Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again for Steve Benen's weekly fact check of the shameless shapeshifter and pathological liar, Willard "Mittens" Romney. A blockbuster this week with 36 entries. Chronicling Mitt's Mendacity, Vol. XXXIV: In an interview aired this morning with George Stephanopoulos, the host told Mitt Romney that, despite his claims to the contrary, … Read more
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Ann Kirkpatrick is up with her second TV ad, "Driven." Description from YouTube:
Ann Kirkpatrick has been all over Arizona's First District. She knows Arizonans want a representative they can meet face to face. Ann's been talking with folks about her plan to get our economy moving. She's fighting uranium mining at the Grand Canyon, keeping class sizes small and college affordable, and protecting Social Security and Medicare. Hundreds of thousands of miles – and counting. Ann keeps her foot on the gas, fighting for Arizona.
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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Congressman Ron Barber is up with his first ad, "Fran," which features Fran Bartholomeaux, who nearly lost her home to foreclosure but was helped by the Congressional District 8 (now CD 2) office.
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The Obama campaign is out with a new Spanish-language ad featuring the "Latina Oprah," Cristina Saralegui. Here’s a translation of the script:
Let’s talk facts. When President Obama took office our
economy was on the verge of disaster. Hundreds of thousands of Americans
lost their jobs every month.
The policies of the last Republican President were disastrous. Obama stopped the crisis and we are recovering.
And now Romney and Ryan ask us to return to the policies
that CAUSED the crisis. Back to the future? No way. Forward…with
Obama!
I would expect to see an English-language version of this add soon.
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by David Safier Jean Olson didn't have her Sunnyside School District contract renewed after she reported that first and second grade teachers had helped their students cheat during a standardized test. The good, but insufficient, news is that the Board settled with her over her firing. But too many questions are still unanswered. The most … Read more