Month: September 2015

Political Calendar: Week of September 13, 2015

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Political Calendar for the Week of September 13, 2015:

Sunday, September 13: Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset.

Monday, September 14, Noon: Democrats of Greater Tucson luncheon, Dragon’s View Restaurant (400 N. Bonita, South of St. Mary’s Road between the Freeway and Grande Avenue, turn South at Furr’s Cafeteria). New price: buffet lunch is $10.00 cash, $12 credit; just a drink is $3.50. Tucson City Councilwoman Shirley Scott, campaign update. Next Week: State Sen. Andrea Dalessandro (LD 2), legislative update.

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It may be time to resurrect the “Kyrsten Sinema” party…

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By Craig McDermott, crossposted from Random Musings

…if only in the interests of “Truth In Advertising”…

Arizona Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema (D…for now-CD9), early in her political career, was a darling of the liberal set.

Years ago, she was more of a Green than a Democrat because the Democrats in her area were too conservative.

However, even then, her political acts gave insight into her political focus…to anyone who cared to notice.

Her first run for the state legislature in 2002 was as a member of the “Kyrsten Sinema Party”.

 

 

 

 

As that move, electorally speaking, was something other than a complete success, for 2004, she changed her registration to “Democrat” (the former LD15 was a Democratic-leaning district), and she was off to the races.  She won a seat in the Arizona House of Representatives.

In 2012, she left the AZ lege behind (having since moved to the Arizona State Senate) and mounted a successful run for a new Congressional district based in Phoenix.

She entered Congress as a Democrat but almost immediately upon taking office, started acting and voting like a Republican.

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Watch AZPM Metro Week – Ward 4 Council candidates and Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild

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Last week AZPM Metro Week host Andrea Kelly interviewed the four candidates running for Wards 1 and 2 on the Tucson Citizen Council: /ciy:https://blogforarizona.net/watch-azpm-metro-week-ward-1-and-ward-2-council-candidates/ This week on Channel 6 she interviewed Democratic Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild, running unopposed, except for three NOP/Independent write in candidates (Joshua Jude Chesser, Charles Philips, Paula Huff). Kelly also interviewed … Read more

Justice Department: Secretary Clinton had authority to delete personal emails

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The editors of the New York Times, who have long engaged in the Clinton Rules of  “scandal” mongering reporting, somehow missed this highly relevant piece of information to report this week. The Times was more interested in exacting an act of contrition and apology from Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton’s Long Road to ‘Sorry’ Over Email Use.

Ruby Cramer at BuzzFeed News reports, Justice Department Lawyers: Clinton Had Authority To Delete Personal Emails:

Hillary-Clinton-textingIn a little noticed brief, filed on Wednesday to a federal court, Department of Justice lawyers outlined a comprehensive defense of the contentious decision by Hillary Clinton to wipe the private email server she used as secretary of state: The attorneys assert that, regardless of whether she used a personal or government account, Clinton was within her legal right to handpick the emails that qualified as federal records — and to delete the ones she deemed personal.

“There is no question that former Secretary Clinton had authority to delete personal emails without agency supervision — she appropriately could have done so even if she were working on a government server,” write the Justice Department attorneys, representing the State Department in the brief.

The lawyers add that under policies issued by the State Department and by NARA, the National Archives and Records Administration, government employees “are permitted and expected to exercise judgment to determine what constitutes a federal record.”

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