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, Maricopa County Sheriff candidate Jerry Sheridan, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors candidate Michelle Ugenti-Rita, and EZAZ.org Co-Founder Merissa Hamilton will discuss how to fix the homelessness & public safety issues, draining the Maricopa County Swamp, reduce county taxes & spending, and how you can help save Arizona!

Location: RSVP for Address. It is located at a neighbor's house off Scottsdale Rd & Jomax Rd.

Date: Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
Time: 6:00pm
Promo Code: Enter promo code PIE when RSVP'ing to zero out the donation request and then we will text you the address.

About Maricopa County Sheriff Candidate Jerry Sheridan: Jerry was born and raised in Queens, N.Y. with an older sister and a younger brother. His mother Betty Ann was a stay home mom and his father was a New York City Police Oﬃcer. Jerry attended Catholic School through 12th grade which gave him a solid educational background and a grounding in faith. When his father retired as a lieutenant in 1976 the family moved to Fountain Hills, AZ. This is where Jerry pursued his life’s calling.

In January 1977, Jerry entered the Maricopa County Sheriﬀ ‘s Oﬃce Reserve Deputy Academy. Upon graduation he worked out of District 1 in the southeastern part of the county. He worked construction during the day and rode at night with legendary deputies like John Schattenburg and Nate Jackson, who had a profound inﬂuence on the rest of his career.

In 1978 he was hired as a detention oﬃcer and then a deputy sheriﬀ attending the Phoenix Police Academy. After five years as a patrol deputy Jerry was promoted to Corporal, was assigned a squad, and transferred to District 4, a newly created substation that served the northeastern portion of the county. A couple years later he was promoted to Sergeant staying in patrol. Two years later he found himself as a Lieutenant — still in patrol — except he was now completing the administrative duties of the District while still working the road. When officers from other departments saw him working patrol in spite of his rank they laughed, but Jerry loved patrol because it was where he got to help the public the most.

It was also one late night on patrol, while at a barricade subject situation, that his life changed forever. He met his wife Stacie. She was the daughter of one of the other deputies and they have been inseparable best friends more than 30 years of marriage later. They have two daughters, two grandchildren and a great son-in-law.

Jerry was transferred from patrol to Security and Transport and played a key role in uniting deputies and detention oﬃcers whose main responsibility was to transport inmates to court appearances and other appointments. He had a short time as the Property Management Division Commander before being transferred back to patrol.

In 1993 Jerry was once again promoted, to the rank of Captain. He was assigned to Dist. 3 in the northwestern part of the county. This area included the communities of Sun City, Sun City West and Wickenburg. After one year he was moved back to lead Dist. 4.

A few years later Jerry received a call to come see Sheriﬀ Arpaio right away. He had very little contact with the Sheriff so he spent a long hour’s drive wondering what the meeting was going to be about. It turns out Sheriﬀ Arpaio wanted to promote him to Chief of Patrol, and he wanted Jerry to do two things: First, to make sure his deputies were out arresting all the bad guys they could while taking good care of all the citizens who needed ordinary help like changing someone’s tire or getting a cat out of a tree, and Second, making sure the deputies were having fun doing job number one.

Jerry asked the Chief Deputy Jadel Roe why Sheriﬀ Arpaio picked him for the job. She told him it was because about a month before, Arpaio had asked him a question and Jerry had given him a straight answer, not backing down even after the Sheriff had argued with him. She told Jerry the Sheriﬀ respected people like that.

A few years later Jerry was promoted to Chief of Custody. The MCSO jail system makes up 75% of the personnel and budget of the Oﬃce – a job made more challenging as the responsibility for the largest construction project ever undertaken by the county government was placed in his lap. Two mega jails, a food factory, laundry, distribution center, training center and thousands of oﬃcers had to be designed, planned, built and hired. These jails are now know as 4th Avenue Jail and the Lower Buckeye Jail.

