PHOENIX, Ariz., July 7, 2010 – The political action committee of Arizona’s leading small business association today announced its endorsement of Shawnna Bolick for election to the Arizona House of Representatives Legislative District 11 seat.
“Shawnna Bolick has a fundamental appreciation of the fact that small businesses are not smaller versions of big businesses, but instead have distinctively different difficulties in remaining solvent,” said Farrell Quinlan, NFIB/Arizona state director, who listed taxes (more than 80 percent of small business owners are single filers, meaning personal, not corporate, tax rates matter more to them), healthcare (less than half of small business owners in America can afford it), and regulations (small business owners pay almost twice as much to comply with the same regulation as big businesses do) as the three biggest differences.
“Shawnna Bolick’s top legislative priorities are the health of Arizona’s economy and job creation. She will fight to reduce taxes and regulations across the board in her ambitious goal of turning Arizona into the number one business climate in the nation.”
Bolick stated, “Arizona needs to continue to reduce taxes on our small businesses and ensure the business climate remains conducive to entrepreneurs wanting to open their own business.”
Endorsements of non-incumbents were based on answers provided on a candidate questionnaire developed by the 7,500-member-
The political clout of small business is more influential than most people know:
• In April, the Pew Research Center released a study on the negative and positive views people hold on various American institutions. Small business came out first, 39 percentage points higher than labor unions, 46 points higher than large corporations, and 49 points higher than banks and financial institutions.
• Small business owners comprise 15 percent of all registered voters in the U.S., by comparison union voters make up 11.9 percent. When small business employees are added, the small business voting bloc swells to 43 percent.
• The most common public affairs and political activities in which small employers engage, according to the NFIB Research Foundation, include initiating discussions with employees regarding the impact of a policy issue on the firm.
• Voters prefer candidates supported by small business by a margin of 3 to 1 over those supported by organized labor, according to the Winston Group
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