Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. You know, listening to the debate, you wonder what bill we're debating here. The opposition seems to be talking about something completely different. We heard under the rule debate yesterday and some of the debate today that this won't create any jobs in Arizona, that somehow these jobs will go to robots. I mean, come on, this isn't the Jetsons doing this. I have no idea what's being talked about here. Let me give you a couple of examples of those who are employed currently. There are 500 people currently employed by Resolution on the mine, 500, and 90 percent of them are Arizonans. So 90 percent of the 500 right now. There are an estimated 1,400 jobs directly related to the mine or directly in the mine, and some 3,700 beyond that, ancillary jobs, would come as a result of the mine. Albo Guzman, he's a local Superior Trading contractor. He has several local employees working for him on this project. He is a person, not a robot. Jeff Domlin, a Globe-based contractor whose company is doing much of the reclamation work on the project. Elizabeth Magallanez, she's a longtime resident. Melissa Rabago, she was actually born in the hospital that was run by the company on the previous mine that her father worked on, the Magma project. That company hospital now serves as project headquarters. Two of her sons work for a Resolution contractor. Mike Alvarez, third generation from Superior, works as a map technician.…”