Republican Rep. Kavanagh has a new job, “big government pusher.”

Like all pushers, he makes multiple statements, but includes no facts or numbers to back-up his opinions.

Thank goodness we still have printed newspapers to tell the real truth and back it up with the real facts and numbers. The taxpayers of Arizona do not need to pay $65,000 so his useless bill can satisfy the Arizona Corporations Commission’s need to expand their governmental role. I thought Republicans were against big government and government expansion.

Republican Rep. Kavanagh’s bill would make it more difficult to notify the people of Arizona. Not everyone has regular or high speed internet access. Only Kavanagh would think finding the postings in The Fountain Hills Times to be difficult. The people of Fountain Hills enjoy reading our weekly publication, thank you very much. If Kavanagh doesn’t have a subscription to the local newspaper in the town in which he lives, he should go on-line and read the entire The Fountain Hills Times; including the printed notices he seems incapable of finding.

Public notices in printed form are a long standing tradition and public service. And printed newspapers can’t suddenly change like a notice on a web page can change. Print is a permanent record. In a time when real jobs are hard to find, Kavanagh has found another way to expand unemployment: fire the public notices writers at all of our local newspapers across the state of Arizona.

Like your public bathroom police bill, HB2554 should be flushed.