Month: August 2014

Credit where it’s due

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I have written a few times, and not favorably, about former Mesa Mayor and GOP candidate for AZ Governor Scott Smith. I stand by everything I’ve said. Liberals need to stop swooning over him because he’s a right wing guy, even if he doesn’t appear (at this point, anyway) to be as far off the … Read more

#AZGOP Candidates Party with Right-Wing Outlaw Cliven Bundy

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Clive Bundy at Mohave County Republican Party Picnic
Cliven Bundy at Mohave County Republican Party Picnic

The Arizona Republican Party needs to do some introspection because Arizona is not anywhere near as extreme as the AZ GOP is.

Check out this press release (below) from Progress Now Arizona. Three Republican candidates for governor, plus several other Republicans running for statewide office recently partied– in secret– with right-wing extremist and known scofflaw Cliven Bundy. Hopefully, most of these candidates won’t be left standing after the primary election today.

Arizona Political Candidates Hobnob with Cliven Bundy at GOP Picnic

PHOENIX – Outlaw Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy and his armed posse hobnobbed with numerous Arizona Republican political candidates last weekend at the70th annual Mohave County Republican Party Picnic.

Stumping politicians who attended the Aug. 16 picnic along with Bundy included: Gubernatorial candidates Treasurer Doug Ducey, Christine Jones and Secretary of State Ken Bennett; Secretary of State candidate Michelle Reagan; Attorney General candidate Mark Brnovich; Treasurer candidates Jeff DeWitt and Randy Pullen; and Superintendent of Public Instruction candidate Diane Douglas.

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Fun with Frank on Primary Election Day

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Frank(enstein) Antenori is terrorizing the villagers again. His Independent Expenditure Committee Alliance of Principled Conservatives (I do believe this is an oxymoron where Frank is concerned) has a “blacklist” of “LegisTraitors” who voted for Governor Jan Brewer’s Medicaid (AHCCCS) expansion and Common Core. Frank says to vote them out. Frank also has a list of … Read more

Campaign sign blight, round 2 begins!

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Candidates who do not advance from the primary election  have fifteen (15) days after election day to remove their campaign signs. Arizona Revised Statutes § 16-1019 (H). A homeowner’s association may prohibit the display of campaign signs later than three (3) days after an election day. Arizona Revised Statutes § 33-1261 (E). In other words, losing … Read more

7th Circuit Court of Appeals hears oral argument in same-sex marriage appeals

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The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments this morning in the same-sex marriage appeals of Baskin et al. v. Bogin, 14-2386, 14-2387, 14-2388 (Indiana), and Wolf et al. v. Walker, 14-2526 (Wisconsin).

The Chicago Tribune reports, Judges ask pointed questions about same-sex marriage bans in Wis., Ind.:

EqualAttorneys for Indiana and Wisconsin faced tough, pointed questions from a panel of three federal appeals judges in this morning’s arguments over bans on gay marriage in those states.

Judge Richard Posner waited just seconds before interrupting the solicitor general from Indiana, beginning a line of questioning about why children of same-sex couples should not be allowed to have legally married parents, as do children of heterosexual couples.

[Keep in mind that Judge Posner is a rock star among conservatives.]

To press his point, Posner told a fictitious story of a 6-year-old forced to go to school and see that he is different from his classmates.

“Wouldn’t the children want their parents to be married,” Posner asked, also noting the thousands of children in foster care in Indiana who need to be adopted.  “What do you think is psychologically better for the child?”

Attorneys from both states were on the defense during much of the questioning.

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