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Pearce Recall Update: ‘Sham’ Candidacy Exposed, But Will the Court Act?
September 30, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Based upon a compilation of reporting on Thursday's hearing challenging the candidacy of Olivia Cortes, here is what we now know: – Cortes testified that she has given $500 of her own money to fund the campaign but admitted she hasn't yet spent any money. Which begs the obvious questions, "who paid
What makes Finland’s schools so successful?
September 30, 2011
by David Safier We're obsessed with test scores, so Finland's top-in-the-world scores on international student tests should make us wonder, how do they do it? There are a wide range of possibilities, including the country's homogeneity (though apparently immigrants from Somalia, Iraq, etc. are doing pretty good as well). But when people complain about our
GOP debate, ALEC Summit converge in Phoenix
September 30, 2011
by David Safier By a happy accident (he said, tongue planted firmly in cheek), the newly scheduled GOP debate in Phoenix will be in town the same time as ALEC's States & Nations Policy Summit. The ALEC event is November 30-December 2. The debate will be December 1. ALEC. The Republican Party. Corporate influence. Republican
AIRC Update: Compounding the error of their way
September 30, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: As I posted the other day, AIRC Update: the Commission takes a major step backwards: A motion was [made Tuesday] to proceed with the Chair's "donut" map as the working map, and commissioner's reluctantly agreed to move forward with the Chair's "donut" map as the working map, expressing their reservations on the
The NRA leadership reaches for the crazy: true crazy or just another money grab?
September 29, 2011
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings …Of course, since those are hardly mutually exclusive conditions, it could easily be both… Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association (NRA) has recently ratcheted up the paranoia-speak. He's been telling people (not just the NRA's "true believers") that President Obama is coming after their guns.
The GOP presidential debate road show is coming to Arizona; let the betting begin
September 29, 2011
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings …No, I'm not talking about betting on which candidate will "win" the debate. Nope, I'm talking about what AZ tea party types will do to top previous debate audiences. They've got approximately two months to come up with something really out there – the debate is tentatively scheduled
Another Rawson campaign finance boo-boo?
September 29, 2011
by David Safier More from the campaign that can't shoot count straight. Jennifer Rawson, whose campaign either was incompetent or borderline criminal in asking for matching funds for $2,650 in "contributions" even though the "contributors" were reimbursed, has now apparently taken a larger-than-legal contribution from someone named Klaus Axen. Rawson's campaign lists a total of
Pearce Recall Update: Olivia Cortes takes the stand and pulls the Sargeant Schultz defense, “I know nothing!”
September 29, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: "King" Russell Pearce's stalking horse "sham" candidate, Olivia Cortes, took the stand today in the case of election fraud brought against her by a Mesa resident. Ms. Cortes has evaded voters and the media who have wanted to speak with her about her "campaign" for weeks, not something an actual "candidate" would ever do. In
