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Grijalva: GOP lawmakers have Canyon under siege
July 27, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Congressman Raúl Grijalva has a "My Turn" guest opinion in the Arizona Republic today. GOP lawmakers have Canyon under siege: It's not too dramatic to say the Grand Canyon has been under siege from mining claims for several years now. Unfortunately, several of my Arizona congressional colleagues have taken stands that would
Mark Halperin has a pejorative for this guy
July 27, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Back in June when Brian Miller was still chairman of the Pima County Republican Party, the Pima County GOP issued this statement in response to an online poll being conducted by another organization asking Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to resign from office because they feel they are without representation in Congress while she
BOOM! Goes the Boehner Plan
July 27, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Rachel Maddow has aired several segments this year making a rather convincing case that the Weeper of the House, John Boehner, is not good at his job. I have argued that he is the weakest Speaker of the House in modern times, and is a captive to his radical right Tea Party
New questions about hacking of the 2004 Ohio presidential election
July 26, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The court system sometimes moves at a glacial pace. Justice is not always served. And in this case, the critical witness died in a suspicious small plane crash a few years ago. We will likely never learn the whole truth. Bob Fritakis, an election law attorney writing at the The Free Press,
Russell Pearce, friend of education (Wait . . . what?)
July 26, 2011
by David Safier Senate President Russell Pearce, R-Mesa, has been named the 2011 Golden Apple Winner by Arizona Parents for Education . . . Yes, you read that right. Russell Pearce, ed budget cutter extraordinaire, gets a golden apple. The group, Arizona Parents for Education, is an astroturf organization for online schools. "Astroturf" might be
Dr. Word asks: Can dust storms be Muslim?
July 26, 2011
by David Safier You know those recent dust storms in Phoenix? The term for them is "haboob," and from what I've read, this phenomenon is limited to the southwest, the Middle East and the North Africa. Apparently, some folks think A-mur-i-kan dust storms shouldn't be called by them furren names. Adam Serwer of the American
I’m not sure the Rawson campaign knows the meaning of ‘public right-of-way’
July 26, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: If you live in the City of Tucson you have seen the campaign signs for Tea-Publican Tucson City Council candidate Jennifer Rawson pop up around town in the past couple of weeks. Ms. Rawson apparenlty has some over-zealous campaign workers putting up her signs. I have seen Rawson signs attached to photo-enforcement camera poles
Nice profile on Wenona Benally Baldenegro in the Huffington Post
July 26, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: We all receive the fundraising e-mails from former Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (another one today) telling us how she is kicking Tea-Publican Rep. Paul Gosar's ass in fundraising to date. See, U.S. Rep. Paul Gosar stunned by rival's fundraising (Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., reported total contributions of $221,289 for the three-month period while Gosar, R-Ariz., took
