Whose Campaign?
June 14, 2012
By Michael Bryan So it looks to me like Ron Barber actually spent about $800K, so far. Jesse Kelly spent about $735K. That's for everything through the primaries up to about two weeks before the election, so they probably spent a bit more. The total candidate committee expenditures for the CD 8 Special: less than … Read more
Mitt Romney has been secretly visiting Tucson!
June 14, 2012
By Michael Bryan Tucson's Police Department is warning citizens of police impersonators pulling over motorists. "Tucson police have received multiple reports in the past six months of a man and woman dressed as police officers pulling over motorists, a Tucson Police Department spokesman said. The pair, who are not law enforcement officers, have used a … Read more
Romney’s ‘Etch-a-Sketch Express’ bus tour
June 14, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Did you hear that Willard "Mittens" Romney plans a bus tour to visit all of the factories he closed and the small towns he devastated while at Bain Capital? No? Maybe that's because Romney's Bus Tour Turns Into VP Tryout Extravaganza. Oooh, shades of John McCain and his "Double-Talk Express" bus tour … Read more
Jesus has an “unwavering commitment to the values that make America great”?
June 14, 2012
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by David Safier Jesse Kelly is licking his wounds and heading back to . . . wherever he's heading back to. My guess is his commitment to Arizona ended on June 12 and he'll be moseying back to Texas. I usually stay away from commenting about anything that smacks of religion, but this, from Jesse's … Read more
Jesus tells Jesse to pack it in
June 14, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Talking Points Memo reports Jesse Kelly Drops Out Of Arizona House Race: After losing the special election in Arizona to succeed Gabrielle Giffords in Congress, two-time Republican candidate Jesse Kelly has announced that he is dropping out of the race for a full term in November. “I would like to thank our … Read more
SCOTUS Watch: Montana, Arizona in the Court
June 14, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
While I am waiting for SCOTUSblog to report what happened today at the Thursday Conference of the Justices, here is a preview from Cormack Early at SCOTUSblog, Thursday round-up : SCOTUSblog:
Campaign finance is also back in the news, with the Court scheduled to consider American Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Bullock, the challenge to the Montana Supreme Court ruling upholding a statute that bans corporate spending in state elections, at its Conference today. Coverage comes from David G. Savage and Melanie Mason of the Los Angeles Times and Ariane de Vogue of ABC News. Marcia Coyle of Law.com profiles Anthony Johnstone, the University of Montana law professor leading the effort to save the Montana law. Sarah Wheaton of the Caucus blog of The New York Times reports that David Axelrod, communications director for President Obama’s reelection campaign, floated the idea of a constitutional amendment to permit stronger regulation of campaign finance; more detailed proposals in the same vein come from Geoffrey R. Stone, writing in the Huffington Post, and Laurence H. Tribe, writing in Slate.
A constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United v. FEC is gaining public support. I propose that all candidates for state or federal office should be asked this question: "Would you sponsor and support a constitutional amendment to the United States Constitution / Arizona Constitution to declare that corporations are not people and that money is not speech to reverse Citizens United v. FEC?" If the candidate responds no, he or she should not be elected to office.
Neither MAS nor the story of its demolition is dead
June 14, 2012
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by David Safier Until a few court decisions come out, the fate of the Mexican American Studies program is up in the air. Is the anti-MAS bill HB 2281 unconstitutionally vague? Is it too targeted at one program? We don't know how the judge will rule or whether the ruling will be appealed. And we … Read more
Bonus fact checking the mendacity of Mittens
June 14, 2012
Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
It's only Thursday but we get a bonus round of fact checking the shameless shapeshifter and pathological liar, Willard "Mittens" Romney. Mittens has really been stepping up his "big lie" propaganda campaign this week.
Mark Kleiman writes at the Washington Monthly's Ten Miles Square – The Tongue Is Quicker Than the Eye:
Pay close attention, class. This one moves fast.
1. Mitt Romney criticizes Barack Obama for saying we need more police, firefighters, and teachers.
2. Mitt Romney gets roasted for saying that.
3. Romney surrogate John Sununu says remark wasn’t a gaffe, and defends it.
4. Obama campaign is all over Romney about wanting fewer police, firefighters, and teachers.
5. Romney goes on TV and says it’s “completely absurd” to charge that he doesn’t want more police, firefighters, and teachers.
This is part of a pattern. Mitt Romney is a chronic, pathological, utterly shameless, pants-on-fire (thirteen times so far), four-Pinocchios liar.
Kevin Drum thinks that the rules have changed – that even Presidential candidates can now get away with constant fibbing – and that Romney is simply smart enough to have noticed.
I’m not so sure. It’s possible that the press will start to report Romney’s lies as lies. That’s unconventional, but he’s asking for it.
The fact checkers are putting in overtime this week with the torrent of lies that eminates from the Romney campaign on a daily basis.
