Featured Stories
Fiesta Bowl Scandal Update: The Navy Sinks ‘King’ Russell Pearce
May 17, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: It looks like "King" Russell Pearce needs to create a flow chart to keep all of his stories straight. The U.S. Navy just sank his latest tall tale. "Battleship!" The Arizona Republic reports Fiesta Bowl investigation: Russell Pearce's comments disputed by Navy: Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce changed his explanation Monday about how
Update: The Tequila Party
May 16, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: National Tequila Party Tour Will Kick Off in Arizona: The Tequila Party (TTP), a non-partisan movement, will be launched in the State of Arizona which is also known as immigration ground zero to Hispanics. The purpose of the Tequila Party tour is to encourage Latinos across the nation to participate in the
Professional Fire Fighters of Arizona blast The Arizona Republic for manufactured state pension ‘crisis’
May 16, 2011
Posted by AzBlueMeanie: I am one of the few people who reported on the bogus right-wing think tank studies relied upon by the anti-union Arizona Republic in its multi-part series about the public employee pension funds to manufacture a pension "crisis" for the Tea-Publican legislature to address. Today, Tim Hill, president of the Professional Fire
“Recall Russell Pearce” comes to Tucson
May 15, 2011
by David Safier Randy Parraz was in Tucson tonight at a combination pep rally and fundraiser for the Recall Russell Pearce campaign. Parraz is pumped and he's upbeat, but he made it clear, he's not through gathering signatures, not by a long shot, and he needs all the help he can get from anyone around
Bundgaard update
May 15, 2011
by David Safier Remember State Senator Scott Bundgaard? He had a little, shall we say, falling out with his girlfriend on the highway awhile back. Either she hit him or he hit her. Either she drew a gun on him or she didn't. Either he demanded political immunity or he didn't. Talk about your he
Senator Melvin, shouldn’t you report your ALEC reimbursement?
May 15, 2011
by David Safier I posted about ALEC, the very conservative American Legislative Exchange Council, giving attendees to its conferences generous reimbursements — up to $1,900 for its upcoming August conference in New Orleans. Fifty-two of our Republican state legislators are members of ALEC, which has hundreds of pieces of ready made "Model legislation" on file
Probably not a bribe. But was Carl Seel’s $100,000 mortgage reduction a gift?
May 15, 2011
by David Safier Republican Rep Carl Seel got a "principle reduction loan modification" on his home loan to the tune of $100,000 while he was facing foreclosure. That amounted to more than half the principle he owed. Before his principle was cut in half, Seel had planned to propose an amendment to hold banks accountable
Pearce spin machine getting up to speed
May 15, 2011
By Craig McDermott, cross-posted from Random Musings Most of the R blogs/press release outlets in Arizona have posted a press release from Russell Pearce. It touts his new "charity," formed to bring clean water to Haiti. Sounds like an "awww, geee – isn't that nice" sort of moment except for a few things. Minor things, really,