Jerry was also able to ﬁnally settle the 30-plus year-long federal litigation involving inmate rights originally known as Hart v Hill. During the twelve years Jerry was the Chief of Custody he was appointed to the Arizona Peace Oﬃcers Standards and Training Board, ﬁrst by Governor Hull, then by two subsequent governors, something he considers a highlight of his career. He also obtained his Masters in Organizational Management and graduated from the FBI National Academy.

In 2010 Sheriﬀ Arpaio asked Jerry to become his Chief Deputy. This was a time of tremendous turmoil in the Sheriff’s office and Jerry was almost immediately inundated with federal litigation, audits, administrative issues and reorganization. The line of duty death of Deputy Coleman in January 2012 resulting from a violent gun battle was the most painful time for him. The Melendrez litigation which had been in progress many years prior to Jerry becoming Chief Deputy also came to a head. It was a punishing time for Jerry, but he feels those six years, as diﬃcult as they were, prepared him to become Sheriﬀ.

The decision to run for Sheriﬀ of Maricopa County in 2024 was easy for him even knowing how diﬃcult a task it will be. He wants to give back to the MCSO, its employees, and the citizens of Maricopa County, in return for what they have given to him those forty years.

About District 2 Maricopa County Board of Supervisor Candidate Michelle Ugenti-Rita: The following is from Michelle's website: In 2009, when I made the decision to pursue elected office I was advised in order to gain credibility as a candidate, I would need to follow the traditional avenues and get the blessings of the so called “establishment”. As I reached out, I encountered reactions of it wasn’t my time yet, I had not paid my dues and that there were others who they felt were more ready than me. My nature has always been one of independence and to chart my own path, even if that meant not being accepted. Rather than allowing others to determine my direction, I decided to be the master of my own domain.

As a lifelong resident of Scottsdale, having been raised, attended school and worked here, I was keenly aware of the issues and concerns many people had and how they wanted them to be addressed. It became abundantly clear to me there was lack of leadership willing to be the voice for those opinions and sentiments. The country was in a deep recession with record high unemployment, unprecedented levels of government borrowing, a stimulus package enacted to spur economic growth, the swine flu was infecting thousands and an immigration crisis growing at our southern border.

Having been personally impacted by the effects of the downturn in the economy and beginning to raise a family, I sharpened my focus on the issues and decisions being made that were shaping my community, state and country. That summer, with one of my brothers, I attended a political rally at the Capitol in downtown Phoenix. After seeing hundreds of people, of all ages, come out in the 100 plus degree temperature to make their voices heard I was inspired to become more involved in impacting the direction of my state. Shortly thereafter I entered the race for the Arizona House of Representatives.

I spent the next year and a half attending any meeting or function I could find, to speak with people and listen to them voice their concerns and ideas. From those interactions I developed the foundation and positions of my candidacy. In my first race, there were four men and two women. Unfortunately, as a woman not even 30 years old, I was dismissed and criticized as too inexperienced and not ready for the job. However, I was not deterred by the unfounded and often too personal criticisms and stayed the course of standing up for what I believed was right. I am grateful the voters overwhelmingly responded to my message and for their continued support which enabled me to win all six of my legislative races.

I am honored to have served in the legislature for 12 years, I am a mother of three children plus a fur baby Pomeranian named Wolfie, a native and resident of Scottsdale. My mother is Norwegian born, my father is a second generation Italian and I have four siblings. I have worked as a commercial real estate agent and graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from the W.P. Carey School of Business. In addition to working my way through college, I played rugby for the ASU Women’s Rugby Club team.

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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3.20.24 AZ Rescue Mission w/ County Sheriff Candidate Jerry Sheridan, County Supervisor Candidate Michelle Ugenti-Rita & AZ State Rep. Justin Heap

RSVP for FREE with Promo Code PIE - After you RSVP, Jeff Caldwell will text you and email you the address from his personal cell: 913-484-8404.