AIRC Update: Commissioners respond to Brewer, Tea-Publican tyranny threatens Special Session on Tuesday
October 31, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission (AIRC) and individual commmissioners have responded to our lame-duck Governor's demand letter, calling her allegations unwarranted. The Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) reports IRC responds to Brewer, says allegations unwarranted - Arizona Capitol Times: An attorney for the Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission said the host of allegations lobbed
Media finally takes a critical view of GOP economic policies
October 31, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Are the blinders that the media villagers have been wearing for 30 years finally coming off? The media finally takes a critical view of GOP economic policies in two reports. The first report is by Charles Babbington of the AP (all propaganda) which remarkably gets the facts right for a change. Studies
Arizona Republican Party and its Tucson city council candidates violate campaign-finance laws – so where’s the investigation?
October 31, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Last Thursday, Secretary of State Ken Bennett announced that three independent expenditure committees active in the Phoenix mayoral and council elections will be audited to crackdown on special interests that may be trying to skirt campaign finance laws. Arizona to audit 3 campaign groups: Bennett said Thursday that groups selected for the
Pearce Recall Update: Olivia Cortes to be investigated for campaign-finance law violations
October 31, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Let this be a warning to anyone who signs on as the treasurer to a campaign. You are the "designated felon" should you fail to disclose or file your reports improperly. I almost feel sorry for Olivia Cortes. "King" Russell Pearce's operatives talked her into running as their stalking horse candidate to
Koch brothers fund propaganda news and the right-wing alternate reality
October 31, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The billionaire bastard Koch brothers are not satisfied with setting up right-wing think tanks that produce bogus research and draft legislation for Tea-Publican legislators, oh no. They are also funding propaganda news that fuels the right-wing alternate reality in the echo chamber of the right-wing noise machine. And other right-wing organizations are
AIRC Update: Cap Times finally exposes FAIR Trust
October 31, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) has finally followed up on the secretive GOP redistricting organization FAIR Trust that Steve Muratore and I have been posting about and exposes the organization today in FAIR game? - Arizona Capitol Times (excerpts): FAIR Trust’s attorneys say they want to help the commission adhere to the legal requirements that govern
Foreclosuregate Update: ‘Foreclosure Mill’ law firm mocks its victims
October 31, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Dante may need to create a new ring of hell for these soulless evil creatures. The law firm of Steven J. Baum is what is commonly referred to as a “foreclosure mill” firm, and is, in fact, the largest such firm in New York; it represents virtually all the giant mortgage lenders,
Global warming is real? Who knew?
October 31, 2011
by David Safier The Star has a very short print excerpt from a longer AP article about physicist Richard Muller's discovery that global warming is for real. This should be about as earth shattering a news story as an 1850 piece like, "Astronomer discovers Earth revolves around Sun." But Muller was the global deniers' scientific
