Within the stealth class, what will set air-

craft apart is the ability to make the most

of battle space data in real time, to identify
and neutralize threats before ever being de-
tected, and to transmit and facilitate com-
munication across a eet. Among fth-gen-
eration aircraft, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
is in a class of its own.
My commitment to the F-35 is rooted in
more than an appreciation of its capabili-
ties. I am a retired career Air Force jet pilot.
To the people who entrusted their lives to
me, who will be called upon to ght a tech-
nologically advanced enemy in the future,
I want to give the best tools and the best
chance possible to successfully complete
their missions and return safely home. I
urge Boeing and the Navy to acknowledge
that the best chance for mission success
does not involve saddling fth-generation
ghters with the dead weight of highly vis-
ible fourth-generation escorts.
Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Col.
Wendy Rogers
Tempe
Editors note: Lt. Col. Rogers is one of
the U.S. Air Forces rst 100 women pilots.
She is a Republican candidate for Arizonas
9th U.S. Congressional District.
Letter writers: Schools chief
candidate not qualied
To every single voter in Arizona:
As long-time education advocates in
Peoria and co-founders of Peoria United
Parent Council in 2004, we have had long-
term rst-hand experience with superinten-
dent of public instruction candidate Diane
Douglas.
We want to make this warning crystal-
clear to voters: Diane Douglas does not
even remotely have the skills to do the job.
Several years ago, before she ran for the
Peoria Unied School District Governing
Board, Diane was a member of our parent
group. At the time, she seemed to be willing
and able to make reasoned decisions and
prepared to review all sides of an issue.
However, much to our chagrin and dis-
may, once she was elected to the PUSD
Governing Board, an astonishing Jekyll-
and-Hyde transformation took place. Her
dangerous extremism and overwhelming
anti-public-education, anti-teacher agenda
came rushing to the forefront. Her micro-
managing of educators and overwhelm-
ing partisanship in a non-partisan posi-
tion was so volatile and divisive that it
became nearly impossible to get even the
most mundane day-to-day business of the
district done, let alone provide additional
support to kids and teachers.
Diane is an anti-everything candidate.
She repeatedly scorns the benets of higher
education. She opposed every effort to pro-
vide adequate funding for our district. While
she was a PUSD Governing Board member,
she led the opposition against Prop. 100, the
temporary statewide 1-cent sales tax initia-
tive intended to provide a modicum of ad-
ditional support to education. Fortunately,
Prop. 100 was overwhelmingly approved
by voters and supported by our Republican
governor, Jan Brewer.
Dianes only experience in the class-
room is second-guessing thousands of high-
ly educated, hard-working, overwhelmingly
competent professional teachers in the
district on a daily basis. And, no, teaching
people how to make stained glass does not
count. Yes folks, this esteemed candidate
for the most powerful education position
in Arizona most recently worked as an in-
structor at the local strip malls stained-glass
shop. An honest job, but hardly the back-
ground required for providing high-level
educational leadership and policy direction
for the state.
Please listen to the people who know
her best. Dont put Diane Douglas, who is
scarily unqualied for this important state-
level position, in charge of the future of our
childrens and grandchildrens education,
and hence the future economy of Arizona.
By any measure professionalism, coop-
erativeness, experience and so much more
David Garcia is the far more qualied can-
didate to lead our schools.
The above accurately describes our eight-
plus-year experience with Diane Douglas,
however, we are no longer spokespersons
for PUPC.
Jan Wilson
Kim Price Olsen
Peoria
Letters
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AT&T opens new authorized
dealer locations in Mesa
AT&T announced Oct. 7 the opening
of two new authorized dealer locations in
Mesa. The stores will provide customers
with options for the latest devices, acces-
sories, and services from AT&T. The new
stores are at the following locations:
1909 N. Power Road Suite 101; open 9
a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 11 a.m.-6
p.m. Sunday.
Mesa Grand Shopping Center: 1859 S.
Stapley Drive Suite 106-9C; open 10 a.m.-7
p.m. Monday-Saturday and 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Sunday.
AT&T invested nearly $575 million in
its Phoenix area wireless and wireline net-
works between 2011 and 2013, and contin-
ues to expand its networks in 2014, accord-
ing to a press release.
AT&T has company-owned stores in Ari-
zona and also sells its products and services
in authorized dealer locations and select na-
tional retail stores, according to the release.
To nd an AT&T store or Device Sup-
port Center, visit www.att.com/nd-a-store
or www.att.com/dsc. Customers can make
an appointment before visiting a local AT&T
store at www.att.com/storeappointment.
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