Update: The Billionaire Base of the GOP
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Karoli at crooksandliars.com expands upon my post from last week The Billionaire Base of the GOP in this post GOP Funding Octopus – Many tentacles, same groups: Advertisement The next time you hear a news story where Republicans cry poor, remember this. The RNC is irrelevant. These days, post-Citizens United, the money … Read more
Think GOP Attacks on Birthright Citizenship is a Recent Aberration? Think Again.
By Michael Bryan The latest fashion in immigrant bashing on the fascist side of the political fence is to support legislation to deny birthright citizenship to the children of parents lacking the proper immigration status. Our local legislative Führer, Russell Pierce wants to try this grand scheme out here in Arizona. And even 'respectable' mainstream … Read more
Extreme Makeover: Jesse Kelly morphing into Sharron Angle
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Giffords for Congress campaign points out in a message today: For months, candidate Jesse Kelly has staked out extreme positions on the issues, and Social Security has been no exception. Now that he has won his primary, Kelly has changed his position to try and fool Southern Arizonans. Kelly's answers on … Read more
John Thrasher (CD 2): Why I’m running for Congress
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Democrat John Thrasher, candidate for Congress in CD 2, is posting a blog diary at the Daily Kos. Here is his latest post. Daily Kos: AZ-2 Why I'm Running for Congress: Restoring Representative Democracy to America: "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." -Abraham … Read more
Tea Party Fuzzy Math
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: CBS News commissioned a crowd estimate from the company AirPhotosLive.com to estimate the size of the crowd at the "Beckoning" on Saturday, since the National Park Service no longer provides crowd estimates after Republicans complained about the "Million Man March" (which it wasn't). According to the aerial photography crowd estimate, Glenn Beck Rally … Read more
ELL case, Flores v State of Arizona, in Tucson courtroom this week
by David Safier The decades old fight over the quality of Arizona's ELL education will be played out in a Tucson courtroom from Wednesday through Friday this week. The history of court battles over Flores v State of Arizona has reached legendary proportions. People supporting more state support for ELL education are asking others to … Read more
David Schweikert Preying on Homeowners
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Press release from the Arizona Democratic Party: 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 hard. … Read more
