Tired of how things are being run and want to learn how to make a difference? Learn what's happening in your back yard, meet like-minded neighbors and enjoy pie & coffee!

After we get to know our neighbors and grab some pie and coffee, Arizona State Representative Matt Gress will will discuss what's going on with crime, homelessness, the border crisis and how we can make our neighborhoods safer. Scottsdale Unified School Board Member & AZ State Senate candidate Carine Werner will inform us how we can protect children in the classroom and her plans for the state. EZAZ.org's Merissa Hamilton will inform us on all the ways we can make a difference!

Location: RSVP for Address. It is located at a neighbor's house off 64th St. & Cactus Rd.
Date: Tuesday, February 27th, 2024
Time: 6:00pm
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About State Representative Matt Gress: Matt Gress is a member of the Arizona House of Representatives, representing District 4. He assumed office on January 9, 2023. His current term ends on January 13, 2025. Gress ran for election to the Arizona House of Representatives to represent District 4. He won in the general election on November 8, 2022.

Matt Gress was born in Oklahoma, and lives in Arizona. Gress earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Oklahoma, where he was selected for the Harry S. Truman scholarship, and an M.P.A. from Syracuse University. His career experience includes working as a public school teacher, a faculty associate at Arizona State University, a budget analyst at the Arizona State Capitol, and a budget chief in the Arizona Governor’s Office of Strategic Planning and Budgeting.

About SUSD Board Member & AZ State Senate Candidate Carine Werner: Carine Werner is a mother, entrepreneur, business owner, and former finance professional. Highlights of her career include facilitating more than $100 million of commercial and residential loans, hiring, developing, and training more than 150 lenders, and creating the most six-figure income earners in her organization. Werner has been an active public-school mom for nearly a decade. She and her husband of nearly 30 years have three children, all graduates of Scottsdale Unified.

Carine brings to the Board a common-sense leadership style with an enduring passion for securing our children’s future, ensuring respect for parents and teachers, and building consensus without compromising values.

Mrs. Werner immigrated to the United States as a child without any knowledge of English. Her personal experiences create a deep understanding of the English Language Development (ELD) community, and her professional and personal success are examples of all that can be achieved in America, regardless of one’s post-high school path.

Carine has stepped away from her family business to focus full-time on her role as an SUSD Board member. Werner’s goals include improving the quality of education offered to Scottsdale students and ensuring their safety on all SUSD campuses.

Werner states the following on her website: I’m running to serve our community as an Arizona State Senator because I have realized that our school boards are only one front in the battle for our children’s futures.

Those of us who call this area home are truly fortunate, and we’ve worked hard for the life we’ve built here. But we also aren’t immune to the problems happening in the world that are beginning to hit close to home. We face a flailing economy and out-of-control prices, a broken border, rising crime and homelessness, and challenges within our education system.

About EZAZ.org's Co-Founder Merissa Hamilton: Merissa Hamilton has worked with elected officials at all levels of government on essential reforms to stop bad government in its tracks, protecting individual liberty and personal responsibility. In 2020, she ran for Phoenix mayor, resulting in the highest number of votes for a non-incumbent in City history, stopping the defunding of the police, killing BLM plaza, and halting the vaccine mandates against City of Phoenix employees with the support of grassroots leaders from across the valley. Merissa previously served as the Chair of the Policing Sub-Committee on the Arizona Legislature’s Ad Committee on Criminal Justice and Director of Constituent Services for Councilman Sal DiCiccio at the City of Phoenix. She co-founded Strong Communities Action with an initiative called EZAZ.org, making civic action easy as pie so that citizens can effectively influence their government with just 15 minutes a week to save their state, mobilizing hundreds of volunteers and thousands of action alert responses by grassroots voters every month. She led the successful grassroots campaign to elect Warren Petersen as Senate President -- returning the Legislature to the people instead of special interests.

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2.27.24 AZ Rescue Mission w/ AZ State Rep. Matt Gress, SUSD Board Member & AZ Senate Candidate Carine Werner & EZAZ.org Co-Founder Merissa Hamilton

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