back off," O'Shea said. "He told Denise Ryan the same thing. This is when we were talking to Keith Bee about the late rent and the expired lease. You know me; I like to have the document. We didn't have a lease."

O'Shea said Hughes, who sells school textbooks, said he was not solely focused on Tim Bee's vote to preserve funding for the high school, but for educational funding in general.

State policy prohibits members of school boards from issuing individual orders. Directives must be approved by the full board in open session.

But it worked. Tim Bee subsequently did not recuse himself from a key vote on funding for the high school, which has caused civil war in Tanque Verde and prompted a recall drive of Board President Dr. Sherrylyn Young.

Neither Hughes nor Tim Bee returned calls from The Weekly.

10/10/08 4:27 pm

Nick B.


Yeah being a NASA astronaut by definition means you are active air force. So it is not a false claim at all... You might want to know what you are talking about before posting.

10/10/08 8:40 am

To Nick B. Unlike Tim Bee


To Nick B.

Unlike Tim Bee who has done nothing since day one but issue proven lies in the form of attack ads? Watch the ads in question slamming Bee (about time!) and you will notice that it is NOT endorsed by her.Actually, if you want to start raising questions about illegalities and the Bee family just let me know and I'll post them here with PROOF, enough to take down Keith AND Tim.

Also, in regards Giffords husband, he IS active duty Air Force, try getting your facts checked before spewing even further filth for the Bee. Fact is, not only is he active duty but fact also is that she IS the only one married to an active duty officer.

Now, if you want to talk illegal activities, lets talk about Bee's other houses, the ones NOT mentioned on his financial forms.

10/10/08 1:29 am

Not only that, the Tucson


Not only that, the Tucson Police Department issued a statement saying that it is required by law to protect the President when he comes within their district, regardless of his political party. TPD has never been reimbursed in the past, nor will it ever ask to be reimbursed. They were not reimbursed when Bill Clinton came to campaign for Giffords in 2006, when Hillary came to campaign this year, and the Phoenix Police Department was not reimbursed when Barack Obama campaigned there.

10/09/08 6:42 pm

It's pretty convenient that


It's pretty convenient that Giffords waited almost a week before making this statement.

Bee has no ownership of the company like the ad claims, look up the articles of incorporation from the AZ Corporation Commission.

The contract was awarded in 2000, a year before Tim Bee served in the Arizona Senate.

The contract was not a "no bid contract" as the ad mentions, Laidlaw competed for the business.

Even though Giffords knew that these claims were untrue, why would she admit that? Might as well just carefully distance yourself without denying the claims. Who cares if the claims are untrue... whatever it takes, right? She has proven that she will do whatever it takes to get re-elected, even if it means deceiving the voters. My personal favorite is how she claimed to be the only member of Congress married to an "active duty" member of the military. Her husband, Mark Kelly, has been an astronaut since April 1996 (http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/kellyme.html). What a crock.

10/09/08 6:38 pm

Proud of Giffords


I have seen all the proven false smear ads run by and approved by Tim Bee. Gabrielle Giffords here again proves herself an upstanding lady worthy of her post as congresswoman of the 8th Congressional District while Bee deserves nothing more than unemployment. He and his budies Bush and McCain deserve no sympathy whatsoever.

10/09/08 5:21 pm

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