David Schweikert Preying on Homeowners
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Press release from the Arizona Democratic Party: Advertisement David Schweikert’s Vulture Valley: Your loss is his gain Website shows GOP candidate's record of preying on homeowners, profiting from housing crisis PHOENIX – The economic downturn — combined with the crashes of the sub-prime mortgage and housing markets — has hit Arizona especially … Read more
Quayle Hunt: Democrat Jon Hulburd in hot race
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Press release from the Jon Hulburd campain: [Last] Tuesday night, Ben Quayle was elected as the Republican nominee for Congressional District Three. More Republicans voted against him than voted for him – and his nomination has upped the ante. In Democrat Jon Hulburd, we have a candidate who has lived in the district … Read more
Don’t Say I Didn’t Say I Told You So…
By Michael Bryan As the the smoke clears from the internecine battlefield of the GOP primaries, young Mr. Kelly is found standing over the body of Mr. Paton with a feral light in his eyes and strips of red meat in his jaws. I told you so. Kelly doesn't stand a chance. Democrats in CD … Read more
Arizona’s classrooms, Brewer style
by David Safier This speaks volumes about the way our Accidental Guv sees our classrooms, and pretty much the way she would like to see the state in general. Here's the photo that heads the Improving Our Schools page on Brewer's campaign website: Count them. One, two, three, four, five lovely anglo faces. Count once … Read more
Twits, er, Tweets-R-Us
You may have noticed that the left sidebar looks a little different. I recently started a Twitter account that will be used by not just myself, but all our BlogForArizona authors who have 140 characters or less to say on a subject (if nothing else it might encourage brevity…). It will live on the sidebar … Read more
For The Star: Two rare praises and one not-so-rare damn
by David Safier Today's Star has strong, informative articles by two of their best reporters along with one piece of veiled partisanship by one of those same two reporters. Rhonda Bodfield — who I've always maintained is an excellent reporter, one of the top at the Star when she's writing serious, in depth articles — … Read more
Citizens Clean Elections Debate Schedule (statewide offices)
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The full schedule of mandatory Citizens Clean Elections debates for Clean Elections candidates and the video replay of debates can be found at Arizona Citizens Clean Elections Commission – CCEC. Debates begin this week. Schedule subject to change. GOVERNOR Candidates for GovernorSeptember 1, 20107:00 PM to 8:00 PMTelevised on KAETHorizon Channel 8 … Read more
