Disclaimer: The comments in this blog are my personal opinion and may or may not reflect an adopted position of the city of Glendale and its city council.
In my last blog I laid out some background on who and what the group running this initiative, the Worker Power Super PAC is. This blog starts to explain what their proposed initiative includes. I have offered a link so that you can refer to the entire initiative as submitted. Initiative
The initiative applies to all event centers within the City of Glendale and is defined in the initiative as, “An event center means a publicly or privately owned structure in the city of more than 20,000 square feet that is used for public performances, sporting events, business meetings, or similar events. An event center includes, but is not limited to concert halls, stadiums, sports arenas, racetracks, coliseums, and convention centers.”
Please note that “similar events” is pretty broad and covers just about anything. Hotels are not referred to in this section but are in section 21-187 and is as follows, “A hotel means an establishment in the city that provides temporary lodging for payment in the form of overnight accommodation in guest rooms to transient patrons for periods of thirty (30) consecutive calendar days or less. This definition includes hotels, motor lodges, motels apartment hotels, transient residential structures, private residential clubs, tourist courts, hostels and private guest rooms that may be reserved, meeting the hotel definition.”
Let’s break this down. First, it applies to all public and private facilities. Here are some examples: Midwestern University, Glendale Community College, all high schools and elementary schools (public or charter) that have a football field and/or basketball court or any other large meeting area. It includes government facilities like the Civic Center, the arena, the main library and the Glendale Public Training Facility. It includes private facilities that rent space for meetings or weddings or your favorite performing arts theater or movie theater. It would also include places like the pickleball venue in Westgate and the under construction Mario Andretti cart racing venue. Of course, the football stadium and the arena, both in Westgate, are included.
In other words, any location, public or private where people gather in large groups. Many mistakenly believe that this proposed initiative only applies to hotel workers but as you can see, that is not the case. That is why they have purposefully referred to “hospitality workers.” It’s smoke and mirrors to make you think one thing when it is actually more broadly written.
Keep in mind that this proposed initiative only applies to the City of Glendale. IT WOULD NOT APPLY TO ANY OTHER CITY IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA! Mind you, should Worker Power be successful in getting this initiative passed on November 5th, at the General Election you can be sure they will take it to other cities in Arizona. The only voters that can deny or pass this proposed initiative are Glendale voters since it currently applies only to Glendale.
Coming in my next blog, how much is the proposed hourly wage and are there any other wage provisions?
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Before there is an explanation of the Worker Power initiative, let’s find out more about this Super PAC. 
Senator Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D), and Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D). It also claims through its efforts, it was responsible for radical Democrat Raphael Warnock’s win against Herschel Walker for a Georgia Congressional Senate seat.
Locally, Worker Power endorsed radical activist Democrat Lupe Conchas in his successful bid to become the next Cactus district councilmember in Glendale. You can be sure that Conchas has greater ambitions than that of a councilmember in Glendale. After all, failed Glendale mayoral candidate Jamie Aldama on his Facebook page congratulated Conchas on his win and referred to him as the next US Senator Ruben Gallego.
After 15 years of enjoying and caring for our Koi fish we decided it was time to get rid of the pond. We are in our 80’s and taking care of the pond has become too difficult. That was made abundantly clear recently while trying to clean vegetation around the pond I took a fall. I scraped up every available limb on my body!
go. I could have sold them for some of them are valuable, but I just didn’t want to scatter them. Instead, I contacted Koi Rescue and one of the members lives a stone’s throw from my home and was willing to take all 30 Koi and put them in their pond. Perfect solution. I will be able to go 5 minutes away occasionally and visit my fish.
Here is Conchas verbatim: “That’s what really prompted me to join my, uh, black brothers and sisters, uh, and the Black Lives Matter movement. To protest on the streets and really call for the universities to be more equitable when it comes to how we’re treating our black students at U of A. So, that’s what really got me into activism and into politics. And so that’s what really got me into activism and politics. So, ever since then that’s what I have been doing.”
Today Early Voting ballots were mailed out. I would expect you to get yours within the week. Please do vote. Fill out your ballot when you receive it and mail it back promptly. The longer one waits to vote, the more likely it will be forgotten and never mailed back.