It has become a common slander of the right wing to charge that Clean Elections are welfare for politicians or taxpayer funded elections. It's a slander because it is simply not true. Clean Elections does not get ANY tax dollars, at all. It accepts only voluntary contributions and surcharges on criminal and civil penalties. Not … Read more
by David Safier Last time I counted, 1 MILLION Strong AGAINST the Arizona Immigration Law SB1070 had topped half a million. Now it's closing in on a million and a half. 1,443,658 to be exact, at 10:36AM Sunday (That's 41 more than when I wrote the headline about a minute ago). Join in. Tell your … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: President Ronald Reagan is supposed to be some kind of iconic hero for having said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." That was then, this is now. Today, Republicans are falling all over themselves to put up a wall on the U.S. border — just with Mexico, mind you. Canada, not so … Read more
by David Safier It's a pretty good headline: Obama: Health-care law already helping No real complaints about the Star headline for the AP story about the first positive effects of health care reform on families and businesses. But I was curious to see how other papers headlined the story. I found, other papers used the … Read more
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Capitol Times Yellow Sheet in a tweet YellowSheetReport (TheYellowSheet) on Twitter reported: Former DHS Director Catherine Eden files to run as Dem candidate for U.S. Senate. 4:58 PM May 6th via TweetDeck Dan Nowicki at the Arizona Republic reports Sunday 3 Democrats join battle to unseat John McCain: Former state … Read more