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The Donkey is Still Feeding
May 19, 2011
Posted by Michael Bryan Note: New posts will continue to appear below. Just a reminder for you news junkies out there, you can get all the latest Arizona political news in one convenient feed via the Arizona Donkey Feed at www.azdonkeyfeed.com. BlogForArizona's editor-in-chief (that's me) updates The Feed several times throughout the day with all
Update: It’s the Fiesta Bowl on line one – they want their money back!
May 18, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: At least that's the way I imagine the phone call. This is followed by major butt-pucker on the other end. The Arizona Republic reports today Fiesta Bowl asks 26 politicians, PACs to return donations: The Fiesta Bowl, as part of its effort to reform its image and protect is non-profit status, is asking
Baja Arizona Resistance fights back against the Tea-Publican tools for the Evil Empire
May 18, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I unfortunately read the Clueless GOP-spin reporting about the Pima County Board of Supervisors meeting in our sad small-town newspaper, the Arizona Daily Star Supervisors stage political theater in budget session. Thank God there is still a real political reporter in Tucson, Bud Foster at KOLD 13. State lawmaker calls Tucson a "corpse"
Kochblocked.com: ‘Koch Bros – It’s the Evil Thing’ ad
May 18, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The grassroots organization The Other 98% has set up a new web site http://kochblocked.com/ which parodies the evil bastard Koch brothers: Last week, we pulled off one of our biggest and best actions yet against the Koch Brothers' war on democracy: we renamed the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center in New York
James Bopp: ‘The Supreme Court doesn’t care, and I don’t care, and the FEC doesn’t care. No one that matters cares.’
May 18, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Gang of Five on the U.S. Supreme Court who gave us one of the all-time worst decisions in the history of the court in Citizens United v. FEC (i.e., corporations are "people" entitled to the privileges and immunities of natural born persons) has unwittingly, or wittingly, unleashed the devil from hell. Republican lawyer
The Buying of Democracy by ALEC
May 18, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell aired this must-see report on Tuesday night about the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), and the new report from People For the American Way into this far-right corporatist organization. The segment includes an ad from the nonprofit immigrants rights organization "Cuéntame the ¡Latino Instigators!" http://www.facebook.com/cuentame?sk=app_201143516562748#!/cuentame?sk=info, regarding
Moats and alligators, oh my!
May 18, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Governor Jan Brewer got her panties in a twist over President Obama's channeling Stephen Colbert by correctly pointing out that nothing will ever satisfy Arizona's anti-immigrant demagogues. What do they want? A moat? With alligators? The political cartoonists have had fun with this. Benson from the Arizona Republic Fitzsimmons from the Arizona Daily Star
The Farley Report – May 17, 2011
May 18, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: Time once again for the Farley Report from Rep. Steve Farley (D-LD 28): I hope things are going well with you now that the Legislature is no longer in session. The last Farley Report was a bit of a downer, based on the high quantity and low quality of bills that passed
